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 [...]
Last night’s Greek Supper Club took us back to the warm and cozy cooking studio at Aprhodite Cooks where my guests enjoyed fine Greek wine with a Lent-friendly menu created by yours truly. The challenge with this menu was to create dishes that were exciting to the eye, Lent-friendly in nature and of course, delicious! [...]
Last night’s dinner was probably my most ambitious to date…record sold out crowd of over 60 guests, a menu with a over a dozen items and all this being cooked in a kitchen I have never worked in before. My first Tsiknopempti dinner was a delicious success with lots of Kechribari retsina, Babatzim Ouzo, Alfa [...]
Last weekend will be a very memorable one. For the first time I took my Greek Supper Club concept to the western New York area and cooked another Big Fat Greek Dinner. There were some similarities to the menu and some new items as well! The sold-out (50 guests) dinner took place at the recently [...]
Last night my guests were taken on a culinary journey back in time, when ancient Greeks had no lemons, no citrus, no tomatoes, potatoes. eggplants or peppers! The cuisine was centered on olives, olive oil, grapes, wine, vinegar for acidity, grape must and honey for sweetness. Lamb and goat were the meats of the day, [...]
It seems that these Greek Supper Clubs keep getting better and better! I think it’s a combo of getting more comfortable in the kitchen space we’ve been using of late (Aphrodite Cooks Studio) and I am getting the hang of cooking for large parties – not entertaining at home. I do think that many restaurants [...]
Just over a week ago I cooked a meal for over 30 food and cinema enthusiasts organized by my friends at Real Eats. The evening’s theme was centered around the very popular comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and I was given the pleasure of creating a menu that would pay homage to the movie. [...]
My bones are a little achy today but I’m beaming (still) after last night’s Supper Club with a focus on the cuisine of Florina. Being that this region is where my parents are from, I went into this dinner very confident but also still worried because I knew some folks would be there who shared [...]
I just received the fabulous photos of last week’s Greek Supper Club held on the rooftop of a condo in the Fashion District of downtown Toronto. The memories are still fresh in my mind but I want to share this fabulous evening for those of you who couldn’t make it or you’re thinking about attending [...]
This past Tuesday I cooked for my second Greek Supper Club with a menu inspired by the cuisine of the Cyclades islands. The menu was ambitious, lots of thought and work went into the meal, with an eye to providing my guests with Greek hospitality like one experiences when visiting a Greek home. The location [...]
