Cheese cake with strawberry jam

 Cheese cake

Ingredients

30 g all purpose-flour

340 g biscuits for the base

1 teaspoon honey

180 g sugar

100 g melted margarine

1 vanilla bean

200 g whipping cream 30% fat

800 g Philadelphia cream cheese

400 c yoghurt

3 tablespoons lemon juice

4 large eggs

1/2 cup strawberry jams

How to make the strawberry jam

Ingredients

5OO grams fresh strawberries

50-60 grams of sugar (or more if you like the jam very sweet)

Instructions

Thoroughly wash the strawberries and remove the stalks.

Leave 20 strawberries whole. 

Put the remaining strawberries in a food processor and mash them.

Put all the strawberries with the sugar in a small pot and boil them for 10 minutes.

Remove the pot from the heat and let it at the edge, to cool.

You will use it when you will decorate the cake.

Cake

Instructions

Put the vanilla bean into whipping cream.

Preheat the oven to 180 C degrees.

Smash in a food processor the cookies.

Pour the melted margarine over the smash cookies and mix them.

With this mixture you will create the base of the cake.

Grease an ovenproof dish or pan dimensions 25CH35CH6 cm.

Strew the mixture of biscuits on the baking pan and create the basis of the cake.

Pressing the mixture of biscuits with your hands, you make a thin sheet that covers the bottom of the pan.

Put the pan in the oven at the first rack from the bottom and cook the sheet exactly for five minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven and leave it to cool.

Put in the bowl of the mixer the cream cheese and the sugar and beat them for 4 minutes.

Stop the mixer and put into the bowl the flour and mix with a spoon.

Add the whipping cream and beat at medium speed for 3 minutes.

Add the yoghurt, with a spoon, little by little in the mixer bowl, while beating.

Add the eggs, one by one, in the mixer bowl, while beating.

Add the lemon juice and the honey and continue beating.

Let the mixer beat all the ingredients together for 2 more minutes.

Remove the bowl from the mixer.

Pour the mixture over the base of the cookies and spread it evenly.

Put the pan in the oven first rack from the bottom and bake at 180 C degrees for 40 minutes.

As soon as the 40 minutes pass, remove the pan out of the oven and garnish it.

With the syrup of the jam, form on the surface of Cheese Cake irregular shapes, like water waves.

Or create with the whole strawberies and the strawberry jam shapes of imaginary flowers, or any other shape that pleases you.

Put the Cheese Cake back in the oven and let it cook another 8 minutes.

Turn off the oven and leave the cake inside it for 10 minutes.

Take the cake from the oven and leave it on the edge to cool.

It is necessary to be completely cold before you attempt to cut and serve it.

This cake is sweet, fluffy and extremely tasty, when you serve it at room temperature, before putting it in the freezer.

When you put it in the freezer, it will loses some of its taste.

But, if it is impossible to consume the whole cake in one day, then it is necessary to freeze it to maintain it.

                                                                                                                                                     

Posted by Katy hat-Kotsovinos at 3:52 a.m.

Pork in a pot with peas

Pork in a pot with peas
 first recipe

Ingredients

4 celery leaves

750 grams of pork meat

1/2 cup water,

1kg of cleaned peas

2 yellow golden apples

3 medium potatoes

1 quince

1 tablespoon paprika

3 red peppers

1 shot of vinegar

1/2 cup olive oil

Salt, pepper, oregano

The juice of a large lemon

Instructions

Wash the meat and cut it into pieces as a nut.

Put the meat in a ceramic pot special for the oven.

Put salt, pepper and oregano over the meat.

Rub the meat with the spices to get their aroma.

Sprinkle the meat with half of the oil.

Take care that all meat will be smeared with oil.

Clean and wash the potatoes.

Cut the potatoes as the meat.

Place the potatoes in the pot over the meat.

Clean apples and quince and cut them into 6 pieces each.

Put the pieces in the pot.

Thoroughly wash the celery.

Cut it into pieces 1 cm in length perpendicular to its stalk.

Wash the peas and put them into the pot.

Wash the peppers. Cut each pepper in half and remove the seeds.

Cut each half of the pepper into 5 pieces.

Add the peppers to the pot.

Pour the remaining oil into pot over the vegetables.

Mix well the vegetables so the oil goes everywhere.

