Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

A pples are very versatile. They can be cooked in as many ways as your imagination can wander...one of these ways is to easily glaze them with a mixture of butter, brown sugar, and enough water to cover them. 

Tahini Photo Courtesy Of Wikipedia On Google T ahini is a paste made from Sesame seed. The oil you see floating on the top is the sesame oil which is an integral part of the tahini.  This is exactly like peanut butter where sometimes the oil floats on the top (if it is not made in U.S.A.). Tahini is very much used in the eastern part of the Mediterranean basin from Greece Eastwards, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq. Tahini is used as a complement to shish kebabs,  meat, chicken, fish, and salads and even alone as a dip in western countries by people who lived in the middle east. Tahini is extremely good for the health and contains a number of vitamins, fiber, and other.

A ll I am doing in my blog is to give you ideas on how you can make certain dishes in different ways or just give you ideas you can elaborate on with your culinary skills and imagination. All what cooking is about is " Inovation  -  Inovation -  Inovation "....

Man! This was one heck of a breakfast, well....brunch really. We all woke up with a big appetite. Since we are messing up our diets lately so we said let's totally do it!!

Lovely color. T his is a second way to make this dish which I shared with you on July 8th 2011. In my opinion it is much better. You will need: Serves 4-6 -  1.2 kg of  potatoes, sliced medium ¼ inch thick. -  500 gr milk -  200 gr fresh cream 35%  -  ½ tsp. freshly ground nutmeg. -  4 cloves of garlic roughly chopped. -  1 Tbsp. butter. -  Salt and pepper to taste.

W e all know that spinach is very good for you eaten in any way. One of the ways is creamed.....

O k everybody the Final Countdown Has Arrived. Today we start counting from 5 going to 4 tomorrow, to 3 after tomorrow and so on till we arrive to Zero and that will be the end of my daily posting. After that I will write at my leisure. This is one unbelievably delicious dish which goes very well with braised Pork Tenderloin (filet) with its wine porcini mushrooms and mashed potatoes....

The Right Honourable The Earl of Sandwich PC FRS "John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , PC , FRS (3 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) [1] was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich , as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. During his life he held various military and political offices, including Postmaster General , First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for the Northern Department , but is perhaps best known for the claim that he invented the modern concept of the sandwich . " The above passage was copied verbatim from Wikipedia on Google. When someone is retired, it very often  happens that he or she, just does not want to do anything.Not even write a decent post for his readers. So this time I am going to share with you a very lazy sandwich I fix myself for lunch when I am in this state. Can you imagine not to even have the energy to make myself a spaghettata.?! Yes it is that bad... ...

Map of Grevena In Western Macedonia, Greece. Pleurotus  Mushrooms are some of the tastiest and meaty mushrooms. The town of Grevena (Γρεβενά) in North Western Greece,  is the home of mushrooms of Greece. Needless to say that the humidity is high, temperatures are lower than normal, and maybe unfit for humans to live there.They must all suffer from arthritis! Today Sunday November 6th is the last of a two day "Mushroom Festival" in the village of Ziáka. Pleurotus Mushroom Pleurotus Mushrooms have the following health benefits:  -  Protein: 3 4 % -  Biological Value of proteins according to FAO: 85.3% -  Fiber: 1% -  Fat: 0,15% -  Calories: 35/100 gr of raw product . Pleurotus mushrooms like all other mushrooms can be cooked in many ways rendering many dishes succulent and delicious.  There is a common but simple and very tasty way of cooking them that could be used over rice, pasta, grilled steak, chicken, salm...

 Ok it happened again! I accidentally wiped out all the pictures taken. A lways with you, my readers,  in mind, an effort is being made to come up with original ideas that could please you, members of  your immediate family and guests. I would like to present today an idea that struck me while making an omelet. I added ¼ cup of ...

 M y friends I have the ultimate low calorie side dish for you...

Freshly Dried Porcini Mushrooms...What A Fantastic Aroma! J ust received a brand new shipment of fr eshly dried Porcini mushrooms from Bella Italia, specifically from Rome. Whenever I mention Roma, the name always reminds me of the song Roma Cappocia: Cappocia meaning "Boss". Had to try them. Something quick and easy was an omelet with porcini mushrooms...

W hen you are having friends over for drinks you might want to prepare these little appetizers.  

D ips are handy when you are entertaining and don't feel like cooking anything fancy. As long as you have lots of toasted pita bread, poppadums, crackers, chips etc. you're fine.  And...may I add that hotter the dip the more everybody will drink and be merry!! This tuna fish dip recipe I would like to share with you today was given to me by Marathon Oil Company manager down in Sfax, Tunisia a few decades ago!

H ere is a fantastic recipe directed only to men. With all due respect to the ladies who are excluded this time.

G uacamole is a very common dip around the Texas - Mexican area. There are many ways to make it. My easiest and quickest way goes like this.

F urther my article on chilies and the Scoville Heat Unit, I believe that a normal humanly possible SHU should be between 0 and 500, maybe 600 say a super maximum of 1000.

T his is a very easy appetizer for anybody to prepare especially for young people who like to invite friends over for drinks and snacks and can put something together quickly and are not very much in to cooking. But...you need to have eggs.

Photo Courtesy Of Wikipedia To make Taramo-Salata you will need  -  7 slices of 2-3 days old bread without the outer crust   OR 2 medium well boiled potatoes.  -  200 gms of fish roe Tarama (the red not the white). -  2 Tbsp. crushed, smashed onion turned into a paste. -  1½ cups of extra virgin olive oil. -  1/3 cup lemon juice. -  3 finely sliced spring onions. Method: The bread way; -  Soak the bread in some water.  When it is well soaked, squeeze all the water out. -  Put the Tarama in a mortar and grind into a paste with the pestle. -  Add squashed onion and continue to grind while adding a drizzle of olive oil. -  While working the mixture, add some bread then some oil and continue grinding. -  Continue the above step until you have used up all the bread.  -  Still grinding add some lemon (but not all) keep grinding until the acidity is acceptable to your ta...

As You Can See I like Pepper...Only This Is Green Pepper. Baked Scalloped Potatoes go very well with grilled meats as well as the sautée scalloped potatoes. Only the baked type is slightly richer in ingredients.