Greek Halva

This here, Semolina Halva is young, handsome and scandalous, without question or hesitation, he also has a caramelized taste like an extra bonus in the suitcase with his dowry. There is a little secret about him and it is about the technique of his preparation. It will be revealed to you later, reading the article or enjoying it, if you make it!
Forget the well-known 1 2 3 4 etc. of the ingredients here arithmetic changes, it's not like when we were kids and they taught us our first sweets… Confectionery is an evolving art, it's very special and strict, I would say, even if it concerns the simplest of sweets. Sometimes the simple does not mean simplistic, the depthless approach to the real.
Its ingredients, thanks to which it becomes very light and aromatic, apart from the well-known semolina, are nuts, cinnamon, juice and orange zest as well as orange spoon sweet chopped!
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work: 45′

time: 2h:45′

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Linguine with Mussels & Fresh Vegetables

Cook the mussels in a large frying pan, with the tomatoes cut into small bites, the sweet red pepper in thin strips and all other vegetables chopped! Quench with white wine while your linguine are cooked in another pot. Combine the two and toss them with your favorite spices, a little grated Parmigiano-Reggiano & chopped rosemary. Now pretend you're on vacation on the Italian coast or on one of our Aegean islands and enjoy excellent flavors!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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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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Fresh Lemon Syrup

Whether you find standard lemons from the market or the supermarket or -even better- from your own organically grown lemon trees, take their juice and do not throw away the lemon shells but make this raw, fresh lemon syrup for many uses.
You fill a transparent glass bottle with this syrup, made of nothing but sugar dissolved in the acidic lemon pulp and no boiling is required! Since there is no extra juice, it tastes somewhat sweeter than sour but is balanced by the fine bitterness of lemon.
The lemon shells are acidic enough to dissolve up to half their weight in sugar, giving the syrup a strong flavor and vivid color without any additional juice, flavor or dye.
Use it in various dishes in your kitchen from a simple liqueur with ice cubes and soda, your favorite cocktails to cakes or where else you want to give strong lemonade flavor to your preparations.
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work: 10′

time: 3h:00′

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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!
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work: 2h:00′

time: 1 ημέρα

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Okra in Oil

Almost a Greek alphabet to the benefits from the undervalued okra, which take so long and so many years the remorse comments of the universe without complaint. Do not listen to the "malicious" who propagate that okra is "the shame of the vegetables" 😆🌿👌…
Just 350-400 calories -at most- have a portion of them, while breathing a hot pizza special you get 875! So do not listen to others' prejudices, cook this vegetable and enjoy it. We did not eat so much food as the taste buds of the palate dared to try and revise.
The process for their preparation, when okra is fresh, it is a little time-consuming, but this contributes to their delicacy and differentiates them from the frozen.
Easy, tasty and really healthy dish!
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work: 45′

time: 3h:15′

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Fresh Green Beans

Fresh green beans have their honor at our Greek Summer Table. Along with Gemista (Filled) is the dish that we make and serve in our family more often.
It is traditional, delicious and favorite food. It accepts interventions by adding other vegetables along with the green beans, creating more textures and flavors that take off.
We choose whatever variety of green beans we prefer as long as they are freshly cut, tender and crisp.
Of course this dish is strictly accompanied by Greek Feta.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Maple Muesli Biscuits

Without eggs, butter, or milk! Dietary and healthy. Muesli biscuits, with chocolate drops, cranberries, and maple syrup, delicious ingredients for a delicious taste full of flavor. There is also a basic parameter, the unnecessary food processor, with a spoon mixing the ingredients and making cookies soft and crumbly.
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work: 20′

time: 35′

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The Greek Simiti / Koulouri

The Simiti, the Greek Sesame Bagel is a very favorite bakery which is found as the ultimate in outdoor snack carts in the streets of Athens and beyond. A unique street food, loaded with as many memories as everyone carries.
With a simple yeast dough without milk and eggs, it is so fast and very tasty. We make these golden rings immersed first in molasses and then sprinkled with plenty of sesame seeds to take off deliciously.
They are done plump, double simiti and very fluffy. They are eaten accompanied with a classic feta cheese meze, caper, olives & tomato, all sprinkled with oregano. They are also cut horizontally and filled with what we like, like a sandwich.
Make your own simiti by yourself is much easier than you think.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

