Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

T his is a most elegant, and delicious appetizer for all kinds of buffets. All you need to do is prepare the tartlets a few days earlier, freeze them, then use them in whatever way you want: savory or sweet. These particular ones were savory where whole cumin seeds were used to adorn the tartlet and taste the cumin while biting into it......

I t is very handy to make tartlets to use either for savory or for sweet purposes. The difference is that you may have to add some sugar in the sweet tartlets. A Recipe for tarts and tartlets which always works is as follows: Makes 25 tartlets. -  250 gr all purpose flour. -  110 gr cold butter cut in pieces or "NeoVitam soft" for our Greek friends. -  76 cc. cold water. -  ½ tsp. sugar. Method for the tartlets: -  Heat oven to 200 degrees C. -         -   Add flour, sugar, and butter in a big bowl. -         -  Cut butter into flour until all is grainy       -  Add cold water and mix by hand till a smooth dough is obtained. -         -  Wrap in a plastic film and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. -         -  When time is up, flour your working surface and flatten your dough into a circle.       - Use a 7.5 cm cutter to cut circles. -         -  Put each circle in place in muffin mold and using your fingers to cover the base a

C ountry sausage can be cooked in different ways. I used leek flavored Greek country sausage sliced at an angle. You will need: Serves 10-15 -  8 x 30  cm long country sausage. -  2 shots ouzo -  1 Tbsp. olive oil. -  2 stars anise -  2 cups any tomato based sauce you have in your deep freeze. If not made a new hot and spicy tomato sauce. Method: -  Heat the olive oil. -  Add the sliced sausage and saute on high heat for about a minute. -  When sausage takes a nice color, add ouzo and star anise. -  Flambe the whole lot. -  When flame dies out, add tomato sauce and simmer for about 30 minutes then turn off heat. -  Serve with slices of bread to dunk. Enjoy! Stelio

This recipe for Cannelloni will be my version of it as opposed to the one written on the box itself and I would like to share it with you....