Octopus Mosaic With Shaved Asparagus & Beet Dressing
I made this recipe a couple of weeks ago for my Aroma Messinia Greek Supper Club and it was a big hit. A successful dish delivers when it catches the eye, it’s presented well and it tastes great. What I’ve done here is take some ingredients used often by Greeks and use them in a […]
Greek Food Gazette 24/05/2013
Some seats left for my cooking class this weekend, One Night in Athens Benaki Museum (Athens) to host Gastronomy Days from May 24-26th The northern Greek city of Edessa celebrated cherries with its 1st Annual Gastronomy Festival May 17-19 One more week until I come to New York to cook at Amali restuarant on June […]
Pizza With Rapini & Italian Sausage
While I was writing my book and researching info on Mediterranean cooking, I learned that the foraging of wild greens went beyond Greece – folks in Italy, southern France and in the Balkans like their bitter greens…and so should you! Here in Canada, we don’t have the wealth of wild greens available to us in […]
Aroma Messinia – Dinner Recap
Last Tuesday’s Greek Supper Club was a sell out – 48 of my dinner guests sat together in two long tables to enjoy an authentic Greek meal. The dinner’s theme was the cuisine of Messinia, located in the southwestern tip of the Peloponnese. The dinner took place at the Burroughes Building on Queen Street West […]
Greek Food Gazette 11/05/2013
I’m cooking a Mastiha/Chios themed dinner in New York City on June 1st, grab your seats now Toronto International Film Festival to focus on Athens in 2013 City to City program Check out Kipos, a traditional Greek taverna in North Carolina Here’s a list of 51 recipes and ways you can use Greek yogurt […]
Giannotiko Style Baklava
My apologies for not posting at my usual pace but it continues to be busy around here: just submitted the manuscript for my first cookbook (in stores November), now I have to work on the photographs, I am busy organizing my Greek Supper Clubs, Greek Easter just past and here we are. Time flies. The […]
Greek Food Gazette 03/05/2013
Messinia in the culinary spotlight at upcoming fundraiser dinner in Toronto Greek short film called Rainy Days looking for help through crowdsourcing Join me on Saturday, May 25th for cooking class called, One Night in Athens Mediterranean is getting mainstream – May is officially Mediterranean Diet month Here are 15 clever ways you can use […]
Greek Food Gazette 26/04/2013
I am now accepting orders (Toronto only) for Easter Tsoureki (as in photo above), $10 per loaf, order by April 30 at truenorth67 AT gmail.com New Guinness world record for longest/largest Tsoureki in the world A feel good video with a behind the scenes look at Greece’s National Guard (Evzones) GAEA takes silver at New […]
Lisa Marie’s
Last week I dropped by Lisa Marie’s long awaited restaurant. After thousands of sandwiches, pop-ups, a food truck a TV show…now his own restaurant serving up Chiccetti…Italian-inspired small plates. Click the slide show below…you’ll be going to Lisa Marie’s soon!
Octopus Stifado
It’s been very busy around here and in case you missed the memo, I am currently working on the manuscript for my very first cookbook! The excitement of having a cookbook with my recipes and my name on it quickly wore off after I realized that there’s a lot of work involved! Here are the […]