Poppy Seeds Sticks

Who does not prefer the easy and fast to prepare food, especially those who are employees, students but novices in the kitchen or just in a hurry.
Tasty and bicolor -sesame & poppy seeds- pastry sticks, which in addition to enjoying them, may be combined with a multitude of accompaniments and spice, with their presence, even more what we want to accompany. From the simplest combination, like cheese and tomato until multi tasty dips or sauces and of course at the center of a buffet with finger food.
Your own inspirations!

work: 10′

time: 30′

very easy:

Petit Fours with Glaze

Petit Fours or small cakes, filled with jam and aromatic cocoa glaze!
A delicious, juicy and flat cake, which will not crumble, is the appropriate basis to make these little sweets almost a mouthful, after having to cut into small cubes, to cut again the cubes for filling with jam. Process as simple game.
The cocoa glaze is easy and even though it does not have the taste of chocolate tones, but equally captivating in my opinion, it has the cocoa flavor, that chocolate is a bit more "grumpy" in preparation and its use in relation to cocoa.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

medium:

Eggplant & Meat Pie

Pies are a relatively easy, tasty, hearty and… and ultimately have only positive signs to adjectives and our palate.
One more pie therefore eggplant pie this time, with whole chunks of eggplant, fried and mixed with delicious minced beef, finished with cognac. The cream béchamel, is added to give the taste intensity and consistency.
The choice of adding the dry cottage cheese is to highlight the flavors of the cake with the saltiness and authenticity of a simple, traditional but delicious cheese. Taken together, wrapped in phyllo pastry and the final reason is the oven where the cake comes to complete the whole process.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:50′

medium:

The recipe

Eggplant & Meat Pie

can be found in the book «Μεζέδες».

Turmeric Garlic Dip

It's tradition in Greece at March 25 and October 28 to consume as a nation a delicious meal of Greek cuisine. This is the salted cod and of course the necessary accompaniment, the garlic sauce.
Today reversing the usual order of rotation of posts to the blog, which require a dessert I propose Garlic with Turmeric. The turmeric gives the garlic a nice and bright yellow color. Taste is great, a healthy choice and velvety texture. If your taste habits contains the garlic sauce then make it with the way I propose.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Pizza Dough-Easy Pizza

Pizza dough is easy and unique, and the preparation of it is required only two ingredients, which are worshiped for convenience but also for taste. Two, yes only two components, neither of which is water. Just flour and yogurt!
Circulated widely in international, online, culinary events and everyone is talking about a small miracle.
I test it, enjoyed it and present it to you. At the end I added a few more of rocket leaves, so as to remind us of the colors of the "Tricolore", the Italian flag -as tend Italians to call- and mentally to travel at the home origin. Starting from there, this unique flat bread, which with a little tomato sauce and a little cheese, made an international career!
Yours.

work: 10′

time: 20′

very easy:

Fish Fillet & Leek Gratin

Fish fillet combined with leeks, bathed in a tasty mustard cream and sprinkled with grated cheese and crumbs of sesame bun, which give the dish tasty and crunchy crust.
An inexpensive, tasty meal, a different option in order to enjoy the, usually flat taste, fish fillet.
Served with a green salad, boiled greens and of course with a dry white wine.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 40′

easy:

Pineapple Upside-Down Mini-Cakes

A variant of the classic pineapple upside-down cake adapted to small, cute cupcakes.
Caramel mini cupcakes with pineapple flavor, for individual enjoyment. They are delicious, have absorbed the caramel inside and have perfect taste.
The coating with a golden pineapple washer, make them a beautiful sight. To the cake mixture add crushed pineapple and they have silky softness and the necessary humidity.
Enjoy them with a scoop of ice cream bathed with extra candy depending on the season.
Yours!

work: 45′

time: 1h:10′

medium:

Shrimp Bow Tie Pasta

Farfalle (butterflies) or Bow-tie are alternative names for the pasta, with beautiful bow shape. Dated from the 16th century in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy.
Bows, therefore, accompanied by wispy shrimp, chopped green onion, chives, coriander, chilli and lime and Peach!
I think this dish is perhaps the tastiest and most aromatic of pasta dishes, that I have at times suggested from the pages of Kitchen Stories. Seductive aromas and tantalizing smells emerge and gives pungent taste superiority.
If the ingredients and the composition convinced you, make it and enjoy it with a cold, dry, white wine.
Yours!

work: 10′

time: 20′

easy:

Coconut Carrot Cake

Carrot cake without flour, and by extension Gluten Free for those who follow a gluten-free diet, have an intolerance to it, or do not wish to consume cereal.
Beyond this, the cake is very rich in ingredients and very tasty. The coconut flour substitute perfectly normal flour and is very tasty. The addition of cream cheese comes to further intensify the flavor.
Yours!

work: 25′

time: 1h:00′

easy:

Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce, classic, delicious and for varied uses, flavored with oregano and basil. An easy sauce that accompanies perfectly meat and vegetable dishes. But also pizzas, bruschetta, sandwiches and of course pasta, any kind of pasta, where it takes off with its presence the flavor of the dish.
Tomatoes are rich in flavor, have high liquid content, have very soft flesh which breaks down quickly, and are a suitable composition to thicken in the sauce when cooked. All these properties make it ideal for a simple and attractive sauce.
Auguste Escoffier ranks it among the five basic sauces (mother sauces) of French Cuisine with:

• Béchamel
• Spanish Sauce
• Velvet
• Dutch sauce

work: 15′

time: 45′

easy: