Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

O ctopus is one of the favorite sea food of the Greece. Eating air-dreid and grilled octopus while drinking ouzo by the sea means summer is here!! This time I propose using octopus for something different. Pasta.....

C ooked cracked buckwheat  has a glycemic index of 45 (anything less than 55 is good). It is therefore indicated for diabetics (type 2) as a side dish instead of rice. Quinoa is also indicated but we shall talk about this when we shall have a recipe using Quinoa.....

Fresh Trout Not Very Visible. OK I said enough,  it is time, at least on a Sunday, to eat something normal. We had a trout in our deep freeze and I hadn't the foggiest idea how to coo it. I have never eaten fresh trout. So I opened the "Petit Larousse De La Cuisine" given to me for Christmas by a very good friend in 2009. Under "trout" I made the first recipe this book had. ( This book has 1800 recipes). The recipe calls for butter, and I did use butter!! This morning my sugar level went from 100 yesterday to 125!! but it was delicious. Trout flesh is delicious. I had it only smoked in the past which I love....

You can see the scallion bits in the burger! N ecessity is the mother of invention. At least for me in this occasion. The other day I needed to make some burgers, and was out of onions so I used fresh onions or green onions or scallions. Burgers came out delicious! Used the green part as well. As known the scallion has a different taste/flavor than the onion. Here's how

A fter a day of eating fried, we should eat light. Baby beans soaked all night, boiled for 30 minutes in lots of water, when done cover until you decide what to do with them sounded like a good idea.   We had some broccoli a few days old, so I decided to add the florets 7 minutes before turning the fire off. Serves 4-6 Ingredients:  -  500 gr of baby white beans soaked in lots of water overnight. -   1 onion finely chopped. -   4 cloves of garlic thinly sliced. -   2 carrots finely diced. -   1 bunch celery leaves roughly chopped. -   1- 2 cups of liquid remaining after boiling the beans. -   No salt no pepper. -   1 Tbsp. soy sauce. -   1 Tbsp. ketchup -   250 ml tomato sauce. (Passato di pomodoro). -   Small head of broccoli separated  into florets. Method: -  Drain water from beans and add fresh water into a saucepan add the beans. -  Heat to...

P lease read my posting on March 25th 2011. As known, Greece was under the Ottoman Empire from 1453 A.D. to 1821A.D. It was on Tuesday 13th ( no wonder why Tuesday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Greece--something like Friday 13th) that Greece fell under the Ottoman rule. It was on March 25th that the Archangel Gabriel came to tell the Virgin Mary that she was going to give birth to our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore this date is held in Greek history as the date that a priest by the name Paleon Patron Yermanos rose the Greek flag and said "That's It" no more Turks! It is also a custom that on this particular day Greeks eat fried Bakalao fish (salted cod) with a heavy on garlic paste made with a mixture of wate r soaked old bread, potato, lots of garlic, vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Because I have stopped eating white bread made from wheat, I looked into the internet to find some other recipe to make this paste. All I had to do was to look at my ow...

O ur surpermarket decided to bring in fresh fish everyday. Found these baby Mackerel to help us with our Omega 3 and heavy metal intake!!(I'm joking about the heavy metal). Ingredients: - 4 baby Mackerel heads cut off, gutted, opened and cleaned. - 2 cloves of garlic finely sliced. - 1 medium onion, finely chopped. - 2 inches worth of ginger finely grated. - 2 tsp. za'atar (Lebanese origano) - 1 Tbsp. olive oil. Method: - Cover small baking dish, with baking proof paper. - Lay the four fish and fill stomachs with garlic and onion. - Sprinkle rest of onions on top of the fish, - Sprinkle the za'atar. - Pour the oil. - Distribute the ginger. - Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees C. Delicious! Bon Appétit, Stelio