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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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work: 45′

time: 3h:30′

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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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work: 45′

time: 2h:00′

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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′

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No Knead Lagana Bread

Lagana, the no-knead bread of the Clean Monday is made once a year and it is no longer no-knead, as before, since it is now customary to add yeast.
The process is easy, simple and without kneading, with a guaranteed result! Prepare the dough from the previous and the next day bake our laganas. It is in the same logic with the Bread without Kneading Walnuts & Raisins. Just leave time for it to work and to spice the Lagana.
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work: 30′

time: 18h:00′

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Dates & Nuts Roll

An easy, simple and delicious sweet recipe for these rolls of dates and nuts, flavored with orange and cloves and sprinkled with grated pistachios. It is a healthy and tasty sweet, fat-free and sugar-free, but the dates give all the sweetness to these rolls, since they are already a sweet temptation.
Sweet rolls with dill and nuts have their origins in India where they are made and eaten a lot.
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work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

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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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Homemade Energy Bars 4 Ingredients

This proposal for homemade snacks, Energy Bars -with nuts, almonds, peanuts, crisped rice cereal and maple syrup- is the basic recipe for something very simple and with the fewest possible components, only 4. We use only a mixing bowl and in less than 5' are ready.
It is Vegan, without processed sugar, gluten-free, without dairy or animal products, without fats or eggs. So healthy, so delicious, so crisp! The perfect snack or a delicious dessert with a highly sophisticated taste in a wonderful balance between salty and sweet.
I'm so excited to be back in the kitchen with you, making delicious and healthy homemade treats for us and our loved ones!
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work: 5′

time: 35′

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Farfalle with Tuna & Caper

Farfalle salad! A delicious dish of pasta, where on each fork, each one of its ingredients, expresses its presence and combines harmoniously to absorb the juices and aromas of the other ingredients and to give them a dynamic and promising taste!
Salad dish with a short preparation time, just 15', which can also be eaten as a light main meal. Gourmet, easy to digest, easy to make with fine fruity notes, with tomato and balsamic vinegar giving the acidity that goes to it!
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work: 08′

time: 15′

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Black Grape Spoon Sweet

Spoon sweet of black grape, with very special blue-purple shades, deliciously tasty and very aromatic with the addition of spices, star anise and cardamom, which make the syrup sweet.
The ATTICA grape variety is a black, non-seed variety of table grapes, with a long-grained sapless berry, maturing at the end of July or early August. The grape itself is one of the most delicious edible grapes without seeds.
At the end of the article there are detailed instructions for sterilization and preserving products whose lifetime we want to prolong and to ensure that they will not be altered.
Follow them!

work: 30′

time: 24h:00′

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Aromatic Pickled Caper

We meet the plants of Caper to grow freely in nature. It is a magical plant that grows in places full of sunshine and hot to very hot summers and in very poor soils almost without water. But it insists on being and giving its little flowers -her immature buds- to become the Golden Apple of Discord among humans, birds and ants.
In order to make pickles, we collect, with respect to the plant, its flowers when they are small before they are blooming, its tender leaves and its fruits, and those small, tender, crisp, which are created after the flower is fertilized & inside there are the seeds of the plant.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Broad Βeans & Blites Salad

We are going through a limp week, between an undecided spring and a summer that does not seem to have made a decision to settle. So adjusting our mood to the «big question of life»!?!: what do we eat today, we cook broad beans. A legume rather despised now and some may not even know of the existence of.
Broad Beans are eaten fresh with artichokes, peas, etc. But dry, boiled as a salad or liquor, here our case. Onions, fresh tomato, bay leaves and oregano make this dish scream out of enthusiasm. They are accompanied and eaten with a salad blitum, feta, olives and barley rusk.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

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