Crostata Without Butter with Ricotta & Peach Jam

I wanted to try this type of dough, which contains light oil instead of butter. Although not really an Orthodox preparation compared to the rules of pastry, it is a great and easy way to make a dough very quickly. Mix everything in a bowl, work with the wire or spoon and then finish the process with a quick kneading on the kitchen work surface.
This shortens the time needed to make a tart dough, as it does not need to rest in the fridge and can be used immediately even when there are a hundred degrees in the house due to the summer heat.
We open a sheet that is easily inserted into the mold, fills up and at one point we have our tart ready to get into the oven.
Sweet Tart without butter, stuffed with cottage cheese and peach jam, made by us in a very short time with less sugar. Light jam recipe★ at the end of the article. The leaf is so wonderful, biscuit, crumbly, that it will surprise you with its taste and texture. It can also be used in salty tarts by removing the sugar.
Hmmm, remember to make cookies with this dough…
Yours, the Tart!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Eggplants Stuffed with Potato Purée & Mozzarella

Roasted eggplants, stuffed with mashed potatoes and mozzarella. Alternatively Greek stuffed 'little shoes'. Delicious, easy and filling.
Eggplant is a tender perennial plant of the family Strychnoid (Solanaceae) and is cultivated for its homonymous fruit. Eggplant dominates in Mediterranean dishes. For us the moussaka and the shoes, the Italian parmesan aubergine and the Turkish imam baildi are among the best known. It is also roasted, fried, stuffed, salad and in vinegar (pickled).
Eggplant has low nutritional value and characteristic taste. It contains a greenish substance, strychnine, which can cause stomach upset when fruits are eaten unripe or very ripe. That's why attention is needed.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Fresh Lemon Syrup

Whether you find standard lemons from the market or from the supermarket or - even better - from your own organically grown lemon trees, take their juice and do not throw away the lemon juice but make this raw, fresh lemon syrup for many uses.
You fill a transparent glass bottle with this syrup, made of nothing but sugar dissolved in the acidic lemon pulp and no boiling is required! Since there is no extra juice, it tastes somewhat sweeter than sour but is balanced by the fine bitterness of lemon.

The lemon mugs are acidic enough to dissolve up to half their weight in sugar, giving the syrup a strong flavor and vivid color without any additional juice, flavor or dye.
Use it in various dishes in your kitchen from a simple liqueur with ice cubes and soda, your favorite cocktails to cakes or where else you want to give strong lemonade flavor to your preparations.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 3h:00′

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Spicy Cheese Pie with Tabasco

Spicy, golden brown, fluffy and particularly tasty thanks to the various fresh cheeses, which give it an unparalleled taste. The use of tabasco makes it spicy as long as our palate can withstand. These spicy tones enhance the flavor, so we enjoy a very tasty pie. Once it comes out of the oven it is like a cheese soufflé and where the cheeses have been scattered and joined to the leaves in a uniform form. Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

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Honey Banana Upside-Down Cake

We know the traditional version of the upside-down cake in which he wants to star in the pineapple, which is always particularly impressive even when cut & cooked. Bananas, on the contrary, do not have such a "shine", but cutting them down and placing them in a row on the base of a refractory pot in honey can become just as attractive and beautiful. My opinion; Another taste, with the presence of honey! Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:10′

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Pasta with Smoked Salmon in Creamy Sauce

Spaghetti bathed with a white creamy sauce -we adore- combined with smoked salmon to give them their wonderful smoky taste and plenty of green onion and chives. Of course (!) Vodka, which so much like in salmon, will help in the taste of this dish.
What else to say, to say that white pasta, pasta with white sauce, combined with some seafood, is one of our favorite macaroni. Although you are unable to make this combination make this macaroni and enjoy it!
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 30′

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Greek Cabbage Pie with Yogurt Sauce

Do we like Cabbage Rolls but we do not have time to wrap them one by one? We prepare quickly and easily a cabbage pie, which is just as delicious but easier and more impressive.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 2h:15′

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Classic Vanilla Bundt Cake

Vanilla Cake & Chocolate, a real Bundt Cake robust, solid, tough, heavy, liquid cake that has nothing to do with fluffy, airy, ethereal cakes, but it is wonderful and you will allow me, for excitement, to offer you with many praise.
Fine, infused and tender, this golden cake is the simplicity at its best. Baked in a Bundt form is just as good to serve it with fresh fruit, ice cream, whatever you like it or just it yourself, sprinkled with sugar as much as you like.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:30′

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Feta Cheese Bread - Tyropsomo

Traditional Cheese bread/Cheese pie with a spiral-shaped slice, combining the shape of a circle and its dynamic movement, symbolizes Time. As part of the smooth endless line it also symbolizes the development, continuity, pace of breathing and life itself. It becomes our own consciousness to accept the turns, the changes and the evolution of life.
Usually the old housewives this cheese-making made it by holding a little of the dough with which they made their bread with the classical technique of the natural yeast… then came the ready-made yeast, fresh or dried and of course the quick way of our life to make us forget the existence of the primitive process of maturation of the mother yeast…
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 2h:00′

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Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year 2019!

Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone!

Zambia Sifaki