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"Italian Sausage"

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This is a recipe which doesn't take time in preparation nor cooking. Ingredients needed: 1 packet of 8 italian sausage (hot or sweet or mixed of both). 1 green pepper cut into slices. 1/2 red pepper cut into slices. 1 onion cut into slices. 3 minced garlic cloves. Italian seasoning (optional). Salt and pepper. Olive Oil. Directions: Cut sausages  into pieces. Cut the slices of green, red pepper, and onion into pieces. Pour about 2 tbsp olive oil in a large skillet (fry pan) on a medium heat. Fry the 3 minced garlic cloves, add the peppers and onion and sprinkle some salt, pepper, and italian seasoning. Stir all until they start to get tender. Add the sausages and stir, so they're fried from all sides. After that you can cover the skillet for a while, until the sausages are done. Usually it takes about 10-15 minutes. Tip: We can prepare mashed potatoes as a side dish, or spanish rice. Enjoy.

"Calamari Casserole" (???? ???????)

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Dear seafood lovers, today we'll have a very delicious Calamari recipe. It's baked in oven, to spare the frying smell and also it's a kind of change, than eating it fried as an appetizer ! Ingredients needed: 5 whole calamaris, cut into rings. 1 sliced tomato. 1 sliced onion. Some chopped parsley. 1 tsp minced garlic. 2 tsp tomato paste. Salt, Pepper. Flour. 1 lemon. 1 tbsp oil. Directions: Preheat oven to 350F. Clean calamari from inside and outside by rubbing it well with flour then rinse, then rub it with salt then rinse again. Inside the calamari there is like a thin plastic body, you have to get it out. Cut into rings. Season with salt, pepper, and 1 tsp minced garlic for 1 hour. Put the calamari rings in a baking dish then squeeze over 1 lemon. Sprinkle some chopped parsley on the top. Add tomato and onion slices on the surface. In a sauce pan pour 1 tbsp oil, add 2 tsp tomato paste, make thinner by adding 1/2 cup water (or more) and stir. Add salt an...

"Tahini" (?????)

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Tahini is considered a type of Dip or a Dressing. It's always useful next to grilled dishes, or seafood as a side dressing. Tahini is very common next to vegetarian dishes like "Foul" or "Falafel" too! You can also eat it as a dip with pita bread. Ingredients needed: 1/2 cup Tahini. 2 tsp minced garlic. 2 1/2 lemon. 1 filled tbsp vinegar. 3/4 tbsp salt. 1/2 tsp pepper. 1 tbsp cumin. Directions: Pour 1/2 cup tahini in a bowl and mix with 2 tsp minced garlic. Squeeze over 2 1/2 lemon. Add 1 filled tbsp vinegar. Season with 3/4 tbsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, and 1 tbsp cumin. Stir all and taste, you can add more lemon or cumin, according to your taste! At last you can decorate it with some parsley leaves on top. Enjoy a useful side dish!

"Chicken Soup & Oven-Fried Chicken" (????? ???? ? ???? ????? ?? ?????)

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This is a double recipe. We'll be giving a recipe for the chicken soup & then a recipe on how to fry the boiled chicken. So enjoy! Ingredients needed: 1 whole chicken. 1 medium onion. 3 cardamoms ( ????? ). 2 gum mastic (?????). 2 Bay leaves (??? ????). Salt. Flour. Vinegar. 1 tbsp tomato paste. 2-3 lemons. Directions: Rub chicken with salt and flour from inside and outside then rinse well with water. Soak in a bowl with cold water and some vinegar for 15 minutes. Then rinse well. Boil water in a pot and add to it 1 peeled onion, 3 cardamoms, 2 gum mastic, 2 bay leaves and cover. When the water boils, reduce heat to medium, put the chicken in, and half cover the pot. The water should just cover the chicken with 1 inch. it would take about 40 minutes until it's fully cooked. Check by inserting a knife in the chicken, if you didn't get any water out of it, then it's done. Remove from pot. Also remove and throw away the onion, cardamoms and bay leaves. Season with salt...

"Chicken Pie" (????? ??????)

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This is a very delicious recipe, which contains lots of nutritious ingredients. It contains vegetables, chicken, milk, and cheese. Let us see how we can prepare such a dish. This dish is prepared on 3 stages: Boil the chicken, after cleaning and washing it using flour and salt. Prepare the bechamel in a big nonstick pot. Boil the vegetables for 15 minutes on high heat (don't overcook it). Prepare the dough. Ingredients needed for the stuffing: 250 gm of mixed vegetables (the frozen bags which contains, peas, corn and carrots). 1 boiled Cornish hen. 1/2 of a small can of sliced black olives. 1/2 of a small can of sliced green olives. Ingredients needed for the bechamel: 5 overfilled tbsp flour. 4 cups milk. 1/4 cup grated romano cheese. 1 overfilled tbsp Ghee. Salt & pepper. Directions of preparing the bechamel is in the "Macaroni Bechamel recipe". Ingredients and directions of the dough  are in the "Pizza recipe". Both are found in our blog! Direc...

"Potato Salad" (???? ???????)

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One of my favourite recipes! I always like to prepare it next to anything I grill. Ingredients needed: 3 large potatoes. 1 green pepper. 1 red onion. 1/2 bunch of parsley. 1 small can of sliced black olives. 2 small cans of tuna (225gm/each). 3 lemons. Vinegar. Oil. 1 tbsp mustard. Salt & pepper. 1 boiled egg cut into thin slices. Directions: You can either peel the potatoes before or after you boil them. Most important thing is that you don't overcook them. Cut then the unpeeled potatoes into cubes (not too small). Chop 1/2 bunch of parsley. Cut 1 red onion and 1 green pepper into small cubes. In a big bowl put the potatoes, onion, green pepper, the parsley and pour over the black olives. In another bowl, season the 2 cans of tuna with 2 lemon juice, vinegar (about 1 tbsp), salt and pepper. Then add the tuna to the potato salad. Add 2 tbsp mustard and another sprinkle of salt and pepper. Now you can pour some oil (olive or corn) over the sala...

"Pizza" (?????)

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Who resists Pizza? No one I guess! We offer here the recipe from scratch, this means the recipe for dough too! Our pizza recipe is very useful for vegetarians or people fasting. Ingredients needed for the dough: 2 overfilled cups flour. 1/4 cup corn oil. 2/3 cup warm milk. 1 tsp dry yeast. ( ????? ) Salt. Ingredients needed for the topping: Tomato paste. 1 green pepper (thin sliced). 1 tomato (thin sliced). 1 small can of sliced mushrooms. 1 small can of sliced black olives. 1 small can of sliced green olives. 1 can tuna (225 gm). 1 1/2 tsp crushed garlic. Vinegar. Thyme. Salt & Pepper. Directions for the dough: Start by preparing the dough, because it needs about 45 minutes to stay covered, before spreading it in a Pizza pan. In a big bowl, pour 1/4 cup corn oil, 2/3 cup warm milk, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp yeast, 2 small sprinkles of salt and mix all well. Slowly start adding bit by bit the flour, like a 1/4 cup of flour then mix with your hand, and so on until you add a...