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.
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work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

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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.
Enjoy this step by step photos of the entire process and happy baking!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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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.
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work: 10′

time: 40′

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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.
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work: 10′

time: 15′

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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.
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work: 20′

time: 40′

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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.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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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 apple cake is used stroopwafels as a coating to provide a crisp crust, caramel flavor & aroma. The caramel combines perfectly with delicious, autumnal, crunchy apples.
Taste experts or not it is worth the try!

work: 15′

time: 1h:15′

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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′

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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.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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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.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:50′

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The recipe

Eggplant & Meat Pie

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».