Gingerbread Bundt Cake

Gingerbread Bundt Cake
It is not a simple Cake, it is a festive, spicy and very aromatic Cake. As you prepare it and its aromas flood your kitchen you will automatically have the desire, the mood to sing the carols softly, whatever Christmas carols come to your mind even if you are particularly dissonant.
It is a cake with molasses, with sweets ginger and lots of spices, filled with the inside of it with fluffy cheese cream. Outwardly a candied sugar cloud is all it takes to let its perfumes overflow and disperse in our palate.

Happy New Year
Health, Love, Happiness to everybody
work: 20′ time: 1h:10′ easy:

Edible Christmas Tree

Edible Christmas Tree
Cheerful, festive and very childish like the hands that helped to make this cake and built it as they like. Colorful & optimistic & snowy with coconut & Christmas lights colored candies & with a caramel star at its top, with lots of joy!
Dedicated to all children, young or old, Christmas Celebrations - the latest and most impressive of the year - shine in their eyes and soul, full of expectation and joy! From our home to yours:
Merry Christmas!
Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone!

work: 15′ time: 1h:00′ easy:

Melomakarona - Greek Christmas Honey Cookies

Melomakarona - Greek Christmas Honey Cookies
Melomakarona the Greek!
Melomakarona is a famous Greek delicacy to enjoy the Christmas season. They are made with flour, semolina, beer, olive oil and fresh butter from sheep and goat of unique flavor, stuffed with nut and dipped in syrup of honey, sugar and mandarin with extra grated nut with spices to sprinkle them on top.
Oriental spices, honey and citrus aromas to smell our homes during Christmas, this beautiful and hopeful celebration of Christianity!

Happy Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
work: 1h:00′ time: 2h:00′ easy:

Dauphinoise Potatoes

Dauphinoise Potatoes
Potatoes Dauphinoise believed to come from the Dauphiné region of France.
A rich, classic and delightful example of French Cuisine to turn a simple potato dish into something more exciting and luxurious for extra festive banquets. This classic potato dish with the grained surface with a rich, creamy interior is always one of our favorite dishes, which accompanies our Christmas Dinner and is ideally matched with red meat and poultry.

Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas!


work: 30′ time: 1h:45′ easy:

Coconut Truffles

Coconut Truffles
Truffles are always a favorite sweets of a bite, made without baking most of the time. It is economical and very easy, unlike the deliciousness and pleasure it offers us. Either as a gift or as a treat remains high in our preferences and kept in the refrigerator for whatever time we look for it to surprise us.
Our current proposal for Truffles coconut is gluten free and is a variation of previously published & already known recipe Coconut Truffles-Raffaello, that many of you have made and loved. Differentiation lies in the absence of almond (not excluding it if you prefer it) and the color added to make it more scandalous.
Easy and festive wear their pink dress and decided to make the first appearance at the premiere of Christmas dishes for this year.

Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas!
work: 30′ time: 1h:30′ very easy:

Pan-fried Pork with Leek (Prasotigania)

Pan-fried Pork with Leek (Prasotigania)
Juicy pork pan, white wine and flavored with coriander and rosemary. It is accompanied & blended perfectly with golden fries and not only.
The top of this dish in addition to the fragrances that emerge is its sauce for many dives with homemade bread, made of our hands!
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work: 15′ time: 45′ easy:

Chicken Stuffed with Rice, Smoked Cheese & Dried Plums

Chicken Stuffed with Rice, Smoked Cheese & Dried Plums
The top of this stuffing of Christmas chicken or turkey, if you prefer, is smoked cheese, dried plums and freshly melted butter, which is usually used in our traditional kourabie. An extra flavor in the rice filling the chopped bacon but other secrets yet for a really festive meal.
Yours!

