Greek Christmas Filled Cookies

Cookies/Finikia/Melomakarona, a recipe from the East full of aromas and memories of lost homelands! Stuffed, traditional, Lenten and syrupy cookies.
The syruping is done in a saucepan and while the syrup is kept warm on a very low heat.
We prepare Finikia, which are consumed during the Lenten days before Christmas but also as a sweet delicacy for Christmas and New Year's Day along with the other Christmas desserts of the Twelve Days, such as Melomakarona, Kourabiedes, hills of fried honeyed Diples fragrant and fluffy Vasilopites! And even Isli, Christmas Bread, Kouloures, New Year's Loukoumades, Pancakes and other local sweets, festive, symbolic and ritual, that are prepared in every corner of Greece.
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Merry Christmas 2024! 🎄
Happy Holidays!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Vegetable Soup

Warm Vegetable Soup, a detox soup with Frumenty (Trahanas), which will make it even tastier and give it a velvety texture!
You can replace your evening meal with this hearty soup because it is rich in nutrients and low in calories.
Make it and enjoy it!
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Osso Buco Veal Stew

Το Osso Buco is the ideal piece of Veal Shank for a well-cooked Stew but also for the perfect Beef Soup. In fact, I recommend sautéing the Osso Buco in olive oil, so that it takes on color and flavor from each side, before it is cooked and accompanied along the way by selected vegetables and aromatic spices. Thus, an innocent Greek Stew can be deliciously hellish with its multi-layered, hidden deliciousness!
Some prefer to accompany this dish with Pappardelle, others with Oven-Fried Potatoes, Barley, Risotto, Polenta. This time we enjoyed it with a super extra Mashed Potatoes!
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work: 00:45′

time: 2h:15′

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Spinach & Feta Rolls

Flour and water!
No yeast, no leavening agents. Simple and incredibly delicious & quick Spinach Cheesecake rolls, plain Cheesecake or both at the same time!
Let's bake delicious pie in the shape of a roll, where the ratio of filling and foil is evenly distributed for more flavor, more crispy effect and for all hours.
The ingredients of this pie are excellent and the proportions perfectly adjusted for a delicious pie or rather 2 pies in one.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Cajun Shrimp Pasta

Pasta with Spicy Shrimp in Cajun & Creole Cuisine. This recipe is a spicy, but delicious dish, a unique pasta dish with great flavors, and very spicy shrimp, which give a characteristic intensity and flavor dynamic to any pasta they are added to.
If you are not a spicy lover, just reduce the spicy amounts, but know that it will be another, different dish.
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work: 30′

time: 30′

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Lemony Cream Cake!

This creamy Cake/Layered Cake, which is wonderfully fluffy and musky scented lemon, filled with traditional goat yogurt combined with Katiki Domokou (ricotta), gave us pleasant tasting -but also festive- moments.
The lemony cream inside, with intense acidic tones, is sandwiched between 2 layers of crumbly dough mixture, which makes it very special and wonderfully delicious. The almond fillet enhances its taste and appearance. It is barely sweet because this is our choice, so we accompany it with a sweet red wine.
We liked it doubly because we had in mind to enjoy it during the holidays and so we named it "Birthday Cake" in honor of the birthday person...
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

Ideal appetizer, excellent taste to combine on your table with Tyrokafteri (Spicy Feta Cheese Spread), that is as hot as we like. Accompany your appetite with beer or raki, without excluding a good red wine.
Tomatoes ripe, tasty and bright red are joined with the aromas of basil and mint, that's all. They do not need anything else to make a scrumptious appetizer except, perhaps, by a homemade spicy cheese dip, with lovely soft feta of Kefalonia, with its velvety taste and texture and of course… french fries!
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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The recipe

Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

you will find it in the book Mezedes.

Apple & Pear Tart with Stevia

This unique Apple-Pear tart is based on a large amount of fruit in relation to the tiny amount of beaten mixture. Do not be surprised by the amount of puree. There will be perfect, in my view, results. These ratios give us a light in taste, texture, and tart apple calories.
A quick and delicious way to consume fruits, which accumulate in our fridge, and enjoy a very tasty dessert for our Sunday breakfast.
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work: 15′

time: 45′

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Black Grape Spoon Sweet

Spoon Sweet of black spermless grape, with very special blue-purple shades, deliciously tasty and very aromatic with the addition of spices, star anise and cardamom, which make the syrup sweet.
The ATTICA grape variety is a black, non-seed variety of table grapes, with a long-grained sapless berry, maturing at the end of July or early August. The grape itself is one of the most delicious edible grapes without seeds.
At the end of the article there are detailed instructions for sterilization and preserving products whose lifetime we want to prolong and to ensure that they will not be altered.
Follow them!

work: 30′

time: 24h:00′

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Baked Eggplant with Feta

Simple things, concentrated flavor and Low Carb diet.
Grilled eggplant, sprinkled with a little feta cheese and chopped fresh cilantro to make a delicious and hearty appetizer. We enjoy in the terrace in the evening with friends.
Drinks at will in kind and in quantity!

The recipe

Baked Eggplant with Feta

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».


Author Zambia G. Sifaki

work: 10′

time: 1h:00′

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Stuffed Apricot with Ricotta Cheese

Greek Summer for most natives or travelers means sea, vacation, walking, cool drink in hand and fresh fruit, lots of raw fruit, and in other forms, such as juices, ice cream, smoothies, granites, etc.
We now enjoy fresh apricots stuffed with ricotta cheese, bathed in honey, and sprinkled with crushed walnuts. So simple, with a few ingredients but so a special dessert. Without ovens and baking with straightforward procedures on our table a delicious, healthy, and impressive dessert.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

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Old-Fashioned Raisin Cake

This Old Fashioned Raisin Cake & Walnut is a trip down memory lane, an old fashioned cake filled with warm spices, juicy raisins and crunchy walnuts. Raisin cake is the ultimate cake for tea, coffee and for our snack as a snack.
With its vintage charm and moist crumb, this old-fashioned raisin cake is a traditional recipe.
Its moist texture is a dream, striking the perfect balance between fluffy and firm. To finish off the baked raisin cake, you can keep it plain or sprinkle some powdered sugar on top.
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work:00:15′

time: 1h:00′

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