Elvis Presley Sandwich

Let's talk about rock and roll's legend, Elvis Presley. Actually about his favorite peanut butter-banana sandwich that he was eat during recording his songs in Memphis, TN. The original recipe goes like this:
Ingredients:
Banana
Peanut butter
Bread for toasting
Butter
Preparing:
Toast 2 pieces of bred lightly. Spread peanut butter onto both pieces on each side. Peal and slice banana into rounds and place it in between two pieces of bred. Melt tablespoon of butter in the pan and brown sandwiches on each side until golden brown.
Serving:
Cut the sandwiches diagonally so you can see what's in between. Enjoy like King of Rock and Roll!!!

Tomato basil pasta sauce with meat balls

It is time for really quick tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes 3p
Tomato juice100ml
Garlic
Red chili pepper
Jalapeno or green pepper
Basil
Beef mince 200 g
Mustard
Egg
Breadcrumbs
Oregano
Olive oil
Your favorite pasta
Preparing:
First the meatballs. Mix your beef, salt, pepper, tablespoon of mustard, breadcrumbs, oregano and egg all together in a bawl. Make small balls all the same size so it cook evenly. I prefer 1 inch balls. put some olive oil in the pan and place the balls in. Stir them from time to time to cook evenly from each side.
Meanwhile chop tomatoes with knife or use blander and mix it with tomato juice. Chop garlic and peppers. When the meatballs are done place them into a plate.
It is time for quick sauce. Use the same pan you used for meatballs. Pour some olive oil in add garlic and peppers. Stir quickly for few seconds, add chopped basil, stir and pour tomatoes in. Season with some salt and pepper. It will start boiling in few seconds, so add balls back in. Your sauce is done quickly as that :)
Serving:
Serve sauce on top of your favorite pasta. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese and basil on top.

Buffalo chicken wings with mustard potatoes

If you are going to United States, you definitely should visit one of the most beautiful nature wanders, Niagara falls, and if you are there you can't miss home of one of the most famous chicken wings. Here in Europe we sometimes can't find original ingredients for the recipe, so I came up with my version of the recipe from ingredients available all around the world that tastes very close to original Buffalo chicken wings that I have eaten there in the USA.

Ingredients:
Chicken wings 1kg
Tomato juice 200 ml
Tabasco sauce
Garlic
Cayenne pepper
Butter 50 g
Basil
Grill mixture
Vinegar
Olive oil
Potatoes 400g
Mustard

Preparing:
Place chicken wings into a bowl sprinkle with some olive oil, season with salt, pepper, grill mixture and mix it with your hands. Place them (skin side down) into pre-heated oven at 200C. Cook it for 20 minutes, and then turn them and cook for another 20 minutes.
Red Buffalo sauce:
Place butter in the pan, add tomato juice, tabasco, chopped garlic, basil, salt, cayenne pepper and splash of vinegar. Place pan on fire, stir until you bring mixture to boil. Remove from the heat and your sauce is done. Put chicken wings in, place lid on the top and shake it well to glaze wings on each side evenly.
Mustard baked potato:
Peal and cut potatoes like for french fries. I don't like to make classic french fries because potato suck lot of frying oil in and that's why ff is full of cholesterol which is very bad for health. Place potatoes into a bawl, sprinkle little olive oil on top, season with salt and pepper, and add tablespoon of mustard. It is miracle what mustard does to the taste of tomatoes. Mix everything with tour hands and place it in the pre-heated oven at 200C. Cook until yellow - brown.

Serving:
Take large serving dish, place tomatoes a side, and put buffalo chicken wings in the middle. Take rest of the sauce from the pan and pour on top of the wings. In other small bawl serve blue cheese.

Mediterranean Healty Burger

Always when you want to buy mincemeat, select piece of fresh meet that you like and ask butcher to grind it for you. Every butcher will do it for you. That way you will know exactly what are you eating in your burger. I usually use beef. And here is my healthy burger for two person:
Ingredients:
Beef Mincemeat 300g
Egg
Onion (Chopped)
Bread Crumbs
Tomato
Feta Cheese
Green and Black Olives (sliced to rings)
Capers
Marinated Mushrooms (sliced)
Preparing:
Put mince in the bowl, add an egg, chopped onion, tbsp of bread crumbs and season it with salt and pepper. Mix everything well by your hands. If mixture is two moist add some more bread crumbs. Mixture should not be too dry or too wet. Split it in half and make two burgers of it using your hands. Heat the grilling pan. It is very important that your pan is warm when placing burgers in. Don't pour olive oil in the grilling pan this time oil the burgers thinly. It is very important that your pan is warm when placing burgers in. Grill your burgers on each side for couple of minutes.
Serving:
Place your burgers in the burger bun with mushrooms, feta cheese, olives, capers and tomato ring.
Whenever you can try to avoid french fries. If you really like it try not to exaggerate. 

