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!!!!!

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

Chocolate Rocks!!!

An amazing, delicious dessert that can be cooked in a few minutes!

Materials:

   3 bars of dark chocolate

-      Shavings from 1 orange

-      4-5 soup spoon milk

-      Almost 250gr Almonds

-      100-150gr raisins

What to do:

First of all parch the almonds.

Use  a benmarie to melt the chocolate. Add the milk and the shavings from the orange and keep mixing the compound.

When the mixture is ready, add the almonds and the currants and mix it for a couple of minutes again.

Your dessert is ready… just use a spoon and put a spionfull on the large baking pan that is covered with cooking paper.

Leave them for a few hours to chill and you are ready to taste them!!!!

To be honest the classical recipe for the above dessert is just chocolate, almonds and butter. But I wanted to cook it especially for my daughter so instead of butter I added milk and of course raisins and orange. Just use your imagination and create small but sweet bites by adding more nuts and dried fruits or instead of orange just use a few drops of your favorite liqueur. 

Buon Appetite….

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Chicken with Crushed Grain Recipe

{Guest post from PinezaJewelry}

Hello my friends!

Are you hungry? I am! And I am even more after preparing this guest post of my friend Vasso. And yes I am complaining...please next time do not send me only the text and the pictures but also a sample. No sample no post! :p

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Hello!!!

I am Vasso and I would love to share with you a delicious and easy to cook dish with Chicken and Crushed Grain. A really yummy and healthy recipe! Enjoy!!!

Υλικα για 4 ατομα - Materials for 4 persons

Για το κοτόπουλο

·         2 φιλέτα στήθος κοτόπουλου

·         Παρθένο ελαιόλαδο

·         Κάρυ

·         Πάπριπα

·         Λίγο σκόρδο (σε σκόνη)

·         Ρίγανη

·         Αλάτι

For the Chicken

·         2  Chicken fillets

·         Olive Oil

·         Carry

·         Paprika

·         Some garlic (powder)

·         Origano
·         Salt

Για το Πλιγούρι

·         2 κούπες τσαγιού πολίτικο πλιγούρι

·         4 κούπες τσαγιού νερό

·         1/3 κούπας τσαγιού ελαιόλαδο

·         Αλάτι

For the  Crushed Grain

·         2 tea cups Crushed Grain

·         4 tea cups water

·         1/3 tea cup olive oil

·         Salt

Εκτελεση - Procedure

Τεμαχίζουμε τα φιλέτα μας σε λεπτές σχετικά φέτες. Σε ένα βαθύ μπωλ βάζουμε το ελαιόλαδο τα μπαχαρικά, τα μυρωδικά και το αλάτι και ανακατεύουμε. Στη συνέχεια βουτάμε τα κομμάτια του κρέατος, φροντίζοντας να καλυφθούν όλα τα σημεία τους από το μείγμα μας . Βάζουμε το μπωλ στο ψυγείο και το αφήνουμε τουλάχιστον 2-3 ώρες ώστε να μαριναριστεί καλά το κοτόπουλο.

Cut the fillets in thin slices. In a large bowl mix the olive oil, the spices, the fragrant and the salt. Put the meat in the bowl and try to cover it with the mix. Leave the bowl in the refrigerator for 2-3hours, until the chicken is marinated. 

Για το πλιγούρι

Σε μία κατσαρόλα, σοτάρουμε ελαφρά το πλιγούρι μας στο ελαιόλαδο για 1-2 λεπτά. Στη συνέχεια συμπληρώνουμε με το νερό (κατά προτίμηση βραστό) και το αλάτι. Σκεπάζουμε την κατσαρόλα και μαγειρεύουμε σε μέτρια φωτιά μέχρι να απορροφήσει το πλιγούρι τα υγρά (10 λεπτά περίπου).

For the Crushed Grain

In a pan fry the crushed grain with the olive oil for a couple of minutes. Add the water, that has to be hot, and the salt.  Cover the pan and let it cook in medium heat until the grain soaks up the water.

Για το κοτόπουλο

Ψήνουμε το μαριναρισμένο κοτόπουλο σε αντικολλητικό τηγάνι ή στη σχάρα, φροντίζοντας να μην το στεγνώσουμε. Εναλλακτικά, βρέχουμε ένα κομμάτι λαδόκολλα, βάζουμε μέσα τα κομμάτια του φιλέτου μαζί με τη μαρινάτα. Κλείνουμε καλά τη λαδόκολλα δημιουργώντας ένα πουγκί, το οποίο το τοποθετούμε μέσα σε ένα ταψί και ψήνουμε στο φούρνο. 5-10 λεπτά πριν το τέλος, ανοίγουμε το πουγκί ώστε να ροδίσει το κοτόπουλο.

For the Chicken

Cook the marinated chicken in a frying-pan or in the grill, but be careful not to let it dry. Another way to cook the meat is to put it in a piece of cooking paper with the remaining marinare. Close the cooking paper and create a small purse, put it in a baking pan and cook it in the oven. 5-10 minutes before we remove it from the oven, open the purse in order for the meat to become rosy-hued.

Σερβίρετε μαζι και απολαύστε το γευμα σας!!!

Serve them together and enjoy your meal!

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Thank you Vasso!!!  So delicious!!!!

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Καλό Μαγείρεμα!!!!

Happy Cooking!!!! 

         mats mouts