Greek Beefteki (meatball/burger patty) for Christmas

Xmas beeftekia

normal beefteki served with buttery rice and veggies

beefteki served with french fries

This food was the first time I eat it at my parents in law house, at lunch.

I like it, it’s really nice. Some people make it like meat ball can be fried or boil it with tomato soup or just make it as burger; baked or grilled. Here in Greece, they always serve it with potato and lemon; most people here eat everything with lemon; meat, veggies or even soup. It’s also good though for health and rich vitamin C.

I will show you the normal beefteki but also I will show you how to make it for Christmas theme too. Well my husband always surprise with the way I serve food and this time when I make it in Christmas three, snowman and stars shape using shaping for cookies.

It’s just crazy and creative thinking of mine that sometimes I put it on food, you know designer. Ok stop the chase, here are the ingredients so you can try it yourself for your families.

Ingredients:

300 grams beef and minced from butcher

1 pieces big bread or just uses the left over bread 1.5 – 2 times the meat

1 teaspoon Olive oil

1 teaspoon oregano

1-2 teaspoon Salt & pepper (as you like)

Celery (as you like)

1-2 pieces eggs

1 pieces Green Pepper (as your prefer)

2 stalks celery, finely chopped

1 sprig parsley, finely chopped

1 pieces lemon

the bread soak and squezzed

minced ground beef

Celery and Parsley

Preparations:

Cut the bread into small pieces and soak into water until it soft and moisture after squeezed until dry for mixed ( the bread need to be really dry if you like the patty more crispy and dry then moisture inside). Mixed it all together with your hands until well mix, after start to shape it rounded like normal burger or using shaping cookies to shape it as Christmas three, stars etc. then ready for baked, grilled or fried. For baked, put at the oven around 180-200C for about 45 minutes- 1hour until it brown, the same with grilled then served it with French fries, salads or buttery rice don’t forget the lemon juice.

before and after xmas beeftekia

Have a nice time to try this, and don’t forget to live a comment after. GBU

Baked Chicken Mozzarella

If you a working mom or wife, a busy person, don't have much time to cook, but love to eat homemade fresh meal, I think this is the right meal for you A quick and delicious chicken recipe, with boneless chicken breasts and cheese. The flavor from the wine adds extra flavor. baked with mushrooms, sliced tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese. oh..heaven!

Ingredients:

1. 4 Boneless skinless Chicken breast, cut in half then pound until evenly thinned out.
2. Garlic powder salt and pepper.
3. 2 Tbsp butter
4. 1 Tbsp Olive oil
5. 8-10 fresh sliced mushroom
6. 2 Tbsp marsala wine or white wine
7. 2 tomatoes, slice
8. sliced mozzarella cheese

• Sprinkle pounded chicken with salt, pepper and garlic powder, using frying pan or skillet, heat 1 tbsp butter and olive oil, Add chicken, cook in medium heat for 3-4 minutes each side. Place chicken into baking dish/Pyrex side by side, set aside.
• Place skillet back into medium heat, add 1 tbsp butter, wine and mushroom, saute the mushroom until tender or soft, pour mushroom marsala sauce into chicken, top with sliced tomatoes, then cheese. Bake at 325°/165°C for 25 minutes. Voila.

My favorite Freddito or Freddoccino

After posted many food's recipes, i want to share one of my favorite drinks. A mixture of ice coffee .
Here in Greece we called it Freddocino or Freddito. Thanks to a bartender at Athena that showed me how to made a nice one without the professional machines, only with blender or food processor that strong enough to crush ice cube.

Ingredients:
- 3 spoons of chocolate's drink powder or pure cacao /choco powder; if pure cacao powder need to add sugar. *As for me i don't like sweet so much, then 1 or max 2 teaspoons sugar was enough.

This measurement equal with 3 tea spoon

- Instant espresso or similar like this, just add 1 teaspoon or at Indonesia maybe can use the classic Nescafe. But if you are a Coffee Fans then better used a cup of fresh brewed espresso.

- ice cube, from frozen milk or just normal water;
For a better result, prefer frozen milk like this; this enough for 1 time serving, if reverses; the milk will be 1 small cup or less and the ice cube around 8-10 pieces normal ice cube.

frozen milk, the idea is froze the almost expire milk

First use the 1st speed to mix all together until the ice crushed and the color become light brown /chocolates milk's color then put the 2nd speed for few seconds.

until all blend together like this picture;

serves like this with or without cherry, or maybe you can add sprinkles chocolates...
Then it ready to serve.

