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.

Yours!

work: 00h:30′

time: 1h:00′

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Lamb with Stamnagathi (spiny chicory) & Egg Lemon Sauce

A traditional dish of Cretan Cuisine and particularly of Chania, where its main ingredient grows wild in nature, and which is now cultivated, Stamnagathi (spiny chicory)!
A simple and delicious combination of vegetables and meat. It is the healthiest version of consuming meat (Arnaki Fricassee).
Stamnagathi is one of the few vegetables that is equally enjoyable to eat raw, boiled or cooked.
It is best known from the coastal and mountainous areas of Crete where it grows wild, although in recent years it has been cultivated extensively in several areas of Chania.
We also find it wild in Central Greece, the Peloponnese and the Cyclades, even in Malta!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Lemony Cream Cake!

This creamy Cake/Layered Cake, which is wonderfully fluffy and musky scented lemon, filled with traditional goat yogurt combined with Katiki Domokou (ricotta), gave us pleasant tasting -but also festive- moments.
The lemony cream inside, with intense acidic tones, is sandwiched between 2 layers of crumbly dough mixture, which makes it very special and wonderfully delicious. The almond fillet enhances its taste and appearance. It is barely sweet because this is our choice, so we accompany it with a sweet red wine.
We liked it doubly because we had in mind to enjoy it during the holidays and so we named it "Birthday Cake" in honor of the birthday person...
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

easy:

Tart with Lemon Cream & Blueberries

The Blueberry is a «source of eternal youth» because it prevents the formation of free radicals responsible for skin aging. Many studies show that Blueberries have the highest antioxidant activity than other fruits, offering protection from the "oxidative" attack that the body receives due to aging, infections and exposure to aggravating environmental & nutritional factors, such as cigarette smoke, atmospheric pollutants, toxins, carcinogenic compounds, etc.
In this Sweet Tart the fresh Blueberries were combined with the aroma of lemon and the sheet of crust, was folded in the shape of an accordion, where inside the folded sheets nested a simple cream with eggs & cream well beaten.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:15′

easy:

Lemony Cream Cake!

This creamy Cake/Layered Cake, which is wonderfully fluffy and musky scented lemon, filled with traditional goat yogurt combined with Katiki Domokou, gave us pleasant tasting - but also festive - moments.
The lemony cream inside, with intense acidic tones, is sandwiched between 2 layers of crumbly dough mixture, which makes it very special and wonderfully delicious. The almond fillet enhances its taste and appearance. It is barely sweet because this is our choice, so we accompany it with a sweet red wine.
We liked it doubly because we had in mind to enjoy it during the holidays and so we named it "Birthday Cake" in honor of the birthday person...
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

easy:

Rice Meatball Soup

A soup that we can enjoy with great pleasure and soothe, warm and satiate a stubborn stomach from the first spoon. A wonderful, warm, rich soup with rice meatball & some vegetables.
This soup, with the unique Greek egg-lemon sauce, is so delicious that it is superior to the other colored versions.
If your tastes and culinary moods coincide with ours, try it!
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work: 00h:30′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Lemon-Flavored Yogurt Jelly

Refrigerating dessert with Greek natural yogurt, lemon jelly & cookies stuffed with lemon flavor. 5 hours later we enjoy a healthy low-calorie lemony yogurt. A delicious dessert like this, made by all moms, with cookies of different flavors, rusks, savoiardi-biscuits or any kind of seasonal fruit or jams . Here with crispy filled cookies on the base and crumbled on top and a nice velvety cream with lemon zest & yogurt jelly.
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work: 20′

time: 5h:30′

very easy:

Lemon Cake with Spoon Sweet

Juicy and particularly fluffy, slightly sweet, with intense flavors of lemon and yogurt. The sour cherry spoon sweet came into the cake but also adorned it externally, placing it around the top like a crown of precious gems.
If traditional Greek spoon sweets are so popular that your cabinets and kitchen cabinets overflow, it's time to put them in cakes or other sweet treats so you can enjoy them in another dimension - in the role of a coworker rather than a protagonist - and at the same time create room in the cellar for your next sweet or savory creations in beautiful jars…

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work: 15′

time: 1h:10′

very easy:

