Panna Cotta with Sweet Wine 2

Delicious Dessert with crème fraîche and white chocolate, drizzled with a syrup of sweet, sun-dried Vinsanto Santorini wine & golden grape.
Panna Cotta (in Italian means cooked cream) is an Italian dessert made from cream, milk and sugar, stirring with gelatin let them cool until thickened.
If you have tried this sweet and your experience was negative, try this suggestion and will definitely reconsider.
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work: 15′

time: 2h:15′

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Instant Pot Lemon Garlic Chicken

Today we are cooking delicious Lemon Chicken, braised with rosé wine (the same that will accompany our meal) in the Instant Pot. "All in one"!
The food is cooked in the juices of the accompanying vegetables, small carrots, potatoes, onion, garlic and basically without stirring. This way they come out of the cooker intact & presentable without disintegrating to be served on our table, so that we can enjoy a delicious and economical dish.
The Chicken is cooked perfectly and the potatoes are soft and delicious.

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work: 00h:30′

time: 1h:00′

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Osso Buco Veal Stew

Το Osso Buco is the ideal piece of Veal Shank for a well-cooked Stew but also for the perfect Beef Soup. In fact, I recommend sautéing the Osso Buco in olive oil, so that it takes on color and flavor from each side, before it is cooked and accompanied along the way by selected vegetables and aromatic spices. Thus, an innocent Greek Stew can be deliciously hellish with its multi-layered, hidden deliciousness!
Some prefer to accompany this dish with Pappardelle, others with Oven-Fried Potatoes, Barley, Risotto, Polenta. This time we enjoyed it with a super extra Mashed Potatoes!
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work: 00:45′

time: 2h:15′

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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.
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Happy New Year 2019!

Happy New Year 2019!

Health, Love, Happiness to Everyone!

Zambia Sifaki

Pork Chunks in Red Wine

Small pieces of pork shoulder or neck is an economical and flexible piece of meat when cooked gives a tasty dish extraordinarily. Cut pieces of meat have the ability to absorb the strong flavors of red wine, aromatic spices, and grain mustard flavor as they are cooked.
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work: 15′

time: 1h:00′

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Pan-fried Pork with Leek (Prasotigania)

Juicy pork pan, white wine and flavored with coriander and rosemary. It is accompanied & blended perfectly with golden fries and not only.
The top of this dish in addition to the fragrances that emerge is its sauce for many dives with homemade bread, made of our hands!
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work: 15′

time: 45′

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Peach Compote & Jelly

This year our peach production was small. Some of these we enjoyed fresh and cool and some were made compote to keep them as long as we can and have them for various pastry preparations I had in my mind.
Basically the story behind this compote recipe was to make an ethereal blancmange (from the French blanc-manger). In retrospect, I realized the huge range of sweets, where we can use our hot or cold compotes. From the simplest dessert, such as on a velvety cream or yogurt, to something more complex, such as on or inside a fridge cake.
Today's suggestion is peach compote and jelly. Once the fruits have been prepared and made compote to become jelly it was the simplest dessert we could make and enjoy.
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work: 10′

time: 15′

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Strawberry Spoon Sweet with Sangria

Strawberries are a very delicious fruit and, of course, as it has often been said here, it is not needed to cook for a long time, it do not benefit in any way and ends up having a rather useless dish. The long-term preparations make it lose some good nutrition and have a lot of time sprinkled with a lot of sugar, it's dehydrated because sugar acts as a catalyst for its dehydration and ends the strawberry dry without juice and taste.
Today we recommend short procedures with a reduced amount of sugar for a 10-minute Spoon Strawberry Sweet. Limit time for this sweet, which is flavored with cloves, honey and sweet Sangria wine.
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work: 5′

time: 10′

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Octopus with Balsamic & Raisins

Octopus with special flavors, with a little surprise on the palate when it encounters the black currants. Adding them together with the balsamic to give rich sweet and sour taste, a unique velvety flavor to octopus and light tones of sweetness, enhancing the texture of caramel aftertaste. Do not miss!
Balsamic Vinegar contains substances with a strong antioxidant effect, and is 4 times more antioxidants from fruits and vegetables! It is a natural product without additional sweeteners, preservatives and colors. It is ideal ingredient in recipes with meat or fish, fruits, cheeses, pasta, ice cream, in marinades and salads with raw or cooked vegetables. We combine it with pure virgin olive oil.
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work: 15′

time: 50′

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Christmas Chicken with Minced Meat Stuffing

A stuffing recipe for Christmas chicken or turkey with traditional stuffing of minced meat, not with livers, roasted pine nuts, black currants, sweet chestnuts and unique spices. An excellent stuffed chicken can be the main dish on the Christmas Table. It is recommended especially for those who do not prefer the turkey on size and taste.
Your kitchen will smell of Christmas aromas of spices, as it is baked in the oven. This roast stuffed chicken will indulge your palate!
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Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas!

work: 1h:00′

time: 3h:30′

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Pork Ragù with Pasta & Bechamel Sauce