CROQUETTE STUFFED WITH CHICKEN AND VEGGIES

a bites after all fried well...

When I tried to make this, actually I was thinking about how to make potato balls or croquettes without eggs but still crispy for the ‘vegetarian’ meals the Orthodox fasting.

This is the first time I try to make this food but I remember some how from my childhood memories, when I was helping my mother to make these for her ‘arisan’(Indonesian word for gathering and had some play with money) or when she throw a gathering with families or church friends.

My mom’ knows I like it very much but she didn’t like very much in making that because too many things to do and finish fast.

Before making this, I was eating some croquettes at Greek tavern (=restaurant) as appetizers but it was stuffing with cheese; its surprise me at first, never eat croquette like that, nice but my husband will not eat it when the cheese inside is feta (=Greek cheese). My husband is really Greek’s guy but hate feta cheese but his lucky, I don’t like it either.

Ok, I make some pictures to make all the beginners like me really easy to following this recipe.

Here are the ingredients:

4-6 pieces medium potatoes (remove the skin)

2 pieces white eggs

2 pieces carrots small (chop into small pieces)

½ piece chicken breast filled (non fat)

1 table spoon butter (as needed)

2 table spoon Soy sauce (as needed)

1 pieces garlic chop and smash

Salt & pepper

Black pepper

Bread crumbs as need it

Corn oil for fried

Water

All purpose flour

Preparations:

First boil or steam the potato until soft for around 30 minutes, just cut into small pieces so it soft faster after smash it well until really crush so you can make the potato balls nice an smooth, for this I ask my husband help. While you smash it don’t forget to as a pinch of salt and pepper if you like salty, if not no need.

Chop the carrots, for nice and soft result; just boil together with the potato but for me not.

Boil also the chicken breast before you chop it

 

For the stuffing:

In small pan with medium heat, melt butter with a little corn or olive oil then put the garlic chop and stir it until slightly brown then pour the chop carrots and chicken and stir fry it with the garlic; mix it well ad pinch salt and black pepper as you like, add the Soy sauce then stir it until mix all together well.

The croquettes:

After the smash potato and stuffing ready, start to make the potato balls using your hands, use some of olive or corn oil a little at your hands before you make the balls.

As you can see at below pictures;

 

After all ready and cover with bread crumbs then heat the corn oil with the pan for fries;

 

just remember the oil must be over the croquettes to make the brown color well, not like me, I didn’t put enough oil so when I turned it still have white lines there. 

For the vegetarian the white eggs you can replace it with all purpose flour and water; mixed it well and not so liquid, after you can cover it with bread crumbs before fried so it will as crispy as with the white eggs.for the stuffing also don't use butter or chicken; just chop mix veggies as you like; carrots, green onions etc and mixed it like salad; with olive oil and salt.

Have a nice time to try this, and don’t forget to live a comment after. GBU

Basic BROWNIES

I like very much brownies, before I was living in Indonesia at city called Bandung where brownies became famous and invited people all over the cities to come and visited just to buy the brownies. I didn’t know who was the first one Amanda’s or Kartika Sari or others but there are baked and steam brownies; I like both of them but in steam the chocolates more tasty.

I tried to make my first brownies with this recipe from  http://www.brownierecipes.net/

Ingredients:

¼ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.

½ cup of sifted unbleached flour.

2 ½ tablespoons of softened margarine.

1 ½ tablespoons of chopped walnuts.

½ cup of sugar.

1 egg.

Preparation:

Preheat oven on a high setting.

Lightly grease a 3 ½ x 7 ½ inch baking tray.

Cream the margarine and sugar in a large bowl.

Mix in the cocoa powder, then add the egg and whip the mixture for about 1-2 minutes, until smooth and all

The cocoa powder has been combined.

Sift the flour and add to the mixture, stir in the nuts.

Evenly spread the batter into the tin and bake for 18-20 minutes or until a cake tester comes out slightly moist.

Cool the brownie and then cut into 10 squares.

The taste was nice but it’s become too thin and crispy; as you can see at the above picture. Also I don’t understand about the cup measurement and I replaced the walnut with corn flakes. It was failed I don’t understand why but the taste was nice so even though it didn’t looks like brownies; very thin and crispy but we eat it all.

After my first brownies failed I was searching for another recipe and found many but I only test the basic brownies first from COOKS.COM 6 months ago, here are the ingredients:

□ 2 cups sugar

□ 1 1/2 cups sifted flour

□ 1 cup butter

□ 2-3 squares unsweetened chocolate

□ 4 eggs, slightly beaten

□ 1 tsp. baking powder

□ 2 tsp. vanilla

□ 1 cup chopped nuts

□ 1/2 tsp. espresso powder (optional)

Melt butter and chocolate over low heat. Add sugar and eggs. Mix. Sift

Flour and baking powder and stir in.

Stir in vanilla and nuts.

Bake in a preheated 350°F oven in a greased and floured 13x9x2-inch

pan for 35-40 minutes (or until done).

At first time testing this recipe I didn’t found unsweetened chocolates with bars so I use cacao instead and make it around ½ cup without walnuts because I’ve been searching almost in every supermarket that my husband and I shop but didn’t found it so without walnut my second brownies and also forgot to searching for vanilla. 

It’s nice but didn’t taste like brownies, it more like simple chocolate cake and it’s finish slow, at first we eat some fresh from oven and it’s taste nice but after cold my husband and I didn’t like it very much so he brings to his office and every time we drink tea or coffee I serve with that finally finished after 2 weeks and sometimes warm a little at oven.

After that I’m still curious to test this recipe then I found chocolates bars for cooking, chocolates chips, chop walnuts and sesame seeds. The 3^rd was went out too sweet  but it’s taste like brownies I forgot to reduce the sugar because the chocolate bars already have 25% sugar. The 4^th with walnut because I test after I found the walnut at Carrefour marinopoulos this also better but I forgot to reduce the sugar again and its still a little bit sweet even though I add more chocolate and cacao.

Finally at the 5^th or 6^th I don’t remember exactly but I tried many times this and the last time that was great when 1/3 pack of walnut left. So I was finishing the walnut also bake into 3 pieces 10X15X 4 cm container because I’m thinking to share it with my parents & sister in law and because I don’t want my husband and I eat it all we already need diet but I’m still curious to make the nice brownies.

I change the recipe a little bit, to fit my situations here. These are the ingredients:

□ 1 1/2 cups = 150 gr sugar

□ 1 1/2 cups = 150 gr sifted flour (a little more for the container)

□ 1 cup = 75-100 gr butter (a little more for the container)

□ 3-5 squares unsweetened chocolate (= 75 -125 gr) 1 square is 25 gr

□ 4 eggs, slightly beaten

□ 1 tea spoon baking powder

□ 2 tea spoons vanilla (2 packs if the vanillas like mine)

□ 1 cup chopped walnuts (as you like)

□ 1 table spoon sesame seeds (optional)

□ 2 table spoon chocolate chips (as you like) or chop chocolate bars

□ 3 pieces 10X15X 4 cm container

Preparations:

1. Before you start mixing, just brush the container first with butter and after with flour, because when you’re cooking alone if not do this at first, you will forget it.

2. After mix eggs along with sugar put it at the 1^st speed until it almost white color, while you melting the chocolate and butter.

3. When the eggs and sugar already mixed well pour the vanilla and baking powder

4. After few second slightly with the spoon pouring the flour until finish all and mixed well

5. The last but not least the melted butter and chocolate mixed with all the batter untul well mix, you can use the mixer or with spatula it’s fine.

6. After the batter ready you can mix a little walnut or chocolate chips with spatula or a little sesame seed at the top.

Final brownies

Fresh from oven always taste nice

The 3 containers; for my husband and I we mixed all inside the batter, walnuts, chocolate chips and bars and some sesame at the top of it. For my parents in law also the same except for my sister in law she allergic to nuts so I just mixed it with chocolates.

After the cake ready my husband didn’t want to share with his family, he wants to keep it all for us at home. But I told him if we keep it we will be fat and he agreed to bring it to his family and the cakes finish in 1 day, 2/3 after ready and fresh from oven later at dinner we finish it as desert.

The happiness in cooking when it turns out well and the person who we cooked for likes it very much. Just don’t too much stuck at the recipes, play with it as your family likes it then you will be a good chef for your family.

Have a nice time testing this recipe; don’t forget to drop a comment after. GBU

serve with tea

 

Cook With Love: My Mom’s Soup

Cook With Love: My Mom’s Soup: "I like soup, especially the soup that my mom always makes for us at home when I was a kid. This soup serve with steam rice, potato balls and..."

