Crostata without Butter with Ricotta & Peach Jam

I wanted to try this type of dough, which contains light oil instead of butter. Although not really an Orthodox preparation compared to the rules of pastry, it is a great and easy way to make a dough very quickly. Mix everything in a bowl, work with the wire or spoon and then finish the process with a quick kneading on the kitchen work surface.
This shortens the time needed to make a sweet tart dough, as it does not need to rest in the fridge and can be used immediately even when there are a hundred degrees in the house due to the summer heat.
We open a sheet of handmade dough that is easily inserted into the tart dish, fills up and at one point we have our tart ready to get into the oven.
Sweet Tart without butter, filled with anthotyro -ricotta cheese- & Peach Jam, made by us in a very short time and with less sugar. Light Peach Jam recipe☯ at the end of the article. The dough sheet is so wonderful, with biscuit texture, crumbly, that it will surprise you with its taste and texture. It can also be used in savory tarts by removing sugar.
Hmmm, remember to make some cookies with this dough…
Yours, the Peach Jam Tart!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

medium:

Lemon & Lime Marmalade-DIY

Lemons and limes combine to create a fantastic flavor and a beautiful color and clarity to marmalade to the stretch onto our bread and biscuits or use it in other sweet concoctions in our Kitchen, as cakes, tartes, tortes, refrigerator sweets, sweet pies etc… At the time when lemons are in abundance we make and fill jams with lemon marmalade, where many of these become gifts for friends.
Lemons, high in pectin and acid, make a great marmalade although the actual flavor of fruit and its color varies.
We use only three ingredients to make this marmalade. Lemons, sugar and water. Without having to add pectin or other perfumes. Although the recipe is simple, it takes time to carry out, but the end result is worth it!
Yours!

work: 2h:00′

time: 1 ημέρα

easy:

Blood Orange Marmalade

These wonderful oranges, blood oranges, with red spots on the skin and red flesh, made marmalade and is one of the most beautiful in the red scarlet color, and perhaps the most delicious.
Since childhood I was magnetized and impressed by their blood-red flesh! In the grand orangery of the grandfather, there were almost all sorts of citrus -and various varieties for some of them- from citrus (κίτρα) for their essential oil, which exported to Marseilles, lemons & lime to oranges, mandarins & blood oranges. Everyone with different tastes and sweetness but so beneficial to our body. Since then I have loved these fruits and it was the season, though very young, I ate lemon cut at 4 and sprinkled with salt. From this magical world of our orange tree a part of it has come to my property, thanks to the generosity of the people who so fought with their land.
Eternally grateful!

work: 30′

time: 12h:00′

very easy:

Cherry Jam with Orange

Cherry marmelade light, easy and fast. Enjoyable without the excess sugar and of course less burdensome nutritionally. The orange zest adds flavor and needed pectin.
The wonderful cherries with glossy skin and tight flesh, but with wonderful color and taste, sealed in jars and stored to accompany us in winter.

☯ At the end of the article you will find how we can use the pits of the cherries within the framework of the Household Economy and the doctrine "We don't throw anything away"!
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Strawberry Jam

Easy, fast and light strawberry jam, enhanced with a shot of brandy and lemon juice, which helps to maintain the bright color. Its sugar content is low, which makes it particularly dietary and with more fruit in its composition. Almost 80%! Ten minutes of boiling is enough for strawberries to retain all their vitamins and trace elements. With longer boiling, all of this is lost.
Try it!

work: 15′

time: 1h:15′

very easy:

Red Pepper Jam with Stevia

A jam with character, with intensity, with bite, with color! You will definitely enjoy it in both savory and sweet combinations. It is light, free from sugar, gets made with stevia
Suggestion: let the usual form of consumption of a jam and try to enjoy it with the spoon straight from the jar. As children.
"Ripe" flavors, peppery aftertaste and sweet just enough.
Do not miss the ginger and the spicy chilli, giving it the necessary spark to be remembered by the palate for some time!
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

very easy:

Apricot Jam with Stevia

Orange coloured jam with delicious apricots and Stevia for all those who either by choice or for particular nutritional reason do not want or can not consume sugar.
So apricot jam, and if it is organically grown without poisonous sprinkling even better. With the strong presence of the orange, the ginger and the apricot.
The process is very simple and is done in a short time, sealed in sterilized jars and keep for winter the delicious summer fruit, full of sun!
Yours

work: 20′

time: 2h:20′

very easy:

English Marmalade

English Marmalade made from the golden gifts of the sun and imprisoned in beautifully transparent jars, which will complement our sweet and savory breakfast. It will give us all the scent and flavor of citrus. Sweet taste, sour taste, and slightly bitter taste. All those that contain the same fruits from which it comes.
Citrus fruits are fruits, which contain enough pectin so the jam easily gets a thick and jelly texture.

Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 12h:00′

easy:

Wild Plum Jam

Wild plums red, purple, orange, yellow or green. Whichever color you have wild plums are very tasty fruits to be eaten raw, but can used for delicious jams too.
Tight, orange, crunchy flesh with unique flavor and sweetness.
Simply, quickly and easily you can make this jam for the winter, to relish our mornings and make us look back for the summer, with the abundance and variety of fresh fruit.
It takes less time to make your own homemade jam, than to go up the supermarket and buy some.
Try it!

work: 10′

time: 40′

very easy:

Plum Jam with Spices

Plums, apart from being very tasty and sweet fruits, when ripe, also have a beautiful ruby ​​color. By extension, they make a very tasty jam, with a fantastic pink-red, transparent color, the same ruby!
The process is so simple, that in a little time we have a spicy, red, light jam for the first meal of the day. Our breakfast!
Enjoy the almost ethereal flavor and you will feel very proud to make your own jam, so much better than those you buy, which are laden with sweeteners, for my taste.

work: 00h:15′

time: 01h:45′

very easy: 1/5

Cranberry Jam

Red, spicy, sweet and mischievous! Who can resist a jam very distinctive and delicious! The harmonious combination of orange with cranberries gives a treat with amazing taste. Citrus fruits offer a fair amount of pectin and makes a velvety texture with the hues of fire!
It is easy and fast to make.
Yours!

work: 30'

time: 1h:00'

easy: 2/5