Delicious yogurt mousse.

Whats up guys, Giordano here,                  (www.facebook.com/Giordanosfood)

      Today i am gonna share with you this amazing recipe of yogurt mousse for the amazing light and creamy texture of a sweet to serve to your visitors anytime.

Yogurt Mousse

    Ingredients :

1. 2 egg whites
2. 100g sugar
3. 100g water
4. 1 1/2 cup of greek yogurt
5. lemon peel

    Method :

• On a small pot put the sugar, the water and the lemon peel and make bowil it until 115 C ( almost 2 more minutes after start boiling ).
• At the same time hit the white eggs on a mixer until maringue, when the sirup is ready drop it into the mixing bowl of maringue while hitting slowly slowly to gain temperature, hit it 5 more minutes strongly
• When our mix gets chill put the yogurt inside and very gently stir.
• With a pastry bag put the mousse into glasses and put to the fridge for 2 hours
• Serve them with fruits on top or even better with preserved fruits for more taste.

Thats all folks, thanks for reading my blog, i hope you enjoyed it, give it a like on my blog and facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/Giordanosfood ) for support and more recipes.      

Perfect dessert for fasting !

In Greece and  Cyprus term halva is used for both varietes of the dessert. Today i will not tell you a recipe for sesame halva but for an amazing semolina halva that we referre as 1-2-3-4, as it calls of one unit of oil, two of semolina, three of sugar and four of water. I will make a small change in sugar because i think its enough sweet with 2 1/2 cups of sugar. Lets make it :

Semolina Halva with raisins

        Ingredients:

1. 1 cup of olive oil
2. 2 cups of semolina
3. 2 1/2 cups of sugar
4. 4 cups of water
5. 1 cinnamon stick
6. 1 orange peel
7. 1 tbs cinnamon powder

       Method:

• On a small pot boil water with sugar, the cinnamon stick and the orange peel on low heat
• On a deep hot pot. put the olive oil and aftrer put the semolina, stir often until semolina becomes a bit more brown
• Put in cinnamon powder the raisins
• Remove the pots from the heat,remove the cinnamon stick from the sirup and put slowly, carefully put our sirup to the semolina, stir very good
• Put the pot to the fire again and let it become as "one" (  cook it for a minute ), then remove it from the heat, put it to a form and let it chill, when is not hot put it to the fridge and let it for 2 hours at least before you cut it.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon powder on the top.

Thats all folks for today, even on fasting times we can enjoy absolute amazing desserts without "sin" :) 

"Bougatsa'' with chocolate cream !

Whats up guys, Giordano here,

            On this post we gonna speak about a Greek pastry breakfast, called ''bougatsa'', consisting of either semolina custard, cheese or minced meat between layers of phyllo. Bougatsa is very popular in Thessaloniki, today i am gonna share with you an alternative recipe with chocolate and trust me when i say, you are gonna love this. Lets get started :

Bougatsa with chocolate cream

         Ingredients :

1. 14 sheets phyllo dough
2. 500 ml milk
3. 50 gr thin semolina
4. 30 gr flour
5. 2 eggs
6. 80 gr sugar
7. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract/ 1 vanilla stick
8. 125 gr dark chocolate
9. powdered sugar and cacao for the top
10. 100 gr butter

        Method :

• On a pot, put the milk on medium heat.
• On a bowl hit the sugar, the eggs and the vanlla, add semolina and flour and keep hitting. Add a bit of milk on the bowl and whisk. Add all the mix form the bowl to the pot and bring it to simmer and whisk until it gets strong. Take off from the heat and add the chocolate in small peaces, whisk till chocolate melts. ( if you dont want with chocolate , you just dont put the chocolate inside. ). Let the cream get colder, if the cream is very strong add a little bit of milk more till it gets lighter.
• Pre-heat the oven at 180 C. Melt the butter and butter good an oven tray and put the first sheet of of phyllo, butter good the phyllo on the oven tray and put the second sheet on top, continue until you put 7.
• After you putted 7 sheets put the cream inside and spread it good everywhere
• Put another sheet of phyllo and butter good, and continue till you put 7 also. Keep in mind to butter it a lot so when you bake it it will stay as one together and be crunchy. Put all the butter left on the top of the last phyllo.
• Bake it on 180 C until it gets good red colour 30-45 minutes depends the oven, Put it high on the oven so the heat will go up and cook the bottom also.
• Take it from the oven , let it chill before you cut it . Cacao and powdered sugar for the top. ( if you dont make chocolate cream put cinnamon instead of cacao).

Thats all folks , how you and your family enjoy this amazing recipe for breakfast, see you next time !!!

Awaken the flavors.

