Crispy Christmas Biscuits!!!!!

Hello my beloved friends!!!!

I finally managed yesterday to cook a few of my favorite biscuits for Christmas and not only of course! Delicious, crispy and full of aroma biscuits that my daughter loves and my hubby eat a lot...and my friends...and my family... and so many others!

Actually is a really easy recipe to follow and with your imagination you can create masterpieces!

What will we need:
1 tea cup butter
3/4 tea cup of white sugar
1 big egg
3 tea cups flour
1 sugar spoon baking powder
1/2 sugar spoon salt
1 sugar spoon vanilla or orange icing (or whatever aroma you like)

Procedure:

In a bowl mix the butter and the sugar. Add the egg.

When the mixture is ready add the salt and the orange icing (or vanilla).

Put the baking powder in the flour and mix it and then add is slowly in the above mixture.

When the pastry is ready, put it in a bowl, cover it with membrane for cooking and leave it in the refrigerator for an hour to rest.

After an hour, you can create your biscuits by using cookie cutter in your beloved schema. 

Serve them with fine flour sugar or create a icing or even taste them without anything! They will be yummy in every way!

Happy cooking!!!!!

This Week's Finds - Christmas Sweets

Hello my friends and a Happy new week!!!

How was your weekend? I was thinking to have a fresh full of sugar and Christmas mood post to start this week, so I searched via pinterest and here we are....

1. Santa Hat Cheesecake Bites  2.Winter Cookies  3.Stracciatella Mousse
4. Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies

Yummy...aren't they??? 

Have a great day full of Sugar Smiles!!!

This Week's Finds - Mint Christmas Food!!!!

Hello my beloved friends!

I spend a few hours yesterday to find delicious recipes for Christmas and I was really surprised! I love mint, I love its color so I found a few gorgeous ideas in pinterest. 

1.Mint Cake 2.Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies  3.Mint Chocolate Cream
4.Italian Mint Meringue Kisses 5. Christmas trees cookie 6.Butter mint Drop Cookies

Aren't they look delicious???? ok... I have to try some of them...

    Happy cooking!!!!

Cupcakes full of Orange!!!!

Hello my friends!!!

I think I am in love with cupcakes! To be honest I've always enjoyed them but I thought they were really hard to bake. But when almost every week I see a delicious recipe and amazing photos in my friend's Natasa's blog, then it is really hard to not try them. So because of my princess birthday I tried to cook a couple of different recipes and I was really surprised when I realized that it was easy to make them and easier to eat them…. Yeap… none left!

So my first attempt to cook a orange filled cupcake is here!

What will you need:

For the Cupcakes

1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup white sugar
3 eggs

1 dash of salt 
50 ml fresh milk

1/2 teaspoon orange icing 
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

80-100gr dried fruits

For the orange icing

180gr cheese cream

140gr fine flour sugar

1 teaspoon orange shaving

The procedure is the usual… in a bowl mix the butter and the sugar and add the eggs one by one until the mix becomes homogeneous.

Add the milk, the orange shavings and keep mixing.

In another small bowl mingle the flour, the baking powder and the salt and add it in the above mixture.

Stop using the mixer, add the dried fruits and keep mixing it for a while with scoop. Your mix is ready. Cook it in a preheat oven in 170 degrees C for about 20min.

When the cupcakes are ready, just mix in a bowl the ingredients for the icing and leave it in the refrigerator for about 15min.  Υou are ready to  décor your small, delicious cakes.

Buon Appetite!

       mats mouts

Lamb with Mustard !!!!

Good Morning my friends!

Have you ever tasted lamb? Here in Greece, lamb is one of our favorite meats to eat especially on Easter. Very clean and very tasteful. But as every meat we have to not over do it with the quantity…. Yeap I know…tough…

 Anyway, last Sunday I cooked lamb with potatoes and it was really delicious. I am not going to point out the quantity of each ingredient, since it is something that you can decide by yourself!

So what are we going to use…

- lamb ( I used almost 750gr for 2 and a half people… my daughter counts as half)

- 5 potatoes

- Mustard

- 3-4 garlic clove

- Olive oil

- Salt

- Pepper

- 1 big lemon

- Origan or thyme

Procedure

Clean the lamb and add on salt and pepper. Leave it for fifteen minutes to marinate. Add the mustard on the lamb and leave it again for another fifteen minutes. Your meat is ready to be cooked.

 Clean the potatoes, cut them in pieces and add salt on them. Put them on a large baking pan.

Put the meat above them or in the middle. Chop up the garlic and add it too.

In a glass add the olive oil, the lemon juice and more mustard and mix them. Add the mix to the food. For more aroma in your plate and of course unique taste, we will use  origan or thyme! Finally add a small glass of water.

Cover the baking pan with aluminium paper and put it in the oven in low temperature ( for example on 150oC) for at least one and a half hour.  

Remove the aluminium and slightly increase the temperature. Your food is ready to be served when the potatoes and the meat are soft.

Buon appetite.

Lemon Yoghurt Dessert

Hello my friends!!!

It was about time to be back In my blog, but to be honest I will not be really active as I was before due to real life issues. I will try to update it with new interested (as always) posts, but not as often as before. Hopefully in a month I will be back “in business”!

So today I would like to share with you a delicious recipe, really fast to make it and really easy. What will you need? Only four materials and 10min of your time. And I promise the result is really yummy and perfect for those who love to eat something refreshing during Summer or people who do not love chocolate or to sweat desserts!

So… what will you need:

-     - 1kgr yoghurt  (I prefer drained yoghurt)

-     - 2 lemons ( juice from 2 lemons and shavings from 1 lemon)

-     - 1 box of biscuits ( I like Digestive)

-     - 1 box of condensed milk

In a small baking pan or a bowl  crumble the biscuits.

In a bowl add the condensed milk and mix it with the lemon juice and the lemon shavings.

Add the crème above your biscuits and put the bowl/pan into the refrigerator for almost 30min.

Your dessert is ready to enjoy it!!!! If you wish it to be more intense, just use more lemon!

Buone Appetite!!!

      mats mouts