Kitchen Stories

This Old Fashioned Raisin Cake & Walnut is a trip down memory lane, an old fashioned cake filled with warm spices, juicy raisins and crunchy walnuts. Raisin cake is the ultimate cake for tea, cof...

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We hope 2023 was full of good friends, great adventures and even better treats! We wish the new year will be even more amazing for you. Happy New Year! ※※※※※HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!※...

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How does it stand out and how do you make a good Galaktoboureko? Everything plays its role, even the size or material of the baking pan, the quality & quantity of its ingredients, the butteri...

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The Blueberry is a "source of eternal youth" because it prevents the formation of free radicals responsible for skin aging. Many studies show that Blueberries have the highest antioxidant acti...

http://www.kitchenstories.eu/2023/09/tart-with-lemon-cream-blueberries.html

Succulent, juicy, mouth-watering pork chunk simmers in the pressure cooker until tender and falling off the bone. It gets its wonderful color and incomparable taste from the spices alone. Its ...

http://www.kitchenstories.eu/2023/06/pulled-pork-with-pappardelle.html

If you have a cotton string, a thick needle, some sugar and 2-3 oranges you are ready to create something beautiful and sweet: An Orange «Necklace»! An idea, which will delight both you and...

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Fried Cheese Pies, with excellent cheeses, are super tasty and easy to make. Like saying 3 in one! I choose a lovely fresh country market sheet to wrap these triangular cheesecakes and enhanc...

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Among the many and delicious dishes that the Greek Diet includes, the various pies stand out and write their own chapter in the impressively rich culinary narrative of the Pie. With simple ra...

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In Greek Traditional Cuisine, one finds many different types of pie, which vary by region, so each region in Greece has its own traditional pie as a point of reference. Sometimes they are the mai...

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This creamy Cake/Birthday Cake, which is deliciously fluffy and musky lemon, filled with traditional goat's yogurt combined with Domokou katiki (like ricotta), gave us pleasant tasting -but al...

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A very fluffy cake, very special without many eggs, with yogurt and olive oil. It is one of the cakes that have the name "Sponge Cake" (without referring to the well-known sponge cake, which h...

http://www.kitchenstories.eu/2022/10/cake-with-yogurt-olive-oil-jam.html

A soup that we can enjoy with great pleasure and soothe, warm and satiate a stubborn stomach from the first spoon. A wonderful, warm, rich soup with rice meatball & some vegetables. This soup, ...

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It was the last pumpkin we had outside in the cool of nature in a shady place. We made it into a pie and gave the neighbor a big piece too! The last winter pie for this year. The last yellow pump...

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Delicious Cheese Bread complete and absolute in taste and content. A fluffy puff pastry, stuffed with Greek feta cheese and yellow cheese. Easy & quick process without any effort, with the e...

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These cookies are the traditional and easiest dessert to celebrate Chinese New Year, the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It does not have a fixed date, in 2022 it was Febru...

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Juicy, easy, fluffy and full of aromas Traditional Greek Orange Cake with Syrup, which is made with crust leaves, finely chopped & hidden inside and with strained yogurt. It is syruped with a ...

http://www.kitchenstories.eu/2021/05/traditional-greek-orange-cake-with-syrup.html

In the traditional agricultural and urban Cuisine of Crete, the products that the rural populations, for centuries now, produce and consume on their own until communications changed, so that t...

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Easter Brioche or Tsoureki Oriental in Greece is a traditional sweet bread, which is prepared throughout the year and especially during the Easter holidays. It needs yeast and good kneading to...

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Easter Cookies -and not only Easter- with a different approach but with all the aromas of Greek Easter, such as Chios Mastic, Mahlepi, Kakoule (Cardamom) and the aroma of orange. Light, tasty...

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A timeless souffle with basic pasta the striped penne (penne rigate) to wrap beautifully around the ingredients and their taste. This soufflé has a very "sinful" content, so sinful that we ma...

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Velvety and fragrant this cake, with traditional yogurt and hazelnut flour, is a thin, without much sugar but very soft dessert, ideal for breakfast and snacks. It has a beautiful dark color f...

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Never has a pasta dish given us so much delicious with just a handful of ingredients as this one! Italian Carbonara, if done properly, becomes a fantastic dish full of flavor and it’s a thin...

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Everyone likes this pie, I always make it with a puff pastry sheet to keep all the delicious, soft and fluffy filling inside. A sheet at the bottom, a sheet at the top and in between a filling...

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Back to basics: GREEK STYLE SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE! In our Kitchens it was for years the dominant and almost the only dish of pasta with minced, made in another era by the grandmothers and...

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Brioche dough tends to be heavy, as it is an enriched dough. This means that, in addition to the usual suspects to make bread, such as flour, water, salt and yeast, brioche dough includes egg,...

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