Yellow Split Pea with Fennel

The delicious fava comes from the Split peas. They are an agricultural or culinary preparation consisting of the dried, peeled and split seeds of Pisum sativum but quite sidelined compared with other legumes of Greek Kitchen.
In a proverbial expressions find and this relative to beans: When something suspicious happens in a case, we say that "fava has a pit". This one does not, except in the habit of adding a little olive oil in the center by opening a small puddle.
You boil it plain with a little onion and aromatic fennel and serve mashed, lukewarm or cold, garnished with olive oil, olives, dry onion and sprinkled with chopped dill. Combined with tasty onion pies.
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work: 10′

time: 40′

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Bread Pudding Leche Flan

Strong caramel flavors for this new proposal Bread Pudding Leche Flan (Crème Caramel-Leche Flan), as we have become accustomed to call.
A Caramel Cream with Brazilian roots, with toast bread (or stale easter brioche bread) baked in the oven in a bain- marie until thick cream and gain caramel beautiful color on the surface. It is soft in texture, like all creams, with slight caramel aromas and colors. A mild sweetness whipped cream to serve it more elegantly, flavors and beautifies it.
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work: 20′

time: 2h:30′

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Stuffed Zucchini with Egg & Lemon Sauce (Avgolemono)

Irresistible, delicious and easily prepared. We purchase zucchini round, like balls (the classic too is a joy for this dish) to open, remove the pith and fill them with a delicious and aromatic minced meat. So simple and so fast.
The accompanying sauce, Avgolemono, this great Greek Sauce with the unique ability to thicken and give body to food together with the subtle, tangy flavor of lemon, is for most a necessary corollary of this dish.
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work: 45′

time: 1h:45′

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Chocolate Coconut Ganache Truffles

Kitchen Stories contain a respectable selection of truffles: With black or white chocolate with dried apricots, plums and spices, with cranberries, with nuts and dried fruit and many other ingredients.
This time we chose to recommend a raw food truffles recipe gluten free, with grated coconut, velvety cream and topped with a ganache of black, bitter chocolate with high cocoa content. It is very mild in sweetness and you can use stevia instead of sugar and any chocolate you prefer.
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work: 30′

time: 3h:30′

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Onion Patties-Kremmydokalitsouna of Chania

Onions and fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) and we have the ultimate snack for a lot of ouzo, raki, wine or beer.
A simple, traditional, local recipe of Chania, Crete for these delicious pies with only two ingredients. If we want more spicy, add a little paprika and chili and enjoy spicy, crunchy, fried onion pies with the incredible sweetness that give the onions. The fennel seasons them scented and gives extra flavor.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:00′

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Mini Banana Bread with Chocolate Glaze

Mini Cake/ banana breads with stevia, muesli, dried cranberries, melted chocolate glazing and decorated with fresh fruit.
Mini cupcakes, which are easily made without mixer and eaten pleasantly. If we want we can settle for a light dusting with powdered sugar or to go one step further and make it delicious mini tortes almost individual. Red fruits on the chocolate glaze or even fruit preserves from our jars will beautifully decorate these mini banana Breads.
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work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:00′

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Stuffed Vine Leaves with Minced Meat & Tomato

Stuffed vine leaves with minced veal, a lot of onion, grated tomato, mint and white wine.
If for this dish your dining experience begins and ends in canned stuffed vine leaves, will surely feel aversion or dislike. But when you give a second chance, making the stuffed yourself with the following detailed step-by-step instructions, you will definitely revise.
It is an excellent dish, delicious and filling. The pleasure of the palate and our stomach. It can be combined with a velvety egg-lemon sauce or tzatziki.
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work: 2h:30′

time: 3h:00′

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Brioche Pudding with Cranberries, Banana & Black Chocolate

Tart pudding of stale Greek Easter Βrioche/Τsoureki in updated form and taste.
If there are buns and chocolate eggs after Orthodox Easter, which no one in the family does not want to consume, you can make them a delicious dessert.
The banana, dried cranberries, and dark chocolate will be combined perfectly and show the value of their flavor within this pudding. Yours!
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work: 15′

time: 1h:15′

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Artichokes with Carrots

Classic recipe for this dish. Artichokes fresh, spring, with carrots, potatoes and lemon sauce. If you are a fan of fresh artichoke, I suggest you make this dish!
Older cooks from us, certainly they know it and cook it excellently. But there are newer, which would like to try to make it. It's a bit troublesome with regard to cleaning the vegetables and the artichoke, but it is a tasty and healthy food. The vegetables, sources of vitamins, minerals and fiber, are cooked easily and quickly and still remain juicy and delicious.
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work: 2h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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CHANIA Harbour & Old Town

Chania is one of the oldest towns in Crete, with a rich and eventful history. Today is the second largest city of the island, a city that has preserved its traditional architecture in the most part, and especially in the old town and most of the monuments from the time of the Venetians and the Turks preserved and displayed.
The Venetian harbor with its lighthouse and the old city center have given Chania the reputation of the most picturesque town in Crete, which hosts thousands of visitors every year.
Chania is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Greece, both for Greeks and for foreign visitors. Attracting so many visitors from around the world just is not by chance, as Chania combines incredible natural beauty with a rich history and important cultural tradition with good tourist infrastructure.