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I’m that person that eats the middle pieces of bread, brownies, and really any baked goods. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Making some Greek coffee brownies for some upcoming get togethers this weekend! Coffee + chocolate is a classic combo so you know this recipe will be a treat. I’ve included the recipe below to make it easy to screenshot & save! Enjoy ❤️❤️ INGREDIENTS: ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened or melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (dark or regular, whatever you prefer)
2 tablespoons Greek coffee powder*
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup all-purpose flour
Nonstick cooking spray, for greasing the pan *For a stronger coffee flavor, add an extra tablespoon of Greek coffee. I use BRAVO Greek coffee, and the grounds come more fine and powdery. If the coffee you’re using is grainy, I would suggest grinding the coffee a bit beforehand to avoid graininess. DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl for about 15 seconds and allow to cool slightly.
2. In medium bowl, combine the butter, sugar, and vanilla and whisk until well combined.
3. Add eggs in one by one until fully incorporated.
4. Sift together the cocoa powder, Greek coffee, salt, and flour. Gently fold into the wet ingredients with a spatula until combined, being careful not to over mix.
5. Lightly grease a 8×8 or 9×9 square inch baking pan with parchment paper and grease with a nonstick spray. Pour the batter into the dish and spread evenly.
6. Bake on the middle rack for 25 – 27 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs. For these fudgier brownies, the toothpick will come out a little gooey. Don’t over bake! The brownies will firm up when you take them out to cool.
7. Remove from oven and allow to cool before cutting and serving. Today is my big brother @petesaltas birthday so let’s talk about him and his tzatziki. 🎉🎈If you look through my cookbook, you’ll notice “Pete’s tzatziki” is the very first recipe in there 🙌🏼 Tzatziki is made of thick Greek yogurt (preferably homemade), fresh cucumbers and herbs—plus a generous amount of garlic. This isn’t a complicated recipe with any special ingredients but the reason why I chose to title it Pete’s tzatziki” in the book is Pete inserts his Pete magic on this dip. People love Pete as much as they love his tzatziki, so it's simply better when he makes it. It really is. . For years Pete wouldn’t share his recipe with anyone but now “Pete’s Tzatziki” is available for everyone to enjoy. Just add laughter and love just like Pete does with everything he does. Happy bday Pana!💙 Now time for tzatziki. ZUCCHINI BREAD RECIPE 🍞 I’ve been testing out zucchini bread recipes and instead of writing up a blog, I wanted to quickly share the recipe I’ve liked the most so far so you can screenshot & save for whenever you need to use up zucchini. Enjoy 😋 Ingredients: 3 cups zucchini, grated (skins on) 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar (compacted) 1 cup vegetable oil 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon vanilla 3 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 cup chopped walnuts *1 cup chocolate chips (optional) . Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350F. grease and flour loaf pans (batter should make two 8x4 inch pans). 2. Beat the eggs and sugar together in a large bowl. Whisk in the vegetable oil, vanilla, honey, and grated zucchini. 3. Sift dry ingredients and fold in, being careful not to over-mix. Stir in chopped walnuts. Add chocolate chips if desired.4. Pour batter into pans evenly and bake for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. 5. Let cool (seriously—don’t be like me and impatiently eat before cooled) for at least 20 minutes in the pan, and then remove and serve. TIP: the bread does taste better the next day. That’s why you make two loaves—one for right out of the oven and one for the following day. 👌🏼❤️🙌🏼 From garden (and obviously some store) to table! 🥒🍅🍞I had freshly picked tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers to make last nights dinner, so I had fun with using up all that I had. Tomatoes made both yemista and a salad, with the cucumbers. The zucchini made its way into three of the dishes: zucchini bread, plus I had extra grated zucchini so I threw that into my stuffing for yemista, and also fried up a small zucchini for zucchini tiganita! 🙌🏼 Who else has a garden? What are some of your favorite meals to make with garden vegetables? 👇🏼 Some people have asked what’s the first thing they should make from my new cookbook? I say since it’s summer to go with any vegetable centered dish like yemista, fasolakia or briam, to name a few. And for anyone just trying their hand at cooking, I suggest starting with Bouyiordi (spicy baked feta) 🔥😋 Bouyiourdi puts the E in easy and will please any dinner guest! Simply assemble tomatoes, onions and peppers under a slab of feta cheese and bake until the feta turns gooey! 