In Italian cuisine, the ragout (ragù) is a sauce with meat, usually served with pasta and created by Alberto Alvisi in the 18th century.
The common feature of ragù recipes is the presence of minced meat and that together the components become a sauce for pasta. The most famous dish is stew ragù alla bolognese.
Leaving pork slowly cooked in tomato sauce builds a deep and rich flavor. Usually served upon Pappardelle, but with my choice and the tendency to create something new / different always based on the original recipe, pasta incorporated in ragout sauce and then covered with a thick sauce semolina, that went golden brown in the oven and became a new dish, very tasty.
Of course it is needless to emphasize that it is infinitely tastier than the classic pastitsio…
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Tas Kebab with Beef

Tas Kebab is a traditional dish of Constantinople, with Arabic roots and came up to us from the Greek refugees from Constantinople and Asia Minor to become favorite traditional food of the Sunday festive table, with all the family pooled around him.
Tas Kebab of Constantinople is a cooked meal of veal cut into pieces, which is cooked with olive oil and a little butter in a rich, thick tomato sauce, flavored with spices. Is cooked until it thickens and create around it a juicy sauce and delicious honeyed!
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Grape Molasses Pudding with Sweet Red Wine-Moustalevria

Molasses is a thick syrup, which is made by boiling the grape must. Kept unchanged for a long time and with this we make various sweet dishes, jelly, must cookies etc. It can also be added as a unique addition to grilled on the oven to salads and other sweets.
The Moustalevria is a simple dessert that comes from our ancient past to sweeten our present. Added Mavrodafne for exhilarating touch and taste intensity.

It's a traditional Greek pastry, whose main ingredient is the grape must. Its roots date back jelly in ancient times where it was known as oinouta a name that survived into the Byzantine period along with other names such as moustopita and pastellos. In Crete, referred to as kefteria, in Samos as Kourkouta or treat the vintage while in Cyprus Palouzes. Ancient sweet, which enjoyed not only by Dionysus, but also by ordinary people. Moreover how could it be otherwise, when around the numerous vineyards cried the voices of the harvesters and presses the grapes become must and mutate into wine and its derivatives.
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work: 10′

time: 10′

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Octopus with Colorful Peppers

Honeyed octopus, this delicious seafood, cooked with colorful peppers and finished with white wine, white balsamic vinegar and aromatic vinegar from red wine. The fasting days before Easter, not only do it highly sought after and raise the price accordingly. We find it in fresh or frozen market, you get what you like and make it as a snack or main dish with the current proposal.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

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Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce

Meatballs in Red Wine Sauce Meatballs favorite! Red wine sauce, beautiful aromas, divine taste, and various combinations. I think we need in today's introduction to confine to fewer descriptions and let you decide what description fits better and if you will make it and enjoy it!
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Pork Tenderloin with Mushroom Sauce

Pork Tenderloin or Filet mignon in French, that this way characterize almost always pork fillet.
A delicious, juicy and soft piece of meat, fried over high heat for a short while in order to protect itself and to keep all the juicy tastiness. Here combined with sagnarelli pasta, soaked by a porcini mushroom sauce in melted cheese & yoghurt.
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work: 10′

time: 30′

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Vin D'Orange-DIY

Vin D'Orange, or Orange Wine is a delicious, very aromatic and perfectly balanced spirit drink. The aromas of spices and the freshness of citrus blend with the vividness of wine, create an excellent drink with delicious tension.
The slightly bitter & hypoxic flavors of some fruits balance with the sweet notes of others, but also with that of sugar and of vermouth. The palate detects, through a total of tastes, one by one the perfume ingredients. The tartness of the bitter orange, the flavor of vanilla and cinnamon, the intensity of alcohol and the light tones of sweetness…
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work: 20′

time: 2 weeks

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Chilli con Carne

Chili con Carne (Hot Peppers with meat) are among the most famous, typical dishes of Tex-Mex (Texan and Mexican) cuisine. There are infinite variations on the basic recipe of this dish, which has its roots in Mexican cuisine and was the dish of the poor Mexican population. For sure it contains meat, hot peppers and spices. The rest -red beans, tomatoes etc.-, probably added in the course of transition in every continent.
It is intensely spicy to very spicy and what you need for this season of the year and for lovers of very spicy flavors. In our house we have one of those lovers and this dish is his favorite. So the more spicy the better. You moderate a little bit the hot doses of ingredients and enjoy it completely plain or on boiled rice, yogurt, mashed or baked potatoes, sprinkled with grated cheddar cheese and tortilla chips or wrapped in tortillas with a little corn and lettuce leaves. Consumed with zest as it is!
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work: 45′

time: 12h:00′

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Mulled Wine

Aromatic mulled wine with European origin.
Hot Wine, Mulled Wine or Glühwein, as it is called in German-speaking countries. It is a traditional drink which warms people for centuries and is offered during Christmas or Carnival. The Mulled Wine is a very popular traditional drink in the UK for Christmas, and less often during the winter.
Typically made with red wine, cider, and many spices. It is a delicious drink for cold winter evenings and very suitable for friends and family gatherings on festive winter days.
Cheers!

work: 10′

time: 30′

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