Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year 2019!

Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone!

Zambia Sifaki

Christmas 2018

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our friends, wishing you health, peace and happiness!

Zambia Sifaki

Aubergines with Feta

The days at the beginning of November, in the city we live in, are this year very beautiful, mild, sunny, the vegetables at their best and all-weather or greenhouse aubergines are everywhere. Did you want a super easy and super tasty oily food, with the presence of eggplant predominantly? Follow the steps of the recipe and make this dish that we are sure you will enjoy!
I do not de-bitter Aubergines for many years. I think this process is not necessary and taste is not improving. The truth is that over time the varieties have changed, de-bitter would be much more important than it is now. Salt helps aubergines to eliminate their metallic taste, as well as part of their juices and nothing beyond that. It is more important to choose from the market aubergines without many spores, which are tasteless and hard and change their taste.
Yours!

work: 40′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

One Pot Chocolate Cake

It's been already 14 years since it was published here for the first time this boiled cake or casserole cake, as is often said. It saw the light under the title: "Chocolate Cake, Juicy" and excited those who they enjoyed the 1st book of the Kitchen Stories «Desserts».
Today we suggest another similar version of the same cake, reinforced with some modifications/improvements through the experience and knowledge of so many years, with the addition of strong coffee in its highly chocolate syrup from the presence of cocoa and roasted hazelnut in serving, which is so perfectly combined with chocolate. It became an incredibly fluffy & juicy chocolate cake -a foam cake- perfectly soaked with cocoa syrup, similar to the previous you so loved!
Follow the detailed steps of preparing it and discover the little secrets that distinguish it from the package of similar proposals.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

Lemon & Lime Marmalade-DIY

Lemons and limes combine to create a fantastic flavor and a beautiful color and clarity to marmalade to the stretch onto our bread and biscuits or use it in other sweet concoctions in our Kitchen, as cakes, tartes, tortes, refrigerator sweets, sweet pies etc… At the time when lemons are in abundance we make and fill jams with lemon marmalade, where many of these become gifts for friends.
Lemons, high in pectin and acid, make a great marmalade although the actual flavor of fruit and its color varies.
We use only three ingredients to make this marmalade. Lemons, sugar and water. Without having to add pectin or other perfumes. Although the recipe is simple, it takes time to carry out, but the end result is worth it!
Yours!

work: 2h:00′

time: 1 ημέρα

easy:

Okra in Oil

Almost a Greek alphabet to the benefits from the undervalued okra, which take so long and so many years the remorse comments of the universe without complaint. Do not listen to the "malicious" who propagate that okra is "the shame of the vegetables" 😆🌿👌…
Just 350-400 calories -at most- have a portion of them, while breathing a hot pizza special you get 875! So do not listen to others' prejudices, cook this vegetable and enjoy it. We did not eat so much food as the taste buds of the palate dared to try and revise.
The process for their preparation, when okra is fresh, it is a little time-consuming, but this contributes to their delicacy and differentiates them from the frozen.
Easy, tasty and really healthy dish!
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 3h:15′

easy:

Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Very tasty Sun-Dried Tomatoes are made from mature regular tomatoes or from anhydrous tomatoes (a special variety of tomatoes, which is common in many islands in the Aegean Sea and resembles the Italian pomodori or roma variety). Dried under the sun they evaporate the water they contain. On drying, tomatoes lose 88% of their weight while larger tomatoes lose 93%.
Sundried tomatoes have the same nutritional value as fresh and to produce a kilo of sun dried tomatoes need about 14 kg of fresh tomatoes. They are rich in lycopene, antioxidants and vitamin C. They are preserved in sterilized jars in olive oil and various aromatic herbs and spices, like coriander & cardamom.
Sundried tomatoes have a great variety of colors, sizes and flavors. They have many uses in the Mediterranean Cuisine. Traditionally they are served with olive oil, feta cheese & basil for a very tasty meal.

work: 20′

time: 2-3 days

very easy:

Mosaic Chocolate & Biscuit Cake

The dessert of our innocence in another form, a form of cake!
The sweet that they made and make children's hands as the first sweet! Now even more innocent, with no sugar but Stevia, without many fats or margarines, with extra chocolate, cacao flavors and many pistachios, but always delicious and irresistible, ideal for the summer, since it does not require an oven to prepare.
It is eaten pleasantly and is in the fridge waiting for us to indulge our palate and in every bite our thought to travel in carefree moments of beautiful memories!
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 3h:30′

easy:

Cheese Filo Triangles

Wonderful, delicious, dry without extra oils, without greasy texture, that alters their taste and appearance. Follow the instructions and you will have the tastiest triangles cheese pies. If you add them to the serving as long as they are lukewarm, with fresh thyme honey, then the flavors take off and the palate tastes a delicious flavor. Their ingredients are simple and very easy to do.
We preferred for filling the fresh Manouri this extraordinary traditional Greek cheese with its origins dating back to ancient times. It belongs to the category of soft whey cheeses and is produced mainly in Central and Western Macedonia, Thessaly and Crete, having been designated by the Greek National Milk Commission as "the most excellent traditional Greek whey cheese".
It is distinguished by its sweet and mild taste, aroma and texture. Manouri, while considered ideal for the preparation of appetizers, is widely used in a variety of hot or cold, sweet or salty, mainly dessert meals.
Here in these triangular pancakes it was perfect with the Fylo pastry sheets remaining firm, enclosing the cheese.
Yours!

work: 40′

time: 40′

easy:

Fresh Green Beans

Fresh green beans have their honor at our Greek Summer Table. Along with Gemista (Filled) is the dish that we make and serve in our family more often.
It is traditional, delicious and favorite food. It accepts interventions by adding other vegetables along with the green beans, creating more textures and flavors that take off.
We choose whatever variety of green beans we prefer as long as they are freshly cut, tender and crisp.
Of course this dish is strictly accompanied by Greek Feta.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Pork Roast in Beer

It is a main dish full of flavor. Bavarian origin and the stars of the show are two of Germany's favorite ingredients: pork and splendid beer!
The ingredients for this delicious roast are a few: pork, olive oil, rosemary, garlic, spices and - the magic element - beer.
The meat is marinated in a bottle of beer, orange juice, lemon & in seasonings, then placed in a hot oven, covered as in a hull, for ~2 hours to be cooked and browned roast and the accompaniment the potatoes. Approximately two hours after, you have the most juicy interior and crisp outside tasty Sunday meal you can imagine. The meat melts with the touch of a fork and in combination with the crisp potatoes they offer wonderful tasting moments.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

easy:

Fresh Peach & Black Grape Upside-Down Cake

The feeling that simple is the best is almost always true when dealing with primary, fresh, excellent, seasonal ingredients. Knowing that June is the peak of the peach season, the best ingredient for a simple but impressive dessert.
Fresh, summer, dessert & juicy peaches give us the opportunity to enjoy them in many ways, primarily in sweet desserts but in savory tastes too, in drinks & smoothies or in compotes.
The cake is baked low and slowly for about 40 minutes until the surface becomes red-gold and sliced peaches inside softened and caramelized from the addition of the sweet Black Grape but also from brown sugar and butter. The cake itself has absorbed all the sweetness of the candy. The aroma from the oven while the cake is baked is heavenly, with sweet vanilla and syrupy caramel peaches. The only downside to this summer's upside-down cake is that you must share it…
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Cheese & Garlic Bread

I love the special way in cutting diamonds, just a bite size and suitable to form cheesy strings of melted cheese inside, and pull and stretch each piece of garlic bread! So both buttery and garlicky, excellent.
It is an economical meze solution for the next gathering of friends for beer and drink. It is very popular with both young and old, it is becoming more and more like a game the way of enjoyment. The best part is the base of bread… butter and cheese drip down and as it gets baked it becomes delicious and crisp… guarantee!
NOTE: it is strictly eaten with the fingers!
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Grilled Peppers Stuffed with Cheese & Feta

