Balsamic Asparagus Salad
Last night the temperature dropped and we now have colder, normal Canadian weather with us once again. I’ve just finished bringing in the evening’s firewood from the garage. I’ll be making dinner in the fireplace over cherry wood with some Keftedes, Macedonian Sausages, roasted red peppers, tomato slices, feta cheese and some crusty bread. The […]
Gambas al Pil Pil (Sizzling Garlic Prawns)
Today I’m so excited to show you this quick and easy Tapas dish. Tapas are one and the same like Greek mezedes or…appetizers. Today, I cook for Nuria, my dear blog friend at Spanish Recipes. Pay a visit to her site as she injects humour, info on Spanish cuisine and culture and she’ll even sing […]
Avgolemono Soup With Fide Noodles
As I’ve written previously, Avgolemeno (eggs & lemon) are one of the most used bases and flavours for Greek cooking. Here, we see Agvolemeno being used in it’s most rudimentary yet most satisfying and comforting way, as a chicken soup. Avgolemeno soup is the Greek’s answer to chicken noodle soup. I swear, this soup will […]
Figs In Mavrodaphne With Manouri
Last year I found many recipes for this Greek dessert on the internet. I’ve patiently waited for the winter to come so that I may finally try this recipe. This post is a long time coming. I haven’t had a sweet fig since I got back from Greece in September of last year. I love […]
Chillies & Cheese Snack
I recently made a post of a poached pears recipe and a good discussion on Greek words ensued in the comments section. It was revealed that the Greeks have a word for everything. I once witnessed a lecture conducted in English but he exclusively used Greek-routed words. Awesome! If the Greeks have a word for […]
Cooking With………A Stapler?
You know what this blog needs? Is more brown paper bags! I’ve enjoyed baking fish in a brown paper bag and I’m satisfied that there are no health risks to using them for cooking purposes. Let me assure you that brown paper lunch bags are not made of recycled paper, the cooking time (2.5 minutes) […]
Poached Pears in Muscat
This dessert was inspired by a recipe I saw in the September issue of Olive Magazine (Greece version) and it’s a Greek dessert in that I’ve used wine from the island of Samos, pears, Greek honey, cloves, cinnamon and I made a pseudo Greek coffee. The island of Samos is in the Aegean and it’s […]
French Canadian Pea Soup
For those not in the know, Canada is a bilingual country where our two official languages are French and English. Most of the Francophones live in the province of Quebec and some families can trace their roots to the first settlers in North America. English and French Canadians are similar yet different. I won’t get […]
Greco Linguine
I’m naughty. Not naughty in the “twirling neighborhood cats by their tail” way or not naughty in the “star of my own XXX-rated home movies”, but naughty. I’ll let Greek bureaucrats (Zaxopoulos) corner the home DVD market! I was recently at the dentist’s and while waiting for the “as usual late dentist”out to attend to […]
Zucchini Sticks
Years ago, when I was of legal age to drink – no wait. Years ago when I would I would get into a bar underage, it was often for “wing night”. I’d have to say that chicken wings became a bar staple from the mid-1980’s. Back then I worked as a gas bar attendant, part […]