Chicken Fillet with Mushrooms

Boneless chicken leg fillets without skin in red sauce. They are delicious, accompanied by mushrooms, carrots, green peppers and black or green olives. They are flavored with white wine and spices, such as Star Anise, cinnamon, cloves and peppercorns. Its final taste is reminiscent of a stew!
They are easy to cook and you can combine them with noodles, Rice, "Fried" Potatoes or Sesame, but even without them it's a complete dish.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Pear Tarte Tatin

This is one of my favorites autumnal desserts. With a puff pastry sheet and a few nice fruits we have in a short time a delicious & aromatic caramel dessert.
Tarte Tatin is traditionally made with apples without excluding the other fruits if we want to get away from the mundane. A Tart with rounded, whole caramel pears, flavored with 9 spices is a super-tasting, smell-like suggestion. The puff pastry leaf is impregnated with the flavored caramel and becomes crisp and delicious.
If you it want to become even more fancy, accompany it with ice cream but you should know that the Anglo-Saxons combine it with the simple classic cream and it is extremely good and has the virtue of simplicity. We added extra roasted & grated almond and enjoyed it pleasantly.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:20′

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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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Orange Spoon Sweet

A jar with precious gold, tightly closed with the colors of the sun of Greece, filled with syrupy orange peel in spoon sweet!
Eat a couple of rolls with plain cold water as the accompanying rice pudding, yogurt or a simple vanilla cream for a delicious dessert.
As a child I always wanted to watch my mother cooking in the kitchen. Fascinating creations, performed magical influence on my imagination, drunk by aromas of spices and entranced by the transformation of ingredients into artwork. I loved that he called "little assistant" and always had something to instruct me, that I with excess care and pride handled … serious role of sous chef! Of course I was doubly happy when she made what was dessert, Sweet Preserves Orange in rolls! (What a sweet word…)
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work: 2h:00′

time: 3 days

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Baked Pears In Spiced Pomegranate Syrup

Whenever preparing large holiday meals we make 2-3 desserts for the occasion (certainly some of them are with chocolate for the black goddess worshipers) are preparing something seasonal and light, like a fruit salad.
Here we propose a great solution for an ideal and light dessert will like. Baked pears in ruby pomegranate syrup are beautiful and festive! It is much more tempting than a typical fruit salad… If you need a companion I would suggest little Greek yogurt, bathed with grenadine and nothing else.
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work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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Pickled Octopus

Octopus!
The King of Meze in the Greek Summer and Lenten Days, with accompanying ouzo par excellence!
Here it was prepared to be pickled, to be closed in our most transparent jars and to be able to enjoy it as a precious meze whenever we want!

Octopus boiled and flavored in a Court-bouillon, meaning «short broth». This is an intensely flavored vegetable broth, spices and aromatic herbs (bouquet garni) and which contain an acidic ingredient such as vinegar, wine or lemon juice. Court-bouillon is usually for poaching, need not be elaborate, used for the preparation of crustaceans (lobster) and other seafood and is very simple, because the broth is not generally served as part of the end plate.
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work: 20′

time: 40′

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Vasilopita the Greek New Year's Cake 2016

Brandy flavors, star anise, cloves, roasted almond, chocolate, Chios Mastic, essential oils of orange and velvety sweet chestnut cream emerge from this Vasilopita-St. Nicholas Cake and place it in another dimension. With the first bite an incredible blend of flavors and aromas explodes on the palate and the apotheosis of enjoyment is assured.
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Happy New Year 2016!

work: 1h:45′

time: 2h:45′

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Sweet Semolina Halva with Honey

An aromatic semolina halva so apropos due to fasting and specific, due to the addition of honey.
The honey gives the halva a more soft sweetness compared with sugar, and so it becomes -let's say- somewhat more healthy. The orange gives it extra wonderful aroma. All the rest do the spices. Lots of cinnamon, asteroid anise and cloves. Do not forget the crushed hazelnuts on top that blends perfectly with halva. Try this lenten dessert and I'm sure you will enjoy it!
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Sesame Seed Cookies

