Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

Ideal appetizer, excellent taste to combine on your table with Tyrokafteri (Spicy Feta Cheese Spread), that is as hot as we like. Accompany your appetite with beer or raki, without excluding a good red wine.
Ripe, delicious & bright red tomatoes are combined with the aromas of basil and mint and that's it. They don't need anything else to become a delicious appetizer except, perhaps, a homemade cheese sauce. Tomatoes ripe, tasty and bright red are joined with the aromas of basil and mint, that's all. They do not need anything else to make a scrumptious appetizer except, perhaps, by a homemade spicy cheese dip, with lovely soft feta of Kefalonia, with its velvety taste and texture and of course… french fries!
Yours.

work: 30′

time: 45′

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The recipe

Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

you will find it in the book Mezedes.

Baked Eggplant with Feta

Simple things, concentrated flavor and Low Carb diet.
Grilled eggplant, sprinkled with a little feta cheese and chopped fresh cilantro to make a delicious and hearty appetizer. We enjoy in the terrace in the evening with friends.
Drinks at will in kind and in quantity!

The recipe

Baked Eggplant with Feta

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».


Author Zambia G. Sifaki

work: 10′

time: 1h:00′

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Three Cheese Garlic Bread

Three delicious kinds of cheese that melt and roll the homemade bread buns, lots of garlic, and roasted in the oven are these addictive garlic slices. Rich, creamy, and crunchy, they combine with too many dishes to dominate the Barbecue Grills. A juicy steak or fluffy burger will taste delicious with these buns! They are also consumed on their own as a meze/ snack with the drink of our choice. Here they were combined with roasted sweet potatoes and their taste was irresistible!
Their dough recipe is two posts behind and you can find it under the heading: «Pastry for Bread & Pizza».
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work: 15′

time: 30′

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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.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

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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′

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Goat Cheese Crostini with Prosciutto & 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 savory-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.
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work: 10′

time: 20′

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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 garden, 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′

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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′

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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′

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Smoked Salmon Mousse Canapés

It is one of the most delicious smoked salmon canapés. The fluffy mousse with cream cheese and coarse French mustard from brown seeds make this mousse an exquisite delicacy. Complete and delicious walnut bread upon which it sits, but also the salmon roe that breaks the mouth, flooding the senses with flavors from the sea and you will have an ideal food finger as an introduction and accompaniment of your drink.
This small luxury taste will give points to your holiday table. Surely no one would hesitate even for a moment, to take one in his hand and try. On the table or your buffet they will sell out.
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work: 10′

time: 30′

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Baked Zucchini Carrot Fritters

Savoury muffins healthy and fluffy with grated zucchini and carrot. A savory Gruyere or Parmesan, grated in the mixture will offer their delicious taste and wonderful chewy texture. Fill ramekins and bake in the oven. We can also fry them, but in this way become less fat, delicious and light. Easily transportable, we take them to work or school and can become a simple and frugal meal with a green salad.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:35′

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Dough for Everything DIY-Pizza

Miracle dough for everything: How we make a unique dough, which we can use to make pizzas, calzone, peinirli, breads, focaccia, soft croissant, stuffed with sweet or savory, cheese pies or personal twisted pies, breadsticks etc. In short everything! Matures and is maintained in the refrigerator for a long time and every time you remove it from the freezer begins after a while to swell and become soft and velvety.
In the current proposal we make a delicious, homemade pizza in just 15', ie much less time than the time it takes the delivery. Separate pizza with inflatable dough and stuffed with what we like.
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work: 15′

time: 40′

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Quesadillas with Greek Feta & Sausage

Quesadillas with baked tortillas and delicious stuffing of "tomato salad flavors" and sausage. Easily made and with slightly spicy yogurt dip they pleasantly make us get enough and is ideal for friendly companionship with plenty of dips!
Chop each tortilla into 4 and serve on a wooden surface along with bowls of the yogurt sauce.
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work: 30′

time: 30′

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Hard-Cooked Eggs with Cheese Sauce

Simple Salad with boiled eggs or red Easter eggs served with a Cheese Sauce.
Boursin is an aromatic fresh cheese from Normandy with various flavors. It is fermented with fragrant herbs, onion, garlic, and chives, and it is soft and easy to spread onto bread, crackers, or toast, it gives the taste of yogurt with delicious Cheese Dip.
The egg with milk are the only complete natural foods, as they contain all the necessary components for a complete and balanced diet. The biological value of the protein of the egg is greater than that of milk, meat, beans or salmon and used as a standard for the quality assessment of other food proteins. The egg contains antioxidants, like fruits and vegetables.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

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Ham & Cheese Stuffed Puff Pastry

Rolls of puff pastry, stuffed with ham and cheese slices.
Simple solutions, with ready puff pastry, that solves our hands and with sure success. These rolls are made very quickly, tasty, and stylishly practical to eat, a super finger food. Not omit to pour with a lovely mustard sauce, butter, poppy seeds and Worcestershire Sauce!
Excellent!

work: 10′

time: 40′

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Fresh Dip of Tzatziki

The traditional Greek Tzatziki is the most famous dish of Greek Cuisine and of our favorite summer dishes. Variations are also known throughout middle east.
The Fresh Dip of Tzatziki contains sheep's greek yoghurt and fresh cucumber grated. The refreshing taste makes it a perfect companion for a variety of dishes, such as roasted, fried or raw vegetables, various vegetable meatballs (tomato balls, zucchini fritters, κ.λπ.) stuffed vines leaves, grilled meat, oven french fries or baked stuffed vegetables, as well as a basic ingredient in our favorite Greek kebab or fresh bread.
The ultimate dominant in the accompanying and appetizers is the wonderful, intense and fresh taste, with very spicy presence of garlic to balance perfectly with velvet yogurt and herbs!
Yours

The recipe

Fresh Dip of Tzatziki

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

work: 15′

time: 30′

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Sandwich Pita Bread Roll with Cheese & Ham

Cold Sandwich in tortilla rolls for all the hours, for work or party. With ham, cheese, chorizo, ripe avocado and cherry tomatoes. Lightweight and very tasty. The chorizo, the spicy paprika, is what gives it extra spicy note and make it more interesting taste.
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work: 20′

time: 20′

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French Crepes Savory & Sweet-DIY

Simply Crepes
The recipe for crepes is easier to do than what you think, follow the analytic process and enjoy!
The crepes are considered as French pancakes and can be disguised in sweet or savory depending on the filling. Whatever tasty fillings you choose you will enjoy as in France, where they welcome them with enthusiasm any time of day, at breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea or dinner.
So, Bon Αppétit!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Hawaiian Sandwiches

Warm delicious sandwiches with mayonnaise, cheese and ham in fluffy brioche buns. The spread mustard, butter, poppy seeds boosts the taste, change the category.
A classic sandwich can be made a very enjoyable delicacy by adding extra palatable ingredients and transformed into something different but definitely delicious. Their classic version is the addition of half pineapple slice. If you want you can experience it this way.
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work: 15′

time: 25′

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Taramasalata with Bread

For a very soft mixture of taramasalata a tasty and fluffy as a mousse is the frequent testing during the preparation and the addition of lemon and oil in a very thin stream. Its ingredients are simple and what counts is the good quality of the tarama, without colorings and the very good beating in the food processor.
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work: 30′

time: 30′

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