Happy Greek Easter!

Too many things going on this period, so I missed lots of events linked to Greek Easter that was yesterday, but I have cooked quite a lot of stuff that are linked to it as you can see in my posts.
So, with a day of delay, all my best wishes for a world with lots of love and much much less of wars and violence in general...

Happy Greek Easter! 

especially to my family and friends... that I think of you, even though we see each other once per year maybe.
 Flower syntheses, offered to me from my precious daughter that has really a talent and borrowed from our beautiful garden.

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"Tsoureki", the greek easter sweet bread!

No recipe today (too tired :), just photos to show you my "tsourekia", traditional greek easter sweet breads that are formed of braided strands of dough.
Just google the name and you will find lots of recipes out there and next year I will give you mine ...
For the time being, I am just telling you that they taste great and we have almost consumed all of them in half a day, imagine :))))
Just click on "More..." to enjoy more photos !

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The muffins of the day!

These are the muffins of the day according to my recipe Vanilla muffins that is so easy to make and tasty too.
The inspiration of the day was to add some sliced almonds on top and decorated with a lollipop as they are going to be sold in my kids' school to finance a field trip....
If you read this post on time, come and buy one before it is too late :)

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Happy Easter, whatever that means to each one of you!

Dear readers of this blog, wherever you are around the globe or just next door ;)

Happy Easter period!

I will be coloring eggs, baking traditional easter cookies from Greece and celebrate with this fluffy and creamy pudding :)
All the best,
Vivian

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Grissinis

Hubby loves Grissinis, so here's a reason to try to make them :) I have to admit that he likes the Greek version but I will try today the original ones from Torino...  that I like sooo much :) And with the remaining dough, I will make some nice small rounded breads, what do you say?
Who does not like those crunchy delicate fluffy delicious thinny bread sticks? No excuses of not trying, as it is pretty easy...

Ingredients
500 gr of good quality flour for bread
40gr yeast
a bit of salt, sugar, honey and olive oil
1 cup of warm water

Procedure

1. Start by diluting the yeast in the cup of warm water and a bit of sugar and leave it for about 10min.
2. Make a nice elastic dough by mixing flour, olive oil and the above mixture. 
3. Leave the dough to rest for about an hour in a warm place covered with a thick blanket (The traditional greek way of doing such stuff :)
4. Roll out the dough using a cylinder.
5. Cut with a knife thin slices from the dough and stretch them. (smoothly, if they break do not stick them back, bake them as is)
6. Put them next to each other in an oven tray.
7. Cover them and let them to rest again for about 30 min
8.  
9. In the meantime, you can prepare with the rest of the dough small rounded breads like in the photo and let them also rest.
10. You can sprinkle the grissinis and/or the breads with sesame seeds if you want.
11. Bake all at 180 degrees and fan for about 20 min or until they get a nice golden color.
12. Watch them carefully as the grissinis can easily get burnt.
13. Save them in a tin box. Serve them with Milanese salami or prosciutto, hmmmm....  (decorated with flowers offered for my bday :)

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