Cookies fluffy on the inside but crispy outside, sprinkled with white and black sesame seeds for a sweet bite that will accompany the hot beverage of choice, but also plain not inferior in any way, they are equally delicious.
The asteroid anise gives them a light fragrance and very discriminating taste. The sugar they contain is little, so just enough to be distinguishable in our palate.
They are particularly light, made easily, quickly, with straightforward procedures without a mixer, and above all we enjoy a delicious, healthy, and without preservatives or other additives cookie, made by us for our loved ones, young or old. Try them, they will be amazing.
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work: 20′

time: 40′

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Prickly Pear Liqueur

Beautiful, bright, clear orange color for this, no ordinary liquor, prickly pear liqueur. A quite rare liqueur, since there are few "brave", which will deal with the Prickly Pears.
Prickly pears found in nature and can be cut with great care, but there are in supermarkets packaged in transparent packages whose spines have been removed, and is the safest and easiest way to treat and remove their peel.
Cheers!

work: 30′

time: 5 ημέρες

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Kernels Cherry Liqueur

Fragrant liqueur, amber clear color and light scent of bitter almonds and cherries. Drinking, either as an aperitif or as a digestif is sure to leave you with very good impressions. A liqueur that gladdens the eye and the palate.
The process is simple. Put the kernels of cherries in alcohol and wait a few days. Time will work in favor of its creation.
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work: 20′

time: 4 weeks

very easy:

Wild Saffron Bagels

Yellow Bagels from the island of Astypalaia, Greece. Ιs an Aegean island with 1,334 inhabitants. These homemade Bagels are made with saffron, yogurt, honey and condiments, fluffy and rusky. With these ingredients we make a gentle oily dough and form it into perfectly round bagels or small biscuits. They turn golden and delicious. Eaten pleasantly, accompanying a variety of cheeses and as snacks at all hours.
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work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnamon rolls with sweet stuffing, yellow pumpkin, flavored with anise and orange zest. The crushed walnuts and orange glaze intensify their flavor and enjoyment is given.
Flavored breakfast with a very special and tasty proposal will leave many untouched.
Your Own!

work: 30′

time: 1h:10′

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Chicken Pie with Avocado

Avocados are usually eaten raw in salads, in sauces together with other ingredients or in guacamole, a Mexican dip.
This proposal is to be the second main ingredient in a delicious chicken pie.
The creamy and buttery flesh of the avocado blends beautifully with chicken, bacon, and with the remaining ingredients of the recipe.
The dough with cilantro and star anise give it excellent flavor and taste.
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work: 45′

time: 2h:45′

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Tarte Tatin

Tarte Tatin with crisp, delicious apples, so that we can attribute to this tart the corresponding dimensions of the urban legend of the sisters Stéphanie and Caroline Tatin, who legend gave birth to her, surrounds her, and wants her with apples. It also made by bananas, pears and quinces.
Caramelized apples, then, in butter and sugar, covered with a fluffy sheet of puff pastry. So simple, so delicious and so unique!
What makes it special is the very intense aroma that the Star Anise gives it!!

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work: 40′

time: 1h:10′

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Sweet Bread with Apricots

Sunday morning, mind and body need pampering and relaxation, without the daily stress who make our lives complicated…
If you wish to organize a delightful, delicious, yet hearty Sunday breakfast where you will enjoy with your family, I would recommend that you accompany it with a… sweet bread, a little different!
Sweet bread with the addition of dried apricots, walnuts and orange. Star anise gives it flavor and aroma, and makes it special!

work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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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′

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Greek Semolina Cake

Classic traditional dessert of Greek cuisine, which is done by simple means and without using the oven.
Coarse semolina, sugar, dried fruits and ouzo! Sprinkled with the characteristic aroma of cinnamon.
Many of us love this dessert, because it is simple to make, and with a few readily available ingredients, we enjoy a very tasty dessert.

work: 30′

time: 30′

easy: 2/5

Oven Baked Quinces

Quinces baked in the oven, with sweet wine, aromatic spices like cinnamon and star anise.
Very tasty, very fragrant! What is fascinating about this delicacy, apart from the smell, is its color. Grilled quinces have a bright red-orange shade like purple sunrise. You have to make them just for the color. The trouble is zero and the time just 15'. Just to cut them in 4, sprinkle with red sweet wine and put them in the oven.
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work: 00h:15′

time: 01h:15′

very easy: 1/5