This upcoming week will kick off the holiday season what with children out of school and parents are gearing up for family vacations. Next week also marks the arrival of July and a very important date for Canadians is July 1st – Canada Day. Us Canadians celebrate with pride our very young but thriving, prosperous [...]
Today, I’m going to share with you an entire menu that’s cooked on the grill. We’re talking from the protein (pork chops) to the potatoes and even the vegetables (mushrooms) meet the heat. First off are the pork chops. These pork chops are 1/2 inch thick and I left the fat around the outside. You [...]
The first time I ever tasted Halloumi cheese was when friends of the family (part Cypriot) gave us some. Here in Toronto, we have a good-sized Greek community with approx. 130,000 Greeks living in the area, about fifteen churches, hundreds of associations and federations representing towns & villages from all over Greece and Cyprus and [...]
Regular readers of my blog will know that I like to share dishes from a Greek magazine insert in the daily Kathimerini known as Gastronomos. This magazine comes out each month and it features the month’s seasonal ingredients, introduces new products entering the Greek market and it showcases new artisan and crafted foods made by [...]
Today, I’m going to share with you another fabulous, affordable and delicious treat brought to you from the Greek grill. The subject matter is none other than pork belly. Pork belly comes from the underside (belly) of the pig and it’s used to make bacon, rillettes, confit or a terrine. The Italians make their own [...]
Last week, I was delighted to share withyou a pesto that was made of wild leeks, otherwise known as ramps. I’ve been enjoying the tub of pesto tossed with some pasta for a quick lunch, I’ve dabbled and added some crumbled Feta to make another pasta dish and today, that same pesto get’s stuffed into [...]
For those that have been fortunate enough to visit Greece and enjoy some of the world’s freshest seafood, you would have been offered calamari either fried or in this case, grilled. I didn’t always eat calamari (squid) but the deep-fried variety is what converted me. However, grilled squid (or calamari) is what cemented my love [...]
One aspect of Greek cuisine that I’ve found to be under-represented is grilling. Greeks love grilled food yet I see very little mention of it. Since the days of the caveman, humans have been throwing meat and other foods onto an open fire. It’s the most primitive method of cooking yet today, it’s probably the [...]
The sweetbreads I’m discussing and cooking with today are considered offal. To look at sweetbreads, one would make the common mistake of thinking they are brains (in fact they are not). Sweetbreads come from the thymus glands, located at the chest entry, just before the trachea. They are only found in young animals as they [...]
I’ve thought carefully on whether to post the recipes from this past Easter in clusters or individually. I’ve chosen the latter for the simple reason of keeping the clarity of recipes in the archives of the blog and to make them easier to search for. You might get a flurry of posts from me in [...]
