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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Fried Cheese Pies

Fried Cheese Pies, with excellent cheeses, are super tasty and easy to make. Like saying 3 in one!
I choose a lovely fresh country market sheet to wrap these triangular cheesecakes and enhance the flavor & their convenience for when I want a quick and easy snack for all hours of the day or for a larger production for several people…
Ideally and very often they become our favorites at a Sunday brunch, along with other delicacies Savory and Sweets.
Of course, they are loved by our family, they all love them bathed in Greek thyme honey.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 45′

very easy:

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′

easy:

Chinese Almond Cookies

These cookies are the traditional and easiest dessert to celebrate Chinese New Year, the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It does not have a fixed date, in 2022 it was February 1 and the celebrations lasted 15 days.
As familiar as its ingredients are to us, it is nevertheless one of the most popular Chinese Pastries. They are made in every home and everyone contributes with them to the Chinese New Year Table. They are very easy to make and complete in less than 30 minutes. It is even said that they bring good luck in the New Year!
Super simple and clean materials that you probably already have in your closet. They are crunchy and buttery with a small amount of almond or vanilla extract and definitely a favorite in the crowd, young and old. In ours I replaced the sugar with Stevia, you choose what you like.

Good & Lucky Chinese New Year in the Year of the Tiger!

work: 15′

time: 30′

very easy:

Traditional Greek Orange Cake with Syrup

Juicy, easy, fluffy and full of aromas Traditional Greek Orange Cake with Syrup, which is made with crust leaves, finely chopped & hidden inside and with strained yogurt. It is syruped with a thick orange syrup to make the flavors even more orange. The taste of orange floods the palate so pleasantly and so intensely, uniquely!
Of all the syrupy sweets of Greek Cuisine, this orange pie is by far our favorite. It's because oranges are our favorite fruit! It combines beautifully with a ball of our favorite ice cream and the flavors take off.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

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!
Yours

work: 45′

time: 2h:45′

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Focaccia in Spiral Shape

Spiral Focaccia, this very delicious Italian bread does not stop surprising us with its shapes, textures and flavors. Here it is stuffed with a spicy red sauce and adorned with juicy and tasty cherry olives and tomatoes, which end up on the Fokacha Strip.
Really beautiful, crisp exterior but with soft bread crumbs spicy stuffing.
An irresistible appetizer of flavor. This Fokacha is a really perfect recipe.

A tribute to Italy and to all the people who live there. And of course to everyone in all the rest of the world to stay safe, to stay at home!

work: 1h:30′

time: 12h: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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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…
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 48h: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′

easy:

Spinach, Mushrooms & Feta Quiche

When I make a tart of fresh vegetables, mixed with other different ingredients, I try to guess what its taste will be in the final result. How much the ingredients have blended together and how balanced their proportions are in salt & spices. And as always, I add something extra to correct the taste of bringing it to my palate worries. This time I chose to replace a simple black pepper with the four peppers with the coriander from the infinite jars of my kitchen. Wonderful aromas, delicate peppery smells, all combined with refinement…
The puff pastry leaf, deliciously crunchy, closed everything I prepared for an hour. I cut ribbons from the dough sheet that was left over for the final & defining layer on its face, creating my own galaxy spiral centered on a star, my family enjoyed it and I received extra kiss, it was the first of May you see!
Yours!

work: 1h:10′

time: 2h:00′

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Almond Pears-Amigthalota

The Argosaronic Islands, Cyclades, Dodecanese and all of our islands -and not only- make and celebrate with these Amigthalota/ Almonds Pears, snowy sweets of joy and hospitality to welcome new life, new names, new beginnings, and new pleasures. Snowy as the purity of the happy moments of our life and flavored with the essence of the blossoms of the sour orange.
As many as our islands are so many variations of this simple and such a beloved delicacy. Grated almond, egg white and fine semolina make up the basic principle to make these fragrant sweets and smell the home tradition and joy!
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