My Mom’s Soup

I like soup, especially the soup that my mom always makes for us at home when I was a kid. This soup serve with steam rice, potato balls and fried onion or sometimes in my country there are ‘krupuk’=crispy chips from tapioca flour. This soup is also easy to cook if you are a beginner, the only things if you want to serve it together with potato balls and fried onion just need more time for the preparations; the soup itself not more then 45 minutes, if using chicken less then that. Ok, here are the ingredients:

Meat 1/2 kg can be chicken or beef

A cup of frozen sweet corn ( you can add more if you like)

3-4 pieces carrots

6 pieces potatoes

Cabbage

2 pieces onion leaves

1-2 pieces tomatoes

2 pieces big Red onions or 4-6 pieces small

1 tea spoon Coriander powder

1-2 pieces Nutmeg

Salt

Pepper

2 eggs

Sun flower/corn oil for fried

Water

The preparations:

For the carrots; clean all the skin and slice it round and small

For potato; clean all the skin and slices it into 4-6 pieces

The onion leaves; slices into small and thin for serving and long cut for boiling

The cabbage; cut it into small pieces, anyway you like to eat it

Red onion; slice thin for fried to be crispy

Tomatoes; cut it into small pieces

the soup with fried onion

The Soup

First you have to prepare the water until its starting to boil then put in the meat or chicken, for meat don’t cut it into small pieces let it the big cut from butcher until its soft; we need the broth to make the soup taste nice. If you like you can use beef with some bone to have better taste, but if your husband don’t like the bones or fats better to get none fat meat from thigh. Anyway you prefer that better.

After the meat, insert Coriander powder, nutmeg, salt and pepper as you like.

Check the meat if it is done or not by cutting it; if it still red, then need to boil it more if not, then u can cut it into thin/small pieces to make your family easier to eat that.

After the meat ready, start to insert the carrots after 15-20 minutes, you can inserting the potato, then let it for a while until carrots and potato soft then insert  onion leaves, cabbages, corn and tomato and let it until boils again then its done

fried potato balls

Potato balls

Separate potato for the soup and the balls, either you steam it or boil it almost the same around 30-45 minutes; just boiling faster then steam but when you steam it the potato balls will be more crispy then boiling and not easily break. After the potato soft smash it until it really soft and start to mix it with pepper and salt if you like u can add oregano and olive oil, eggs and mixed it well; after mixed together then using spoon to make it round shape for fried then fried it until  brown color and crispy then lift it up and dry with kitchen paper.

Fried onion

Stir fry the onions with sauce pan until brown color then lift it up and dry it with kitchen paper.

It’s up to you prefer eat that with rice or bread, it’s always nice as long as serve together with fried onion and potato balls.

Give some comment after you try this. 

Thx & GBU

Cheesesteak Stromboli

My other half is a great hunter, during hunting season (Oct-Feb) He use his spare times to fulfill his hobby to hunt for deers, We live in the area where is lots of the wilds wondering around during cold weather. We were blessed with 2-3 deers each year, more than enough for whole year supply venison meat in our deep freezer, One of the family favorite dishes made out of venison meat is Cheese steak stromboli, This dishes is one of my "made up" recipe that turn out to be the "hit" for family gathering. It is easy and simple to make, What most American use for the meat is Beef. The bottom line is, you can pretty much use any kind of meat to make this rolls


Cheese steak Stromboli

1 Lb Pre-Sliced thin meat, I use venison
1 large vidalia/sweet onion, slice, (yellow onion work fine)
3 Small Cloves of garlic slice thin or chop
2 Tbsp Olive oil / or vegetable oil
Salt and pepper

Other ingredients:
1 Can of sliced button mushroom
Couple tablespoon of spaghetti sauce
Shredded Mozzarella cheese
1 Recipe of Pizza dough I (for 3 Stromboli)
1 Egg, beat

Preheat oil in a large size fry-pan, stir fry garlic for a minute and add Onion, cook until onion soft and tender. set aside
Add sliced meat, sprinkle with salt and pepper and saute quickly for about 2-3 minutes, chop meat until it turn into small pieces with spatula and turning several times, add saute
onion, garlic, stir. Cook until all the juice are almost gone. Set aside
















Take a huge handful of pizza dough, roll each dough half into a rectangle or circle about 10" x 8". Arrange fillings over dough as shown in Photo 1, start with meat, then add 4-5 table spoon of spaghetti sauce, mushroom, loaded top with mozzerella cheese. Roll the dough as shown in photo, Pinch the edges of the seam and tuck the ends top.



Bake at 425F for 20-25 minutes, brush the top with egg mixture then bake for additional 5 minutes.


Tips: Slice- pre sliced meat into very small pieces prior to cook (best while is still half frozen), so you don't have to chop it later.

Pizza Sauce

On my previous post I had posted two basic pizza dough recipes, Pizza dough without pizza sauce become useless, unless you only need the dough for bread sticks to go along with pasta or salad. That would be fine. Like I said earlier, I do cooked lots of Italian/Sicilian food, Although none in my family were Italian, but we do LOVE Italian food, We live in the country where there is many choices dishes from many countries around the world, Since my soul mate LOVE to eat and cooking is one of my passion, Obviously we are the perfect match except for the cleaning part, Unfortunately both of us hated it (we talk about that later.. haha)

Pizza Sauce

1/4 Cup Chopped Celery
1/2 Cup Chopped Onion
1 Clove of Garlic, finely chopped
8 OZ Can Tomato Sauce
6 OZ Can Tomato Paste
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
1 Teaspoon Dried Basil
1 Teaspoon Dried Oregano
2 Tablespoons Grated Parmesan Cheese
1 Small Bay Leaf
1 Teaspoon Fennel Seeds
2 Tablespoons Olive oil
1 Tablespoon butter

In a large skillet, melt butter with the oil. Add the onion, celery and garlic, stir and saute until soft, Add tomato sauce and tomato paste and stir until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and bring to slow simmer. Simmer for 30-60 minutes until the sauce got thick.

Basic Pizza dough

Before I start adding recipes to this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to post my basic pizza dough. I do cooked lots of Italian/Sicilian food, Although none in my family were Italian, but we do LOVE Italian food, why pay high dollar if you can cook it your self? Especially if you like to cook just like me?, or at least willing to try something new, perhaps to surprise your love ones with your homemade dinner?, hey let's get start it..!



Basic Pizza Dough I

Ingredients

• 1 cup flat beer or flat 7Up
  
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar (use 1 tablespoons if use 7Up)
  
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast

In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients as order, stir well to combine. Beat well until a stiff dough has formed. Cover and rise until doubled in volume, about 30 minutes.
Form dough into a round, Roll or press dough to cover a prepared pizza pan or any type of rolls you want, Brush lightly with olive oil. Cover and let stand 15 minutes
*Recommend oven temperature: 400°F (205°C) for 12-18 minutes depend on the shaped of the crust.


Pizza Dough Recipe II

Ingredients

• 0.25 OZ (7gr) active dry yeast
• 1 cup warm water (110°F / 45°C)
• 2 cups bread flour
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand until creamy (approximately 10minutes) set aside. In a large bowl, combine 2 cups bread flour, salt, sugar, olive oil, and the yeast mixture, stir well to combine. Beat well until a stiff dough has formed. Cover and rise until doubled in volume, (approximately 30 minutes). Turn dough out onto a well floured surface. Form dough into a round and roll out into a pizza crust shape or any shape you want.
*Recommend oven temperature: 350°F (175°C) for 20-25 minutes depend on the shaped of the crust.

Cook With Love: MY FIRST SPAGHETTY

Cook With Love: MY FIRST SPAGHETTY: "

MY FIRST SPAGHETTY

SPAGHETTY WITH TOMATO SAUCE

Lou, my sister in law thought me that the most easy things to cook is spaghetti, perhaps like urgent home meals at home in Indonesian it’s instant noodles such as Indomie.

The preparations only takes around 15-20 minutes, here are the ingredients;

1. No.10 spaghetti; pack of 500 grams are for 12 plates for normal serving, normally I use 1/3 of the pack for 4 plates.

2. 1-2 pcs tomato; u can clean the skin if you like, I prefer that way

3. 1-2 pcs onion

4. Additional tomato juice pack

5. 1-2 garlic

6. Salt

7. Pepper (white/black)

8. Vinegar

9. 1-2 bay leaves

10. Olive oil

11. Meat: you can use tuna, shrimp or ground beef.

The spaghetti:

Boil hot water on a big pan, after that put in all the spaghetti for around 7-10 minutes until its soft, and then dry it.

The Sauce:

Mix tomato, garlic, and onion into a juicer, then heat olive oil in a small pan  with all the juice, add the bay leaves, salt and pepper as you like until it blend with olive oil then u can add the tomato juice pack to make the color more red, after you can put inside the meat then let it boil until well done.

