Cheese Pie with Sparkling Water

For those who don't have time to roll out a sheet of dough or don't know how, then ready-made phyllo crust is a good choice and we find it ready, fresh or frozen in the refrigerators of supermarkets.
I suggest you save this delicious pie recipe, which you can make with the filling you want and thus enjoy an easy and tasty pie and with cheeses of your absolute choice. The ingredient that makes it special and very fluffy with a crispy crust on its surface and with a wonderful taste is a can of Carbonated Water. A drink made from natural mineral water with natural lemon and lime flavors, extremely digestive and refreshing.
Try it at the first opportunity.
☯ If we want, we can prepare it the night before and put it in the oven the next morning. This way we will have a hot, fresh, delicious snack for a Sunday Breakfast.
Yours!

work: 0h:45′

time: 1h:30′

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Greek Custard Pie with Sirup-Galaktoboureko

How does it stand out and how do you make a good Galaktoboureko?
Everything plays its role, even the size or material of the baking pan, the quality & quantity of its ingredients, the buttering, the time, the baking, and the syrup as much as are equally important to the success of the dessert. My version is «cold syrup ↔ hot sweet».
Please follow the step-by-step steps below and make this excellent Galaktoboureko all-weather, craving & disposition. A sweet passepartout that is!
Yours!

work: 2h:00′

time: 3h:00′

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Pie in Puff Pastry Sheet

Among the many and delicious dishes that the Greek Diet includes, the various pies stand out and write their own chapter in the impressively rich culinary narrative of the Pie.
With simple raw ingredients, pies were for many housewives the daily treat, and which accompanied a people with a tradition in animal husbandry and agriculture, satisfying their nutritional and practical needs. The traditional recipes of our country have a fixed place in our kitchen.

The tradition of a delicious pie still exists today with the ease of finding raw ingredients as well as ready-made sheets for quick selection for many workers, mothers and housewives.

Today's pie wrapped in puff pastry is a quick pie with delicious, many and different ingredients that make it delicious and filling.
Yours.

work: 40′

time: 1h:40′

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Pasta Soufflé

A timeless souffle with basic pasta the striped penne (penne rigate) to wrap beautifully around the ingredients and their taste. This soufflé has a very "sinful" content, so sinful that we make it, eat it and do not approach the scales again for a couple of weeks… However I give the ingredients and their proportions and if you are "brave" you make it and enjoy it.
It remains a very tasty pasta dish that few will resist trying. Ideally eaten hot, like all soufflés. We have said that Souffle is not waiting, we are sitting at the table and we are waiting for it.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Ham Cheese Pie with Cream

Everyone likes this pie, I always make it with a puff pastry sheet to keep all the delicious, soft and fluffy filling inside. A sheet at the bottom, a sheet at the top and in between a filling based on a light béchamel cream, made with corn flour and which makes it look like a millefeuille.
We choose plenty of favorite cheeses & hams. I chose to put smoked turkey fillet but also any other ham, that you like, does to make it delicious. Make holes in the puff pastry to remove the moisture inside the pie and not to wipe the sheet, so that it becomes crispy.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Brioche Burger Buns

Brioche dough tends to be heavy, as it is an enriched dough. This means that, in addition to the usual suspects to make bread, such as flour, water, salt and yeast, brioche dough includes egg, butter & full-fat milk. These buns, however, are light, airy, soft. So we have an enriched dough with a great taste, and not a heavy dough, with which brioche is usually made.
Making these homemade buns, with a neutral taste, so that they can be made sweet or savory choices and to enjoy them in many different ways:
☛ Plain to accompany a meal or make sandwiches & hamburger. Since they are not sweet at all by choice.
☛ Plain to accompany a meal or make sandwiches & hamburger. Since Cut in half and spread with butter and jam for a pleasant, hearty breakfast, they are not sweet at all by choice.
☛ Filled with chocolate, praline, jam of our choice or chestnut cream spread, like the ones here, to make them more festive… and which are our preference for Christmas Day.
You decide, choose and make the most delicious fluffy brioche buns for incredible combinations.