Fresh Lemon Syrup

Whether you find standard lemons from the market or the supermarket or -even better- from your own organically grown lemon trees, take their juice and do not throw away the lemon shells but make this raw, fresh lemon syrup for many uses.
You fill a transparent glass bottle with this syrup, made of nothing but sugar dissolved in the acidic lemon pulp and no boiling is required! Since there is no extra juice, it tastes somewhat sweeter than sour but is balanced by the fine bitterness of lemon.
The lemon shells are acidic enough to dissolve up to half their weight in sugar, giving the syrup a strong flavor and vivid color without any additional juice, flavor or dye.
Use it in various dishes in your kitchen from a simple liqueur with ice cubes and soda, your favorite cocktails to cakes or where else you want to give strong lemonade flavor to your preparations.
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work: 10′

time: 3h:00′

very easy:

Greek Cabbage Pie with Yogurt Sauce

Do we like Cabbage Rolls but we do not have time to wrap them one by one? We prepare quickly and easily a cabbage pie, which is just as delicious but easier and more impressive.
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work: 45′

time: 2h:15′

easy:

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

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Pork Roast in Beer

It is a main dish full of flavor. Bavarian origin and the stars of the show are two of Germany's favorite ingredients: pork and splendid beer!
The ingredients for this delicious roast are a few: pork, olive oil, rosemary, garlic, spices and - the magic element - beer.
The meat is marinated in a bottle of beer, orange juice, lemon & in seasonings, then placed in a hot oven, covered as in a hull, for ~2 hours to be cooked and browned roast and the accompaniment the potatoes. Approximately two hours after, you have the most juicy interior and crisp outside tasty Sunday meal you can imagine. The meat melts with the touch of a fork and in combination with the crisp potatoes they offer wonderful tasting moments.
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work: 30′

time: 3h:00′

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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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Chicken Stuffed with Rice, Smoked Cheese & Dried Plums

The top of this stuffing of Christmas chicken or turkey, if you prefer, is smoked cheese, dried plums and freshly melted butter, which is usually used in our traditional kourabie. An extra flavor in the rice filling the chopped bacon but other secrets yet for a really festive meal.
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Happy Holidays

work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

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Smoked Salmon Sandwich

Small smoked salmon sandwiches with cream cheese spread, flavored with fresh chopped dill & fresh or dried chives, on fluffy toast bread.
Easy and fast finger food for the Christmas festive buffet, the festive days that we all need to feel the magic of the moment, the warmth of the family table and homemade care.
Sometimes small and short meals, with easy preparation, give us wonderful, relaxing moments of joy.
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work: 15′

time: 15′

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Lemon-Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls

Super fluffy soft croissants, filled with velvety and very lemony cream cheese, soft and a little sweet. They are laced with a mixture of sugar and lemon juice for even more intense flavor. In every bite a pronounced citrus flavor erupts in the palate.
I think this quick dessert will give a little joy to our Sunday's relaxed breakfast which can be evolved or combined with other delicacies for a perfect Brunch.
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work: 12′

time: 25′

very easy:

Savoiardi Biscuits, Mahallebi & Jam Dessert

Light cool dessert. It is made so easily and gives pleasure with few calories. Share it generously, it costs very little and is done in very little time. The fragrant and light Mahallebi cream is the predominant flavor.
This sweet is a tender memory of Mom's preparations and it has always been served on her own mom's vintage saucers. Three generations coexist over a simple yet so beloved refrigerator sweet.
The blue representations on the white of the dishes, with a romantic figure of two lovers in front of a beautiful house in the countryside, magnify my gaze perhaps more than that sweet!
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work: 10′

time: 4h:00′

very easy:

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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Broad Βeans & Blites Salad

We are going through a limp week, between an undecided spring and a summer that does not seem to have made a decision to settle. So adjusting our mood to the «big question of life»!?!: what do we eat today, we cook broad beans. A legume rather despised now and some may not even know of the existence of.
Broad Beans are eaten fresh with artichokes, peas, etc. But dry, boiled as a salad or liquor, here our case. Onions, fresh tomato, bay leaves and oregano make this dish scream out of enthusiasm. They are accompanied and eaten with a salad blitum, feta, olives and barley rusk.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 12h:00′

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Lemon Bundt Cake

Cake is one of the most favorite desserts. They are eaten at all times and are an ideal companion for our beverages. Without being particularly demanding in their preparation, they solve the hands of mums for a healthy snack of children and big ones.
The Lemon Cake of today's proposal is a cake with a juicy liquid texture and particularly delicious thanks to the sweetness and aroma of lemons. It is also a solid cake with a dense mass and therefore very filling.
Served with a glaze cream and lemon zest or simply dusted with icing sugar.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:20′

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