Then it’s ready to serve. Don’t forget to mix the spaghetti with olive oil so it will not stick together; if you want to eat it another time, better separated between the spaghetti and the sauce to keep it fresh.

Enjoy, give feed back after you try this; thx & GBU


Lou, η αδελφή μου στο νόμο μου σκέφτηκε ότι το πιο εύκολο πράγματα για να μαγειρέψουν είναι μακαρόνια, ίσως σαν επείγον σπιτικών γευμάτων στο σπίτι Ινδονησίας είναι στιγμιαία noodles, όπως Indomie.

Η προετοιμασία διαρκεί μόνο περίπου 15-20 λεπτά, εδώ είναι τα συστατικά?

1. σπαγγέτι No.10? συσκευασία των 500 γραμμαρίων είναι για 12 πινακίδες για κανονική μερίδα, συνήθως χρησιμοποιώ 1 / 3 του πακέτου για 4 πιάτα.
2. 1-2 τμχ ντομάτα? U μπορεί να καθαρίσει το δέρμα, αν θέλετε, εγώ προτιμώ αυτό τον τρόπο
3. 1-2 τεμ κρεμμύδι
4. Πρόσθετο πακέτο χυμό ντομάτας
5. 1-2 σκόρδο
6. Αλάτι
7. Πιπέρι (άσπρο / μαύρο)
8. Ξίδι
9. 1-2 φύλλα δάφνης
10. Ελαιόλαδο
11. Κρέας: μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε τον τόνο, τις γαρίδες ή το επίγειο βόειο κρέας.

Τα μακαρόνια:
Βράζουμε ζεστό νερό σε μια μεγάλη κατσαρόλα, μετά την εν λόγω θέσει σε όλα τα μακαρόνια για περίπου 7-10 λεπτά μέχρι να μαλακώσουν, και στη συνέχεια στεγνώστε το.

Η σάλτσα:
Ανακατέψτε ντομάτα, σκόρδο, κρεμμύδι και σε ένα αποχυμωτή, τότε Ζεσταίνουμε το ελαιόλαδο σε ένα μικρό τηγάνι με όλες τις χυμό, προσθέστε τη δάφνη, το αλάτι και το πιπέρι, όπως σας αρέσει, έως ότου μίγμα με το ελαιόλαδο και στη συνέχεια u μπορεί να προσθέσει το πακέτο χυμό ντομάτας σε κάνει το χρώμα πιο κόκκινο, αφού μπορείτε να βάλετε μέσα το κρέας στη συνέχεια τα αφήνουμε να βράσουν μέχρι να γίνει καλά.

Τότε είναι έτοιμο να εξυπηρετήσει. Μην ξεχάσετε να αναμίξει τα μακαρόνια με λάδι και έτσι δεν θα κολλήσουν μαζί? Εάν θέλετε να το φάτε κάποια άλλη στιγμή, την καλύτερη χωριστούν μεταξύ των μακαρόνια και τη σάλτσα για να τον διατηρήσει.

Απολαύστε, δίνουν τροφή πίσω μετά από την προσπάθειά σας αυτή? Thx & GBU

My First Cooking Grilled Chicken Fillet

After I married and moved to Greece with my husband the first thing that freak me out was about cooking but before i already told him that i've never cook or often  to clean the house or just do the house wife duties when i was living alone.
In my country we're always be able to paid someone to do our dirty jobs that's why i  have a house keeper before. Here in Greece, we can't afford to pay someone to do our house work because it's too much expensive, even u have nice salary it still cost half your salary, except you really rich.

Anyway different country different rules and culture but i can manage because here we still afford to have dish washer machines, and others to help us cleaning and washing.
Back to cooking, I like Asian food like Japan for the sushi roll and some Chinese and Indonesian cuisines. here i will talk about everything and also what I've learn from my sister & mother in law about Greek food.

This plate for me, cause i don't like the pepper

Double smash potato and veggies for my hubby

The first meals that I've cook when we move to our own apartment was grilling chicken breast fillet on the toaster.  I think it was easy, even i have no idea what i was doing at that time. Worry that my husband wouldn't likes it, afraid that the chicken wasn't well done or too much salt and other things. The photo was at 2nd or 3rd time making that; because when i was cooking at first time i wasn't aware that i will writing this blogs about cooking.

Here the ingredients:
- chicken breast fillet 700 grams i think it's around 4 pieces; you can find it easy at supermarket the only think it was more expensive then other part of the chicken.
- salt
- black pepper & normal pepper
- olive oil
- oregano
- vinegar
- frozen mixed veggies, if you don't likes it just like me i like more the green peas and corn only.
- 3 pieces medium potato (if you like with smash, fried potato) i prefer smash it's more healthy
- 2 lemon (cut it for additional taste)

For the grilled:
the chicken you can cut it to make it wide and faster cook, if you are on diet, you have clean up the fats,
then you can brush it with olive oil all over, salt, pepper and oregano if you like. for salt and pepper no need to much because later u can add it if it wasn't enough; better this way then too salty or spicy then you're ready for grilled it
with oven;
turn on the heat until 180C then u can put it for over 30 minutes; after u can check if it's well done or not by cut the thickest part of it and check still pink or all whites; if isn't the u have to bring in back to oven until it really well done, except if you likes it that way.
with toaster;
actually with this more healthy because the fat liquid will go but don't make it too dry. turn on the highest temperature and let it change color until whites and it a lot more quicker with toast then oven actually only around 15-20 minutes it's the double side toaster for toast bread that I've used.

for the veggies you just boil it or steam it for around 5-10 minutes then it will be ready.

for the potato if you wanted to smash it, you can boil it or steam it after you clean the skin, to be faster cut the potato into small pieces so it will be done in 15 minutes then not cutting at all it will take a lot of time more then 30 minutes then smash it mixed it together with salt, pepper and olive oil and a little oregano & vinegar

after everything ready you can add lemon juice to your chicken or tomato sauce and mustard, anyway you likes it.

Thanks God, my Husband like my cooking and he said my cooking surprise him and it beyond his thought, because he was guessing it will be worst.
Good luck to try and gives some comment if you already try it thanks...

HELLENIC VERSION 
 Μετά παντρεύτηκα και μετακόμισε στην Ελλάδα με το σύζυγό μου, το πρώτο πράγμα που μου φρικτός έξω ήταν για το μαγείρεμα, αλλά πριν είπα ήδη ότι ποτέ δεν έχω μαγειρεύουν ή συχνά να καθαρίσει το σπίτι ή απλά να κάνουν τα καθήκοντα γυναίκα σπίτι όταν ήμουν που ζουν μόνοι .
Στη χώρα μου είμαστε πάντα σε θέση να καταβάλει κάποιος για να κάνει τη βρώμικη δουλειά μας γι 'αυτό και έχω έναν φύλακα σπίτι πριν. Εδώ στην Ελλάδα, δεν έχουμε την πολυτέλεια να πληρώσει κάποιος για να κάνει τη δουλειά στο σπίτι μας, επειδή είναι πάρα πολύ ακριβά, ακόμη και u έχω ωραία μισθός είναι το κόστος θα είναι το μισό μισθό σας, εκτός αν πραγματικά πλούσιος.

Τέλος πάντων άλλη χώρα διαφορετικούς κανόνες και τον πολιτισμό, αλλά μπορώ να διαχειριστεί, διότι εδώ έχουμε ακόμα την πολυτέλεια να έχουμε μηχανές πλυντήριο πιάτων, και άλλοι για να μας βοηθήσει να τον καθαρισμό και το πλύσιμο.
Επιστροφή στη μαγειρική, μου αρέσει ασιατικά τρόφιμα όπως η Ιαπωνία για το ρολό σούσι και ορισμένες κινεζικές και ινδονησιακή κουζίνα. Εδώ θα μιλήσω για τα πάντα, αλλά και ό, τι έχω μάθει από την αδελφή και τη μητέρα μου στο νόμο για τα ελληνικά τρόφιμα.
Τα πρώτα γεύματα που έχω μαγείρεμα όταν κινούμαστε προς τη δική διαμέρισμά μας ήταν το ψήσιμο στη σχάρα κοτόπουλο φιλέτο στήθους στην τοστιέρα. Νομίζω ότι ήταν εύκολο, ακόμη δεν έχω ιδέα τι έκανα εκείνη τη στιγμή. Ανησυχία ότι ο σύζυγός μου θα του αρέσει, δεν, φοβάται ότι το κοτόπουλο δεν ήταν καλά κάνει ή πολύ αλάτι και άλλα πράγματα. Η φωτογραφία ήταν στο 2ο ή 3ο χρόνο για την εν λόγω? Γιατί όταν ήμουν μαγείρεμα σε πρώτη φορά θ δεν γνώριζε ότι εγώ θα γράψω αυτό το blogs για το μαγείρεμα.

Εδώ τα συστατικά:
- Φιλέτο στήθος κοτόπουλου 700 γραμμάρια θ νομίζω ότι είναι περίπου 4 κομμάτια? Μπορείτε να το βρείτε εύκολα στο σούπερ μάρκετ το μόνο πιστεύω ότι ήταν πιο ακριβό τότε άλλο μέρος του κοτόπουλου.
- Αλάτι
- Μαύρο πιπέρι & κανονικό πιπέρι
- Το ελαιόλαδο
- Ρίγανη
- Ξίδι
- Κατεψυγμένα λαχανικά μικτή, αν δεν αρέσει αυτό ακριβώς σαν κι εμένα μου αρέσει περισσότερο το αρακά και το καλαμπόκι μόνο.
- 3 τεμάχια μεσαίου πατάτας (αν σας αρέσει με συντριβή, τηγανητές πατάτες), προτιμώ smash είναι πιο υγιεινά
- 2 λεμόνι (το κόψει για επιπλέον γεύση)

Για το ψητό:
το κοτόπουλο μπορείτε να κοπεί για να κάνουν μεγάλη και ταχύτερη μαγείρισσα, εάν είστε σε δίαιτα, έχετε καθαρίσει τα λίπη,
τότε μπορείτε να το πινέλο με λάδι πάνω από όλα, το αλάτι, το πιπέρι και ρίγανη, αν θέλετε. για το αλάτι και το πιπέρι δεν χρειάζεται να πολύ γιατί αργότερα το u μπορεί να προσθέσει αν αυτό δεν ήταν αρκετό? καλύτερος αυτόν τον τρόπο, στη συνέχεια, πολύ αλμυρό ή πικάντικο τότε είστε έτοιμοι για το ψητό
με φούρνο?
ενεργοποιήσετε τη φωτιά μέχρι 180C τότε το u μπορεί να το θέσει για πάνω από 30 λεπτά? μετά u να ελέγξετε αν είναι καλά κάνει ή να μην κοπεί από το πιο παχύ μέρος της, και ελέγχει ακόμα ροζ ή όλα τα λευκά? αν δεν είναι το u πρέπει να θέσουν στο πίσω φούρνο μέχρι πραγματικά καλά κάνει, εκτός αν το θέλει με αυτόν τον τρόπο.
με τοστιέρα?
στην πραγματικότητα με αυτό το πιο υγιείς επειδή το λίπος υγρό θα πάει, αλλά δεν καθιστούν πολύ ξηρό. ενεργοποιήσετε την υψηλότερη θερμοκρασία και αφήστε το να αλλάξετε το χρώμα μέχρι λευκών και πολύ περισσότερο πιο γρήγορα με τοστ τότε φούρνο πραγματικά μόνο περίπου 15-20 λεπτά είναι η διπλή τοστιέρα πλευρά για ψωμί τοστ που έχω χρησιμοποιήσει.

για τα λαχανικά που βράζουν ακριβώς ή ατμού αυτό για περίπου 5-10 λεπτά, τότε θα είναι έτοιμο.

για την πατάτα, αν ήθελε να το σπάσει, μπορείτε να βράσετε ή ατμού αυτό αφού καθαρίσετε το δέρμα, να είναι ταχύτερη μείωση του πατάτα σε μικρά κομμάτια και έτσι θα γίνει μέσα σε 15 λεπτά, στη συνέχεια, δεν κοπή καθόλου θα χρειαστεί πολλή διάστημα περισσότερο από 30 λεπτά και στη συνέχεια να συντρίψει αναμιγνύεται μαζί με αλάτι, πιπέρι και το ελαιόλαδο και λίγη ρίγανη & ξύδι

μετά από όλα έτοιμα μπορείτε να προσθέσετε χυμό λεμονιού για να κοτόπουλο ή τομάτας σας σάλτσα και μουστάρδα, έτσι κι αλλιώς, τι θέλει.

Ευχαριστώ τον Θεό, ο σύζυγός μου αρέσει η μαγειρική μου και είπε ότι το μαγείρεμα έκπληξή μου αυτόν και πέρα από τη σκέψη του, γιατί ήταν μαντέψουν θα είναι χειρότερη.
Καλή τύχη να προσπαθήσουμε και να δίνει κάποιο σχόλιο, αν το δοκιμάσετε ήδη χάρη ...

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