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Pizza With Rapini & Italian Sausage
While I was writing my book and researching info on Mediterranean cooking, I learned that the foraging of wild greens went beyond Greece – folks in Italy, southern France and in the Balkans like their bitter greens…and so should you! Here in Canada, we don’t have the wealth of wild greens available to us in [...]
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Greek Food Gazette 11/05/2013
I’m cooking a Mastiha/Chios themed dinner in New York City on June 1st, grab your seats now Toronto International Film Festival to focus on Athens in 2013 City to City program Check out Kipos, a traditional Greek taverna in North Carolina Here’s a list of 51 recipes and ways you can use Greek yogurt [...]
Giannotiko Style Baklava
My apologies for not posting at my usual pace but it continues to be busy around here: just submitted the manuscript for my first cookbook (in stores November), now I have to work on the photographs, I am busy organizing my Greek Supper Clubs, Greek Easter just past and here we are. Time flies. The [...]
Greek Easter Recipe Round-Up
Many of you have visited my Recipe Round-Up for Lent and I hope that I’ve helped you find some interesting dishes to break-up the monotony of the usual Lenten fare. We’re fast approaching Greek Easter and preparations are already beginning in my household! Greek Easter is centered around lamb or goat and the whole day [...]
Octopus Stifado
It’s been very busy around here and in case you missed the memo, I am currently working on the manuscript for my very first cookbook! The excitement of having a cookbook with my recipes and my name on it quickly wore off after I realized that there’s a lot of work involved! Here are the [...]
Recipes
Spaghetti Tossed in Shrimp Butter This is one of the tastiest pasta dishes you will ever have. Really. How can it not be good when the sauce contains onions, garlic, lots of shrimp, mushrooms, red peppers, Ouzo , butter, cream cheese and the surprise ingredient? Vanilla extract! This pasta dish is a riff on shrimp butter that I’ve used for [...]
Seared Halibut With Greens & Chickpeas Here in Canada we still have snow on the ground. A cruel joke served by Mother Nature after having a mostly mild winter here in the Great White North. Back in Greece, they survived a relatively mild winter, sparing many Greeks who feared the cold with little money or means to heat their homes. The [...]
Talk Toronto
Aroma Messinia – Dinner Recap Last Tuesday’s Greek Supper Club was a sell out – 48 of my dinner guests sat together in two long tables to enjoy an authentic Greek meal. The dinner’s theme was the cuisine of Messinia, located in the southwestern tip of the Peloponnese. The dinner took place at the Burroughes Building on Queen Street West [...]
Kalofagas Rotisserie Lamb Dinner I am delighted that that weather has finally warmed up and we may all enjoy a meal outdoors. Join me on Saturday, June 15th as I prepare a dinner centered around one Greek cuisine’s most iconic dishes – whole lamb on the spit! Let’s kick off the summer season with an dinner set in Toronto’s [...]
Travel
Kalofagas Supper Club in New York City I’m ecstatic to announce that I’ve been asked to guest chef at Amali restaurant, located in Manhattan’s toney Upper East Side. For those of you familiar with Greek dining in New York, you’ll be pleased to know that Amali is connected to a pioneer in fine Greek dining in New York – Periyiali. Join me [...]
Journey to the Land of Xinomavro No, I am not talking about some far off province of China but today’s post centers on Xinomavro, an ancient Greek varietal that literally translates to “sour black”. Considered the most commonly grown grape in Greece, this wild varietal is very popular with those who drink it and those who make it. No one Xinomavro [...]
Pantry
Greek Lent (Sarakosti) Recipe Round-up As a convenience to the many readers of this blog, I’ve amassed all the Lenten (and Lent-friendly) dishes that I have posted thus far. Most of the dishes are Greek and appropriate for Lent and some are foreign but due to their ingredients, they fit in nicely with the Greek Lent in [...]
Spaghetti With Roasted Cherry Tomatoes & Dry Mizithra Cheese Last weekend brought the end to the meat-eating phase of Apokries (Greek Carnival) and now Greeks are in the homestretch – the last week of Apokries. It’s Tyrini or Cheesefare Week with many Greeks forgoing meat and only eating dishes with cheese…lots of cheese! Pasta’s popularity goes beyond the happy bellies of Italian diners and [...]
