Candied Hazelnuts Torte

Fridge torte with hazelnut praline, cherry preserve and roasted & caramelised hazelnuts. Successive ladyfinger layers and whipped cream with different flavors each.
The process is not difficult, there are merely several parallel preparations and seems complicated. Do not hesitate to try a delicious layered torte.
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work: 2h:30′

time: 6h:30′

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Traditional Irish Soda Bread

A loaf of Irish soda bread is a traditional bread, prepared with an old technique, to get half an hour of a very tasty fluffy, and simple processes bread at our table, ready to be eaten warm, with lots of crumbs but quite crunchy crust.
The Kitchen Stories continue to create and pass in your own kitchen wonderful culinary sorcery. Follow these simple steps and make delicious hearty bread in half a shake!
Flour, buttermilk, baking soda and spices, which will wonderfully flavor it.
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work: 5′

time: 30′

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Chocolate Chestnut Torte

A Chestnut Cake with Chocolate was not to live a happy, long life. Those who are addicted to chocolate already know this little story and have an edge over others who are not lovers of the black goddess. Then they are living their great time of Chocolate pleasure, as they will have all their own.
To make this cake we need delicious chestnuts, which will replace the flour and chocolate, lots of chocolate. The step by step process follows and is…
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Quesadillas Mushrooms

The Mexican Quesadilla is an easy appetizer and main course. With ready made tortillas wheat or corn you can create many different combinations that will always be pleasantly tasty treat for our palate.
Replacing the classic chicken with mushrooms -for more vegetarian version- our own production, we made and we tested these spicy quesadillas that the "Kitchen Stories" suggest today.
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work: 30′

time: 45′

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Custard Filled Pastry Rolls-Galaktoboureko

A Festive Galaktoboureko! Instead of putting phyllo and cream to the pan in the traditional way, we make them rolls -individual portions- for easy and beautiful effect in serving. It can easily be the closing of a cheerful, festive meal with friends, offering them sweet rolls.
The Galaktoboureko -milk pie- with the delicious Pastry Cream and the syrupy Pastry Sheet has, almost everywhere, only friends, if you belong to them, make the Galaktoboureko in rolls, for even greater enjoyment.
The Crust -Phyllo Pastry Sheets- embraces the cream, absorbs the lemony syrup, and remains crisp and just the right amount of syrup, thus creating a pleasant contrasting texture to its creamy interior.
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work: 40′

time: 1h:15′

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Feta Cheese Breadsticks

These Breadsticks are so delicious, they strongly resemble the famous bagels of the city of Thessaloniki. They are easy to make, incorporating butter, milk and Greek feta into the dough. Perfect shape and size for "Little Hands"!
The coriander fragrance breadsticks with its own special fragrance. Shape into sticks and finish. We can try another combination of flavors depending on our inspiration.
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work: 30′

time: 1h:30′

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Mini Doughnuts

Cute, tasty, tiny, fluffy and compelling for our little friends and not only. Filled with fragrant homemade jam become like a mouthful dougnut!
They have not a lot, bready taste like large donuts even though more … consumable! The cream in the dough and the stuffing with jam of your choice makes them tempting. Eaten lukewarm but after that they were fine.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Cheesy Baked Eggplant

Eggplant slices dip into breadcrumbs and baked in the oven, with delicious homemade tomato sauce and many cheeses. In individual ramekins, which is very practical and beautiful on the table when served in each separately. A vegetarian and hearty main dish.
Prepared in only an hour, thanks to some shortcuts. The eggplant slices, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs, then baked instead of fried and placed in layers with tomato sauce, mozzarella and gruyere.
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work: 25′

time: 1h:00′

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Travel to China

你好! Nǐ hǎo! Hello!
The much talked about, trip to China was a lifelong dream and became a family affair to get it to be realized. Discussed months ago, decided, planned, initiated and completed in October of '15. Preparations for this trip were quite lengthy, as had become a series of procedures not only bureaucratic forms, passport, visa, etc., and timing, tour desk, problem details, selection of cities and interesting, the most important tourist destinations, as though programming vaccines etc…
We traveled to five Chinese cities using planes, high speed trains (300 km/h) and Maglev Train (magnetic train with a speed of 430 km/h and the distance of 30 km from the city of Shanghai to the airport covered just 8') and ship. It was more concentrated in terms of journey trips, we had ever done. The posture and movement alterations were short and dense between them, and the vast distances and the images and information bombing.
We discovered places of incredible beauty and unique presence, tasted authentic Chinese Cuisine, we walked for hours, soaking up the secrets of the Imperial Forbidden City, we admired the size of the vanity of the Emperor and the Terracotta Army, climbed to all yellow rice fields, along with the long-suffering local population, and wondered upon the ramparts of oversized Great Wall. We crossed sailing 83 km along the reaches of the beautiful Li River, a gallery of nature. We saw fishermen to fish using trained cormorants, we bike ride on a fortification wall 700 years (Ming Dynasty in 1370), we enjoyed our evenings beautifully lit banks of lakes and tastefully designed parks, the sound of Chinese music in clean cities. Mixed in with a bustling crowd, were guided by lovely gardens with old trees, sacred pagodas, world heritage sites, museums, markets, we felt the Economic "Heart" of China beating at a rapid pace and more. We have seen the history passing before us the best moments of the human species but "heard" the moan of all those that struggled to make all.
Today I present only part of the culinary, diverse and multiethnic Chinese Kitchen without words and without the special tasty choices of some Chinese, which are far from ours and may cause feelings of aversion.

Muesli Apple Cake

In «Kitchen Stories» often posted, and by extension have an important role in our choices of food, the cakes, with the addition of various ingredients in the mixture, such as nuts and seeds or dried, but also fresh fruit. The list is long and can be found on page Recipes under the title «Pound Cakes».
The current proposal of this delicious cake mixture containing apples and muesli with oat flakes and other grains and certainly, dried fruits and nuts. An energy bomb and taste to accompany tea, coffee, milk or chocolate beverage of your choice.
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work: 10′

time: 45′

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