🧀 Happy cooking! Sharing my book with my Yiayia ❤️ she didn’t see anything up until these proofs.. and this wasn’t the reaction i was expecting but also so so her! First, she said she didn’t like her picture (she hates her picture taken) and then quickly after she asked if she can start signing autographs 🤷🏽‍♀️😂 My Yiayia was a huge inspiration to this cookbook (plus i feature a few of her recipes in here) and I’m so blessed she was able to see, hold, and flip through this book. I was so close to getting it into the hands of my Papou Chris, he would’ve gone crazy to have been able to see it, he LOVED photos, history, any accomplishment from his grandkids. 💙 You’ll find in the book that I have a recipe dedicated to him. . . Thank you to everyone who’s reached out/messaged/commented with support over the launch of my cookbook! And thank you to those who’ve already bought a copy 🙏🏼 I really really appreciate all the love and support, it’s all been such a surreal experience but the reality is starting to kick in that I actually have a cookbook out!! Right now, my book All You Can Greek is available on amazon (link in bio) with limited marketplaces. I’ll be working to getting books available worldwide to those in Australia, Greece, Canada, etc. thank you all again I am so so lucky to have such incredible people in my life! Xoxo ✨ Sooo after announcing I had a cookbook coming out just a few days ago, everything somehow went warp speed with review, approval, and publishing online (shoutout to amazon for such a speedy process)! 😭🙏🏼 . . My first book, “All You Can Greek: food, life, travel” is finally available and I’m so thrilled I can finally share with you all! 📘 I wrote this book because i believe it’s something my generation needs. All You Can Greek is more than a cookbook that tells you how much oregano or salt to add—but a cookbook that tells stories and history that I hope you can all relate to when you were around the dinner table with your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. Read along and discover what it’s like to cook, live and love like a Greek. 💙💙💙 . . As of right now, the only way to purchase my book is through amazon (link in bio). I’m working on getting copies printed locally to sell around in Utah, too... more info on that soon! 😊 THANK YOU dad, mom, Pete, Mikey, Yiayia and so so many other people, including you all on social media i feel like I know which is so creepy but so cool how the internet works in positive ways! I am so grateful 🙌🏼🙏🏼✨ KALO MINA EVERYONE!!❤️ I’m excited to share some big news that has been in the works for a LONG time.. I have just finished and approved my final proofs of my first cookbook! 😭🙌🏼🙈 I decided over a year ago that i wanted to write a cookbook and since then it has been such a crazy process of figuring out design, edit, writing, photography, business setup, etc. Self publishing is definitely not easy but totally worth It when I held the final product! 📚 . . I’ll have more details for you on the book and release date very soon but for now I just wanted to thank everyone who has been there for me and supported me, the people that knew I was writing a book, and those who I don’t know who share their love and positivity on social media daily. I appreciate you all and I’m so so excited to share with you a printed copy of my recipes and stories! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Our garden zucchini has started to pop up, and It seems like if I turn my gaze away for one minute, another zucchini has already sprouted! Looks like we’ll be having lots of zucchini bread, pies, and fritters this summer 🙌🏼😋 Always looking for new ways to utilize zucchini so none go to waste. What is YOUR favorite dish to make with zucchini?? 👇🏼 . . . . #growyourown #gardening #zucchini #greekfood #farmtotable #myopenkitchen #saveur #gloobyfoods #epicurious #buzzfeedtasty #food52 #gastronomia #goodeats #bbcgoodfood #foodwinewomen #eatprettythings #mycommontable #storyofmytable #heresmyfood #zucchinirecipes #eatprettythings #farmtofork #inseasonnow #earth #foodnetwork #eatyourgreens #vegetariancooking #recipecreator {Balos, Crete: where i would rather be on this Friday...} . . You haven’t visited Crete until you’ve sunk your toes in the white powdery sand of Balos beach. Relax and wade into the shallow blue lagoon or venture to the small uninhabited island of Gramvousa, opposite the coast. The top of Gramvousa offers a great view of the dreamy lagoon below, and visitors can walk along the remains of a 16th century Venetian fortress. Access Balos via a rocky track road, or by ferry from either Kissamos or Chania Town.💙☀️🏖 . . Discover my top 5 favorite beaches in Crete on my blog, link in bio. ✨
📷: @iamgreece .
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https://elenisaltas.com/2018/12/09/5-favorite-beaches-in-crete/ What’s your favorite summer dish? One of mine is spetzofai (spicy sausage with peppers)! 🌶😋 . The spicy meter level of course depends on your preference and the peppers you choose. My personal spetzofai spicy meter is a solid ten, while my family’s is a five on a good day. So we settle on keeping this dish at a mild seven. 😏 So good, so fresh, so colorful! Recipe link is in my bio. ✨ . . https://elenisaltas.com/2017/06/16/spetzofai/ . . . #greekfood #myopenkitchen #saveur #gloobyfoods #epicurious #buzzfeedtasty #food52 #gastronomia #goodeats #bbcgoodfood #foodwinewomen #eatprettythings #elenisaltas #summercooking #easyrecipe #damnthatsdelish #shareyourtable #saveurmag #kitchenstories @thefeedfeed #eatwelllivewell #healthyfoodchoices #igfoodie #foodwinewomen

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