Melomakaronoulis and Kourabiedina

MELOMAKARONOULIS AND KOURABIEDINAThe celebrations of Christmas and New Year, young and old, have inextricably linked them with melomakarona and kourabiedes mainly, but also with baklava, doubles and of course the royal pie. From Agios Dimitrios, which is on October 26, the patisseries and bakeries are constantly preparing for the whole time until the Epiphany the admittedly wonderful sweet creations that we mentioned and especially the first time, the snowy and honeyed delicacies, that is the our kourabiedines and our melomakaronoulides !!! Every store makes all this in a different way, since there are many, different versions - recipes according to which those wonderful delicacies can be prepared. And the difference that exists is not exclusively about the tasty part of the subject, but also the visual, since our two protagonists come out in various shapes: star, bell, fir, crescent, except of course the classic round shape. Others you say buy these sweets, while others make them at home. Of course, there are those who do both, that is, they buy and prepare on their own, and this is because they have small children where they eagerly want to participate in the brilliant process of preparation and baking and their elaborate placement on colorful and imaginative festive platesAnd what do not most children do to achieve what they want and especially here, in this case, where we are at the gates of Christmas, there are two very buzzing brothers, Theofanis and Spyridoula where this time their imagination exceeds each previous. Well, every year their parents buy these delicious sweets and never, not even for a year have they made them themselves. And to see the pity of our two little friends, because they heard from their friends that their own parents or grandmothers prepared them themselves. And he tells you, sit down now we will think of something - we will scratch to make our own to make us at least once all those fantastic goodies. I honestly, now that I think of their "satanic" plan, which they devised with more cunning, I am mad because I really could not imagine how far it's capable of reaching the minds and reasoning of children in order to materialize and take flesh and bones whatever their desire. Where I was cooking a breakfast and even making pastitsada (it is Corfiot food with rooster or veal or even chicken braised with nice thick spaghetti), the phone rings. Nah, am I saying who is dwarf? I pick up the radio and turn on the open listening, because I wanted to cook on time and not eat time of the day on such a day !!!. And fortunately I thought and made this move, because who or rather who do you think called me? But of course, my two favorite nieces Spyridoula and Theofanis !!!. I immediately thought "see what some bugs want to do again" and I really was not wrong !!!. I said to them "what are my children doing, my souls"? And they tell me without a trace of hesitation the Atimoutsika "Alexia, after many hours of meeting we inform you that we have found the perfect plan where it will provide us for this year at least the coveted Christmas sweets, made even once by the golden hands of our parents !!!. Then I completely spontaneously laughed out loud with all my soul because I was sure that with what my two puppies would tell me, that their parents would be able to prepare the holiday sweets for themselves, but they would also participate as guest stars, that is, something like an extraordinary participation, one thing !!!.