Focaccia in Spiral Shape

Spiral Focaccia, this very delicious Italian bread does not stop surprising us with its shapes, textures and flavors. Here it is stuffed with a spicy red sauce and adorned with juicy and tasty cherry olives and tomatoes, which end up on the Fokacha Strip.
Really beautiful, crisp exterior but with soft bread crumbs spicy stuffing.
An irresistible appetizer of flavor. This Fokacha is a really perfect recipe.

A tribute to Italy and to all the people who live there. And of course to everyone in all the rest of the world to stay safe, to stay at home!

work: 1h:30′

time: 12h:00′

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Dough for Bread & Pizza

If the homemade buns, flavored with roasted cumin and turmeric will turn into garlic-bread and will accompany aromatic roasted sweet potatoes tell you something, follow the steps in the recipe below.
Any dough left over from today's recipe, put it in polybag & freezer bags to make delicious, easy-to-make pizzas with delicate crust and simple ingredients, and especially homemade ones, at our fingertips!
The secret to this dough is its maturation time in the refrigerator for many hours. Even when we take it out to room temperature after many hours to cook it continues to swell…
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work: 30′

time: 48h:00′

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Cheese & Garlic Bread

I love the special way in cutting diamonds, just a bite size and suitable to form cheesy strings of melted cheese inside, and pull and stretch each piece of garlic bread! So both buttery and garlicky, excellent.
It is an economical meze solution for the next gathering of friends for beer and drink. It is very popular with both young and old, it is becoming more and more like a game the way of enjoyment. The best part is the base of bread… butter and cheese drip down and as it gets baked it becomes delicious and crisp… guarantee!
NOTE: it is strictly eaten with the fingers!
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work: 10′

time: 30′

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Homemade Soft Pretzel

Have you ever felt that you would like to have the physique of Goddess Kali with 4 hands so that you can do many things at the same time and that your own hands are not enough? This is with me when I decide to deal with the doughs, where times run, parallel processes and many different small things that must be done in the correct sequence, that's when I need excess arms, fellow hands, comfortable, convenient & ready to assist in whatever we strive…
So here too, the helping hand came unexpectedly and they became these very fluffy, brioche textured, bread rolls, soft pretzels, all weather and all-purpose. On the top are sprinkled with the seasoning, the characteristic thick salt and a brownish color thanks to the Maillard Reaction. Preserved for some days fresh and combined with a meal or filled with sweet or savory flavors, your choice.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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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!
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work: 15′

time: 2h:15′

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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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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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Salty Black & Green Olive Breadsticks

What's better than fresh bread with olives!
An easy recipe for soft rustic bread sticks (grissini) with olives. It is excellent snack alone but may be combined with various dips, such as an aromatic oil with balsamic cream or with a red hot dip.
Very handy snack for convenience to enjoy it in our workplace, at school, in the car, in the excursion. Sure is fast-seller! In your hand is a constantly sticks for munching and for me this is my new obsession.
Knead a soft dough, incorporate olives into the dough and mold rolling sticks. Eaten hot but also cold.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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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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Bread Pudding Leche Flan

Strong caramel flavors for this new proposal Bread Pudding Leche Flan (Crème Caramel-Leche Flan), as we have become accustomed to call.
A Caramel Cream with Brazilian roots, with toast bread (or stale easter brioche bread) baked in the oven in a bain- marie until thick cream and gain caramel beautiful color on the surface. It is soft in texture, like all creams, with slight caramel aromas and colors. A mild sweetness whipped cream to serve it more elegantly, flavors and beautifies it.
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work: 20′

time: 2h:30′

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Brioche Pudding with Cranberries, Banana & Black Chocolate

Tart pudding of stale Greek Easter Βrioche/Τsoureki in updated form and taste.
If there are buns and chocolate eggs after Orthodox Easter, which no one in the family does not want to consume, you can make them a delicious dessert.
The banana, dried cranberries, and dark chocolate will be combined perfectly and show the value of their flavor within this pudding. Yours!
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work: 15′

time: 1h:15′

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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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Soft Rolls

So soft, tender and easy!
They have a mild sweetness and their flavor goes well with all kinds of baked treats:
Warm-hot to accompany our leisurely breakfast, spread with butter, praline, honey or jam, and reasonably firm, so as not to break down from the knife. They become accompanying bread for our meal, so we can make wonderful dips in our favorite sauce. In small balls the are made savory-looking sandwich for our festive party, for kids and not only, and certainly they become delicious buns for burgers. In short enjoy as daily bread and make your day.
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work: 20′

time: 40′

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Smoked Salmon Canapés

Walnuts Bread for these tasty, festive canapés of smoked salmon spread with cream cheese, which is flavored with dill, chives and lemon zest.
Small delicacies with a dose of luxury that will beautify the beginning of the Christmas Table or Buffet as finger food for more guests…
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The «Kitchen Stories» wish Merry Christmas to you and your families!

work: 20′

time: 20′

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The recipe

Smoked Salmon Canapés

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

A loaf of Irish soda bread is a traditional bread, prepared with an old technique, to get half an hour of a very tasty fluffy, and simple processes bread at our table, ready to be eaten warm, with lots of crumbs but quite crunchy crust.
The Kitchen Stories continue to create and pass in your own kitchen wonderful culinary sorcery. Follow these simple steps and make delicious hearty bread in half a shake!
Flour, buttermilk, baking soda and spices, which will wonderfully flavor it.
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work: 5′

time: 30′

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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.
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!
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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The recipe

Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

you will find it in the book Mezedes.

Homemade Fish Sticks & Tartar Sauce

Fish sticks crunchy and delicious, dipped in a wonderful and tasty tartar sauce. The process may be a little time-consuming, but its taste is very special. Their great convenience is that baked in the oven and are extremely delicious without the process of frying.
Eaten pleasantly from the young and the old.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:10′

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Apple & Cheese Crostini

Crostini is an Italian appetizer, which consists of small slices of toasted bread, coated with a variety of many different ingredients, usually salty.
The proposal here is a sweet version, with caramelized apple sauce and raisins in sweet and sour tonnes, adding balsamic cream, honey and pepper. The neutral cheese cream works coherently adding a mild taste to accept the strength of the sauce. The touch in the culinary climax of this excellent bite is fresh, chopped rosemary, with a very strong flavor and aroma.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

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Pumpkin Soup

Hearty and delicious Pumpkin Soup, made from a large slice of a huge pumpkin, which was cut, and some pieces arrived in my Kitchen. A Pumpkin Soup was made, for the cold days and evenings of winter:

• When we need comforting food, with warm tones and textures.
• When we need a soup detoxifying, from the gustatory binge, and…
• When there are pumpkins in the grocery shop!

Then enjoy it with large, overflowing tablespoons that burn the palate and tongue and warm our insides.
An orange, velvety, and thick Pumpkin Soup, with intensity in taste and in the presence of crunching, bread chunks (croutons), crisp bacon, and cheddar flakes for extra flavor. All garnish makes a very rich flavor. Thyme is the perfect fragrance eliminating the pumpkin aftertaste.
It comes with a red dry wine for the apotheosis of simplicity, taste, and enjoyment.
Be assured that you will repeat very soon, pumpkins are undefeated…
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wokr: 20′

time: 35′

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