chroma: 2013

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Recipe for chocolate lovers: Brownies

My favourite recipe for our family's holiday breakfast.

This recipe was recently posted in Etsy Greek Street Team

Brownies

This month's recipe is for chocolate lovers! Brownies from Christine of Xroma .

INGREDIENTS:
200 gr melted dark chocolate
180 gr melted butter
150 gr sugar (preferably powdered)
vanilla
3 eggs
90 gr flour (not self-rising)
180 gr roughly grounded peanuts

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat the oven in 356F.
2. Melt butter and dark chocolate in a saucepan.Let the mixture cool for a while.
3. Beat the eggs, the sugar and the vanilla until they get fluffy and white.
4. Stir the two mixtures.
5.Αdd the flour and stir again.
6.Pour the peanuts and stir again.
7.Lay non-stick paper onto a pyrex cooking pan and pour the mixture.
8.Bake it in the oven for about 25 minutes, till it gets a crust οn top but stays soft and wet inside.
9.Let cool for an hour.
10. Make some coffee, have magazines and newspapers along and enjoy!

GOOD LUCK!!!

See you next month with a new, yummy recipe!!
Till then a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you and your beloved ones!!
Dimitra

Monday, December 2, 2013

DIY project: Christmas ornaments

Yesterday, we decorated our family christmas tree with our handmade Christmas ornaments:

Christmas Tree

1) First, I drew the outlines on green, red, brown and white pieces of felt.

2) Then, I cut the figures: a tree, a star, a gingerbread man, an angel.

3) I sewed the details: beads on the tree and the star, eyes, mouth and buttons on the gingerbread, eyes and mouth on the angel.

4) The two sides of each ornament were sewed with embroidery thread, using the "blanket stitch":

blanket stitch

5) I left one side unsewn and filled the ornament with a big cotton ball.
6) Then, I finished sewing the contour. On the upper part of each ornament I sewed a piece of ribbon, to hang from the tree.