An easy recipe for tasty peppers with cheeses and herbs. A simple, elegant and delicious appetizer or main dish.
Peppers due to shape & taste is a favorite vegetable with many applications in our cooking but very easy to use when it comes to filling them. They are filled with many delicious ingredients according to our taste and taste…
In Kitchen Stories there are plenty of suggestions to fill delicious and just any peppers you want. Large Florina type, colorful large or small, hot or sweet, classic bell-shaped, etc. depending on season and latitude & longitude you are in.
The present dish has a dual choice. This appetizer but also the main dish.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

Maple Muesli Biscuits

Without eggs, butter, or milk! Dietary and healthy. Muesli biscuits, with chocolate drops, cranberries, and maple syrup, delicious ingredients for a delicious taste full of flavor. There is also a basic parameter, the unnecessary food processor, with a spoon mixing the ingredients and making cookies soft and crumbly.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 35′

very easy:

Pork Chunks in Red Wine

Small pieces of pork shoulder or neck is an economical and flexible piece of meat when cooked gives a tasty dish extraordinarily. Cut pieces of meat have the ability to absorb the strong flavors of red wine, aromatic spices, and grain mustard flavor as they are cooked.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Classic Cupcakes with Cheese Frosting

Traditional Cupcakes are always a delicious, sweet treat. Small personal pockets that children - and not only - love. They are adorned with a cream cheese glaze, making them lighter in flavor with a very fresh, cool texture.
Exercise your creativity and decorate it with everything that suits your mood and imagination. Today's proposal has kept blue shades, but you can choose any other color range of your choice.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 30′

very easy:

Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Fettuccine with Caramelized Onions

A pasta dish generally leaves a few people unmoved at the sight. A creamy, highly aromatic, and wonderfully delicious, white spaghetti leaves absolutely no one unmoved…
This with fettuccine pasta has many different vegetables that make it very tasty. It has two kinds of mushrooms, portobello and white -meat substitutes- caramelized onions, balsamic cream, tender spinach, arugula and all combined delicious and harmonious in a sauce particularly creamy thanks to cream and grated parmesan cheese straight from her place of origin!
Yours

work: 30′

time: 50′

easy:

Coconut Panna Cotta with Pomegranate

«Mother's Day is a feast in honor of mother and motherhood. In Greece and many other countries, it is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
The first references to Mother's Day and Motherhood come from Ancient Greece.
Mother Earth (Gaia) the wife of Uranus is the personification of nature, that gives birth to the whole world and is worshiped as the supreme deity. The cult then passes to her daughter, Rea, Saturn's spouse and sister. Rhea is worshiped as the "Mother of the Gods", as she seems to be the first to bear birth and to raise her children with breast milk. Ancient Greeks attributed prices to Rhea every spring, as she was goddess of land and fertility».

Happy Mother's Day to those mothers who nurture with their guileless love, the happiness of their children.

work: 20′

time: 4h:20′

very easy:

The Greek Simiti / Koulouri

The Simiti, the Greek Sesame Bagel is a very favorite bakery which is found as the ultimate in outdoor snack carts in the streets of Athens and beyond. A unique street food, loaded with as many memories as everyone carries.
With a simple yeast dough without milk and eggs, it is so fast and very tasty. We make these golden rings immersed first in molasses and then sprinkled with plenty of sesame seeds to take off deliciously.
They are done plump, double simiti and very fluffy. They are eaten accompanied with a classic feta cheese meze, caper, olives & tomato, all sprinkled with oregano. They are also cut horizontally and filled with what we like, like a sandwich.
Make your own simiti by yourself is much easier than you think.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

medium:

Pear Tarte Tatin

This is one of my favorites autumnal desserts. With a puff pastry sheet and a few nice fruits we have in a short time a delicious & aromatic caramel dessert.
Tarte Tatin is traditionally made with apples without excluding the other fruits if we want to get away from the mundane. A Tart with rounded, whole caramel pears, flavored with 9 spices is a super-tasting, smell-like suggestion. The puff pastry leaf is impregnated with the flavored caramel and becomes crisp and delicious.
If you it want to become even more fancy, accompany it with ice cream but you should know that the Anglo-Saxons combine it with the simple classic cream and it is extremely good and has the virtue of simplicity. We added extra roasted & grated almond and enjoyed it pleasantly.
Yours!

work: 40′

time: 1h:20′

medium:

Spinach, Mushrooms & Feta Quiche

When I make a tart of fresh vegetables, mixed with other different ingredients, I try to guess what its taste will be in the final result. How much the ingredients have blended together and how balanced their proportions are in salt & spices. And as always, I add something extra to correct the taste of bringing it to my palate worries. This time I chose to replace a simple black pepper with the four peppers with the coriander from the infinite jars of my kitchen. Wonderful aromas, delicate peppery smells, all combined with refinement…
The puff pastry leaf, deliciously crunchy, closed everything I prepared for an hour. I cut ribbons from the dough sheet that was left over for the final & defining layer on its face, creating my own galaxy spiral centered on a star, my family enjoyed it and I received extra kiss, it was the first of May you see!
Yours!

work: 1h:10′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Vegetarian Burgers

Vegetarian Burgers in combination with the almost essential cheese and egg protein to give these alternative burgers the necessary dietary dynamics for a relatively dietetic dish of «different burgers without a lot of remorse»…
Portobello mushrooms, broccoli, corn, breadcrumbs are some of the key ingredients. They are flavored with the British origin of Worcestershire sauce, with coriander seeds, flaxseed, onion and garlic. They are made delicious, easy to digest and all this is a deliberate alternative to replacing minced meat.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 50′

easy:

Simple Apple Cake

Fruit is an important supplement to our daily diet. Many times they are replacing a whole meal and for us it has become a favorite habitat for their consumption. Some of these become cakes, since it is an easy batter, with short and simple procedures, made without the need to use a mixer and we enjoy it with family and small.
Apples are made in many different ways, added to sweet or savory delicacies. Golden Delicious apples were used in this fragrant Apple Cake and are the finest in taste that we can enjoy; however, it has the intensity and character of being soft and tender thanks to the apples and the addition of olive oil in the batter as well as a little yeast along with the baking powder. You will definitely enjoy it until the last crumb.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 45′

easy:

Spinach & Cheese Mini Pies

These Spinach Pies & Cheeses are made with Yoghurt Dough and baked in the oven. They are delicious and cute, as they are small, though with a lengthy process. If you are not busy and have fun dealing with anxiolytic procedures, such as dough, make them and enjoy them at your festive table. It is ideal finger food and perfect for a buffet. They are worth their effort.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

medium:

Almond Pears-Amigthalota

The Argosaronic Islands, Cyclades, Dodecanese and all of our islands -and not only- make and celebrate with these Amigthalota/ Almonds Pears, snowy sweets of joy and hospitality to welcome new life, new names, new beginnings, and new pleasures. Snowy as the purity of the happy moments of our life and flavored with the essence of the blossoms of the sour orange.
As many as our islands are so many variations of this simple and such a beloved delicacy. Grated almond, egg white and fine semolina make up the basic principle to make these fragrant sweets and smell the home tradition and joy!
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Traditional Greek Easter Bread-Tsoureki

If we close our eyes and think of Greek Easter, Orthodox Easter, the image to be formed in our mind is a delicious well done, braided super-soft, fluffy and moist brioche with a red egg. This is the view of our Greek Easter!
Sometimes easy with simple procedures and sometimes complicated and demanding the Tsoureki remains the favorite flavored sweet bread large and small. It has primacy in our Easter & Easter table with red eggs and bagels. Customs that blend and reconcile families and friends.
Yours!
Have a pleasant and enjoyable Easter of 2018!

work: 1h:00′

time: 4h:00′

medium:

Koulourakia: Cypriot Easter Cookies

These Easter Cookies are traditional Cypriot Easter buns, which although Lenten are traditionally made on Good Friday.
They are flavored with oriental spices but also with Chios mastic and their aromas resemble those of Easter Tsoureki. They are ideally suited to our coffee and we certainly have more than one.
Daktylies is a type of long shaped-bread, which is separated into smaller parallel pieces, in order to be cut off easier and evenly. The ingredients used for daktylies are flour, leaven, water, sesame seeds and aniseed. Many housewives in the countryside continue the tradition and bake daktylies for the needs of the family.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 3h:30′

medium:

Cream of Asparagus Soup

For this simple first dish, the time it takes to be done does not exceed twenty minutes. Besides, there is the relevant expression: "Faster than to cook asparagus". Yet, though fast, it's delicious. It escapes from our usual Kitchen Soups and is splendidly fragrant.
Each ingredient is distinguished by its flavor and taste. When the first spoon arrives in our mouth and the palate begins to detect the aromas, it will record the soft and fine taste of asparagus (favorite vegetable), the intensity of the roasted garlic, the unique aroma of wild fennel, the unparalleled flavor of Parmesan and the set ends up being an incredible «dance» of tasteful combination.
Surely it surprises us that this little white soup can have such an exciting flavor.
It is accompanied by a glass of rosé wine.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Homemade Soft Pretzel

Have you ever felt that you would like to have the physique of Goddess Kali with 4 hands so that you can do many things at the same time and that your own hands are not enough? This is with me when I decide to deal with the doughs, where times run, parallel processes and many different small things that must be done in the correct sequence, that's when I need excess arms, fellow hands, comfortable, convenient & ready to assist in whatever we strive…
So here too, the helping hand came unexpectedly and they became these very fluffy, brioche textured, bread rolls, soft pretzels, all weather and all-purpose. On the top are sprinkled with the seasoning, the characteristic thick salt and a brownish color thanks to the Maillard Reaction. Preserved for some days fresh and combined with a meal or filled with sweet or savory flavors, your choice.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:00′

medium:

Spring Flower Birthday Cake

Spring is here, the days will grow longer and we will see flowers blossom everywhere. This in itself is a good reason to smile more than this cake shows us how.
Let's dream of blue sky, tiny green buds that appear on the branches to transform into fresh, colorful flowers and in many places have already felt their presence.

To welcome the change of season with open arms, we created a white cake for the coming of Spring with freshly edible flowers with fluffy sponge cake filled with strawberries, and an easy, soft, lightweight, without too much sugar coating. We choose from the following list which edible flowers we can use (a little or a lot) and decorate this cake, a "joy of God" cake, a whole garden with optimistic messages and joyful looks to make our mood, but also a festive only for festive joyful events we prepare cakes, so it is not;
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Tahini Cookies

Mini cookies of a mouthful, fasting, but without the exclusion of the pleasure of their delicacy and the rest of the year, the non-fasting. Ideal snacks for vegans and those who care about their diet. It is free of milk, without eggs or butter but with tahini, orange juice and zest, amber brandy & aromatic spices, giving them a dark color!
Enjoy them with your favorite drink or wrap them on soft, nice wrapping paper & fill gift boxes with them. A remarkable gift for loved ones, friends, associates, neighbors… will be duly appreciated.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 2h:00′

easy:

Blood Orange Marmalade

These wonderful oranges, blood oranges, with red spots on the skin and red flesh, made marmalade and is one of the most beautiful in the red scarlet color, and perhaps the most delicious.
Since childhood I was magnetized and impressed by their blood-red flesh! In the grand orangery of the grandfather, there were almost all sorts of citrus -and various varieties for some of them- from citrus (κίτρα) for their essential oil, which exported to Marseilles, lemons & lime to oranges, mandarins & blood oranges. Everyone with different tastes and sweetness but so beneficial to our body. Since then I have loved these fruits and it was the season, though very young, I ate lemon cut at 4 and sprinkled with salt. From this magical world of our orange tree a part of it has come to my property, thanks to the generosity of the people who so fought with their land.
Eternally grateful!

