Those that live in Toronto or have traveled to Toronto will know that the airport code for Pearson International Airport is YYZ. Toronto’s Airport was named after Canada’s Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pearson was Prime Minister just prior to the Trudeau years and he also won a Nobel Peace Prize. Toronto finally has a [...]
Here’s a bookmarked recipe that I finally got around to trying this summer. Keftedes are a seasoned Greek meatball and here we have the use of the the diminutive, “keftedakia” or little meatballs. The recipe comes from Ethnos, one of Greece’s daily newspapers. It seems every paper in Greece has a section dedicated to food, [...]
A brief post that’s a companion to the updated Chickpea Soup from Sifnos. This easy, delicious and chi-chi-frou-frou Shrimp and Garlic Bread. I’ve served this as an h’ors oeuvres and as a garnish with this soup – in both cases it was well received. The recipe is easy: raw shrimp, scallions, garlic, Feta cheese, grated [...]
Recipe update: This recipe was originally posted in October 2008. Earlier that year when in Greece I had visited the island of Sifnos, on the southwest part of the Cyclades islands. Like in my other updated posts, I’ve given you better photos to tempt you to try the recipe. I’ve also tweaked this recipe by [...]
Watch me cook on Greek television with my friend, chef Dina Nikolaou The 2nd annual BorOina will be held this Saturday, Sept.25th from 7-11pm in Thessaloniki’s Aristotelous Square. Sample wines from Thessaloniki, the rest of Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and ThraceSe Selene restaurant in Santorini continues to showcase local and Cycladic ingredients and dishes The fifth [...]
Some know it, many don’t and I now urge you to try the combination of octopus with eggplant. Next time you’re at a Greek taverna and you’re ordering seafood – make sure you have some octopus and eggplant in the mix. Try tasting both the eggplant (say Melitzanosalata) and the eggplant both in your mouth. [...]
Here is my first post since arriving back from Greece. Yes, I had a wonderful time, yes I wish I could still be there and [...]
My 2010 edition of Vacation in Greece is coming to a close. This time tomorrow I will be in transit and on my way back home to Toronto, Canada. As much as I would love to stay here, life goes on (ie. I need to work to afford coming back to Greece each year). This [...]
Last year I was given a review copy of Vefa Alexiadou’s book, “Vefa’s Kitchen” and the recipes in this heavy tome are endless! I could easily do a recipe a day (a la Julie Powell) and probably still have a few recipes to take me halfway into the next year. The recipe I want to [...]
