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

easy:

Marinated Salmon Fillets

Roast fillet of fresh salmon, marinated in a tasty and spicy sauce made from soy sauce, green onion, crushed garlic, hot red chilli pepper and ginger. The total time -preparation and baking to have served ready to our table- is only 40'. To remain juicy and irresistibly delicious bake only 10'-15'.
The dish has its own story to the delicious offerings of our two kitchens, with several tests -since everybody likes salmon- to become a family affair and to create what we now recommend only to you as a first publication. All kudos belong to the younger family chef, in her the only.
Try it. Mandatory and only parameter to make this dish and enjoy the tasty dynamics is to like salmon, leave the rest to us!
From our kitchen to yours with the exhortation to make.

© Iris Kariotelli's Recipe

work: 5′

time: 35′

very easy:

Watermelon & Lime Granita

Summer and childish carefree mood, with frozen fruity sorbets, which will become the culinary memories of our mature future.
To make sorbet, do nothing more than pour a fruity liquid into a container, then place it in the freezer and using a fork or spoon scrape the frozen mixture as it freezes. It could not be simpler!
Ruddy watermelon sorbet and green lime in an excellent combination to enjoy the dominant summer fruit, watermelon, in another dimension.
The beautiful granite give us color, freshness and great moments of relaxation. Either under the sun or in a wonderful, romantic evening under the moonlight on the island of our dreams! To freeze the tongue and palate and remove concepts, the sensation of the summer heat, and bring us joy optimistic messages.
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work: 30′

time: 7h:00′

very easy:

Apple ‘n Cabbage Slaw

Salads with winter cabbage are delicious and easy to make. The pomegranate, apple -golden delicious- but also, of impressive color, red cabbage make it festive. Try, daily or festive, and certainly you will like it.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

very easy:

Candied Cherries

Candied cherries, like Italian Amarena or French Griottines, in small quantity and in an easy and quick preparation, as will be used for making ice cream and which will soon show you.
It is not the known version of candied fruit, such as Orange Peels and others, which we use in cakes etc. It is semi-candied cherries. I chose the cherries to be cut in two and not remain intact in order to be incorporated into the cream and in which our tooth only will meet.
It is not jam nor sweets, we make for the winter. It is something between these two. Their syrup is more dense and flavored with whole lobe vanilla and lime peel.
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work: 10′

time: 30′

very 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.
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work: 10′

time: 20′

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"!
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work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Infused Water

Flavored water, natural or mineral, with aromas and flavors of citrus!
As much it cools us a cold beer, a frosted freddo, fresh fruits like iced cold watermelon or ice cream, or a frozen sorbet in the heat of the afternoon, none of these gives a sense of coolness and quench your thirst as a glass of cold water. If it also has lemon or orange slices, the sense of coolness is stronger!
Once the a sweet taste of Caramel still holds, time to cool off with a cold, flavored water. We make our own Perrier!
Cheers!

work: 10′

time: 1h:10′

very easy:

Chickpea Salad

Chickpeas salad, fresh, light, healthy and delicious. Combined with tomato, cucumber, onion, peppers and pomegranate. The addition of lime produces a fine touch ethereal flavor on the palate.
Although the traditional Greek cuisine legumes consumed almost always in the form of soup, however, can be a delicious dish salad.
Beans, white or black-eyed peas, lentils, chickpeas mixed with various vegetables and flavorings, are very nutritious and hearty salads, which can replace a main meal.
This salad with chickpeas are an excellent choice for healthy meal vegetarians and not.
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work: 15′

time: 12h:15′

very easy:

Rice Pudding with Pistachio

Classic favorite, light dessert, beautifully scented with the essential oil of lime and sprinkled with fresh, crunchy pistachio.
The fruits like walnuts, almonds, peanuts, the pistachio, pine etc., which usually one enjoys dry, when fresh, full of juices from plant and complete with a little sugar, are a real treat!
Here a small amount of crushed pistachios, not only adorns a simple rice pudding, but gives an extra intensity to the flavor.
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work: 30′

time: 30′

very easy:

Bacon Wrapped Prawns

Prawns marinated and wrapped in smoked bacon with a small strip of roasted yellow pepper and lightly grilled.
Easy and tasty appetizer, made ​​in a short time to enjoy with a cold white wine or a cold beer.
Try it!

work: 20′

time: 1h:30′

very easy:

Eggplant Spread

Grilled eggplant spread, with olives, garlic, parsley, and lime zest. Strong flavors, spicy and delicious, with the sweet eggplant balancing the intense flavors of other ingredients.
Served as an appetizer but can be served plain, accompanied by a beverage of your choice. A glass of good red wine will pleasantly balance the olive and pepper. The excellent flavor of lime improves the taste.
Try it!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy: 1/5

The recipe

Eggplant Spread

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

Key Lime Pie

American home lime pie, baked on a graham cracker crust and piled high with α light and creamy filling.
You will love the unique flavor of limes with their slightly bitter flavor, even if you don't prefer the tart pastry.

work: 00h:30'

time: 00h:50'

medium: 3/5

Grilled Salmon

Grilled Salmon fresh fillets. Delicious salmon fillets, filled with a mixture of aromatic herbs, onion, parsley, ginger and other spices, that give it a strong and balanced flavor.
A tasty dish you can make for the people you love and care. A gourmet dish of high culinary standards!

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work: 00h:30'

time: 00h:40'

medium: 3/5