Whats up guys, Giordano here,
         Today we will speak for a classic American dessert ''Chocolate Brownie'' , It is a cross between a cake and a soft cookie in texture and comes in a variety of forms, mostly square.
Brownies are typically eaten by hand and its an amazing combination with coffee or milk. You can easy serve them also warm with a ball of ice-cream topped with whipped cream or sprinkled with powdered sugar. Lets get started and amaze our guests!!!

Ingredients :

1. 250gr Dark Chocolate 65% Cacao
2. 250gr Butter
3. 250gr Pastry flour
4. 200gr sugar
5. 4 eggs
6. 2 vanilla

Preparation :

1. Mix the eggs with the sugar in a mixer and mix for 3-4 minutes
2. In a bain-maire melt the chocolate with the butter
3. Put the melted chocolate and the butter to our mixer and hit for 1 minute
4. Put the flour slowly and keep whisking with the mixer
5. Add the vanilla
6. Butter an oven pan everywhere and drop our mix until is 2 fingers high
7. Bake in a pre heated oven for 20-25 minutes at 180C
8. When you take it off from the oven let it chill and after cut it to squares 

Thats all folks , if you enjoyed and like my recipe let me know , thank you and goodbye till next time!

Για τους Έλληνες φίλους μου.

      Σήμερα θα μιλήσουμε για τα brownies σοκολάτας , ένα κλασικό Αμερικάνικο γλυκό.Τα brownies είναι μια διαστάυρωση μεταξύ κέικ και μαλακού μπισκότου και μπορεί να φέρνει πολλές μορφές αλλά η ποιο συνηθής είναι τα κυβάκια.Συνήθως τρώγονται με το χέρι και πάνε υπέρχα με την συνοδεία καφέ ή με ένα ποτήρι γάλα. Επίσης μπορείτε να τα σερβίρετε ζεστά με μια μπάλα παγωτό, με σαντιγύ ή πασπαλισμένα με άχνη-ζάχαρη. Ώρα να ξεκινήσουμε :

Υλικά

1. 250γρ κουβερτούρα 65% κακάο
2. 250γρ βούτυρο
3. 250γρ αλεύρι ζαχαροπλαστικής
4. 200γρ ζάχαρη
5. 4 αυγά
6. 2 βανίλιες

Εκτέλεση

1. Χτυπάμε στο μίξερ τα αυγά με την ζάχαρη μέχρι να αφρατέψουν
2. Σε μπεν-μαρι λιώστε την σοκολάτα μαζί με το βούτυρο
3. Προσθέστε στο μίξερ το βούτυρο με την κουβερτούρα και χτυπήστε για 1 λεπτό
4. Ρίχνουμε σιγά σιγά το αλεύρι και τις βανίλιες
5. Βουτυρώνουμε ένα ταψί και ρίχνουμε το μίγμα μας μέχρι να είναι σε ύψος 2 δάχτυλα
6. Ψήνουμε σε προθερμασμένο φούρνο στους 180C για 20-25 λεπτά
7. Βγάζουμε απο τον φούρνο , το αφήνουμε να κρυώσει και ύστερα το κόβουμε σε μικρά κομμάτια

Αυτά για σήμερα , ελπίζω να σας άρεσε η συνταγή μου , αντίο και καλά μαγειρέματα!

A life expirience.

        My first blogger post.

     So guys , today i baked one of the most famous and absolutely delicius desert ''Chocolate Souffle''.I used the recipe of the Italian restaurant i was working one summer at Halkidiki Greece, Sani Resort, at Macaroni Italian Trattoria with chef Dimitriou Nikos and excecutive chef Gianluca Guglielmi.The recipe is a creation of my lovely friend and colleague Giorgos Tsamouris.

    I baked this desert for my Slovak girlfriend Nikola for a special night for the two of us. I hope you will use it for a special ocation and trust me , it will worth .You can serve also with ice-cream pistachio or vanilla, it will be delicious. Let's get started!!!

Ingredients : 

1. 250 gr of dark chocolate 70% choco
2. 5 eggs
3. 150 gr crystal sugar
4. 100 gr butter
5. 10 gr cacao powder
6. 1 pinch of sallt
7. 30 gr pastry flour

Preparation :

1. Melt the Chocolate in bain-marie.
2. Put inside the bain-marie the sugar and whisk it with the chocolate.
3. Put the butter till it melts and whisk it good for a minute
4. Take the bain-marie from the fire and put the eggs one by one(its really crusial to put the eggs one by one so when the desert bakes it will take nice shape and get bigger) and whisk strong .
5. Put the flour,cacao powder and the salt and whisk it until it becomes ''one''.
6. Put it in small bake forms that u buttered and putted a little bit of flour so it will not stuck in baking until 3/4 so it will have space to grew while baking.
7. Bake at ''air'' for 10-15 minutes
8. Serve and enjoy the magic melted hot chocolate.

Thats all folks , have a nice day and let me know if you enjoy my recipe.