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31/12/2024

30/12/2023

Vasilopita - New Year’s Eve most favorite Greek custom (See below a great recipe)
Saint Basil-pie' or 'Vassilis pie in Greek is a New Year's Day Cake in Greece, which contains a hidden coin which gives good luck to the receiver. It is associated with Saint Basil's day, January 1. It is made of a variety of dough, depending on regional and family tradition.
On New Year's Day families share the vasilopita to bless the house and bring good luck for the New Year. This is usually done at midnight of New Year's Eve. A coin is hidden in the Cake by slipping it into the dough before baking. A piece of cake is sliced for each member of the family and any visitors present at the time, by order of age from eldest to youngest. In older times, the coin often was a valuable one, such as a gold sovereign. Nowadays there is often a prearranged gift, money, or otherwise, to be given to the coin recipient.
New Year's Cake 2024
Ingredients:
250 g all-purpose flour
250 g sugar
250 g good quality cow butter (not margarine)
250 g pitted prunes
200 g dark chocolate
200 g white chocolate
200 g almonds
200 g hazelnuts
200 ml Cognac or brandy
6 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
Zest of 1 orange
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
Instructions:
Coarsely chop the prunes and soak them in Cognac in advance for an hour.
In a food processor, sequentially add almonds, hazelnuts, and chocolates, then coarsely chop them.
Grate the zest of one orange.
In a mixer, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy for about five minutes. Gradually add the eggs, beating to homogenize the mixture.
Slowly add the flour to the mixture.
Add baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and orange zest. Beat for a short while in the mixer until the ingredients are well combined.
Remove the mixer bowl and fold in the soaked prunes with Cognac, almonds, hazelnuts using a spatula until the ingredients are well mixed.
Transfer the mixture to a buttered and floured cake pan or a medium-sized baking tray.
Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius (approximately 347 degrees Fahrenheit) for about 60 minutes.
Remove from the oven, release the cake from the pan, place a coin wrapped in aluminum foil, and decorate as desired.
Note: Make sure to check the cake's doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center – it should come out clean when the cake is ready.
Enjoy your New Year's Cake 2024!

23/04/2022

Wishing you a Season filled with peace, joy and beautiful memories! Happy Greek Easter!

22/12/2021

Thank you for being such an important part for us. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and the coming year is full of many blessings for you and your family.

27/12/2020

Here’s to another year of making memories with you. Happy and Prosperous 2021!

04/06/2020

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21/04/2020

Spring pork in the oven pot with citrus
Dear friends at this difficult time be creative with a Cretan easy recipe!
Ingredients for 6 to 8 plates
2 kg pork ham without bone, cut into portions
8 - 10 large potatoes, coarsely chopped.
4 large carrots (cut into large pieces)
4- 5 cloves of garlic
Juice of 2 fresh oranges and two large pieces of orange peel
Juice of 2 fresh lemons and two large pieces of lemon peel
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tbsp. oregano
Fresh rosemary
1 vegetable stock cube
Salt
Ground pepper
Preparation
We prefer to choose pork ham that has some fat on it, catted into large pieces.
The night before, place the meat in a large pan.
Squeeze the oranges and lemons, but before squeezing them, keep a few pieces of peel from both of them.
Put the juice in a large jar with a lid.
Add the garlic gloves to the jar, the rosemary buds and the oregano.
Put some olive oil in a bowl add the vegetable stock cube and place it in the microwave for 15 seconds to soften.
Dissolve well the cube with the olive oil using a fork and add it to the jar with the rest of the marinade ingredients, add the rest of the olive oil.
Close the jar with the lid and beat well to mix all the ingredients.
Pour the marinade over the meat and add the orange and lemon peels. Cover with gelatin and place in the fridge.
Let it marinate all night (If you do not have that much time, leave it, at least in marinade for 4 hours).
The next day, take the meat bowl out of the fridge and leave it, until reach room temperature.
Peel the potatoes and slice them. Place them in the oven pot.
Peel the carrots, chopped them and add them in the oven pot.
Lightly salt (do not forget that we have put in the marinade the vegetable stock cube) and add some extra pepper on top.
Preheat the at 200 degrees C, use the up and down resistances.
Mix the potatoes with the carrots, so that the salt and pepper go everywhere.
Then place the pieces of marinated pork on top of them.
Pour over the marinade.
Place the pot in the oven uncovered and bake for 45 minutes.
After 45 minutes, cover the oven pot and continue baking for another 2 hours.
Bon Appetit

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