Sometimes you’re busy, sometimes you don’t feel like cooking or sometimes you want something quick and easy. A comfort dish from your childhood also helps! Once again this past weekend I was called upon to cook-up a comfort dish at Toronto’s Harbourfront, near the skating rink. It’s cold outside and warming dishes is what’s cold [...]
Last year I introduced you to a Greek dish with stewed veal and okra. Another related dish with okra is the vegetarian version, loaded with onions, okra, perfumed with allspice berries and bulked up with some potatoes for a fine vegetarian main course. There are a few ways you can go out making this okra [...]
Lamb and sheep are cute animals, chickens are cute when they are born, calves are cute, turkeys are majestic with their plumage, deer are a adorable. All the above animals do not posess the “Fugly” gene yet we eat them. Rabbits are cute and sadly delicious! I just wanted to draw the parallel before any [...]
More cool and rainy days upon us but this weekend’s supposed to be sweltering hot. For those familiar with hot weather on the east coast, we’re expecting hot & humid weather for the weekend. This cooler weather is allowing me to squeeze in some Greek comfort dishes before I’m in “full-on” grilling weather. It is [...]
Another staple of the Greek kitchen are okra. Okra is used alot in southern US cooking, Afro-American “soul food”, the Louisiana dish of Gumbo’s main ingredient is okra and in the Caribbean, Callaloo gets the okra treatment. Okra look and taste similar to beans but then are obviously thicker and taper like a thin pepper. [...]
As I’ve written in some of my earlier posts, Greek cuisine is going through an awakening. Much like other cuisines, the Greeks are reinterpreting traditional dishes with new ingredients and offering “new takes” and presentations. One such Greek chef at the forefront of this movement is Lefteris Lazarou. He’s well-known inside Greece and his star [...]
Osso Bucco is a northern Italian dish, from the Lombardy region (near Milano). The old school Osso Bucco did not include tomatoes (as they appeared in Italy after the dishes creation). This dish is made with veal shanks and icing on the cake for this dish has to be the marrow inside each bone. I [...]
Lamb is much enjoyed by Greeks. I’ve always liked lamb and I’d eat more of it if weren’t so fattening and cost-prohibitive (yes I prefer lamb chops). Lamb Fricasse was not a dish I enjoyed as a kid but I had an epiphany one late night on the Danforth, Toronto’s Greektown. Back then I was [...]
When I was young, I didn’t like having the “Greek” meals like the one here. I didn’t like carrots, I thought bay leaves and spices were weird. What led to my awakening to good food and all food Greek? Perhaps it was spending summers traveling and being absent from my mom’s home cooking or perhaps [...]
