Hellenic Kanella: Memories Made in a Greek Kitchen

di Ruth Bardis (Autore)

Kanella Productions, 2019

Ruth's parents immigrated to Australia from Greece, seeking a better life. A Greek at heart, Ruth desired to preserve her heritage by sharing her family's stories and regional cuisine specialties. Come along on this delicious journey through the Peloponnese, Cephalonia, Elefsina, and Northern Greece, and enjoy Ruth's beautiful photographs of her beloved Greece.A well-stocked pantry ensures the reader is acquainted with Greek produce and the nutritional benefits of Mediterranean eating. Her recipe chapters are divided into four parts: 'Whetting the Appetite'; 'The Saucepan and the Pan'; 'Baked Foods' and 'Sweet Endings'. Easy-to-follow techniques and foods that have been tried and tested.With over 80 recipes (half of which are gluten-free), Ruth has cooked, styled, and captured a modern yet nostalgic depiction of her life. Family linens, pictures, and serving pieces decorate the pages of this book. She has used the abundance of olive oil and spices to achieve authenticity in both main meals and desserts. From a plethora of authentic recipes inclusive of pastry making, pies, feta flatbread, pickled octopus, rabbit stew, yogurt making, orange and pork sausages, fennel seed bread, vegetarian moussaka, stuffed tomatoes, okra with lamb, lima beans, cumin meat patties, squid with orzo this book will have you salivating. Not to mention the array of desserts such as pumpkin pie, orange apricot semolina pudding, Easter bread, ouzo cookies, olive oil cake with orange blossom syrup, prune stuffed honey-soaked biscuits, mouth-watering sesame salted pistachio rose water baklava, honey donuts, milk pie, spoon sweets, and Greek coffee! Segments of narrative are intertwined with recipes, all from a Greek heart!

• Autore: Ruth Bardis
• Editore: Kanella Productions
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 260 p.
• EAN: 9780646952628

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