Yours!

Merry Christmas!

work: 1h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Healthy Banana Pancakes

What is so special about this recipe? Well, let's start with the pancakes. They are extremely soft, light, healthy & fluffy like soft pillows! Roasted & crushed hazelnuts add a wonderful, crispy texture and the unique aroma of roasted nuts. The layers of caramelized bananas in maple syrup and brown sugar in the intermediate layers of the «tower», sometimes a little sloping to look like that of Tower of Pisa, add even more delicious, sweet and sticky flavors to these Pancakes. You just have to try them on to know what I'm talking about!
From above we decorate with whatever we like. If they are spring pancakes, we put antioxidant fruits of the forest, such as strawberries, raspberries & blueberries, which are among the superfoods, almond slivers & plenty of maple syrup.
Make a lot and fill, with these healthy Pancakes, children's dishes with all the above and they will be amazing…
Yours

work: 20′

time: 40′

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Coconut Rolls

A recent study by the Royal Roads University of Canada on nutrition in times of crisis came to some conclusions:
«Food is a carrier of the transition from normalcy to different times in real time, at the same time. This leads to a revision of key values as well as processes of our busy economic and industrial society and its various branches, such as those related to food and entertainment. Above all, there is the aspect of survival, the realization that man is no longer dominant and, to talk about the purely practical part of food, there is a need to save resources, using all the materials at our disposal. Cooking is one of the things that connects us to natural living systems and food is something that connects us, on a deeper level, to the Earth itself».
So many people, being confined to their home, make their own food every day and pastry products have the dominant say with daily and better daily bread.
The recipe we suggest today is one of these tender doughs like brioche, is sweet, fluffy and soft buns, stuffed with dried coconut and bathed, while still hot, with sweetened condensed milk.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 4h:00′

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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!

work: 1h:30′

time: 6h:00′

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Custard Filled Pastry Torte

Custard Filled Pastry Torte-Galaktoboureko, festive and favorite!
AND YES we celebrated a Birthday with this syrupy dessert and it eaten to be lukewarm, consumed with great appetite and some (everyone?!?) loved it!
Simplifying the procedures in the dilemma of the term «Birthday Cake» the decision was made and the balance was set in this suggestion here as time and conditions were very limited… It Just very easy with ingredients like fine semolina to make air-foam pastry cream, fresh butter, crunchy pastry sheets, fresh eggs and a light aroma syrup orange. Classic, that is, without the risk of failure and with the phyllo making small crisp nests to embrace the cream. Decorated with a little orange jam and grated pistachio.

Happy Birthday my Baby!

work: 40′

time: 1h:30′

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Starbucks Coffee Cake

A nice coffee like these delicious fragrances, which we drink at the unique Starbucks, to accompany the excellent in concept and simplicity Starbucks Cake! If you haven't tried it in its place, make it and enjoy it at your home, alone or with friends, matters little. This is where Coffee and Cake count.
And for you students, I have prepared this cake for you, so you can make it at the beginning of the week and have a little slice every day -if you are in the mood- without feeling guilty, along with your morning coffee. I promise you, you'll go out on your way to school with the most happy and satisfied smile on your lips.
This recipe is a small recipe for almost a lot. For single or small families.
What I love about this cake, besides being extremely fast to prepare, is that it's a clever idea of what a wonderful cake/snack means, exactly! Fairly rich, with crumbly crumbs, soft, fluffy and soft in texture. I could eat this cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner…
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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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!
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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Eggplants Stuffed with Potato Purée & Mozzarella

Roasted eggplants, stuffed with mashed potatoes and mozzarella. Alternatively Greek stuffed 'little shoes'. Delicious, easy and filling.
Eggplant is a tender perennial plant of the family Strychnoid (Solanaceae) and is cultivated for its homonymous fruit. Eggplant dominates in Mediterranean dishes. For us the moussaka and the shoes, the Italian parmesan aubergine and the Turkish imam baildi are among the best known. It is also roasted, fried, stuffed, salad and in vinegar (pickled).
Eggplant has low nutritional value and characteristic taste. It contains a greenish substance, strychnine, which can cause stomach upset when fruits are eaten unripe or very ripe. That's why attention is needed.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Spicy Cheese Pie with Tabasco

Spicy, golden brown, fluffy and particularly tasty thanks to the various fresh cheeses, which give it an unparalleled taste. The use of tabasco makes it spicy as long as our palate can withstand. These spicy tones enhance the flavor, so we enjoy a very tasty pie. Once it comes out of the oven it is like a cheese soufflé and where the cheeses have been scattered and joined to the leaves in a uniform form. Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:00′

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Classic Vanilla Bundt Cake

Vanilla Cake & Chocolate, a real Bundt Cake robust, solid, tough, heavy, liquid cake that has nothing to do with fluffy, airy, ethereal cakes, but it is wonderful and you will allow me, for excitement, to offer you with many praises.
Delicate, infused, and tender, this golden cake is simple. Baked in a Bundt pan is just as good to serve with fresh fruit, ice cream, whatever you like or just itself, sprinkled with powdered sugar as much as you like.

PS. If you like you can make it like a Santa Claus Christmas Cake. Remove the cocoa and place it in a flat, round shape pan.🎄
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:30′

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Fresh Peach & Black Grape Upside-Down Cake

When you're dealing with prime, fresh, excellent, seasonal ingredients, the sentiment that simple is best almost always rings true. Knowing that June is the peak of Peach season for the Northern Hemisphere, what better ingredient for a simple, yet impressive dessert.
Fresh, summer, dessert & juicy peaches give us the opportunity to enjoy them in many ways, primarily in sweet desserts but in savory tastes too, in drinks & smoothies or in compotes.
The cake is baked low and slowly for about 40 minutes until the surface becomes red-gold and sliced peaches inside softened and caramelized from the addition of the sweet Black Grape but also from brown sugar and butter. The cake itself has absorbed all the sweetness of the candy. The aroma from the oven while the cake is baked is heavenly, with sweet vanilla and syrupy caramel peaches. The only downside to this summer's upside-down cake is that you must share it…
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Classic Cupcakes with Cheese Frosting

Traditional Cupcakes are always a delicious, sweet treat. Small personal pockets that children - and not only - love. They are adorned with a cream cheese glaze, making them lighter in flavor with a very fresh, cool texture.
Exercise your creativity and decorate it with everything that suits your mood and imagination. Today's proposal has kept blue shades, but you can choose any other color range of your choice.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 30′

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Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Fettuccine with Caramelized Onions

A pasta dish generally leaves a few people unmoved at the sight. A creamy, highly aromatic, and wonderfully delicious, white spaghetti leaves absolutely no one unmoved…
This with fettuccine pasta has many different vegetables that make it very tasty. It has two kinds of mushrooms, portobello and white -meat substitutes- caramelized onions, balsamic cream, tender spinach, arugula and all combined delicious and harmonious in a sauce particularly creamy thanks to cream and grated parmesan cheese straight from her place of origin!
Yours

work: 30′

time: 50′

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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.
Yours!
Have a pleasant and enjoyable Easter of 2018!

work: 1h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake

There are cakes that can be made without the need for a food processor or mixer. This cake is one of them. The whole process is done in a bowl and just stirring its ingredients, so without time-consuming preparations and without many tools. The result is a very fluffy, moist and beautiful cake that is not easily crumbled.
The recipe inspired by extra virgin olive oil, this year for the first time, gave us our new, small olives of organic farming.
The Sanguines (Blood Oranges) were used for their many beneficial properties but also for their color, that of ruby. Whole Sanguines, peeled and finely chopped, which left on the sliced slices of ruby & orange dots. It is an excellent cake in which the caramelized slices of oranges dominate with their presence and make it special, unique, festive.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:10′

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