Cooking together on Sunday

Hello!

Do you know why Sunday is a very special day for me? Not only because it means I've got more free time:) I love cooking, as you remember and on Sunday, when I can stay at home and do my things I... cook!!!

Today's menu for my family was:

Pistachio cake with raspberries

Beef baked in coffee

Risotto with Tete de Moine and pear

Everyone was glad, me too of course. Looking forward to next weekend to develop my culinary skills more!

Bye! My Chocolate Novelty

Pizza with pesto, prosciutto and mozzarella

Hello!

As you know cooking is also one of my hobbies and today the dish I decided to prepare is.... pizza!!!

Doesn't it look delicious??:)

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Who wants some pastry???

Hello!

Today I'm writing my online contest the whole day... . So, there's nothing to do, only to have some delicious pastry on your table and everything will be OK:)

I love these Paul Bakery sweets which my parents bought for me... especially croissants with almond cream, they're fantastic!

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Bake a pizza with me!

Hello!Today I decided to bake something tasty.It was pizza...No doubt, everyone loves pizza!!!The filling for my pizza was sausages with tomato pasta Dolmio (which I recommend to you if you like tasty pizza fillings)

For one pizza you need:

500 g flour

300 ml water

25 g yeast

salt 

sugar

2 tbsp olive oil

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300 g sausages (the ones I used are Munich sausages)

500 ml Dolmio classic tomato pasta

300 g cheese ( such as Parmigiano)

2 tbsp olive oil

Add the salt, sugar, oil and the yeast into the flour. Then add water and mix everything with your hands.

Leave the pastry for about 1 hour in a warm place and put a tea-towel onto it.

Fry the sausages with the olive oil, after 2-3 minutes add Dolmio pasta. You don't need pepper or salt, because Dolmio contains them. Grate the cheese

When the pastry is ready, form it as a pizza.Put, firstly, a 2/3 of the grated cheese, then the sausage filling and then the left part of the cheese.Sprinkle the pizza with the olive oil.

Put your pizza into the oven for about 30 minutes (200 degrees C)

Good appetite!!!

Bye!My Chocolate Novelty!

Baked potato and cheese

Hello my dear readers!Today I cooked a really delicious kind of dish.Well, firstly, I wanted just to fry potatos, but then I decided to prepare something more interesting.

What I used?

It's not a kind of recipe where you need to follow strict proportions...Use your imagination and your own taste, but still, there are some things I'd like to tell you:

Take 5-6 potatos

100 g medium soft cheese (any one you like)

100 g parmigiano regiano

50 g butter

500 ml milk

3 tbsp flour

aromatical herbs

Firstly, boil the potatoes. Then prepare beshamel sauce in the following way: add butter, then parmigiano regiano,flour and milk. Mix it until the sauce boils.

Then cut the potatos and put them on the bottom of your baking dish, then put the cheese (medium soft) cut into cubes onto the potatos.

Put the beshamel sauce onto the cheese and send the dish into the oven (250 degrees) for approximately 15 minutes. 

If you'd like to, you may use some aromatical herbs. The ones I used are called "Italian herbs".

Good appetite!

Bye!My Chocolate Novelty!

Grape mood

Hello!Today I tried a new recipe;)It is grape focaccia,a kind of Italian pastry.We enjoyed it so much and I decided to share with you!Sure you would like to see the recipe and try to bake it!Here we go!!!

For filling:

Sugar 100 g

Black grapes 800 g

Olive oil extra virgin 8 tbsp

For the bread dough:

Flour 500 g

Water 300 ml

Yeast 12 g (fresh)

Malt (or honey, sugar) 1 tsp

To prepare the grape focaccia, begin by making the bread dough: dissolve the yeast (1) and the malt (2) in a little lukewarm water (taken from the total amount needed), mix and let it rest for a few minutes. In a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine the sifted flour with the yeast and malt mixture (3)

and start beating, adding the remaining water in a thin stream (4). When it forms a smooth and soft dough, transfer to a floured pastry board and knead quickly with your hands (5). Form into a ball, place in a bowl, covered with cling film (or with a clean, damp cloth) and let it rise for a couple of hours in the turned off oven, with the light turned on: it should double in volume (6).

When the bread dough has risen, return to the mixer and beat for another 5 minutes, adding ¼ cup (50 g) of sugar and 4 tablespoons of oil (7) (if you prefer, you can knead by hand). Now wash the grapes under cold running water (8) and remove from the stems (9).

Divide the bread dough into 2 parts and roll them out with a rolling pin to a thickness of ½ inch (1 cm) (10). Brush a 12x15-inch (30x40 cm) baking pan with oil (11-12);

place the first sheet of dough on the bottom of the pan, top with half of the grapes (13), sprinkle with a tablespoon of sugar (14) and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil (15).

Now place the second sheet of dough on top (16), add the remaining grapes, then sprinkle with sugar (17) and drizzle with the remaining olive oil. Bake your grape focaccia in a preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) for 50-60 minutes (18); once cooked, let it cool and serve sliced.

I took the recipe from Giallo Zafferano app, I find it really exciting and very useful!

More sweet inspiration...

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Sweet buzzing day

Hello my dear readers!Today I woke up alone and stayed at home all the morning.My mom and my brother Georgios left very early,so I had nothing special to do.Finally I cooked these nice biscuits!!

Here's the recipe!

For 25-30 biscuits:

200 g butter

270 g floor

100 g sugar

1 egg (only white)

20 g unsweetened cacao

Firstly you'll need to mix all the butter with 250 g of the floor.You can also help yourself with a tablespoon.Then you should put the sugar into the mixture and mix again.Divide the mess into 2 parts and roll them a bit.Put the rest of the floor into one of them and also put the cacao into this part.Roll them just a little and cover with a food film.

Put them into the fridge for at least one hour.Then take them out and roll to make them long lists, but not too thin.Grease the white one with the egg white and then put the brown one on it.You may cut the places which are useless and don't fit. Roll two lists in order to make them like a "sausage".Cover this "sausage" with a food film and put into the fridge for at least one hour.

Take it out of the fridge and cut into thin biscuits.Preheat the oven 180°C.Put your biscuits into the oven and bake them about 15-18 minutes.

Have a good tea time!!

Then when my brother came we decided to visit our cousin Elya who lives got so far but we had had so e months to see her...All her family was at home and we had a great time seating at the table with the biscuits baked by me and those which they had bough while their trip to Venice.Both kinds of sweets were delicious:)

When Georgios and I wanted to leave Elya and her little son led us to the underground station.While we were walking there,the kid was driving his little bicycle and we were talking.By the way,my hospitable cousin gave us some great delights to take with us...Mmm,what a pleasure they are...

It didn't take long to get home.By the time we came our Dad had already been at home:)

I love my family.

Bye bye!My Chocolate Novelt