Happy Holidays
work: 30′ time: 2h:30′ medium:

No Knead Skillet Olive Bread with Aromatics Herbs

No Knead Skillet Olive Bread with Aromatics Herbs
Bread easy to prepare, without many processes, no kneading, baked on preheated, hot, cast iron pan.
It is filled with olives and aromatic herbs such as rosemary, dried basil, oregano, anise and garlic. Crisped externally with soft fluffy crumb. As long as it is baked, our kitchen fills with its aromas, which refer to traditional bread.
This olive bread is a temptation because of the convenience and flavor, making it a favorite choice for our table, everyday or festive. In fact the fresh bread is flexible enough to fit brunch at main lunch or dinner. It remains fresh & eaten pleasantly for 3-4 days.
Enjoy this step by step photos of the entire process and happy baking!
Yours!
work: 15′ time: 2h:15′ very easy:



Smoked Salmon Sandwich

Smoked Salmon Sandwich
Small smoked salmon sandwiches with cream cheese spread, flavored with fresh chopped dill & fresh or dried chives, on fluffy toast bread.
Easy and fast finger food for the Christmas festive buffet, the festive days that we all need to feel the magic of the moment, the warmth of the family table and homemade care.
Sometimes small and short meals, with easy preparation, give us wonderful, relaxing moments of joy.
Yours!

work: 15′ time: 15′ very easy:

Caramel Chips Banana Bread

Caramel Chips Banana Bread
Fruity, fluffy and caramel cake with a strong taste of caramel & banana, which gives the cake deliciousness, aroma and moisture to make it as smooth and fluffy as we like it. Its convenience is that we will need a bowl and a fork to mix its ingredients and bake them. Few ingredients found easily in our kitchen.
A fast little cake with short procedures and maximum enjoyment.
Yours!
work: 10′ time: 1h:00′ very easy:

Lemon-Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls

Lemon-Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls
Super fluffy soft croissants, filled with velvety and very lemony cream cheese, soft and a little sweet. They are laced with a mixture of sugar and lemon juice for even more intense flavor. In every bite a pronounced citrus flavor erupts in the palate.
I think this quick dessert will give a little joy to our Sunday's relaxed breakfast which can be evolved or combined with other delicacies for a perfect Brunch.
Yours!

work: 12′ time: 25′ very easy:

Pockets with Yoghurt Dough

Pockets with Yoghurt Dough
These cute cheese pies, with beautiful yoghurt dough, are done as easily as we can not imagine. The process is time-consuming but straightforward thanks to the yoghurt dough, which gives us supple, velvety, trouble-free management and good results dough.
These pies are great, even with various or different stuffings οn the table, buffet and healthy snacks at school and at work because even cold is still irresistible, delicious, crisp and very special. I usually almost always add turmeric to the stuffing, whatever it is. Add it to your diet, it's worth it!
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work: 1h:30′ time: 3h:45′ medium:

Meatloaf with Mixed Vegetables & Cheese

Meatloaf with Mixed Vegetables & Cheese
A beautiful, delicious and slightly different roll of mincemeat, filled with our favorite vegetables and cheeses. It is a very tasty dish & is very practical in cutting for a Sunday family meal, which will all enjoy it with pleasure.
Aromatic herbs, colorful vegetables, pepper spices and many different cheeses guarantee an excellent dish that emits taste, color and delicacy.
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work: 45′ time: 2h:00′ easy:

Homemade Energy Bars 4 Ingredients

Homemade Energy Bars 4 Ingredients
This proposal for homemade snacks, Energy Bars -with nuts, almonds, peanuts, crisped rice cereal and maple syrup- is the basic recipe for something very simple and with the fewest possible components, only 4. We use only a mixing bowl and in less than 5' are ready.
It is Vegan, without processed sugar, gluten-free, without dairy or animal products, without fats or eggs. So healthy, so delicious, so crisp! The perfect snack or a delicious dessert with a highly sophisticated taste in a wonderful balance between salty and sweet.
I'm so excited to be back in the kitchen with you, making delicious and healthy homemade treats for us and our loved ones!
Yours!
work: 5′ time: 35′ very easy:

Farfalle Bake

Farfalle Bake
This is one of our favorite dishes at home. If you have never cooked it this way, you may want to choose our current proposal for a very tasty and impressive dish. It is easy, so simple and can easily fill 4 hungry adults as a dish meal. All you need is farfalle pasta, sliced ham, some other cold meat such as Cabanossi, sour cream, eggs, grated cheese and in 50′ you eat.
Extra bonus? Children will love it!
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work: 10′ time: 50′ easy:

Savoiardi Biscuits, Mahallebi & Jam Dessert

Savoiardi Biscuits, Mahallebi & Jam Dessert
Light cool dessert. It is made so easily and gives pleasure with few calories. Share it generously, it costs very little and is done in very little time. The fragrant and light Mahallebi cream is the predominant flavor.
This sweet is a tender memory of Mom's preparations and it has always been served on her own mom's vintage saucers. Three generations coexist over a simple yet so beloved refrigerator sweet.
The blue representations on the white of the dishes, with a romantic figure of two lovers in front of a beautiful house in the countryside, magnify my gaze perhaps more than that sweet!
Yours!

work: 10′ time: 4h:00′ very easy:

Mushroom Rice Pilaf

Mushroom Rice Pilaf
Mushrooms with Rice in a delicious combination. Homemade chicken broth strengthens the flavor of this pilaf and the mushroom sautéing brings out its earthy flavor and beautiful brown color.
This recipe is simple enough, but some cooking secrets will make this delicious dish even more delicious.
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work: 30′ time: 50′ very easy:

Raisin Buns

Raisin Buns
This raisin buns recipe is so fluffy, delicious and easy to follow (perfect for beginner bakers). Made with yeast, milk, flour, raisins, egg and sugar. Perfect for breakfast, brunch, afternoon tea or as a snack.
A homemade, delicious recipe for raisin buns with a mixer or without a mixer to make the most perfect snack. Everybody will love it at home, but certainly the younger ones. Delicious snacks, a convenient solution for our breakfast, but also for all hours. It is ideal to fill them with any filling we like, such as dulce, jam, butter & jam, sweet spoon even with a thin slice of cheese.
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work: 30′ time: 1h:30′ easy:

Bacon & Gruyere Zucchini Bread

Bacon & Gruyere Zucchini Bread
Savory cake with zucchini, gruyere and bacon. Fluffy, moist, inflatable and with great flavors. It is delicious, served hot from the oven or even cold. It has the texture of a regular cake, but the flavors are naturally savory. A really simple and easy recipe with a relaxed process, without a mixer and a single pot for the sink! Suitable for young people in student life but for a light meal or brunch.
As you can see, they are also done like these muffins here. It is very nice and practical to take them with you for snack, party, school and other outdoor activities. It's really multi-purpose.
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work: 15′ time: 1h:30′ very easy:

Peppers Stuffed with Minced Meat

Peppers Stuffed with Minced Meat
A delicious Stuffed Recipe over the established traditional, classic recipe made by our mothers and grandmothers, with whatever vegetables they had available or their bowl and including all the big vegetables that could empty their crumbs and filled with rice only, without minced meat, but always delicious and aromatic. From eggplants, potatoes, pumpkins and naturally mature, reddish, vigorous tomatoes. Everything was used perfectly according to the wishes of everyone in the family.
The current proposal is with peppers only without excluding the remaining vegetables, if you like. The filling with minced meat and aromatic herbs also give a very tasty dish. They are made easy and fast since preparing to fill the peppers is not difficult or time-consuming.
We prepare them early in the morning to smell the kitchen flavors and aromas and until lunch time will have been cooked and will be quite lukewarm to enjoy them with feta cheese.
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work: 30′ time: 2h:00′ easy:

Goat Cheese Crostini with Prosciutto & Figs

Goat Cheese Crostini with Prosciutto and Figs
Tuscany is a region of Central Italy with beautiful landscapes, verdant countryside, splendid cities and villages and a unique ambiance. For example San Gimignano, which dominates the top of a hill, is one of Italy's best preserved medieval cities. But above all, there is the capital of Florence, which attracts millions of visitors for many reasons… but for their taste too.
Staying to recollect trips and wanderings, which year after year dwindle, I did not fail to bring in my memory and in our Kitchen, Tuscany, narrating another culinary history, making crostini with crispy bread, fresh goat cheese, fresh figs, strawberry jam, and exquisite prosciutto, all sprinkled like fine rain with the unique balsamico di Modena!
A bold salty-sweety combination of ingredients, scents, flavors & textures that will travel us and that our taste buds will keep it for a long time… forever I would dare say.
Yours!

work: 10′ time: 20′ very easy:

Farfalle with Tuna & Caper

Farfalle with Tuna & Caper
Farfalle salad! A delicious dish of pasta, where on each fork, each one of its ingredients, expresses its presence and combines harmoniously to absorb the juices and aromas of the other ingredients and to give them a dynamic and promising taste!
Salad dish with a short preparation time, just 15', which can also be eaten as a light main meal. Gourmet, easy to digest, easy to make with fine fruity notes, with tomato and balsamic vinegar giving the acidity that goes to it!
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work: 08′ time: 15′ very easy:

Black Grape Spoon Sweet

Black Grape Spoon Sweet
Spoon sweet of black 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′ easy:

Baked Eggplant with Tomatoes & Feta

Baked Eggplant with Tomatoes & Feta
Fresh sweet aubergines straight from the vegetable garden, combined with grated cheese to melt on the palate and delicious feta cheese with fresh tomato and spicy sausages to give us a delicious fried for evening, our summer ouzo with our friends.
Although between us, with so many ingredients becomes easily main dish and consumed pleasantly.
One tip only: Fry the eggplants in too little oil and for very little. We do not want to absorb oil to spoil the freshness of this dish and to taste it.
Yours!
εργασία: 30′ χρόνος: 1h:00′ εύκολο:

Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake
The queen of our cakes and heart. The decadent black forest torte is the epitome of chocolate, which puts it in the podium it deserves to bring out the true spirit of the dream of every confectioner. This fancy cake is laid out with so many fascinating stories about its origins, stories that traveled all over the globe, starting from the tranquility of the small town of Bad Godesberg, the suburban area of Bonn.
The Black Forest torte is made with lightweight, Genoese, chocolate sponge cake, impregnated with Kirsch (made from double distillation of cherry and sour cherry juices) and filled alternately with buttermilk and cherries, slightly marinated to keep their crisp texture. The culmination of all these is a cake sprinkled with cocoa, whole juicy cherries, black chocolate croissants and sugar snack to give royal style to the torte. It could be a calorie bomb but a slice of it can easily take you to the magical world of the chocolate black forest.
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work: 1h:30′ time: 6h:00′ difficult:

Savory Tomato Tart

Savory Tomato Tart
Tomatoes are the essence of summer and having the privilege of finding them easily on the benches of our markets or on our lawn, we can use them in a multitude of recipes.
For this recipe we need tomatoes that are at the peak of their maturity. Red, juicy, all together, small, medium, large, pizza-style in a puff pastry, sprinkled with the unique balsamic flavor, sprinkled with salt and a few fresh basil leaves. They come in the oven to brown for a while, so that they become crisp and crumbly at the same time.
You will like this tart, eaten as an appetizer but as your main dish too, with a green salad and cold beer.
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work: 10′ time: 50′ very easy:

Peach Compote & Jelly

Peach Compote & Jelly
This year our peach production was small. Some of these we enjoyed fresh and cool and some were made compote to keep them as long as we can and have them for various pastry preparations I had in my mind.
Basically the story behind this compote recipe was to make an ethereal blancmange (from the French blanc-manger). In retrospect, I realized the huge range of sweets, where we can use our hot or cold compotes. From the simplest dessert, such as on a velvety cream or yogurt, to something more complex, such as on or inside a fridge cake.
Today's suggestion is peach compote and jelly. Once the fruits have been prepared and made compote to become jelly it was the simplest dessert we could make and enjoy.
Yours!
work: 10′ time: 15′ very easy:

Crispy Pies with Spinach, Pine & Raisins

Crispy Pies with Spinach, Pine & Raisins
Make and share these mini pies, wrapped in crisp crust phyllo pastry sheets, with delicious filling and easy process of making them. Roasted pine nuts, roasted sesame seeds and raisins in their filling give a completely different taste to these individual pies from the classic version of a spinach pie, at least as we know most.
These pies were made with frozen spinach that often solves our hands in preparations for banquets or fast cooking by students, workers and not only.
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work: 30′ time: 40′ easy:

Fresh Cherry Pies

Fresh Cherry Pies
Cherry pies for two for a short, delicious dessert, with a fluffy puff pastry dough, with stevia or minimal sugar, with all the flavor of fresh juicy cherries and… that's all!
The weather in Greece in the middle of this June looks a bit "unreal", heavy, as rain, hurricanes, hail, sudden heavy showers and other, even more unpleasant, which is not of the present analysis.
If you're in a home that can provide the necessary, try to make these very simple cherry pies and enjoy with the least possible worries and positive sign.
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work: 15′ time: 45′ very easy:

Aromatic Pickled Caper

Aromatic Pickled Caper
We meet the plants of Caper to grow freely in nature. It is a magical plant that grows in places full of sunshine and hot to very hot summers and in very poor soils almost without water. But it insists on being and giving its little flowers -her immature buds- to become the Golden Apple of Discord among humans, birds and ants.
In order to make pickles, we collect, with respect to the plant, its flowers when they are small before they are blooming, its tender leaves and its fruits, and those small, tender, crisp, which are created after the flower is fertilized & inside there are the seeds of the plant.
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work: 1h:00′ time: 2h:30′ very easy:

Traditional Milk Pie-Galatopita

Traditional Milk Pie-Galatopita
A tasty, simple, economical and very easy dairy dessert.
A mixture of rich cream of vanilla pudding mix and semolina with milk, eggs and fresh butter floats the phyllo sheets. In this milk-pie the phyllo pastry sheets are first sprinkled on their own, sprinkled with sugar to obtain a crisp texture and to close the cream and cinnamon sugar. Next, pour the cream mix and re-bake the milk pie.
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work: 20′ time: 1h:20′ very easy:

Broad Βeans & Blites Salad

Broad Βeans & Blites Salad
We are going through a limp week, between an undecided spring and a summer that does not seem to have made a decision to settle. So adjusting our mood to the «big question of life»!?!: what do we eat today, we cook broad beans. A legume rather despised now and some may not even know of the existence of.
Broad Beans are eaten fresh with artichokes, peas, etc. But dry, boiled as a salad or liquor, here our case. Onions, fresh tomato, bay leaves and oregano make this dish scream out of enthusiasm. They are accompanied and eaten with a salad blitum, feta, olives and barley rusk.
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work: 1h:00′ time: 12h:00′ easy:

Fresh Cherry Cake

 Fresh Cherry Cake
A traditional English cake that all we have to do is prepare a quick cake mix, stirring it gently, sinking cherries, with its pretty polka dot design and empty the mixture in an oven pan. It could not be simpler, no mixer, no blows, no long process, and fewer utensils for the sink.
It looks a lot like the french clafoutis, only the English in the classic form of cake use candied cherries. We preferred fresh cherries, which have already made their appearance on the market. I kept some for this and only the recipe because we love to eat them fresh.
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work: 20′ time: 1h:00′ very easy:

Picking & Drying of Fresh Oregano-DIY

Picking & Drying of Fresh Oregano-DIY
Oregano
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Greater Oregano!
Native, perennial aromatic plant, medicinal, industrial, excellent flavor and great bee-keeping plant, known since antiquity. Who do we know it fresh and blooming, how many have collected and dried it, how many we use it or how much it is unknown?
Rhetorical inquiries about the oregano in order to make an effort to approach the matter and see how we can harvest, drain or even cultivate -why not- our own oregano, not least the Greek village tomato salad with feta cheese and Oregano is our gourmet ambassador around the world!
And here I am going to tell you a secret… if you are near mountains, hills, and slopes go out and meet her. If you are urban, you can not have a balcony, a sunny window will be there, then cultivate your oregano and then everything else that smells like a oregano will never be yours anymore!
Its therapeutic properties, look for them and you will find, here today we learn to gather, dry it, scrub it to show its aromas and to put it in jars to taste our food and our mood!
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work: 1h:00′ time: 1 εβδομάδα very easy:

Strawberry Spoon Sweet with Sangria

Strawberry Spoon Sweet with Sangria
Strawberries are a very delicious fruit and, of course, as it has often said here, it is not needed to cook for a long time, it does not benefit in any way and ends up having a rather useless dish. The long-term preparations make it lose some good nutrition and have a lot of time sprinkled with a lot of sugar, it's dehydrated because sugar acts as a catalyst for its dehydration and ends the strawberry dry without juice and taste.
Today we recommend short procedures with a reduced amount of sugar for a 10-minute Spoon Strawberry Sweet. Limit time for this sweet, which is flavored with cloves, honey and sweet Sangria wine.
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work: 5′ time: 10′ very easy:

Yellow Split Pea with Caper

Yellow Split Pea with Caper
Fava beans are a legume and not so common in our daily meals. However, despite the strict austerity of its presence in our Kitchen Stories, it is considered to be one of the most delicious dishes of legumes that we honor most often.
Gentle, delicate flavor and velvety texture in cream form is eaten as an accompaniment to ouzo-wine but also as a main dish with olives, feta cheese, toasted slices of home bread and a glass of red wine.
Throughout Greece, we know as the famous products of the Greek motherland the delicious Prespes beans, Sifnos chickpeas, Amorgo fava beans, Skyros and the most famous of all of Santorini, where it is grown for hundreds of years. All legumes are an enormous nutritional value for a Mediterranean / Greek diet with many health benefits.
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work: 30′ time: 50′ easy:

Mini Pavlovas

Mini Pavlovas
It is said that achieving white, well-cooked, fluffy, airy, and at the same time chewy Meringues that melt in the mouth is very difficult. Difficult can be but not impossible.
Today we recommend our version and show you the way step by step with which you will achieve a satisfactory result. Make your own Meringues, which you will enjoy plain but as an addition to many sweets on top of that of Pavlova!
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work: 30′ time: 2h:00′ easy:

Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Flowers

Cheese Stuffed Zucchini Flowers
Zucchini flowers filled with a mixture of feta cheese, aromatic herbs and fennel seeds. Bleached in a fluffy beer batter and fried lightly.
Surely we do not all have the opportunity to grow horticultural flowers, but flowers of zucchini, these wonderful edible flowers are easy to find in many of the neighborhood markets at this time, but all summer there are fresh zucchini.
It is worth trying to make this dish and taste a great and rare delicacy. It takes little care to handle the zucchini flowers because it is delicate and sensitive to touch.
Yours!

work: 45′ time: 1h:00′ medium:

Strawberry Ginger Smoothie

Strawberry Ginger Smoothie
The season of strawberry is in full swing and I am excited. Seasonal fruits are the key to healthy eating and delicious smoothies because they are naturally sweet, flavored and full of flavor.
Strawberry Smoothie is simple, dietary, delicious, flavored with fresh ginger, healthy and Low Carb/Low Carbohydrates. Fresh rejuvenating beverage with vitamins, trace elements, fiber, calcium and antioxidants for a strong detoxification of our body.
Make this smoothie for a refreshing treatment, body power and energy after a tiring and warm day. It's easy to make with fresh fruit that we have at home.
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work: 10′ time: 10′ very easy:

Vine Leaves Maintenance 2-DIY

Vine Leaves Maintenance 2-DIY
In an earlier post we saw a dry way of Vine Leaves Maintenance. Today Kitchen Stories suggests another way to boil the leaves and then freeze them.
The season of fresh leaves is in May and June, depending on which area we are talking about. Find and cut your own fresh spring vine leaves, the first ones that Greek vineyards make or buy ready-made cuts from your neighborhood and prepare them to get into your cupboards so you can use them at any time. And do not forget the best leaves are gathered when they are still tender only by the climates of the Sultanina variety or Debina variety.
The proposed method is simple and very easy. So packaged will be kept perfectly in your freezer.
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work: 45′ time: 45′ very easy:

Oreo, Strawberry & Chocolate Tart

Oreo, Strawberry & Chocolate Tart
A chocolate strawberry "crown" for tomorrow's May Day. Without baking we enjoy an ideal dessert, a special Black Chocolate Tart and Strawberry. Extreme combination with intense flavors and subtle tones.
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work: 45′ time: 5h:00′ easy:

Baked Tortilla Roll-Ups

Baked Tortilla Roll-Ups
The tortilla (small torta) is a type of unleavened, thin, soft, flat cake of corn flour or fine milling wheat. Initially, corn tortilla was born in Mexico and preceded the arrival of Europeans in America. Wheat flour tortilla was a novelty from the Sephardi Jews who considered corn flour as non-kosher and used wheat coming from Europe. In China, there is the folksy (烙餅), a viscous "pancake" that is similar to the tortilla.
Tortillas are usually filled with various ingredients and accordingly they get different names like: tacos, quesadillas and burritos.
What Kitchen Stories today suggests is Tortillas stuffed with cheeses, mushrooms and sausage. Chopped with a delicious spicy tomato sauce and baked in the oven.
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work: 30′ time: 1h:00′ easy:

Lemon Bundt Cake

Lemon Bundt Cake
Cake is one of the most favorite desserts. They are eaten at all times and are an ideal companion for our beverages. Without being particularly demanding in their preparation, they solve the hands of mums for a healthy snack of children and big ones.
Lemon Cake of today's proposal is a cake with a juicy wet texture and particularly delicious thanks to the sweetness and aroma of lemons. It's also a massive cake with solid mass and therefore very pleasing.
Served with a glaze cream and lemon zest or simply dusted with icing sugar.
Yours!

work: 30′ time: 1h:20′ easy:

Easter Menu 2017

Easter Menu 2017
The people of Kitchen Stories wish you

Happy Easter!


