Sunday, February 26, 2006

Cook Your Way (Defense Against the Vampires)


We use garlic very often. It gets boring pealing and choping garlics all the time. There is a better way of having fresh garlic all the time in your fridge and using it in cooking, making mayonnaise, bruschettes, in sauces and in so many more things. We'll make a sweet garlic mash. It's great for people that garlic causes stomach aches. This mash has all the garlic aromas and no side effects. It can also be use for Vampires. Just rub it on you.

-2 garlic heads
-30gr butter
-50gr. olive oil
-salt and pepper

We peel and boil the garlics. We boil them 3 times. Each time for 2'. Every time we boil the garlic cloves we change the water. We keep a small amound of the last water we boiled the cloves. We blend the cloves along with the butter, water and salt, till we have a mash. Then we add the olive oil in a steady row. Ready!

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Cook your way


Hello my friends. I’m going to inaugurate this new column for everyone of my friends leaving alone, away from their families. For everyone that hasn’t a skill in cooking. Here you will find many easy and delicious recipes for every occasion. Starting from today, I will give a recipe for lamb chops. Because today in Greece is “Tsiknopempti” so everyone eats meat. Hope you enjoy and support this idea. Lets start.

LAMB CHOPS WITH HONEY AND ROSEMARY MARINADE

- 1.5kg lamb chops
FOR THE MARINADE:
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon salt
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 200gr. honey
- 2 springs rosemary

Wash the rosemary springs and cut the leaves. Pill the garlic cloves and crush them with some salt in a pestle and mortar. Now mix everything up, except of the oil, and you will have a paste (the oil can prevent the acidity of the lemon juice or vinegar from penetrating the meat). Rub the marinade all over the lamb. Then pour the oil and leave to marinade for a minimum of 1 hour, turning occasionally, or in the fridge overnight so the flavours really get into the meat. When u are ready to cook, season the lamb well. Place under a hot grill, or a smoking pan or barbecue, for about 5-8 minutes, either side for pink, turning once or twice. Romove it and leave it to stand for a minute or two before serving.
As for the garniture, u can have a salad or rice or potatoes. But I will give u a garniture recipe in our next "Cook your way". Till then, Enjoy!

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Στο παρα 5'


Κατερίνα μήπως είδες τα επεισόδια που σου δωσα? Έχω "κολλήσει" με τη σειρά και περιμένω πως και πως κάθε δευτέρα το νέο επεισόδιο. Πολύ έξυπνο σενάριο!
Ερώτηση προς τους fun της σειράς :
Έχετε σκεφτεί ποτέ ότι η Αμαλία μπορεί και να είναι ένας καλός άγγελος που τους βοηθάει?
Μήπως ήταν και αυτή στο αεροπλάνο? (κάνει αναφορά για ένα ταξίδι που έκανε κάποτε και της άλλαξε τη ζωή) Και ήρθε τώρα για να τους βοηθήσει να αποδωθεί θεία δίκη?
Λέτε να υπάρχει μεταφυσική ανατροπή στη πορεία?
Αναμένουμε με αγωνία. Περιμένω τα σχόλια σας πάνω σε αυτή τη σκέψη.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

LORD OF THE EARING


It is the time for alternative reactions. I never thought in my life, till now, that I would like to have a piercing. Lately, though, this idea is coming again again. So, on Friday morning, while I was going to the airport to pick up my friend Katerina, coming from the UK, I decided that I want to have my ear pierced. It was time. She also motivated me so we went straight back to the center of Athens, at Plaka, where we found out there was a good piercing and tattoo place. I was a bit anxious but Katerina was trying to relax me. So did the piercing boy! He was very gentle and I didn't fell any pain when he made the piercing. But as soon as I got up from the chair, I started feeling dizzy and I almost fainted. It was a bit of a shock. Some minutes later we were off that place, trying to get used to this new, small thing I was carrying with me on my ear. We went to Monastiraki for coffee and lunch. We were lucky because it was a sunny day in Athens, and that means that Monastiraki is the ideal place for coffee. We enjoyed our time there, having fun and planning our weekend, and not only! Our next bog thing is to get a tattoo. Both of us. And that is a promise Katerina!

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Virgin Blog



Hello everyone. Let me introduce myself to u guys. My name is Constantinos and I come from Greece. I'm 29yo, born on the 8th December 1976. It's my first time creating a blog, ( pls excuse me for any possible mistakes, first time in the blogging business) thanks to my friend's, Katerina, incentive. So that's from where the title comes, inspired by the well known coctail. I hope that u'll always have a good time visiting my blog and hope it'll be leaving u with a nice taste of a fresh and cool cocktail. Sour and sweet. Enjoy...