Sardines, Mt. Olympus and the “Gri-Gri” boats of Greece
As I’ve written before, the town Nea Kallikratia where our summer home is located is a vibrant tourist and fishing town. Nea Kallikratia is located about 3o minutes south of Thessaloniki and it’s situated on the Thermaic Gulf. On a clear day one can see clearly across the Gulf and almost touch Mount Olmypus. With […]
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika With Olives
Homebase for me when in Greece is the fishing and tourist town of Nea Kallikratia in Halkidiki. It’s situated about 30 minutes south of Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki. It’s home away from home and I’m welcomed by family and friends. The people who have summer homes here are mostly from Thessaloniki and the rest […]
Caper Salad (Καππαροσαλάτα)
I had every intention of writing and sharing about my vacation and food experiences in chronological order but it’s my prerogative to change my mind. This is a food blog afterall…no place here for orderly behaviour! This year I visited three islands in the Cyclades. The Cyclades are the most famous of Greek islands which […]
Greece 2008 Comes to a Close
I’m back and in a bitter-sweet way. It’s good to be back in Canada after another wonderful, memorable and fantastic time vacationing in Greece. Although I wish I could still be in Greece, all things must come to an end and I don’t want to get sick of Greece and I always leave unfinished business […]
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Gone Fishing
Today I leave for a long anticipated and much deserved vacation in Greece. I will be relaxing at my family’s summer home in Halkidiki, heading down to Greece’s capital, Athens and also visiting the Greek island of Sifnos. Later in the vacation I will also head up to my parents’ towns in Florina and then […]
Tequila Chicken
There’s just one more night before I head off to sunny, inviting, satiating and glorious Greece. Like anyone about to go on vacation, my days are filled with tying up loose ends at work, tidying up around the house and eating what I have left in the fridge. To those that can look into your […]
Frying Oysters
I do enjoy eating raw oysters on the half-shell but I admit, I’ll pay someone else to shuck them. However, one can enjoy oysters in other ways and frying them up has to be one of the tastier alternatives. The neighborhood Asian market always sells tubs of shucked oyster meat and from reading the label, […]
Herbed Sea Salt
First off, I want to thank everyone who responded and replied to my Blogging Rant (see two posts down in my blog) and also for joining the chorus of pissed off bloggers on the topic of ATK. If you haven’t heard what went on, then you were perhaps on a space shuttle mission or you […]
Linguine With Tapenade
Here’s another dish from that little gem of a book on olives called“Cooking With Olives and Their Oils”. This gleaming black sauce resembles a caviar, don’t it? The French have a habit of giving a rustic dish a chi-chi-frou-frou name and then charging an extra 4 euros for the dish! How much would you pay […]