Below you will find a selection of suggestions for your Easter table from which you can choose whatever you are most interested.
Listed in the order recipes for: Appetizers, Salads, Main Dishes, Pies & Desserts.
More in the page Recipes.

Traditional Greek Easter Bread

Traditional Greek Easter Bread

Round, Easter, traditional, fluffy cake light and aromatic. The only difficulty in that exercise is patience needed between different yeast rising phases. If we like doing braids straight or rounded to coil shape. With balls, as you suggest, it is easier and more relaxed and are ideal to fill them with chocolate or jam. Make your tests and you'll see, it is like to play, like children, plasticine. This is the grace of our Easter kneading.
Yours!

work: 30′ time: 3h:30′ medium:

No Knead Baguette

No Knead Baguette
In our home we are not much of the bread, not because we do not like it but we just agreed to somewhat reduce the consumption of certain carbohydrates, removing from our usual diet this divine creature, the BREAD.
As a family with French references we could not say no to a fluffy, freshly baked baguette and thus give us the opportunity to encroach the terms of the agreement.
So we made Baguettes with a lazy process and unique garnish to remind us of Greece but also the Mediterranean, have oil & salt, olives & tomatoes, garlic & pepper and fragrant, much smell, like when you cross the dawn of the neighborhood bakery and take the smell of hot bread just came out. Thus they were born, inflated and baked four small baguettes, effortlessly, without kneading!
We exercised maximum restraint and character not to consume instantly. They lasted two days and the second day they were equally delicious, fluffy, delicious and very fresh. There was not third day to tell you how it was… Make them, you will not regret.
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work: 20′ time: 12h:00′ easy:

Apple Pie with Caramelized Apples

Apple Pie with Caramelized Apples
Two puff pastry sheet and among them many, aromatic, caramelized apples into slices. This is an apple pie, everything simple and easy we can make with these two ingredients, yet the flavors and aromas are super delicious!
The Apple Pie arrived in America with the English settlers and flourished there. There was no household that does not have the most good, the most unique and most traditional pie throughout the world. If you look in google the words «Apple Pie» will go on more entries from both the Chinese and Indians all together!
We suggest simplicity. It is relatively aglycone is thin, is soft in taste and texture and the browned and crisp puff pastry.!
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work: 20′ time: 1h:00′ very easy:

Broccoli & Feta Savory Tart

Broccoli and Feta Savory Tart
Research has conclusively informed us about the protective effect of broccoli and its nutritional value, which places it in a high position with respect to the beneficial contribution to human body.
Wherever we look we will find countless references to how good does that have to integrate in our diet, as it contains very few calories that make it ideal for various types of diets. This vegetable consists of several sections and provides a variety of flavors. One of the main features is the strong smell that emerges when cooked.
The Tart with Broccoli & Feta cheese that «Kitchen Stories» today proposes is delicious, hearty, and may replace a main course.
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work: 20′ time: 50′ easy:

Lenten Chocolate Cake

Lenten Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake and fasting with aromas of citrus have the dominant discourse. Simple and swift procedures without using a mixer, without eggs without butter.
Simply mix the ingredients of the cake with a spoon, add the mixture by the scoop to the form, creating a checkerboard pattern alternating the chocolate and the white mixture. As we do with the zebra cake. Optionally you can flood with a velvety chocolate ganache. Garnish with rolls of orange zest from Orange Spoon Sweet and enjoy it with less… remorse.
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work: 30′ time: 1h:00′ medium:

Leek & Cabanossi Tartlets

Leek & Cabanossi Tartlets
Delicious, easy and practical finger food. Is held with one hand and enjoy it with all your soul, so loveable and delicious! Ideal for small snacking, for all times, on a thousand occasions.
The filling of these mini tarts contains our favorite leek with sweet notes, the super delicious Cabanossi, chewy mozzarella, cream and yogurt. Excellent ingredients wonderful combination, unique pleasures!
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work: 30′ time: 1h:00′ easy: