Liver a la Veneziana

Fresh chicken livers, cooked with onions and flavored with rosemary.
The sauce concentrates the aromas of ingredients and in combination with mashed potatoes and carrots becomes a delicious and hearty dish.
Try it.

work: 20′

time: 01h:00′

easy: 2/5

Dried Fruits Cake

Aromatic and delicious cake, stuffed with dried fruits to remind us of summer when we enjoy it in the winter.
The use of dried fruit has a long tradition, dating from the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia. Today it plays an important role in the Mediterranean diet.
I suggest you try this recipe, marinating the fruits overnight in lemon orange zest and juice. They will soften, get caramelized and swell absorbing the juice.

work: 00h:45′

time: 13h:20′

medium: 3/5

Teriyaki Chicken

Teriyaki is a cooking technique, used in Japanese cuisine to grill fish (or meat), dipped in sweet soy marinade and enjoyed by drinking Saké, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
We will make crispy chicken drumsticks in a fragrant marinade with a very easy recipe.

work: 30′

time: 01h:00′

easy: 2/5

Calzone Express

Today we eat fast, delicious and hearty!
Make a Calzone with puff pastry, a little ham and cheese and we're ready. Without time-consuming procedures and with guaranteed tasty results!
Until cooked we can prepare a delicious light salad with red radish and a lightweight vinegraite, to accompany and to ease the calories of the calzone.
Try it!

work: 00h:10′

time: 00h:30′

very easy: 1/5

Ravani Syrup Cake

Ravani is a delicious classic dessert of Greek cuisine. Essentially it is a syrupy cake and by adding the almond it is made delicious and unique.
The syrup is light, and makes it as sweet as it should be, flavored with lemon, which gives it a touch of citrus freshness and flavor.

work: 45′

time: 01h:30′

easy: 2/5

Onion's Pie

Pies are among the favorite dishes of Greek cuisine. We like them and make them in many different versions.
Today's pie is an onion pie… enhanced with various cheese turmeric and sundried tomatoes .
If you like the combination of ingredients, I think you will love this pie.

work: 45′

time: 01h:45′

easy: 2/5

Red Lentil Soup

Lentils with orange, intense color, and unmatched flavor, taster than the simple lentils we all know.
Lentils came in my kitchen, from Xanthi, covering many miles on their way.
At first glance I was thrilled by their color, but I did not know their taste. I gained first hand experience, of this little known product, by cooking them!
You can find them is many health stores. In other cities around the world they may be easier to find in local markets.
Worth the try.

work: 00h:10′

time: 00h:30′

easy: 2/5

Plum Jam with Spices

Plums, apart from being very tasty and sweet fruits, when ripe, also have a beautiful ruby ​​color. By extension, they make a very tasty jam, with a fantastic pink-red, transparent color, the same ruby!
The process is so simple, that in a little time we have a spicy, red, light jam for the first meal of the day. Our breakfast!
Enjoy the almost ethereal flavor and you will feel very proud to make your own jam, so much better than those you buy, which are laden with sweeteners, for my taste.

work: 00h:15′

time: 01h:45′

very easy: 1/5

Fish Fillet with Orange Sauce

Today my suggestion is a tasty version of fillet fish with orange sauce and fragrant spices.
A Low Carb plate, dish, suitable for those who are watching their diet. However, it is still a delicious, economical and filling dish. Try it!

work: 15′

time: 45′

easy: 2/5

Spinach Feta Pie

Spinach & feta pie sticks in phyllo pastry.
We love pies and we eat a lot of those especially if the contain greens.
This recipe comes with phyllo pastry, but we can replace it with a thicker phyllo.
The feta cheese is added at the end. If you don't add cheese you have a pie suitable for fasting.

work: 01h:00′

time: 01h:30′

medium: 3/5

Palmiers

A Palmier is a French pastry made with puff pastry and sugar. The are crisp, caramelized and delicious.
They are easier and simpler to make if you use ready puff pastry.

work: 15′

time: 15′

very easy: 1/5

Garlic's Breadsticks

Fluffy, buttery and very tasty.
A fluffy bread, cut in sticks. Bread sticks, flavored with garlic and basil, very easy to make and without much work.
We enjoy them warm to accompany our appetizers and main courses.
Try kneading today. It works as an anti-stress!

work: 15′

time: 2h:00′

easy: 2/5

The recipe

Garlic's Breadsticks

can be found in the book entitled «Μεζέδες».

Fatty Acids in Nutrition

We read many things about fats in nutrition. Saturated, unsaturated, omega, butter, margarine good better and bad. All are bad or good depending on what we read and who is the author.
So what emerged from my research?