Lefkada, Greece

Porto Katziki

Egremni

Lefkada or originally Λευκαδα is a beautiful island in western Greece, in Ionian sea. If you are looking for a good vocation on the island with turquoise blue sea, sand beaches, wonderful nature and all that packed with old traditional of Greece smack, Lefkada is the place you are looking for. I was placed in the capital of the island, Lefkas although the smaller town Nidri on the east coast of the island is typical tourist place. All the best beaches are located in the west coast of the island so if you are planing to visit this gorgeous island, you should come by car or rent one there. Most visited beach is probably Kathisma. Most popular and most famous one is Porto Katziki sand beach with a big cliff leaning over the beach with the view of the unreal color of turquoise blue sea, and that's the reason why this beach is declared as one of the best 10 beaches in the whole world by many travel magazines. Egremni is also beautiful beach with fine sand but only problem is that to get to it you will need to go 350 stairs down, which you will have to climb up later on. But you should definitely check the bar on top of the stairs, the view is amazing and the ambient is totally chill. If you are looking for nightlife, visit club Capital in Lefkas.
 Food

Swardfish

While you are on Lefkada, you should visit some traditional tavernas. Taverna is a small restaurant serving Greek cuisine. I always ask local residents to guide me which are their favorites. So we end up in ''Greco Levante'' close to village Athani close to Egremni beach. In front of the tavern is a beautiful garden with a separate part across the road and with superb views of the sea. Sunset at this place is something special. They offer grilled meat, traditional Greek meals, sea food, etc. The staff is friendly and especially emphasize the tavern owner who welcomes guests with chef hat and a big smile. They will literally take you to the chef and show you what they got on a menu. Wild rabbit in their special sauce is great. All the sea food is fresh so the octopus salad is something special there. And of course there is one meal that I especially like to emphasize. Fresh  grilled swardfish with a whole leaves of shortly cooked spinach, potatoes and the bottle of white vine, mixed all together with fresh smell of the sea. There is also one great taverna called K outside of the island in Plagia village, where all the locals come. That one is great. They serve grilled lamb. Specialty of the house is lamb liver wrapped with chitterlings.

Cookies

Of course whenever you come to Greece, you must not miss Greek salad, Gyros, Souvlaki, feta cheese, lot's of different olives, and one of the best olive oils. Bakeries in Greece are something special. They make lots of tasty pastry with olives, so feel free to experiment. What ever you taste, you will not make a mistake. Greeks are known as good cake bakers so check that out too. There is also a lot of market places to buy fresh veggies and fruits, almost on every corner. Don't miss to buy watermelon. Watermelon in Greece have it's own sweetness I tasted nowhere else, probably because of climate conditions and number of sunny days in the year.
  Vine
As i said Greece has lots of sunny days in the year, and great climate conditions not only for watermelon but for grapes too. There are lots of really good vines, but if you are looking for the spirit of the place like I do, you wanna go for a local vine. I tried many of them, but there is one vine that really deserve to be written about it. Λευκαδιτικη γη or ''Land of Lefkas'' white vine made of Vardea grapes. Vardea is typical species of white grapes from Ionian islands. There are two types regular and limited edition. They are both great, although they taste slightly different. They kept limited edition one in 30 oak barrels for few months so it has rich nose and creamy buttery taste with touch of vanilla and almond. Soft acidity comes in aftertaste. On the bottle says dry wine, but i would say semi sweet. I would highly recommend this vine. And it is not expensive. About 7 euros per bottle.

Greek Salad

Very tasty, easy and quick to prepare. One of the most refreshing salads. Greek salad!

Ingredients:

Tomato 3 pcs

Red onion

Cucumber

Feta cheese 200g

Black olives 100g

Red paprika

Green paprika

Olive oil

Bread

Garlic

Preparing:

Slice tomatoes, red onion in half rings, red and green paprika. Peal cucumber and slice thin rings. Cut feta cheese into small cubes. Place everything into the bawl with olives,season with salt, spread oregano and olive oil on.

Drizzle some olive oil onto bread, smash the garlic and rub it on. Season with some salt and pepper. Bake it gently on a pan.

Serving:

Serve salad fresh in a bawl with bread on the side.

It's bean a while...

...since I didn't wrote a single word on this blog. I apologize to you all, thing is that I was not lazy, I was too busy. First I was busy filming ''Dodji na veceru'' (Come for a dinner) cooking TV show, than I run into a really big project in my music studio, that took like 2 months and then finally left for vocation on beautiful Greek island Lefkada. Don't worry, report about Lefkada island is coming up. See you soon with some cool new recipes, tips, videos and more.