Add a spoonful of paprika and very little red chili pepper.

Add the lemon juice, the vinegar, salt and the water.

Cover the pot and put it in the oven on the bottom rack.

Bake at 200 K degrees for an hour.

Remove the pot from the oven.

Remove the cover of the pot and stir the food.

Cover the pot and put it in the oven again.

Continue cooking for one more hour.

 

Posted by Katy hat-Kotsovinos at 4:47 a.m.

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Traditional Cretan minced meat with spaghetti

TRADITIONAL CRETAN MINCED MEAT WITH SPAGHETTI

Ingredient

1.5 kg meat from the leg of pork

80 g balsamic vinegar

100 grams of wine

Salt and pepper

80 grams of olive oil

2 large dry onions

5 cloves garlic

A bit of red hot pepper

1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1 tsp oregano

1/2 pound spaghetti or linguini briskly

300 grams grated cheese for spaghetti.

Instructions

Cut the meat into strips. Cut with kitchen scissors each strip into smaller pieces.

The pieces should be about the size of chickpea.

It is better to do this job overnight.

Pour 2 TBs olive oil over the minced meat and stir. This way the small pieces of meat are covered with oil and will not dry during the night.

Peel and mince the onions and garlic.

Put the oil in a saucepan and place it over medium heat.

Put in onions and garlic. Stir occasionally until they become soft and tender.

Place the pieces of meat into the pot and mix.

Lower even further the heat and leave the meat to warm up and produce its fluids.

Add salt, pepper, cumin, and a little hot pepper.

Watch the minced to simmer but not burn.

Do not put any water.

Let the meat to simmer in its fluids.

Check from time to time to make it sure that it has not dried out, but that still has liquids.

Add the vinegar and wine and stir.

Let the meat simmer until soft and tender.

Remove the pot from the heat.

Put some cooked minced in a plate and taste the flavor of it.

If you don’t like it, correct seasoning.

SPAGHETTI

Put in a pot plenty of water and place it over high heat.

When the water boils, pour in half a pound pasta cutters and stir well.

Put a little salt in the water for better taste.

Each kind of pasta needs cooking specific number of minutes.

Read the instructions on the package and follow them. 

Remove the pasta from the heat and strain it. Wait until it drains well.

Put the pasta back into the same pot that you boiled it.

Put into the pasta two tablespoons of minced meat and some sauce.

Mix, so that sauce and fat goes everywhere and prevents pasta from sticking together.

Put again the pot on the heat and cook the pasta for two more minutes.

Remove the pot from the heat.

Sprinkle over the serving dishes grated cheese.

Serve the pasta over the cheese.

Put above pasta plenty of minced meat and sprinkle above it grated cheese.

Of course instead of macaroni you can use, spaghetti, or linguini, or any other kind of pasta.

If you want, you can make your own pasta, which is tastier than the pasta you find in commerce.                     

Homemade pasta

Dough

Ingredients                                                                                                                                    

120 g. olive oil

125 g. frozen margarine

1/2 cup of warm water

1/2 cup milk or kefir

1 egg

1 sachet of dry yeast

500 g. durum flour

Instructions

Dissolve in a cup of warm water the yeast.

Put in a bowl the olive oil.

Grate the margarine with tomato grater and put it in the bowl.

Stir well with a fork.

Add the dissolved yeast into the bowl and stir.

Gently knock the egg and add it into the bowl.

Add milk or kefir.

Mix all ingredients well and add the flour.

Knead well and seeks to achieve stiff dough.

Leave the dough covered with a towel on edge, to rest for half an hour.

Open a sheet moderate in thickness.

Cut the sheet into oblong strips of 5 cm width.

Place three strips one upon another.

Cut the pasta in rectangular 1 cm in width and 4-5 cm in length.

Sprinkle lots of flour over the pieces of pasta and wiggle back and forth to loosen them.

Keep going until you make all the macaroni you need.

You will cook all the macaroni you made.

If you live some for later use, they will dry up and will become useless.

How to cook the homemade pasta

Put the homemade macaroni in boiling water.

Pour a little salt.

Let them boil for five minutes. 
Put on a small plate a few macaronis and try them to see if they are ready.

If you think that they aren’t properly cooked, boil them two more minutes.

From this step continue as described above.

If you didn’t use all the dough, keep the remaining in a food bag in the freezer for another use.