Festive Vegan Sweets Recipes
The most wonderful time of the year is here! December! So close to Christmas and New Year’s Celebrations! And for a sweet-tooth like me, is the perfect excuse for more desserts. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁🎄🎅🎁 🎄🎄🎄🎄
I called Pinelopi Kyriazi from Maninio to ask her how to make traditional Greek Desserts with less sugar but tasteful. She prepared the following Christmas recipes:
Kourabiedes With Coconut Sugar
In Greece, before Christmas time, locals are famous for enjoying cooking the Traditional sweets. Kourabiedes, Melomakarona and Diples.
From the start of winter season, which begins in December Greeks start making these Traditional sweets and the house smell like early Christmas!
Today we’ll talk about Kourampiedes! Have you ever tried them?? They are buttery Christmas cookies. In Greece, we sprinkle them with rose water and we cover them with iced sugar. In Kalamata (Greece) they prepare these cookies through the year. You can find them in big variations and shapes.
The sweet root can be found in Persia, from where the sweetness traveled all over the East, the Balkans and, of course, our country. Of course, like any famous sweet who respects himself, other countries, especially Lebanon, are also pardoning for his paternity, while we are in “Turkey”, Albania, but also in Hispanic countries under the name Polvoron.
Kurabiye in Turkish means biscuit, buttermilk or “fluffy” Greek translation of Kourampies.
The most likely version of the “arrival” of Kourabie in Greece, as well as many other recipes, is to arrive in the country with the luggage of the refugees from Asia Minor and more specifically from Smyrni.- Maninio.com
The Butter quality plays a big role in the success of Kourampiedes. Choose the best quality for the best results!
If you are just Vegetarian use butter but today’s recipe is for all the Vegans! You can use any good quality of Vegan Butter. I used margarine with coconut and almond. It’s a new product in Greece and I decided to try it. The taste is not exactly like the original buttery Kourampie, because of the Vegan Butter. But equally delicious! – Maninio.com
Get the Recipe from Maninio Food & Travel Blog here>>
Vegan Melomakarona
I’ve spent years making these Christmas Cookies which are a popular treat during the Festive time in Greece. Originally They are flavored with honey, thus their name “Melomakarona”. Believe me, I can eat a whole plate of them! I am so addicted! Dangerous addicted! No prescription required. – Maninio.com
The Name of Melomakarona it means Honey Macarons. Macaroni comes from the Greek word “macaronia”, a dish served in the Medieval times at a funeral dinner (after a funeral). In the newer years a favorite sweet has been added to our favorite honey and so we arrived at our famous melomakarono (= melo + macaron). It was established as a Christmas sweet since our honey is considered as a symbol of welfare and creation since ancient times! That’s how good and joyful we expect to bring each new year.
These Melomakarona are on less sweet side and Vegan. The Greeks love sugar and prefer to put a lot of sugar and honey on them. If you think it’s not possible to make Vegan Melomakarona, you haven’t tried mine. Crunchy outside and juicy inside. Heavenly delicious! – Maninio.com
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Enjoy the most wonderful season of the year with your loved ones! Merry Everything and Happy Always!
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At the heart of the One Planet Summit 2017, some 20 projects will be showcased. These projects will be presented during the round tables in the morning, the Climate Agora at lunchtime and during the afternoon sessions. They illustrate the fact that concrete local and global solutions exist to address the challenges we face. They need to be stepped up and replicated, and to serve as a source of inspiration around the world. They demonstrate that we are committed to a new world, to preserve the future of our one and only planet. Read more about the Projects for our Planet here>>
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Ecological Support
On 12 December 2017, the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, will address the ecological emergency for our planet by calling together in Paris international leaders and committed citizens from around the world.
Two years to the day after the historic Paris Agreement, it is time for concrete action. Many stakeholders are already taking action and will present projects illustrating the ongoing transition.
Much remains to be done to achieve our goals: commitments will be made.
The One Planet Summit’s three keywords will be adaptation, mitigation and mobilization.
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A Morning for Climate Action
The consequences of climate change affect everyone, so it is up to each and every stakeholder in society to act. More than 50 speakers: NGOs, entrepreneurs, investors, government members, local stakeholders and scientists will meet to take action around the four round tables of the One Planet Summit morning. The goal is to identify and implement tangible solutions and mobilize public and private funding to enable large-scale deployment – including in the most vulnerable countries.
Projects for Our Planet
At the heart of the Summit, some 20 projects will be showcased. These projects will be presented during the round tables in the morning, the Climate Agora at lunchtime and during the afternoon sessions. They illustrate the fact that concrete local and global solutions exist to address the challenges we face. They need to be stepped up and replicated, and to serve as a source of inspiration around the world. They demonstrate that we are committed to a new world, to preserve the future of our one and only planet. Look at the projects here>>
The Panels
Side events
In parallel of the One Planet Summit on December 12, many side events are organized on December 10, 11 and 13 in Paris by public, private and civil society stakeholders in order to contribute to the mobilization and the implementation of concrete solutions towards greater climate action.
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AudioBlocks headquarters are located in Reston, Virginia, where you can find them slinging ping pongs and frolicking with their resident office dogs during commercial breaks.
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Creative Market Free Goods: Christmas season is here and we all want to create unique gifts for our loved ones. This week’s Designer has a festive suggestion for our postcards and gift tags.
Hand drew vector illustrations – Christmas design elements, wreaths, branches. Merry Christmas lettering. Perfect for invitations, greeting cards, postcards, prints, flyers, posters, etc by the Creative Market Shop and Designer Kate Macate.
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Hello! My name is Kate. I’m happy to see you in my shop. I passionately enjoy ink, watercolors and digital illustration. I create high-resolution content and will be glad to offer you my work. Thank you! Contact me here>>
Support Service is Vital
The peace of mind that a WordPress Support Company can provide will allow you to enjoy your journey with a WordPress website. It is way better to spend time on creating your content than on fixing common website issues!
Although WordPress is easy to get started, many underestimate what is involved in maintaining a WordPress website. It can be very time-consuming and is fairly tedious too.
That is why many people use WordPress support services such as Fix MY WP. These maintenance support companies provide a range of services and ensure that your website is safe and running efficiently.
Before we look at why someone would pay a company to maintain their WordPress websites, let’s first look at what is involved in maintaining a WordPress website.
WordPress Website Maintainance
Here is a list of essential tasks that every WordPress user should make a priority.
-Software Updates
When it comes to updates, WordPress is miles ahead of its competition. The platform supports automatic background updates so that minor and major core updates can be processed behind the scenes.
Whilst theme and plugin updates can also be updated in the background, it is better to perform updates manually through the WordPress admin area so that you can check that the upgrades went ahead with no problems. A simple error in an updated WordPress theme or plugin can be enough to crash your website, which makes updating them automatically risky.
Keeping WordPress up to date is one of the simplest administrative tasks for a WordPress user, however, it is also one of the most important.
-Uptime Monitoring
The longer a website remains offline, the more traffic and revenue your business will lose. You, therefore, want to be informed about any downtime immediately.
There are a number of uptime monitoring services available online that will inform you when your website goes offline so that you can investigate an error on your website as soon as possible.
-Security and Cleanups
As a WordPress website owner, you need to stay vigilant and ensure that WordPress is always up to date. You also need to ensure that your themes and plugins are up to date and do not have any security holes or vulnerabilities.
WordPress websites are constantly under threat from hackers who want to steal information or install malware on your website. Failure to be proactive about the security of your website is guaranteed to increase your risk of an attack.
-Backups and Restores
Do not become complacent and assume that nothing will go wrong. It can and it will.
Even experienced WordPress website owners need to revert to external backups to restore their website from time to time. This may be necessary due to your hosting company’s server going down, your website being hacked, or simply because you made a mistake when administrating your website.
Backup your website regularly to ensure that anything goes wrong, you do not lose all of your data.
-Spam Cleaning
Spam is a major problem for all websites. Even if you disable registration in WordPress, adopt a strict commenting policy, and use a good anti-spam WordPress plugin, a lot of spam is still going to get through.
Spam cleaning is a boring unrewarding task, but it is something that unfortunately needs to be done.
-Website Performance
A slow loading website will make people click the back button on their browser. Since website speed is a ranking factor, poor performance will also affect your search engine ranking and reduce the amount of organic traffic your website receives.
It is therefore imperative that you optimize your WordPress websites
You can optimize your website in a number of ways. This includes database optimization (e.g. fewer revisions), page caching, and utilizing a content delivery network.
-Regular Checkups
Things can go wrong and things will go wrong.
Even when your WordPress websites have been set up correctly and optimized, you still need to regularly check your website to ensure that everything is OK.
The Benefits of WordPress Support Services
If maintaining a WordPress website is not technically difficult, why do people use WordPress support services?
There are many benefits to using a WordPress Support Service, but in my opinion, there are three main reasons website owners would outsource WordPress Maintenance work.
- The time it saves
- Peace of mind
- Convenience
Maintaining a WordPress website and ensuring that it remains secure and optimized can be time-consuming. Hiring a support company to take responsibility for maintaining your WordPress websites means that you can focus your time and energy on more important tasks.
The peace of mind that a WordPress Support Company can provide cannot be underestimated.
WordPress support companies pay close attention to current security issues which means that there is less risk of security and performance issues cropping up. If any problem does arise on your website, you are safe in the knowledge that you have a team of experienced WordPress users working on fixing the issue.
Those of you who have spent hours trying to recover data or find out which WordPress plugin is crashing their website will appreciate how stressful maintaining a WordPress website can be.
Website maintenance is also quite boring and repetitive so being able to hand over this work to someone else is incredibly convenient.
WordPress support companies also provide technical support. Fix My WP, for example, offer 24-hour email support to their customers. Being able to get technical help on such short notice is great for non-technical users and WordPress users who are short on time.
By paying a small fee to a support company you can free up hours of your time every week and increase your bottom line.
Important Note
The content of this post was originally published on FixMyWP.com by the author Kevin Muldoon. We are re-posting this article with the kind courtesy of FixMyWP.com. You can read more of his work by visiting his website www.kevinmuldoon.com and Rise Forums.
This is not a sponsored post. We use Fix My WP Maintenance Services and we want to support this company. Kindness never hurt anyone.
WordCamp Athens 2017
Ideadeco is a proud Media Sponsor of WordCamp Athens 2017.
The best WordPress busy bees shared their knowledge and expertise with the WordPress Community and enthusiasts. Greek and English speaking speakers gave out the best tips and know-hows on hot topics.
Track A (Nikos Skalkotas Hall)
Websites for freelancers 101
- All the questions you should ask yourself before building your own website. Speaker: Francesca Marano
- Designer for a day. Speaker: Vivian Dimitriadi
- Κωπηλατώντας στον ωκεανό του Ίντερνετ. Ομιλητής: Αντώνης Καρπετόπουλος
- Enterprise eCommerce with WooCommerce at the center. Speaker: David Lockie
- How To Build A Startup in 7 Days. Canceled
- From trading goods to UberEats: Why now it’s the time to focus on eCommerce. Speaker: Marianna Siouti
- Challenges in integrating ERP systems with WooCommerce E-shops. Speaker: Apostolos Kritikos
- Building an E-commerce Progressive Web App with React and WooCommerce. Speaker: Alexandra Anghel
- Improving WordPress performance with XDebug and PHP profiling. Speaker: Otto Kekäläinen
Track B (MC3 Room)
- How to get (more) involved with WordPress. Speaker: Rocío Valdivia
- The Magic of Advanced Debugging. Speaker: Ivelina Dimova
- How to hire the right person and how to be the right person for the job. Speaker: Aleksandar Savkovic
- Η ΕΡΤ στην ψηφιακή εποχή / Η Δικτυακή WordPress εγκατάσταση του Οργανισμού Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών (Short Talks). Ομιλητές: Ιωάννης Βουγιουκλάκης, Δαυίδ Μπρομοίρας
- Handling WordPress projects – begin to infinite. Speaker: Aleksandar Andrijevic
- Speed Optimization στο WordPress. Speaker: Αρχιμήδης Μερτζάνος
- Data Protection 101 for Developers. Speaker: Βασίλης Καρκατζούνης
- Η Ηλεκτρονική Επίλυση Διαφορών (ODR) στην Ελλάδα. Ομιλήτρια: Ρία Παπαδημητρίου
Read more about each speaker here>>
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Digital Nomads
Digital Nomads are people who use telecommunications and digital technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their lives in a nomadic manner. They often work remotely from foreign countries or coffee shops or public libraries or co-working spaces.
“Traveling around the world has taught me to how to be more social, adapt, be more flexible, and, most importantly, understand nonverbal communication a lot better. It has helped me figure out situations even when I can’t understand them. It has made me more independent, more open, and, overall, just a better person. There’s no reason to be scared that you might not have “it” in you. You’d be surprised how often you can surprise yourself.” – Kepnes Founder of NomadicMatt.com
Source www.forbes.com
Nomadic Matt is the Example
“The Dutch have a saying “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” Life on the road is a lot easier than you think. It’s the decision to take that step out the door that is the hardest part because it requires the most change. You’re leaving your old life for a new one. I know what it is like – I’ve been there many times but travel is a very rewarding experience and you shouldn’t let fear hold you back. Below are some uplifting and inspiring posts to help you on your journey.” – NomadicMatt.com
How to make a living as a Digital Nomad
To make ends meet one should find a job that can cover all living expenses and more, right? As adults, most of us, can not afford to jump from one country to another without some financial safety and planning.
I am grateful that the following websites exist, just to cover the search for remote working of all Digital Nomads out there.
RemoteOK.io
The largest collection of 25000+ Remote Jobs for Digital Nomads as Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Front End Developer, Web Developer, Software Developer, Android Developer, Ios Developer, UI UX Designer and Frontend Developer. Work remotely as a digital nomad or work from home. Check it out here>>
NomadList.com
Nomad List is the biggest database of cities in the world. It analyzes 250,000+ data points to help you choose where to go. Find the best place to live, work or play here>>
RemoteYear.com
Travel the world while working remotely as part of a vibrant global community. Read more here>>
BeUnsettled.co
Unsettled is for those of us who embrace uncertainty and value meaningful human connection. Who realize that feeling a little bit “unsettled” is a positive impulse for change, innovation, and exploration. Who believe that it’s in times of transition, travel, and movement when we feel most alive, inspired, and receptive to the people and ideas that spark growth.
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The Unsettled community itself consists of dreamers and doers, designers and developers, explorers and entrepreneurs. We are not a complacent group; we do not settle. In fact, we are a bit of a paradox. Our interests, skills, and life experiences are vastly different, and yet they bring us together in our common desire to learn from each other and improve our own lives.
Source www.beunsettled.co
Digital Nomad Communities in Greece
Connecting digital nomads living and/or visiting Athens. To hang out with us, ask from the members to add you to the group messenger chat.
Visit their Meetup group: Digital Nomads Athens or their Facebook group: Digital Nomads Athens
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