Easy French Toast

I love French Toast...so easy to prepare it and so delicious.. I can't wait..

Ingredients

2 large eggs
8 slices toast bread
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1½ teaspoons real vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Directions

Preheat a pan over medium- low heat. Using a large bowl, beat eggs with vanilla extract, milk and salt. Melt butter on pan.

Place bread into batter to coat one side. Flip over and repeat with other side. You don't want to soak the bread, just have each side coated well with the batter.

Place on pan until nicely brown. 

Shrimps Saganaki

Saganaki, a traditional Greek preparation named after the pan in which it’s prepared.

Ingredients

12 medium shrimps

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 chopped pepper

1 chopped onion

2 chopped cloves of garlic

½ cup white dry wine

½ cup  drained diced tomatoes

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Dried oregano, salt, pepper

Directions

Heat oil in a medium pan over medium-low heat. Add pepper, onion and garlic.  Cook, stirring often, until soft, about 3 minutes. Add shrimps and cook, stirring occasionally, about 4–6 minutes. Add wine and cook for a minute. Add 1 tsp. parsley, oregano and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring often, until tomato mixture is reduced by one-third, about 5 minutes.

Remove pan from heat and transfer  shrimps saganaki to a large  bowl, if desired. Garnish with parsley and dill. Serve with toasted bread.

HORTA VRASTA - BOILED GREENS

Horta is a catch-all term for greens and horta vrasta means  boiled greens.  

A dish of boiled greens drizzled with olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice is quite probably one of the most  delightful meals in Greek food culture.Many of us have stories of grandmother  going into the yard (or stopping by the side of the road!) with a kitchen knife, digging  greens from the ground.

To clean, just drop your chopped dandelions into a big bowl of cold water and swish them around to rinse away any dirt or sand. Turn out the bowl into a strainer over the sink and pop them into your boiling pot.


A way to make the cooking process even easier , put your pot of salted water on to boil before you begin to wash your  greens.

You want them to be soft and easy to chew but not mushy. Once they’re done ,do not strain off the water!
Quickly remove the cooked greens/horta  from your pot with a set of kitchen tongs and transfer into a serving bowl. Dress with olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice.
Serve with a piece of crusty bread and enjoy it.!!!!!!!!!!!

The most beautiful thing, to start your day with a coffee. With a cup of Greek coffee ...to smell the unique aroma and taste the strong flavor...

To make this , coffee beans are roasted and very finely ground. Then the coffee, sugar and water are mixed in a special tiny aluminum or copper pot called a briki and prepared over low heat. The amount of sugar used is according to taste and it must be added at the beginning (not after brewing, as with other types of coffee). 
There are four ways to drink this coffe: sketos (no sugar), me oligi (a little sugar), metrios (equal amounts coffee and sugar) or glykos (very sweet – more sugar than coffee). 
Now you know how to order your coffee in Greece...

Greek Yogurt with Honey ( Yiaourti me Meli )

At the summer time we are looking for something light to eat . What about  a creamy Greek yoghurt drizzled with sweet rich honey and sprinkled with crispy walnuts and cinnamon. The most sweetest cool dinner!!!!!!!

To prepare this 2-minute Greek yogurt with honey dessert to perfection you need to pay attention to one little secret. The ingredients! Try to get your hands on some good quality, strained Greek yogurt, which is creamier, thicker and richer in flavor than other types of yogurt. Honey, being its key ingredient needs to be off good quality too. Finally try to get your hands on the freshest walnuts you can find.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups strained Greek yogurt
• 1 1/2 cups walnuts
• 3/4 of a cup honey
• cinnamon powder

Enjoy it !!!!!!!!