Happy New Year 2015

I wish you a Happy New Year and a promising 2015!
Do not forget to ask / require as many as you can, some of them will become!! :)

Thank you from my heart!
Zambia

Zambia Sifaki

New Year's Cake 2015

This New Year's cake is a little different, with lots of delicious ingredients, which work in favor of the special taste.
Walnuts, almonds, chocolate and yogurt and citrus juice, which offer the fluffy texture and velvety fresh taste. The lemon glaze gives the sour tones that balance perfectly with the sweet aftertaste of the cake. It is made from the previous day, so as to unite the flavors and aromas of the ingredients.
Yours!
Happy New Year and Great 2015!

work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Savory Torte

Green red, colors, festive, for Christmas on this cake, salty cake without cooking. With ingredients delicious and popular, which make it impressive, but hearty and very tasty. Bread, cheese, ham, pickled peppers, cream cheese and others are the ingredients that compose it.
For gourmet selections in crowded festive dinner parties, together with a sparkling wine and a simple white sec demi wine is the best company that we can enjoy.
Yours!
Keep cooking and enjoy it!

work: 45′

time: 1h:00′

medium:

Christmas Bread

Sweet bread, aromatic, festive, for Christmas. Full of dried fruits such as raisins, cranberries, apricots, plums and many, different nuts. Sprinkled with plenty of icing sugar and decorated with red pomegranate beads, bring us luck, to exorcise the bad times of the year and to welcome the first day of winter, but also to be offered at our festive Christmas table… ⭐️🍾🥂🎄

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

work: 20′

time: 1h:40′

easy:

Melomakarona with Carrot, Honey Cookies

Melomakarona with honey, easy to prepare, light, alternative, and veggie. Melomakarona different. Mediterranean natural ingredients, orange splashes and carrot flavor. Do not miss out, make a difference.
Shape small round melomakarona, scribe, baptise in honey syrup and sprinkle with plenty of grated walnuts.
The melomakarona keep you tasty companionship in waiting for holidays…
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 45′

easy:

Kourabiedes Easy & Delicious

Crushable, plump, crisp and very delicious Kourabiedes – Greek Christmas Butter Cookies and bonus the ease with which they are made.
Demystification version kourabiedes, so because we like sometimes things done more easily and passable even for beginners kitchen… as if simply we make biscuits, biscuits/hearts, sprinkled with a white cloud of powdered sugar to resemble our snowy, festive scenery!
Good butter, powdered sugar, cognac and roasted almonds, to let the aroma of roasting and their taste in kourabie dough.
That's all the essential ingredients all combined together give us a super tasty flavor. What a pity that you do not make them more often!
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

easy:

Roasted Lamb with Grape Molasses

Festive dish for every time and… holidays. Intoxicating aromas and sweet notes of molasses. The accompanying vegetables provide the proper amount of liquid ingredients to cook without adding water, only with their juices and wine.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

very easy:

White Chocolate and Orange Truffles

Small cute truffles with white chocolate and orange flavor, sprinkled with icing sugar. Inside a surprise is waiting, a chocolate olive with almond.
Easily made and pleasantly consumed with fury, because it is a just a bite.
They can become a festive welcome gift for friends in festive moments.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:20′

very easy:

No Knead Bread

Bread=water+flour and 12 hours «sleep» is enough to have one of the most delicious, with a crispy crust, impressive and great breads, you've ever tried and it will be made by you with minimal effort, no secret, but anxious for the result. All that is necessary in that case, is be patient and leave it alone. Let's take the time to do the work of fermentation.
A recipe for those who have gotten out of fear kneading bread. In this simple way you get a perfect loaf for your everyday, but also for your formal table.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 14h:00′

easy:

Orange Halwa

Halva orange lightweight, cool and enjoyable. Fat-free, without milk.
The orange gives it flavor, color and acidic tones in aftertaste. The zest of orange, with essential oils, emphasizes the aroma. Finally vanilla, this exceptional spice, claiming its own place in delicious whole.
A delicious, economical way to close a heavy festive table with family and friends. And if you fast is a very good choice of dessert.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

easy:

Cheese Stuffed Shells

Lumaconi or Lumache (slightly smaller) are large, thick pasta which look like in shape with a shell or shell snail, that we can fill with a variety of ingredients spinach, shrimp, cheese, mushrooms, bacon, etc., or combinations thereof.
Here we filled them with a mixture of many different cheeses from bright blue cheese up to soft, spreadable cheese. Chestnuts with excellent combination with cheese and add flavor and body to the filling. Certainly homemade tomato sauce tookoff the taste of the whole dish.
The shells pasta is beautiful in shape and can be prepared from the previous day and offered as a more festive dish.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

medium:

Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

Juicy, chocolate, delicious muffins, with bananas, which in addition to wonderful taste give them moisture and softness and thus you can keep them for 2-3 days without drying and without losing their fresh and fluffy interior and elasticity. The fluid form of the chocolate within muffins, especially in large pieces, is maintained even when they have cooled down.
So easy to do with minimum procedures without using the mixer. Simply mix gently to join the ingredients together.
The dark chocolate is a chocolate with distinct properties and the most suitable and durable for roasting at high temperatures that make particularly useful for our oven sweets and more.
Classic chocolate combined beautifully with the unique taste of banana. Eternal love and forever for many.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 40′

very easy:

Tuna Cheese Sandwich

Easy, delicious and flavored tuna sandwich for a quick snack, but no junk. A super groomed sandwich, that we like it to be a little hearty meal for two.
The finocchio (in Italian) or fennel is a vegetable with antioxidants, with crisp texture and slightly sweet taste that by adding, it offers a refreshing contribution to the ever popular Mediterranean Cuisine.
The fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) has been known since ancient times for its benefits. Plays an important role in the food cultures of many European nations, mainly Italy and France, where the fennel combine or make delicious dishes. In autumn or early spring, when readily available, are the best moments.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 15′

very easy:

Sesame Seed Cookies

Cookies fluffy on the inside but crispy outside, sprinkled with white and black sesame seeds for a sweet bite that will accompany the hot beverage of choice, but also plain not inferior in any way, they are equally delicious.
The asteroid anise gives them a light fragrance and very discriminating taste. The sugar they contain is little, so just enough to be distinguishable in our palate.
It's lightweight, made easy, fast, with very simple procedures without mixer and above all you enjoy a delicious, healthy and without preservatives or other impurities cookie, made by us to our loved ones, small or large. Try them, you will be blown away.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 40′

easy:

Boiled Cheese Pie

The pie with the rather strange title is a pie with a variety of processed cheese in the pot and a narrow family recipe, which is now publicly available for the first time in Greek blogo-events…
The cheeses, therefore, of this cheese pie mix and boil until you get a cream, as they were before they became cheese. To their composition add eggs, milk, semolina and it is ready to enter into the pan and give us a unique salty delicacy.
Certainly not recommended as a diet dish, but it is certain that the taste will compensate any guilt created. Recommended for our large family tables, where gathered numerous friends and relatives, so just like we often do, and there will surely appreciated.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Autumn Apple Cake with Stroopwafel

Apple cake coated with crushed waffle, Stroopwafels (syrup waffles).
A very tasty caramel flavor, thin, soft and chewy cookie, which alone can be a full dessert to accompany the steaming coffee, our chocolate or hot tea. Cover the cup with a Stroopwafel for a while and the warm vapor penetrates and softens the caramel, which is imprisoned within.
At the grated apple cake used as a coating to provide crisp crust, caramel flavor and aroma to cake. The caramel blends perfectly with delicious, autumn, crisp apples.
Sommeliers or not it is worth the try!

work: 15′

time: 1h:15′

easy:

Poppy Seeds Sticks

Who does not prefer the easy and fast to prepare food, especially those who are employees, students but novices in the kitchen or just in a hurry.
Tasty and bicolor -sesame & poppy seeds- pastry sticks, which in addition to enjoying them, may be combined with a multitude of accompaniments and spice, with their presence, even more what we want to accompany. From the simplest combination, like cheese and tomato until multi tasty dips or sauces and of course at the center of a buffet with finger food.
Your own inspirations!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Petit Fours with Glaze

Petit Fours or small cakes, filled with jam and aromatic cocoa glaze!
A delicious, juicy and flat cake, which will not crumble, is the appropriate basis to make these little sweets almost a mouthful, after having to cut into small cubes, to cut again the cubes for filling with jam. Process as simple game.
The cocoa glaze is easy and even though it does not have the taste of chocolate tones, but equally captivating in my opinion, it has the cocoa flavor, that chocolate is a bit more "grumpy" in preparation and its use in relation to cocoa.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Eggplant & Meat Pie

Pies are a relatively easy, tasty, hearty and… and ultimately have only positive signs to adjectives and our palate.
One more pie therefore eggplant pie this time, with whole chunks of eggplant, fried and mixed with delicious minced beef, finished with cognac. The cream béchamel, is added to give the taste intensity and consistency.
The choice of adding the dry cottage cheese is to highlight the flavors of the cake with the saltiness and authenticity of a simple, traditional but delicious cheese. Taken together, wrapped in phyllo pastry and the final reason is the oven where the cake comes to complete the whole process.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:50′

medium:

Turmeric Garlic Dip

It's tradition in Greece at March 25 and October 28 to consume as a nation a delicious meal of Greek cuisine. This is the salted cod and of course the necessary accompaniment, the garlic sauce.
Today reversing the usual order of rotation of posts to the blog, which require a dessert I propose Garlic with Turmeric. The turmeric gives the garlic a nice and bright yellow color. Taste is great, a healthy choice and velvety texture. If your taste habits contains the garlic sauce then make it with the way I propose.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Pizza Dough-Easy Pizza

Pizza dough easy and unique, that for the preparation of it, are required only two ingredients, which is worshiped for the convenience but also for the taste. Two, yes only two components, neither of which is water. Just flour and yogurt!
Circulated widely in international, online, culinary events and everyone is talking about a small miracle.
I test it, enjoyed it and present it to you. At the end I added a few more of rocket leaves, so as to remind us of the colors of the "Tricolore", the Italian flag -as tend Italians to call- and mentally to travel at the home origin. Starting from there, this unique flat bread, which with a little tomato sauce and a little cheese, made an international career!
Yours.

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Fish Fillet and Leek Gratin

Fish fillet combined with leeks, bathed in a tasty mustard cream and sprinkled with grated cheese and crumbs of sesame bun, which give the dish tasty and crunchy crust.
An inexpensive, tasty meal, a different option in order to enjoy the, usually flat taste, fish fillet.
Served with a green salad, boiled greens and of course with a dry white wine.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 40′

easy:

Pineapple Upside-Down Mini-Cakes

A variant of the classic pineapple upside down cake, adapted to small, cute cakes.
Caramel mini cakes with pineapple flavor, for individual enjoyment. They are delicious, have absorbed the caramel inside and have perfect taste.
The coating with a golden pineapple washer, make them a beautiful sight. To the cake mixture add crushed pineapple and they have silky softness and the necessary humidity.
Enjoy them with a scoop of ice cream bathed with extra candy depending on the season.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h:10′

medium:

Shrimp Bow Tie Pasta

Farfalle (butterflies) or Bow-tie are alternative names for the pasta, with beautiful bow shape. Dated from the 16th century in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy.
Bows, therefore, accompanied by wispy shrimp, chopped green onion, chives, coriander, chilli and lime and Peach!
I think this dish is perhaps the tastiest and most aromatic of pasta dishes, that I have at times suggested from the pages of Kitchen Stories. Seductive aromas and tantalizing smells emerge and gives pungent taste superiority.
If the ingredients and the composition convinced you, make it and enjoy it with a cold, dry, white wine.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

easy:

Coconut Carrot Cake

Carrot cake without flour, and by extension Gluten Free for those who follow a gluten-free diet, have an intolerance to it, or do not wish to consume cereal.
Beyond this, the cake is very rich in ingredients and very tasty. The coconut flour substitute perfectly normal flour and is very tasty. The addition of cream cheese comes to further intensify the flavor.
Yours!

work: 25′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce, classic, delicious and for varied uses, flavored with oregano and basil. An easy sauce that accompanies perfectly meat and vegetable dishes. But also pizzas, bruschetta, sandwiches and of course pasta, any kind of pasta, where it takes off with its presence the flavor of the dish.
Tomatoes are rich in flavor, high liquid content, very soft flesh which breaks down easily, and right composition to thicken in sauce when cooked. All these properties make it ideal for a simple and attractive sauce.
Auguste Escoffier ranks it among the five basic sauces (mother sauces) of French cuisine with:

• Béchamel
• Spanish Sauce
• Velvet
• Dutch sauce

work: 15′

time: 45′

easy:

Bougatsa with Stevia

Bougatsa with stevia, egg-free and with a very light semolina cream.
A traditional dessert, which is made with many phyllo sheets, folded well to close within their fluffy and fragrant cream. From top sprinkled with a white cloud of powdered sugar and cinnamon.
It's also a favorite street food, along with the cheese pie is a quick snack for passersby or tourists.
Made with Stevia and no eggs it is a dessert for dieters or for those that for some reason do not want to consume sugar but also do not want to be deprived of their favorite flavors. You choose.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h:30′

medium:

Burger Buns

Bread rolls made ​​for high quality! That is to be the perfect handmade burgers for great recipes, culinary creations.
Cut in half and stuffed with what we like. Lettuce, tomato, cheese, tuna, chicken, bacon, ham, beef, fine-cut tenderloin beef, caramelized onions, tasty sauce and many others to become as "sinful" so delicious, as you want.
For this reason they remained smooth without adding sesame or poppy seed, with a neutral taste and texture. Naturally eaten as a main meal accompaniment plain buns.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 3h:30′

medium:

Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee is an alcoholic cocktail made ​​with Irish whiskey, hot, very hot coffee, brown sugar and cream. The standard and formal specifications of the components and proportions of Irish Coffee is defined by the IBA, the International Bartenders Association.
My proposal has not Irish whiskey but Scottish. It has, however, a further "misconduct" light sprinkling of nutmeg cream, for tension in the aroma, as it will penetrated by the warm vapors of whiskey and coffee, and gets … better in the photograph!
Yours!

work: 5′

time: 10′

very easy:

Oven Baked Chicken & Vegetables

We know briam, eat it and enjoy it as a Lenten dish, with lots of different vegetables, all of which combined together give great tasty results. By adding meat -here chicken- the enjoyment gets off.
It is delicious, hearty and often very functional and flexible when vegetables get piled in the refrigerator and should be consumed immediately.
Various other vegetables like eggplants, peppers, potatoes and onions and tomatoes, all chopped up comprise the tasty base to touch the shredded chicken, cooked in the oven and bring out the flavors but also their colors.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

very easy:

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

Red, crackeled chocolate cookies.
The deep red color of chocolate, rich cocoa flavor, but also for all the remaining ingredients, give to these various cookies great texture, flavor and beautiful aesthetic result. They are cute, they are soft, they are hearty, they are chewy inside and crispy on the outside. They fully cover your taste concerns, for a delicious cookie that will accompany the milk or juice for children and coffee or tea for the grown ups.
They are also a beautiful festive gift-package to offer to your loved ones.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

easy:

BLT Dip

If you are looking for a quick and easy appetizer to become favorite for you and your company, this one is the best. With a few ingredients and little time you prepare a very tasty and hearty dip.
Made with mayonnaise, roasted bacon, chopped tomato and cream. A delicious dip made ​​finger food and eaten with crispy crackers, which here serve as spoons to grip robust quantity dips.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 15′

very easy:

Prickly Pear Liqueur

Beautiful, bright, clear orange color for this, no ordinary liquor, prickly pear liqueur. A quite rare liqueur, since there are few "brave", which will deal with the pearly pears.
Prickly pears found in nature and can be cut with great care, but there are in supermarkets packaged in transparent packages whose spines have been removed, and is the safest and easiest way to treat and remove their peel.
Cheers!

work: 30′

time: 5 ημέρες

easy:

Spicy Chicken Burgers

Full, hearty, tasty and very spicy and aromatic meal. It is fast and is the most common and delicious burgers you've ever tasted.
Breaded spicy chicken fillet, bathed with melted mozzarella, between toasted buns with sliced ​​tomato and fresh lettuce. Combined with cold beer, fries or chips, green salad, and from a course of "easy and fast food" becomes a dish of the highest caliber.
A burger otherwise, as you never waited to taste.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h

easy:

Tiramisu

The Tiramisu is the most widely used, Italian pastry around the world. Made with ladyfingers, strong espresso coffee and mascarpone cheese. It is said that the place of origin is the region of Veneto and particularly the city of Treviso. Although many have objected on it …
But that which we are interested in is to enjoy a delicious dessert, of which there are many variations and anywhere only friends!
A classic recipe is one that I follow for years and really all these that have tried it like it a lot. The current proposal is a small "herecy" since it adds cinnamon biscuits. Was this desire, which, however, gave a touch aromatic sweet cinnamon, going with coffee.
There is a procedure of preparation of different materials, which have to be prepared separately and then joined together.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

medium:

Meatballs with Ouzo

Hearty meatballs, plump and delicious. Crisp and crunchy outside and soft and fluffy inside.
Their ingredients is this proposal are fine, aromatic and favorites. Ouzo adds a touch of alcohol, what better to enjoy them as a snack or accompanied by various other appetizers or as a main dish with fried potatoes, tomato and a light yogurt sauce. The large glasses full of ice cold beer complete the enjoyment with cool presence.
Yours.

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

From Harrods Kitchens

HARRODS: With an area of ​​90.000 m², with more than 12.000 employees from fifty different countries, is the largest department store in Europe, which offers luxury, style and famous haute couture houses.
Over 300,000 customers visit on busy days and the largest percentage of customers comes from non-English speaking countries and is higher than any other department store in London.

A representative sample of shop services, which includes, among others, 32 restaurants, serving everything from tea to tapas and food from a pub to haute cuisine. A watch repair service, tailor, pharmacy department, a beauty salon-spa, a hairdresser and financial services and bank Harrods, real estate and aviation services.

On the ground floor of the store is developed a huge Food Hall with a wide variety of food products from the most simple and common to rare products and haute cuisine.

The photographic selection below is a little sample of the impressive food hall.
Enjoy it!

Blueberries Cake

A simple cake without special preparation -as indeed most Cakes- but very special flavor thanks to blueberries. The blueberries with deep purplish-blue color, we find fresh and very often frozen. If you do find them do not skip them because they are tasty, healthy and very rich source of antioxidants, vitamin C and iron.
Yours.

work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

easy:

Savory Clafoutis

French origin with hellenized ingredients. Feta cheese, tomato, oregano and cheese guaranteeing tastiness. It's delicious, easy and filling. With flavors and aromas of Greek summer. Eaten pleasantly with a green salad and a glass of red wine.
Enjoy!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Ham and Mushroom Crepes

Savory crepes stuffed with ham and mushrooms. Juicy, flavorful, with a velvety exterior and interior, sprinkled with cheese which, when baked, is giving them a golden face.
The savory or sweet crepes are made ​​easily, are very popular in their hometown in France and simply needs some time to prepare.
Fill them with a lot of tasty stuffing and place in the oven for a while to get brown.
Served with green french salad and can be an appetizer or a delicious complete meal.
Try them!

work: 1h:30′

time: 1h:45′

difficult:

Kernels Cherry Liqueur

Fragrant liqueur, amber, clear color and light scent of bitter almonds and cherries. Drinking, either as an aperitif or as a digestif is sure to leave you with very good impressions. A liqueur that gladdens the eye and the palate.
The process is simple. Put the kernels of cherries in alcohol and wait a few days. Time will work in favor of its creation.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 4 weeks

very easy:

Eggplant Rolls with Feta Cheese

Super extra snack / finger food, filled with delicious cheeses, such as feta and cottage cheese, with Greek Kalamata olives, wrapped in eggplant rolls baked in the oven. So simple, so divine!
Before you enjoy them sprinkle with a few drops of raw olive oil and with the chopped herbs.
You will appreciate these wonderful rolls of a mouthful!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Cherry Jam with Orange

Cherry marmelade light, easy and fast. Enjoyable without the excess sugar and of course less burdensome nutritionally. The orange zest adds flavor and needed pectin.
The wonderful cherries with glossy skin, their tight flesh, but with wonderful color and taste, sealed in jars and stored to accompany us in the winter months.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Peppers Stuffed with Cheese & Bacon

Dish colored with colorful peppers stuffed with a mixture of different, spicy cheese and bacon. Dish with dual option. That of an appetizer and this of main course.
The peppers are an easy and delicious vegetable, which lends itself to be used in many tasty choices in the events of our kitchen. The ease in filling them (with a variety of fillings) makes them attractive to our liking.
Try them!

The recipe

Peppers Stuffed with Cheese & Bacon

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Coconut Panna Cotta

White Panna Cotta with coconut cream, bathed in honey and sprinkled with roasted sesame seeds.
Subtle, delicate flavors, light and airy, a delicious combination of flavors, such as coconut, honey and sesame.
Few would resist the sweet call of the flavor. Try it cold from the refrigerator. You would wish it to be double in size for prolonged enjoyment.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 4h:15′

very easy:

Chicken and Vegetables in Slow Cooker

Chicken thighs with peppers and balsamic cream, slow cooking in an easy and delicious version. A light dish healthy and delicious. The slow cooking in a covered Slow Cooker, where all the steam from cooking are retained in the pot gives it extra flavor.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 6h:15′

very easy:

Donauwellen / Danube Waves Cake

Donauwellen in German means "the wave of the Danube".
Waves of the Danube, then in layers for this popular traditional dessert in Germany and Austria, and in fact five successive and different for fivefold apotheosis of taste.
The process is complex but not that difficult. With detailed photos and the process of executing step by step all parallel preparations, that are essential, become easier.
The base consists of a two-colored cake in white and chocolate and the surface is covered with sour cherries or cherries. Cooked and drenched with syrup. On top spread the cream-vanilla pudding. The final layer is a light and soft Chocolate Ganache that never hardens to keep the same velvety texture of this cream underneath.
Own your Donauwellen!

work: 2h:00′

time: 4h:00′

very difficult:

Whiskey Burger

Juicy, spicy and drunk with whiskey super burger to deliciously accompany male population that will be "camping" in the living room or on our terrace with the first whistle of the referee for the start of Mundial 2014!
They will love them. Do not forget that the older children always remain children and junk food is their first choice!
Knead fluffy homemade burger buns and make a very spicy sauce full in whiskey. Packing them with crispy bacon and melted cheddar (no lettuce and the like, sinful). Sprinkle with lots of wavy chips of barbecue taste and put on the edge of each dish chili peppers Jalapeños pickle, to fire up the blood even more, to intensify ecstasy and passion and adrenaline flowing more abundant than beer.
Take care, do not forget them outside of the refrigerator, huh? Sacrilege…
Your Own!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

easy:

Crema Catalana

In Catalan cuisine there is an excellent sweet dessert, cream Catalana, flavored with cinnamon, anise, lemon and orange peel. Eggs and milk are combined to make a delicious cream, almost childlike. The sugar on the surface Creamer Catalan is caramelized with Confectionary torch or grill. Is this the scent of burnt / caramelized sugar which makes it unique.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 2h:20′

easy:

Vine Leaves Maintenance

There are several ways to maintain vine leaves in order to have them for the whole year, without the cooling devices of our time. The drying, the bottles, the brine, the jars. Since ancient times yet, since they stored them in small clay pots, covered with olive oil since they did not have refrigerators, until our days with freezing.
The best time of harvesting the leaves is the months of May and June. The vine is preferably sultanas, which has the most tender and delicious leaves, and of course not sprayed.
Today's maintenace is called dry maintenance and is simple and quite easy. Prerequisite: the leaves are completely dry, otherwise you risk to make black spots from moisture and spoil.

work: 30′

time: 30′

very easy: