Taramosalata (Fish roe salad - meze)
Photo taken from Athinorama Umami Taramosalata There are also the Greek classics, think something like a dip but instead of using nachos or vegetables to eat them we use bread. Taramosalata is one of those dishes. It is roe fish blended into a creamy pink dip of pureed potatoes with parsley, lemon juice, and finely chopped onion (optional). In meze, this is one of the first dishes that it is served. In taverns, they always bring it along with salad, tzatziki, and tahini. We will talk about the last two later. Well, let’s see our recipe… Ingredients 2 kg tarama (fish roe). 1 large potato or two small ones 450gr of Greek bread 1 tsp of shredded and dried onion 1 cup olive oil The juice of one lemon (medium size) Tarama is the hardest ingredient to find, so it is a good idea to look at groceries that import Mediterranean food. It is usually sold in larger jars, but you can store the remainder in the freezer for mon...
Love the cake... cute!
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I imagine this was some effort to make with all those stars of icing on there. Also getting around between the inital black lines would not be easy. Yet, with your expertise you sailed through with yet another lovely cake. I hope you are there when Demetri gets it, nothing says thank you better than a smile on a childs face!
ReplyDeleteThis is very impressive! I once made a Christmas tree cake using the same method and that took me about an 1 and 1/2 hours. Beautiful job
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ReplyDeleteThe cake looks good even without the icing. With the icing, perfect.
ReplyDeleteHello Ann. Thank you for your nice comments. This cake, in Greek, is called "Doukissa" or "Kormos". The ingredients I use are: butter, icing sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, vanilla sugar, brandy and plain biscuits. It does not need baking but it needs to be refrigerated over night. I found similar recipes in English called "Chocolate Salami".
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ReplyDeleteI need a little help from you, My hubby's b'day is on Aug 5th. I'm planning for the delicious cake. he loves vanilla flavor. I have cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, vanilla frost, rasins, walnuts, etc., In my home can you suggest the best cake for me? This will be very helpful for me dear!
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Try the "Chocolate Cake with Banana" http://www.dreamofcakes.net/2008/09/chocolate-cake-with-banana.html
ReplyDeleteYou can add rasins and walnuts if you want. Forget my chocolate frosting. You can use your vanilla frost, it will be equally delicious. Vanilla, bananas and chocolate are a very good combination. Good Luck!! I hope he likes it.
Looks great! The stuffs you make are amazing! I love mickey, i would like to have one of this for my Bday ;)
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ReplyDeleteCake decorating is art that is performed in places all over the world. That is why contests and baking show competitions are very popular, especially in the Western World. Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make plain cakes more visually interesting. Alternatively, cakes can be molded and sculpted to resemble three-dimensional persons, places and things.
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ReplyDeleteBeing that Mickey Mouse is a popular cartoon character among kids, this serves as a spectacular birthday cake for kids, and the family overall. To make this a family activity, kids can share in the hands on experience by helping to decorate the cake, and see there favorite cartoon character come to life in front of there own eyes. This idea is wonderful, and definitely worth sharing, so thank you for doing so. Christmas is right around the corner, and I will most certainly bake this cake and have my twin nephews be apart of it. I'm sure they'll find it fun, and yummy at the same time. Thanks again!
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