Merry Christmas, guys! 🎄 First, I think Raul seems a little happier in your home country than he was in Greece. Second, I’d love to see Amalia start a cooking channel-and it would be even better if Raul joined in too! His comments are the best!!
I think they were relatively happy in Greece, until they ended up leaving. Glad to see them smiling again. Wish we had a clue why they left, just in general.
Woohooooo you're back!! They look perfect to me!! It would be awesome to see Amalia open a cooking channel!! I thought it all along haha! Excited to see where life takes you guys in 2025. Happy Greek-Romanian Christmas!!
Merry Christmas Kourabies is a characteristic sweet widely spread throughout Greece and Cyprus, classified as a traditional sweet, like melomakarono, and usually prepared at Christmas. Its name comes from the Persian Qurabiye, which means biscuit, a sweet made from flour, butter and powdered sugar. Asia Minor refugees from Karvali in Cappadocia created Nea Karvali in the Prefecture of Kavala in 1924 and brought the traditional recipe for kourabies from Asia Minor. Thus, today in Greece the most famous traditional kourabies are those of Nea Karvali.
I have Persian family who say that Qurabiye does not mean biscuit, in general, but the particular biscuits that we call Kourabie. So, from the etymology front, we are back to square one. I love kourabiedes (Greek plural of kourabies) so much that I have only wasted my time and calories once or twice with melomakarona in my life. But I like them literally covered with icing sugar. It is more a matter of aesthetics than taste, as they are saturated with sweetness anyway. By the way, my mother used to refer to melomakarona as "finikia". Many people use these names interchangeably, and nobody really knows why. I guess the Mediterranean sweets, dishes, and their names, originate deep into the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) or Ottoman empire when the modern sense of nations was irrelevant.
REALLY NICE TO SEE U AGAIN SMILING AND HAVING FUN....MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HOPE TO SEE U NEXT WEEK WITH SOME MELOMAKARONA!!!!THAT IS MY FAVOURITE ONE.....
Bravo tsoupara mou.... greek expresion for a young girl or daughter for something she made as well done 🤩Thank you both for the love you feel about my country! May God bless you both, to come and stay for good, next time, to Greece!
Should Amalia open a cooking channel? HELL YEAH. I'm subbing day one (maybe Raul can make an appearance and show us how to make his sushi rolls :D). I'd love to see you guys cooking traditional Romanian food, too. Side note: TOTALLY with Raul, I hate putting my hands in things like that, or touching chalk, etc. It sends shivers down my spine :(
My rating for your pastry project (10/10): 8 points for the extra nuts 9 points for your persistence 10 points for keeping the red sweater clean from flour Well done! P.S.: "Κουραμπιές" comes from the Persian word "Qurabiye" meaning a biscuit made of flour, butter and fine sugar.
What a wonderful Christmas gift you’ve given us, thank you for this video! Amalia, well done, your biscuits turned out amazing. I couldn’t decide between the two, but I finally went for the melomakarona and made them this morning. You both made me laugh so much; it’s clear you’re slowly finding your joy again. Amalia makes me laugh a lot, and Raul too, especially with the banana instead of the moon,🤣🤣 I also love hearing that little Mexican-inspired tune you often include in your videos. Your music choices are always spot on. As for your question about whether Amalia should start a cooking channel, here’s my answer: you are truly unique. I believe that no matter the topic of your channel, people will follow you. It’s as simple as that, because you’re one of a kind. Your authenticity is what people love, and that’s what makes you so special. Honestly, we’d follow you anywhere: in a kitchen, in Cyprus, on a countryside wall… Wherever you are! **Merry Christmas**, and see you next video ! 🎄✨ 🙂😉🥰
Καλησπέρα..για να κολλησει επάνω η ζάχαρη άχνη πρέπει να ψεκασετε με ροδονερο πρώτα.. βάζουμε και ροδονερο στους κουραμπιέδες και έχουν μια χαρακτηριστική γεύση αλλιώς ετσι ειναι απλώς μπισκότα με άχνη ❤
It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@tenerisius nea karvali is in macedonia dude ..... Not in asia minor! Macedonians are well known of having rich butter and heavy cooking with butter and lard. As thessalians too. The sweet by the name of kurabiedes exists ALL over europe, In italy it s called ricciarelli. Tell me do they stole it from the turks too? Especially since the almond tree is native in greece... Of course you are not turk but a brainwashed greek to who the turkish propaganda that everything greek is turkish worked well. The problem is that you repeat such nonsenses to foreigners as you do here with you false comment. Kurabiedes it s not a turkish sweet. Almond and wheat from which the sweet is produced from are plants natives to greece not to mongolia
Kurabiedes is named after the turkish word "kuru" which means dry and a bit Hellenised with greek ending in plural. There is also a type of tiropita named kuru, because of the dry pastry it is used for it. The word you thought similar with ship, is Karavi and it has nothing to do with it.
