Spinach & Feta Rolls

Flour and water!
No yeast, no leavening agents. Simple and incredibly delicious & quick Spinach Cheesecake rolls, plain Cheesecake or both at the same time!
Let's bake delicious pie in the shape of a roll, where the ratio of filling and foil is evenly distributed for more flavor, more crispy effect and for all hours.
The ingredients of this pie are excellent and the proportions perfectly adjusted for a delicious pie or rather 2 pies in one.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 3h: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.
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!
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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.

Stuffed Zucchini, Middle Eastern Style

A favorite dish in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, whose aromas and taste reach our own Cuisine.
In this recipe, humble zucchini serve as a vase for a special filling of seasoned rice and a mixture of beef & pork - without excluding any other meat of our choice - with fresh tomatoes, onions & aromatic herbs, such as herbs.
See step-by-step analysis of my recipe for incredible and absolutely delicious results!
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work: 40′

time: 1h:30′

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Savory Cake with Halloumi & Raisins

A delicious Savory Cake with few ingredients so easy and so economical that it will fit you in many and many, you will make it very often, it will become your favorite in the family for weekdays and holidays. The kids will love it.
It goes everywhere and will keep you happy at home for a quick meal, combined with a fresh salad. At work, at school, on a trip, gathering for a coffee or a drink, a gift pack for a friendly visit, and much more!
Its composition consists of halloumi cheese, eggs, milk & olive oil. The Corinthian Currant, this wonderful antioxidant from the Greek vineyards, gives it a small drop of sweetness, pleasantly surprising, to every bite. The mint is so perfect with the halloumi that you do not need to add any other aromatic herbs or spices. Gentle and tender inside and well-groomed exterior. Enjoy it with a cool (10-12℃) rosé wine of your choice, it suits it very much!
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work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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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′

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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′

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Fresh Cherry Lemonade

In the cherries season… the majestic season of cherries -because the cherry itself is a magical fruit, favorite of young and old- we make, among other things, a wonderful, refreshing, sour and all red lemonade.
Red and crunchy cherries combine high nutritional value and culinary delight, is also the fruit, which predominates in antioxidants and is one of the most valuable summer fruits, delicious and beneficial because they contain high levels of antioxidants than any other fruit!
Enjoy cherry lemonade, garnished with fresh mint leaves, organic lemon slices and ice cubes. And if you are a child wear them as earrings!
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work: 15′

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!
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The recipe

Fresh Dip of Tzatziki

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

work: 15′

time: 30′

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Stuffed Zucchini with Egg & Lemon Sauce (Avgolemono)

Irresistible, delicious and easily prepared. We purchase zucchini round, like balls (the classic too is a joy for this dish) to open, remove the pith and fill them with a delicious and aromatic minced meat. So simple and so fast.
The accompanying sauce, Avgolemono, this great Greek Sauce with the unique ability to thicken and give body to food together with the subtle, tangy flavor of lemon, is for most a necessary corollary of this dish.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

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Stuffed Vine Leaves with Minced Meat & Tomato

Stuffed vine leaves with minced veal, a lot of onion, grated tomato, mint and white wine.
If for this dish your dining experience begins and ends in canned stuffed vine leaves, will surely feel aversion or dislike. But when you give a second chance, making the stuffed yourself with the following detailed step-by-step instructions, you will definitely revise.
It is an excellent dish, delicious and filling. The pleasure of the palate and our stomach. It can be combined with a velvety egg-lemon sauce or tzatziki.
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work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Spiral-Shaped Greek Cheese Pie

Special cheese pie in a spiral shape (twisted or snail) with a thin crust sheet, feta cheese, cheddar, soft strained ricotta, dill and mint. I called it spring because of the herbs that give it flavor and great taste. Enjoy the as main dish combined with a light green salad, to alleviate the high fat taste of mizithra (or ricotta) cheese pie. Also, I suggest you enjoy it with a sturdy spoon of honey onto the hot pie.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:40′

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Hortopita: Greek Savory Pie with Greens, Herbs & Feta Cheese

An epic Savory Pie!
Delicious, hearty in a beautiful phyllo dough almost handmade.
The process is time consuming in particular the very good cleaning and washing, which are required for the preparation of many greens & aromatic plants & herbs.
The entire process can be done in two stages for convenience. Prepare the vegetables from the previous day, let them drain well all night and the next day continue to complete the pie.
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work: 3h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce

Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce Meatballs favorite! Red wine sauce, beautiful aromas, divine taste, and various combinations. I think we need in today's introduction to confine to fewer descriptions and let you decide what description fits better and if you will make it and enjoy it!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Mixed Greens Pies-Hortopites

The continuation and the end of the lengthy post "Phyllo Dough & Pies" is completed here. The little pies arrive at their final destination, when the fresh fried, thin pie -which smells Greece- reach to our palate!
After we learned to we make the dough, roll the sheet and we have become experts in "dough pastry sheets" today we will learn to choose, to cook, make pies and eat the noblest, aromatic, delicious, sweet and fragrant greens & herbs of all time, the whole world.
Are these the Greek Spring! Especially after a year with so much rain the greens and green covered up rocks…
★ Mediterranean hartwort, chevrils, poppies, spurges, sorrel, leeks, onions, dill, fennel, peppermint, nettles, sonchus oleraceus, commonly all those spices, wild, sweet, edible greens, we find this time in Greek land which when cooked become the ultimate nutritional and taste dimension.
Most of us do not recognize more than 3-4 species. The variety is great and it is not easy for someone who does not live close to nature to know their name, but also to distinguish edible from inedible. Many are found in outdoor public market and grocery stores. Wherever you find them, take them and go make pies.

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work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:30′

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Greek Greens Pie - Hortopita

Favorite pie, traditional pie, lenten pie, with delicious aromatic herbs of the Spring. Everyone likes it and gets eaten with an appetite.
The greens are in abundance in the wild to gather ourselves, or at the grocery store or farmer's market. Look for them.
The diversity and composition of the individual components may vary, but that it is always delicious. It can be made with ready phyllo for more convenience. Wrapped in a circle and forms a large snail. Baked in the oven to become crisp and browned.
Try it!

work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:30′

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Rice Meatball in the Oven

Rice meatballs with the known, traditional flavor but with a different way of cooking the classic recipe, that most know, and gives them another texture and another flavor.
Minced meat, rice, aromatic herbs and lemon juice are the ingredients for delicious, baked, rice meatballs. The addition of lemon zest to the flour, with which we flour them is the magic material that will give them a special flavor and elevate their taste.
Proposal: do not skip, is more than a soup with rice meatballs, believe me!

work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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Black Grape Smoothie - Low Carb

Refreshing, summery, viscous, pure and healthy Smoothie Low Carb, with black grape, packed in antioxidants, with bananas, light yogurt and crushed ice.
The smoothie is one, beaten in a blender, blend made from fresh or frozen fruits and in exceptional cases may contain chocolate, honey, or syrup.
It is enjoyed pleasantly and gives physical satiety, fullness, and coolness. Add lots of ice cubes and extend your enjoyment of refreshing.

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work: 5′

time: 5′

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