work: 30′

time: 12h:00′

very easy:

Feta Pie with Peppers

A pie is very special, not only due to its ingredients but also for the technique, and handling of phyllo sheets.
How does the crust phyllo look like country, stay crisp, and distinguish one by one in and on the pie.
If you like pies, this unique category of Greek Cuisine, will compensate you twice: delicious and simple procedures.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

easy:

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Brownies

With gentle children's taste in which succumb from toddlers to old age, both innocent and outrageous, when soaked with alcohol, strawberries are popular and favorite.
Passepartout fruit, fresh used in a variety of sweets, juices and sorbets, at breakfast or brunch, in warm croissants, dipped in melted chocolate, in jams, cakes and Brownies… The melted chocolate, with its velvety, tender texture, swirls over and covers them as much as to hide their ruddy presence.
Yours Brownies & Strawberries!

work: 20′

time: 50′

easy:

Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake

There are cakes that can be made without the need for a food processor or mixer. This cake is one of them. The whole process is done in a bowl and just stirring its ingredients, so without time-consuming preparations and without many tools. The result is a very fluffy, moist and beautiful cake that is not easily crumbled.
The recipe inspired by extra virgin olive oil, this year for the first time, gave us our new, small olives of organic farming.
The Sanguines (Blood Oranges) were used for their many beneficial properties but also for their color, that of ruby. Whole Sanguines, peeled and finely chopped, which left on the sliced slices of ruby & orange dots. It is an excellent cake in which the caramelized slices of oranges dominate with their presence and make it special, unique, festive.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

No Knead Lagana Bread

Lagana, the no-knead bread of the Clean Monday is made once a year and it is no longer no-knead, as before, since it is now customary to add yeast.
The process is easy, simple and without kneading, with a guaranteed result! Prepare the dough from the previous and the next day bake our laganas. It is in the same logic with the Bread without Kneading Walnuts & Raisins. Just leave time for it to work and to spice the Lagana.
Yours!

Have fun!

work: 30′

time: 18h:00′

easy:

No Knead Walnut Raisin Bread

Bread without kneading: we know it, we have made it and we like it. But this particular is very tasty and has to do not only with the ingredients it contains but with the time in which it is being prepared. The time matures the leaven and the result is excellent.
We follow the program and dedicate a morning of Saturday & Sunday to complete it -with the second bread rise & baking- to enjoy it with a companion and combined in a brunch, with salty and sweet tastes on a plate of cheese, sausages, butter, jam and honey or whatever else we like. The Bread will, however, be the king of the brunch. Oh, eaten and plain, especially plain!
The organization of the long wait for the preparation of this bread is made on the basis of the following timetable and which we must follow. In the standby time we do not discount. Since you do not knead let the time do the work for us.
Yours!
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• 18:00 make the dough
• 10:00 next day start the second rise
• 11:30 turn on the oven with the cast iron pot in
• 12:00 bake the bread
• 13:00 you have ready, hot, baked bread!

work: 20′

time: 18h:00′

easy:

Forest Fruit Cinnamon Rolls

Easy cinnamon rolls with our favorite forest fruits with sour taste and beautiful colors. They are easily made of glaze and dressed festively for those who are or feel in love.
Spend your time beautifuly and celebrate. The day of lovers has arrived and is an opportunity to feel festive and cheerful even with a simple sweet with cinnamon rolls and reddish forest fruits.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 40′

very easy:

Spinach, Rocket Savory Cake

Savory Cake with the main ingredient of spinach and many other delicious ingredients to sidekick role for this cake. Most of the time it takes to make the cake is devoted to the preparation of its individual ingredients, because they are a lot, but each one contributes to its delicacy. It is otherwise very easy to make, a delicious slurry and inside all the other ingredients.
Spinach and rocket, as well as ginger, mozzarella, eggs, oil, milk, tomatoes, peppers and raisins.
On our table was accompanied with sweet potatoes in the oven baked together with the cake and a salad green.
Yours.

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

easy:

Cookies with Halva & Raisins

These biscuits are "official", luxurious and ideal to be offered in a sunday relaxing breakfast or in an afternoon meeting with loved ones and the family at a small call friends for coffee and chat or a tea and sympathy as they did once in the grandiose houses with the habits of the old aristocracy. Surely we can not stop enjoying them with hot tea or openings in the middle with freshly ground butter and homemade orange marmalade.
They are made easily and quickly, consumed without remorse and without restraint. They are fluffy, plump & scratchy. Their sugar content is small because Halva (with Super Fruits) and Raisins, the Greek super antioxidant, add enough sweetness. We are sure you will love them as much as we do.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 45′

easy:

Savory Sausage & Broccoli Quiche

Broccoli or cauliflower gains in the "battle" of the most nutritious food;
They have a similar appearance, they belong to the same family, they are superfoods and are consumed in a similar way. But what is gaining in the "battle" of the most nutritious food;
Broccoli and cauliflower are two of the healthiest vegetables of the time and often "fight" for what will … star in our dishes. The part of the vegetable eaten is the same flower, which is consumed in various ways: pickle, raw, boiled, steamed etc. Raw, it has the highest nutritional value and in our home most of the times we eat raw as a fruit at our dinner.
Broccoli is the cauliflower variant, with green or violet flower heads and green leaves. In today's tart it was joined with many ingredients, such as sausage, boiled rice, carrots, pepper and with binder eggs, cream and cheeses. He baked and got a great crunching crust thanks to cheese and basically rice.
Yours!
See you soon, having fun and smile, is contagious!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Dates & Nuts Roll

An easy, simple and delicious sweet recipe for these rolls of dates and nuts, flavored with orange and cloves and sprinkled with grated pistachios. It is a healthy and tasty sweet, fat-free and sugar-free, but the dates give all the sweetness to these rolls, since they are already a sweet temptation.
Sweet rolls with dill and nuts have their origins in India where they are made and eaten a lot.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

easy:

Leek Pie with Country Style Phyllo Sheet

Favorite pies of Greek Cuisine, favorite and the ingredients, which are added each time between the phyllo -different dough phyllo- to create a rich, tasty, ingredients and aroma, pie. There are also excellent traditional pies, which are made without any dough phyllo.
The proposal here is a pie with crispy, rusty leaves in the middle, which give it a large but distinctive taste. Its predominant ingredient is leeks and pork mince. In a regional role, but equally important is cheese, eggs, sweet or sour thyme, carrot to lighten the composition, olive oil and onions, many onions.
A versatile pie in flavors and the amount of ingredients we prefer, without omitting the leek most to justify the title.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

easy:

All-in-One Chocolate Cake

Juicy Chocolates with very much cocoa, a lot of coffee and very sweet wine!
Delightful and with super-chocolate coating is a timeless delight and ideal for chocolate mania. If you belong to this class, this very simple and easy cake process is a perfect chocolate cake, with creamy gentle chocolate garnish from above.
It's surprisingly easy to do and you'll make it in less than an hour.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Vasilopita Brioche 2018

It is always an excellent idea to welcome the New Year with delicious homemade savory and sweet dishes. As for the more traditional sweet, Vassilopita, it can be made in various shapes and ingredients for all tastes. Everything is just as delicious and they belong to the Christmas period of Greece. Prepare your Vassilopita sweet or savory - because there is this version in many of our areas - and bake it to beautify the house "feast!". Regardless of the taste you prefer best, do not forget to hide a coin inside!
Vassilopita without coin is not done.
This beloved version of Vassilopita Tsoureki is an easy and light-to-mouth version of traditional brioche. Our own was made with the new olive oil from our own olives, which just arrived at our house from the olive press. He was kneaded in Vassilopita and the satisfaction was great.

Happy New Year 2018!
Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone

work: 45′

time: 4h:45′

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