Cajun Shrimp Pasta

Pasta with Spicy Shrimp in Cajun & Creole Cuisine. This recipe is a spicy, but delicious dish, a unique pasta dish with great flavors, and very spicy shrimp, which give a characteristic intensity and flavor dynamic to any pasta they are added to.
If you are not a spicy lover, just reduce the spicy amounts, but know that it will be another, different dish.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 30′

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Chickpea Stew with Oven-Dried Tomatoes

Chickpea with a tomato sauce, delicious chickpeas, low cost chickpeas as daily cooking solution.
The roasted, dried tomatoes in the oven add to this different chickpea stew an amazing depth of flavor. Even if the chickpeas are not your beloved beans, I suggest you try them cooked this way. I bet you will be surprised and will definitely taste a delicious and hearty dish.
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work: 10′

time: 1h:10′

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Chilli con Carne

Chili con Carne (Hot Peppers with meat) are among the most famous, typical dishes of Tex-Mex (Texan and Mexican) cuisine. There are infinite variations on the basic recipe of this dish, which has its roots in Mexican cuisine and was the dish of the poor Mexican population. For sure it contains meat, hot peppers and spices. The rest -red beans, tomatoes etc.-, probably added in the course of transition in every continent.
It is intensely spicy to very spicy and what you need for this season of the year and for lovers of very spicy flavors. In our house we have one of those lovers and this dish is his favorite. So the more spicy the better. You moderate a little bit the hot doses of ingredients and enjoy it completely plain or on boiled rice, yogurt, mashed or baked potatoes, sprinkled with grated cheddar cheese and tortilla chips or wrapped in tortillas with a little corn and lettuce leaves. Consumed with zest as it is!
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work: 45′

time: 12h:00′

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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!
Yours.

work: 30′

time: 45′

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The recipe

Tomato Patties & Tyrokafteri

you will find it in the book Mezedes.

Cajun Shrimp Pasta

Pasta with Spicy Shrimp in Cajun & Creole Cuisine. This recipe is a spicy, but delicious dish, a unique pasta dish with great flavors, and very spicy shrimp, which give characteristic flavor intensity and dynamics to any pasta you add.
If you are not a spicy lover, just reduce the spicy amounts, but know that it will be another, different dish.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 30′

easy:

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′

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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, have high liquid content, have very soft flesh which breaks down quickly, and are a suitable composition to thicken in the 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′

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Watermelon Rind Pickles

Peel sweet watermelon in spicy pickle!
It's very simple to do, using the peel of watermelon, which we throw.
Is very special sweet and spicy at the same time because of the spices with a little bite of chili pepper in the aftertaste.
If you are interested in new dimensions in taste, dare to try even a small amount, just to test!

work: 40′

time: 3 days

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