Traditional Kalitsounia of Chania, Crete

In the traditional agricultural and urban Cuisine of Crete, the products that the rural populations, for centuries now, produce and consume on their own until communications changed, so that they can find them elsewhere inside or outside of Greece, played a leading role.
Some of these products had their place of honor on the big, important festive days of Christmas, Easter, August fifteenth… Then the housewives made the famous Kalitsounia in large quantities for family but also to friends, neighbors and visitors.
Today's Kalitsounia have their roots of Chania, whose inhabitants, due to the soil morphology of the place, had the main occupation of grazing sheep. As a result, dairy farming was a parallel profession, so that they could make use of the milk they had in the mountainous area of Psiloritis.
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※※※※※We wish you a Happy Easter 2021!※※※※※

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Easter Brioche Buns

Easter Brioche or Tsoureki Oriental in Greece is a traditional sweet bread, which is prepared throughout the year and especially during the Easter holidays. It needs yeast and good kneading to inflate and create beautiful fibers inside that will keep it fresh and fluffy for days. Also aromatic spices and citrus zest, such as lemon and orange, flavor it wonderfully. It is often decorated with red eggs and has different shapes and sizes.
This year we made small brioche buns to accompany our coffee for days.
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※※※※※We wish you Happy Easter 2021!※※※※※

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Greek Easter Cookies

Easter Cookies/ Biscuits -and not only Easter- with a different approach but with all the aromas of Greek Easter, such as Chios Mastic, Mahlepi, Kakoule (Cardamom) and the aroma of orange.
Light, tasty, soft, digestible and special. They are made very easily with their wonderfully velvety dough, which is given by the addition of pure yogurt and the light corn oil. They are relatively sweet with a little sugar added because our opinion is that this is how a cookie should be in order for a savory platter of cheeses and cold cuts to accompany our drink.

Happy Easter!

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Greek Brioche-Easter 2020

Our Easter Tsourekia of 2020 was a beautiful experience, although their process was time consuming. We kept great waiting times for a total of 5 inflatables and which time (and inflatables) worked positively and substantially to make them fluffy, with strings and delicious buns.
Their ingredients are the classic for Tsourekia of our Greek Easter Brioche in a more enhanced dose, since 1 kg of flour was required.
Despite the long process, the hand work was very little. The dough, a perfect dough in texture and aroma also gave a perfect final result, which justified the effort and noise of the thing… But it is these family Easter traditions that create inextricable links and tasteful memories that connect us as a family, as a Nation.

We wish you a Happy Easter, with a lot of strength, so that we can face an invisible enemy who changed our lives!

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Traditional Greek Easter Bread-Tsoureki

If we close our eyes and think of Greek Easter, Orthodox Easter, the image to be formed in our mind is a delicious well done, braided super-soft, fluffy and moist brioche with a red egg. This is the view of our Greek Easter!
Sometimes easy with simple procedures and sometimes complicated and demanding the Tsoureki remains the favorite flavored sweet bread large and small. It has primacy in our Easter & Easter table with red eggs and bagels. Customs that blend and reconcile families and friends.
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Have a pleasant and enjoyable Easter of 2018!

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Koulourakia: Cypriot Easter Cookies

These Easter Cookies are traditional Cypriot Easter buns, which although Lenten are traditionally made on Good Friday.
They are flavored with oriental spices but also with Chios mastic and their aromas resemble those of Easter Tsoureki. They are ideally suited to our coffee and we certainly have more than one.
Daktylies is a type of long shaped-bread, which is separated into smaller parallel pieces, in order to be cut off easier and evenly. The ingredients used for daktylies are flour, leaven, water, sesame seeds and aniseed. Many housewives in the countryside continue the tradition and bake daktylies for the needs of the family.
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Tahini Cookies

Mini cookies of a mouthful, fasting, but without the exclusion of the pleasure of their delicacy and the rest of the year, the non-fasting.
These are the perfect snack for those who are watching their diet. They are dairy-free, egg-free, butter-free but with tahini, orange juice and zest, amber brandy & aromatic spices, which give them their dark color!
Enjoy them with your favorite drink or wrap them on soft, nice wrapping paper & fill gift boxes with them. A remarkable gift for loved ones, friends, associates, neighbors… will be duly appreciated.
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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

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.
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Coffee Cream

Velvety, simple and mild in flavor Cream Coffee without alcohol.
Choose it as a delicious digestive, light and cold dessert with the taste of coffee, regular or decaf, and which can close the festive and hearty meal with family, friends and loved ones in our Christmas dinner parties!
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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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Easter Menu 2016

Kitchen Stories wishes

Happy Easter & Good First of May!

Below you will find a selection of suggestions for your Easter table, which we suggest and you can choose whatever interests you the most.
Listed in turn the recipes: Appetizers, Salads, Main Course, Pies & Desserts.
More recipes can be found on the corresponding page of Recipes.

Leftover Cake Trifle

Trifles, these beautiful desserts, served in transparent glasses, with alternating layers of different ingredients & flavors, are the most sophisticated way to utilize a leftover Cake or the rest of an Easter Brioche, which simply ran out, was not consumed and we don't want to throw away. Besides trifles we can utilize, making small chocolate truffles and a coating-camouflage to show us renewed as a new dessert at all insignificant.
A slightly wet cake or Easter Tsoureki or Cookies are ideal to absorb moisture and flavors from other ingredients which it is paired. With a pastry cream, whipped cream and our favorite sweets create a delicious dessert!
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Roast Lamb with Rosemary

A pan with roast lamb, flavored with garlic and rosemary along with delicious golden fries, few can bypass. We a family "party" appropriately whenever the opportunity and definitely it is the meat most frequently to our table.
At Easter, where the lamb on the spit is a tribute, we put it in the oven.
If a scentsy, thanks to Rosemary, roast lamb seduces you as an idea, adopt the proposal and you will not miss it.
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No Knead Greek Easter Brioche-Tsoureki

Easter buns without kneading with easy and simple process of "sleep bread" of Focaccia. The waiting time to activate the yeast is higher, but it all happens during the night, with the dough in the fridge "sleeping", and only the next morning you make in braids or buns put small stick forms. This fermentation process has the effect of improving and enhancing the taste.
The addition of spices makes them particularly fragrant and delicious. And the honey makes them mildly sweet, fluffy and very soft.
If you like the idea, the process will delight you, as the result too.
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Cretan Cheese (Tyromalama) Pies

Traditional Cheese Pies made in Crete with tyromalama & anthotyro (local Cretan cheeses).
Those outside Crete, and those who are not accustomed to the Traditional Cuisine, will see it as another «cheese pie» quite complex. The others, who have strong references and relationship with Crete, definitely in sight will moved remembering some Easter childhood or adult life inextricably linked to the traditional customs and culinary habits of their homeland.
The pies here in the salty version, made with phyllo sheet, which opened in the machine and cut into uniform discs were then filled with cheese, dusted with sesame and of course in the oven revealed their taste and their wonderful rustic form, which refers to the lamps, which once used to illuminate.
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Lamb Chops & Sesame Potatoes

Sour tender chops in the oven, crisp and delicious, with mixtures of aromatic spices. Marinated in a mustard molasses glaze, which gives them great color, color almost caramel and naturally flavor.
Accompanied by sesame baked potatoes in the oven a version where we can enjoy immersing in molasses sauce / mustard.
This is consumed strictly with hands and straight from the oven. Not forgetting their companion, a strong wine red.
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Roasted Lamb with Grape Molasses

The Festive Dish for every time and… holidays. Intoxicating aromas and sweet notes of molasses. The accompanying vegetables provide the proper amount of liquid ingredients to cook without adding water, only with their juices and wine.
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Tiramisu

Tiramisù is one of the most popular Italian desserts in the world. It is made with savoyards, strong espresso coffee and mascarpone cheese …
It is said that its place of origin is the Veneto region and specifically the city of Treviso, although many have objections to this …
But that which we are interested in is to enjoy a delicious dessert, of which there are many variations and anywhere only friends!
A classic recipe is one that I follow for years and really all these that have tried it like it a lot. The current proposal is a small "herecy" since it adds cinnamon biscuits. Was this desire, which, however, gave a touch aromatic sweet cinnamon, going with coffee.
There is a procedure of preparation of different materials, which have to be prepared separately and then joined together.
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Ferrero Rocher Mousse Torte

Strawberry chocolate torte with fluffy chocolate mousse and sweet, chocolate, magical morsels Ferrero Rocher. Fresh, bright red and sweet strawberries, and those who took a chocolate coating, dipping them in melted chocolate, escorted each piece.
A truly delicious torte, which was created with love to celebrate anniversary family event and was accompanied with frozen sangria, with thin slices of orange floating.
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