No Knead Walnut Raisin Bread

Bread without kneading: we know it, we have made it and we like it. But this particular is very tasty and has to do not only with the ingredients it contains but with the time in which it is being prepared. The time matures the leaven and the result is excellent.
We follow the program and dedicate a morning of Saturday & Sunday to complete it -with the second bread rise & baking- to enjoy it with a companion and combined in a brunch, with salty and sweet tastes on a plate of cheese, sausages, butter, jam and honey or whatever else we like. The Bread will, however, be the king of the brunch. Oh, eaten and plain, especially plain!
The organization of the long wait for the preparation of this bread is made on the basis of the following timetable and which we must follow. In the standby time we do not discount. Since you do not knead let the time do the work for us.
Yours!
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• 18:00 make the dough
• 10:00 next day start the second rise
• 11:30 turn on the oven with the cast iron pot in
• 12:00 bake the bread
• 13:00 you have ready, hot, baked bread!

work: 20′

time: 18h:00′

easy:

Spinach, Rocket Savory Cake

Savory Cake with the main ingredient of spinach and many other delicious ingredients to sidekick role for this cake. Most of the time it takes to make the cake is devoted to the preparation of its individual ingredients, because they are a lot, but each one contributes to its delicacy. It is otherwise very easy to make, a delicious slurry and inside all the other ingredients.
Spinach and rocket, as well as ginger, mozzarella, eggs, oil, milk, tomatoes, peppers and raisins.
On our table was accompanied with sweet potatoes in the oven baked together with the cake and a salad green.
Yours.

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

easy:

Melomakarona - Greek Christmas Honey Cookies

Melomakarona the Greek!
Melomakarona is a famous Greek delicacy to enjoy the Christmas season. They are made with flour, semolina, beer, olive oil and fresh butter from sheep and goat of unique flavor, stuffed with nut and dipped in syrup of honey, sugar and mandarin with extra grated nut with spices to sprinkle them on top.
Oriental spices, honey and citrus aromas to smell our homes during Christmas, this beautiful and hopeful celebration of Christianity!

Happy Christmas!
Happy Holidays!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Pockets with Yoghurt Dough

These cute cheese pies, with beautiful yoghurt dough, are done as easily as we can not imagine. The process is time-consuming but straightforward thanks to the yoghurt dough, which gives us supple, velvety, trouble-free management and good results dough.
These pies are great, even with various or different stuffings οn the table, buffet and healthy snacks at school and at work because even cold is still irresistible, delicious, crisp and very special. I usually almost always add turmeric to the stuffing, whatever it is. Add it to your diet, it's worth it!
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 3h:45′

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Fresh Cherry Pies

Cherry pies for two for a short, delicious dessert, with a fluffy puff pastry dough, with stevia or minimal sugar, with all the flavor of fresh juicy cherries and… that's all!
The weather in Greece in the middle of this June looks a bit "unreal", heavy, as rain, hurricanes, hail, sudden heavy showers and other, even more unpleasant, which is not of the present analysis.
If you're in a home that can provide the necessary, try to make these very simple cherry pies and enjoy with the least possible worries and positive sign.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 45′

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Traditional Milk Pie-Galatopita

A tasty, simple, economical and very easy dairy dessert.
A mixture of rich cream of vanilla pudding mix and semolina with milk, eggs and fresh butter floats the phyllo sheets. In this milk-pie the phyllo pastry sheets are first sprinkled on their own, sprinkled with sugar to obtain a crisp texture and to close the cream and cinnamon sugar. Next, pour the cream mix and re-bake the milk pie.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:20′

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Clementine Syrup Cake

Clementine syrup cake with tangerine-scented organic clementines, firm and very, very juicy. They give us plenty, sweet juice and zest of deep orange, with strong aromas of the essential oils. It is a syrupy fragrant and fluffy mandarin pie with pastry sheet crust not too thin, yogurt and semolina.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Cheese Pie with Cabanossi

Cabanossi, this excellent dried sausage, thin and elongated, similar to mild salami and with smoky aftertaste is favorite to all Southern & Eastern Europe from the Adriatic to the Baltic countries. Usually made with chopped pork and smoked meat and sometimes with the addition of a little beef. In Central Europe the Cabanossi, mostly, are consumed as snacks.
This cheese pie is made in the cake tin and gets a round pretty shape. The crust sheets are folded like a fan and close within them a dry mixture of cheese, semolina etc. When sliced becomes obscured the presence of the crust.
Guaranteed without exaggeration is perhaps one of the most delicious and impressive cheese pies, which we have proposed here from the Kitchen Stories. Keep the proportions of the ingredients and how to prepare and include it in your menu. You will not regret it. Deservedly stands in a festive menu, as it is perfectly cut and eaten even at room temperature.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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