It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@polha4966 Never said that kurabies is Turkish. I said the word is related with the Turkish word kuru. And if you consider that the best tradition of kuriabiedes is in new Karvali in Kavala which are refuges from Kappadokia, it makes sense that some cultural exchanges in the language is possible. And by the way, I am not Turk.
@@Tenerisius nea karvali is in macedonia dude ..... Not in asia minor! Macedonians are well known of having rich butter and heavy cooking with butter and lard. As thessalians too. The sweet by the name of kurabiedes exists ALL over europe, In italy it s called ricciarelli. Tell me do they stole it from the turks too? Especially since the almond tree is native in greece... Of course you are not turk but a brainwashed greek to who the turkish propaganda that everything greek is turkish worked well. The problem is that you repeat such nonsenses to foreigners as you do here with you false comment. Kurabiedes it s not a turkish sweet. Almond and wheat from which the sweet is produced from are plants natives to greece not to mongolia
@@polha4966 I think there is a communication problem here. You read your mind and not what i am saying. I am not telling that is a Turkish cookie. I am saying that the name is made from a Turkish word. I know very well where Nea Katvali is. But you forgot that every place in Greece with the word "Nea" before, means new and it is a village or a town made from refugees from the minor Asia or east Thrace from a village there with the same name without the word "new" in front.
@@Tenerisius yet again thracians werent turks... neither were the ionians of asia minor ... maybe you need some history lessons. The name kurabies is egyptian not turkish.
Actually kourabies (singular) / kourampiedes (plural) dirives from turkish. It means something like dry dough because it has no syrop. How did the walnuts taste...? Didn't taste a bit bitter? Next stop melomakarona! Happy Holidays!
it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@@Sunpire It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@@polha4966 I meant that the word dirives from turkish, not the sweat. It comes from the word kuru which means dry and biye meaning something like biscuit or dough (I'm Greek and I don't know the correct meaning of the turkish words). It could also be from arabic or persian with the same meaning more or less. But the only thing that matters is to eat it, the rest is just small talk. Happy holidays!
There is nothing better than homemade μελομακάρονα and κουραμπιέδες. Merry Christmas guys!
Merry Christmas, guys! 🎄 First, I think Raul seems a little happier in your home country than he was in Greece. Second, I’d love to see Amalia start a cooking channel-and it would be even better if Raul joined in too! His comments are the best!!
Thank you ❤️. How about Raul’s cooking skills?
@@Sunpire Well, everyone has their strengths! Amalia is an expert in cooking, and Raul excels at commenting on and tasting the food. 😄
I think they were relatively happy in Greece, until they ended up leaving. Glad to see them smiling again. Wish we had a clue why they left, just in general.
Fair enough 👌 😂😂😂
Merry Christmas you guys! Kourabiedes look very nice!Well done Amalia!🇬🇷😁
Thank you, Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Hi .
You can find Halva in UK usually Turkish shops but Greek stores in UK you can find halva xx
Merry Christmas Raul & Amalia!🎄 I’m so happy to see you make a baking video. Maybe your next video you can bake Raul’s favorite Greek cookies. 🍪❤️💙
Merry Christmas guys, good luck on your new beginning in Romania ❤
Thank you, Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Merry Xmas guys. Hope you come back to Greece
Woohooooo you're back!! They look perfect to me!! It would be awesome to see Amalia open a cooking channel!! I thought it all along haha! Excited to see where life takes you guys in 2025. Happy Greek-Romanian Christmas!!
Thank you for your support 🙏 ❤️❤️. A cooking channel is coming 💙✅️
@Sunpire ♥️🎉🎉🎉 fantastic!!
you always have a piece of Greece with you! And you have us! Καλά Χριστούγεννα!
Merry Christmas Kourabies is a characteristic sweet widely spread throughout Greece and Cyprus, classified as a traditional sweet, like melomakarono, and usually prepared at Christmas. Its name comes from the Persian Qurabiye, which means biscuit, a sweet made from flour, butter and powdered sugar. Asia Minor refugees from Karvali in Cappadocia created Nea Karvali in the Prefecture of Kavala in 1924 and brought the traditional recipe for kourabies from Asia Minor. Thus, today in Greece the most famous traditional kourabies are those of Nea Karvali.
I have Persian family who say that Qurabiye does not mean biscuit, in general, but the particular biscuits that we call Kourabie. So, from the etymology front, we are back to square one. I love kourabiedes (Greek plural of kourabies) so much that I have only wasted my time and calories once or twice with melomakarona in my life. But I like them literally covered with icing sugar. It is more a matter of aesthetics than taste, as they are saturated with sweetness anyway. By the way, my mother used to refer to melomakarona as "finikia". Many people use these names interchangeably, and nobody really knows why. I guess the Mediterranean sweets, dishes, and their names, originate deep into the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) or Ottoman empire when the modern sense of nations was irrelevant.
REALLY NICE TO SEE U AGAIN SMILING AND HAVING FUN....MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HOPE TO SEE U NEXT WEEK WITH SOME MELOMAKARONA!!!!THAT IS MY FAVOURITE ONE.....
Καλά Χριστούγεννα παιδιά ...
Να σκέφτεστε θετικά και όλα θα πάνε καλύτερα ...👍
Merry Christmas guys. Glad to see you are still doing videos ☺️
Always a pleasure to warch your vids. Congrtas, the results look amazing. Craciun fericit.
Bravo tsoupara mou.... greek expresion for a young girl or daughter for something she made as well done 🤩Thank you both for the love you feel about my country! May God bless you both, to come and stay for good, next time, to Greece!
Should Amalia open a cooking channel? HELL YEAH. I'm subbing day one (maybe Raul can make an appearance and show us how to make his sushi rolls :D). I'd love to see you guys cooking traditional Romanian food, too. Side note: TOTALLY with Raul, I hate putting my hands in things like that, or touching chalk, etc. It sends shivers down my spine :(
Right???? For both of your answers 😂😂😂😂. I can be the cameraman or the critique 😂😂😂
Merry Christmas guys 🎄🎄Amalia you are a very good cook because you are not afraid of trying new things. Well done, great job so far. ❤❤
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤️
It’s nice to see you both are safe and doing well.
Wishing you a merry Christmas and good luck to the next chapter of your journey.
Thank you very much for your support 🙏 💙 🤗🤗
You take the boy and girl out of Greece but can’t take Greece out of them… merry Christmas guys
😂😂😂😂😂 Meeeery Christmas 🎄 ♥️
My rating for your pastry project (10/10):
8 points for the extra nuts
9 points for your persistence
10 points for keeping the red sweater clean from flour
Well done!
P.S.: "Κουραμπιές" comes from the Persian word "Qurabiye" meaning a biscuit made of flour, butter and fine sugar.
Merry Christmas to you too! Your Kourambiedes look wonderful! Amalia is a very good cook especially with Greek cuisine!
Thank you very much ❤️ 😊
Hello from Londo.Nice koirampiedes it's important the traditional butter
Hello London ❤️
9.5 but he is licking his fingers squeaky clean 😂
Merry Christmas y'all.🎄☃️❄
😂😂😂😂😂
if you take a metal sieve and sift the flour it actually makes your kourbiedes fluffier. try it next time!
Love you guys. A pitty you had to leave Greece. Wish you al the best. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Merry Christmas!!!!🎄
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤️
Merry Christmas ❤
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
What a wonderful Christmas gift you’ve given us, thank you for this video!
Amalia, well done, your biscuits turned out amazing. I couldn’t decide between the two, but I finally went for the melomakarona and made them this morning. You both made me laugh so much; it’s clear you’re slowly finding your joy again. Amalia makes me laugh a lot, and Raul too, especially with the banana instead of the moon,🤣🤣
I also love hearing that little Mexican-inspired tune you often include in your videos. Your music choices are always spot on.
As for your question about whether Amalia should start a cooking channel, here’s my answer: you are truly unique. I believe that no matter the topic of your channel, people will follow you. It’s as simple as that, because you’re one of a kind. Your authenticity is what people love, and that’s what makes you so special.
Honestly, we’d follow you anywhere: in a kitchen, in Cyprus, on a countryside wall… Wherever you are! **Merry Christmas**, and see you next video ! 🎄✨ 🙂😉🥰
Nice to see you again
Pleasure is ours
Merry Christmas 🎉🎅🙏💯💢💥💫
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Μerry Christmas! Looking good!
Merry Christmas to both of you. So glad you are continuing with the videos. Hope you guys will visit crete again
Thank you very much for your support 🙏 💙 🤗🤗 Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
First time we see you in sweaters, great to see you continuing your Utube videos
Can you make some Romanian dishes? " WE ARE STARVING "
😂😂😂😂🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️ Maybe we will
I'm just having some kourabiedes myself but I bought mine from my local bakery.
Amalia did not only roast the almonds, she also roasted you too! Lol! And totally ignore your "I'm starving" pleas! Merry Christmas!
😂😂😂😂😂 She roasts me every time
@Sunpire Pity I cannot offer you some of my melomakarona... I make them with a little but effective twist...
Merry Christmas to you both! Perhaps we will see more Greece content in the future? I hope you and your family have a great Christmas together!
Delicious... yes open cooking channel chef Amalia 😅 .... 🎄Merry Christmas 🎄ho ho ho 😊 💙💙👍👍
Merry Christmas to you both from a Greek Canadian who lives in Montreal. I love your posts. ❤️
Merry Christmas 🤶 🎄 Thank you
Hello .
Surprisingly Cauliflower originated from Cyprus 🇨🇾
Merry Christmas ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Καλά Χριστούγεννα.... φαίνονται τέλεια ❤❤και εμένα οι κουραμπιέδες είναι οι αγαπημένοι μου. Merry Christmas 🎉❤❤❤
Thank you, Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Καλησπέρα..για να κολλησει επάνω η ζάχαρη άχνη πρέπει να ψεκασετε με ροδονερο πρώτα.. βάζουμε και ροδονερο στους κουραμπιέδες και έχουν μια χαρακτηριστική γεύση αλλιώς ετσι ειναι απλώς μπισκότα με άχνη ❤
Merry Christmas 🎉🎉
♥️♥️♥️
❤️❤️
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Do you know what they say about kourabiedes? If you dare to eat them in the living room without a dish or a napkin you are real Man 😂😂😂
Lol.
😂😂😂✅️✅️
@@Sunpire ❤️❤️❤️
I eat them in bed 😂😂😂🍺
@@Sunpire wow!!! Tough guy! 😂😂😂
"I thought this was flour"....Raul keep the washing machine detergents in another house!
😂😂😂😂
It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
Seriously, it is so tiring and irritating.
@@marykoufalis7666 tiring and irritating is repeating lies to foreigners
@polha4966 Yes exactly that's what i'm referencing
@tenerisius nea karvali is in macedonia dude ..... Not in asia minor! Macedonians are well known of having rich butter and heavy cooking with butter and lard. As thessalians too. The sweet by the name of kurabiedes exists ALL over europe, In italy it s called ricciarelli. Tell me do they stole it from the turks too? Especially since the almond tree is native in greece... Of course you are not turk but a brainwashed greek to who the turkish propaganda that everything greek is turkish worked well. The problem is that you repeat such nonsenses to foreigners as you do here with you false comment. Kurabiedes it s not a turkish sweet. Almond and wheat from which the sweet is produced from are plants natives to greece not to mongolia
Amalia. Are you having a baby?? X
Hello, no
Kurabiedes is named after the turkish word "kuru" which means dry and a bit Hellenised with greek ending in plural. There is also a type of tiropita named kuru, because of the dry pastry it is used for it.
The word you thought similar with ship, is Karavi and it has nothing to do with it.
It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@polha4966 Never said that kurabies is Turkish. I said the word is related with the Turkish word kuru.
And if you consider that the best tradition of kuriabiedes is in new Karvali in Kavala which are refuges from Kappadokia, it makes sense that some cultural exchanges in the language is possible.
And by the way, I am not Turk.
@@Tenerisius nea karvali is in macedonia dude ..... Not in asia minor! Macedonians are well known of having rich butter and heavy cooking with butter and lard. As thessalians too. The sweet by the name of kurabiedes exists ALL over europe, In italy it s called ricciarelli. Tell me do they stole it from the turks too? Especially since the almond tree is native in greece... Of course you are not turk but a brainwashed greek to who the turkish propaganda that everything greek is turkish worked well. The problem is that you repeat such nonsenses to foreigners as you do here with you false comment. Kurabiedes it s not a turkish sweet. Almond and wheat from which the sweet is produced from are plants natives to greece not to mongolia
@@polha4966 I think there is a communication problem here. You read your mind and not what i am saying. I am not telling that is a Turkish cookie. I am saying that the name is made from a Turkish word. I know very well where Nea Katvali is. But you forgot that every place in Greece with the word "Nea" before, means new and it is a village or a town made from refugees from the minor Asia or east Thrace from a village there with the same name without the word "new" in front.
@@Tenerisius yet again thracians werent turks... neither were the ionians of asia minor ... maybe you need some history lessons. The name kurabies is egyptian not turkish.
Actually kourabies (singular) / kourampiedes (plural) dirives from turkish. It means something like dry dough because it has no syrop. How did the walnuts taste...? Didn't taste a bit bitter? Next stop melomakarona! Happy Holidays!
Actually was very good, no bitterness, great with coffee 👌
@@Sunpire Did you save some without icing sugar for Raul?
it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@@Sunpire It s incredible how greek related videos attract turks non stop to say something of everything is turkish...this cookie the kurabiedes it s not turkish.... this kind of almond butter cookie exists all over europe aka in italy and in spain. The name kourabiedes is arab and it comes from egypt....
@@polha4966 I meant that the word dirives from turkish, not the sweat. It comes from the word kuru which means dry and biye meaning something like biscuit or dough (I'm Greek and I don't know the correct meaning of the turkish words). It could also be from arabic or persian with the same meaning more or less. But the only thing that matters is to eat it, the rest is just small talk. Happy holidays!