Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

I have the luck to speak and read Italian having lived in Milan for many years. I also had the luck to come across a fantastic Italian blog called http://www.giallozafferano.it by Sonia Peronáci but...it is all in Italian. I'm sure there are ways to be able to see the same recipes in English, but since I am here I would love to share this one with all my non Italian friends out there. Having been inspired by Sonia's Recipe, I prepared today the cutest little butter biscuits with Apricot jam in the center using a blender.You could add molten chocolate in the center instead of apricot jam if you wish...

Cubed Calf's Liver Marinated In Oregano, Olive Oil, Dried Garlic Flakes. C alf's Liver can be cooked in many ways as long as that heavy odor is overcome. There have been other recipes for calf's liver in this blog, but this is different.

W e are already eight days into the new year. These were lazy eight days because life in the streets of Athens has just began.  Everybody is back from their "Cortina D'Ampezzo " holidays and supposedly back to work... Our politicians are still arguing between them who is right and nothing is being done to fix things. Everyday there are new austerity measures and we, the people, do not know what to do anymore and try to go on with our lives as if nothing is happening. Alexis,a friend of Barbara's, was having a party for his wife Joanna yesterday to celebrate her name day  (St. John the Baptist day ) and I prepared some savory cookies to take with her and here is what I did. You might like the idea...

Happy New Year 2012!! W e must begin the New Year with something sweet!!  So a most appropriate sweet is an Egyptian dessert made for royalty. It is an Egyptian custom...

W ent to the local Herb and Spice market and got some smoked paprika made from the Florinis type of red pepper. It is delicious....

I don't like sweets that are too sweet and syrupy similar to the ones made in North Greece and Turkey with syrup drooling all over the place where your throat burns from excess sugar.  On the other hand I love cookies with the back-taste of butter made from ewe's milk. These cookies are more or less similar to the European Butter Shortbread cookies. These are the Greek Kou - ra - bi- edes. (Κουραμπιέδες) and can be found in commerce and homes which make them only during the Christmas Holidays....

T he day after Boxing Day (26th December) is also festive. In fact all the days between Christmas and New Year's are festive. We were invited over to my cousin's home for lunch way, way on the other side of town (1 hour by car including traffic). I promised to cook for them Pork Hocks with sauerkraut and steamed baby potatoes. As previously posted on December 19th, I smoked the hocks so all I needed was to buy the sauerkraut and baby potatoes and I was....