Greek Food Gazette 25/02/2010
This week’s photo was sent in my Iveta Hortashka from when she visited Egremni Beach on the island of Lefkada. The photo was take by her friend Alexander Hinkov and I think Lefkada just moved up on my list of islands to visit. As always, send your favourite photos from Greece (or from any Greek […]
Flavours of Northern Greece: A Culinary Journey
Greek Food Guru, Diane Kochilas have taken our budding friendship to another level as we have organized a tour of Northern Greece that will excite even the most world-weary traveler with some of Greece’s best cuisine, artisan producers of Greek products and some of Greece’s top wineries. Diane bring her expertise as a cookbook author, […]
Dad’s Rice Pudding
I grew up having not one great cook in the household but two! My dad emigrated to Canada in the 1950’s, on the encouragement of his older brother and uncle, Pantelis ( the fellow I was named after). Like many other immigrant stories, families left their homelands en-masse to greener pastures and in the case […]
Beef Bourguignon
I think every home should have a Beef Bourguignon dish in the family’s roster of Sunday dishes. The dish demands patience (time) to be successful, little kitchen skill and a keen eye to some quality ingredients. Beef Bourguignon is translated as “beef in the style of Burgundy”…from the Burgundy region of France, of course. The […]
Greek Food Gazette 18/02/2011
Top Chef contestant and Greek-American Marissa Churchill is interviewed in Greece’s “Eltherotypia” on the release of her first book, “Sweet & Skinny” Theodoros Pantaleon, Thessaloniki’s master of herbs & spices Traditional menus are winning over modern, “nouveau” Greek cuisine A community on the Black Sea (north-east Turkey) discovered where they speak an Romeyka, an Ancient […]
House on Parliament…Next Door!
One of Toronto’s old standby’s for pub-grub, hang-out for drinks or actually going out for above-average food on a pauper’s budget has just moved on up the street. Well, actually this pub moved one building south of it’s long-time location on Parliament Street in Toronto’s now desirable Cabbagetown neighborhood. I had resisted writing about House […]
Hearty Winter Vegetable Soup
Although we’ve had a pretty mild winter by Canadian standards, we do still get the abrupt reminder that we (Canadians) live in the Great White North (Canada) and that yes, winters here are a long and cold. Last week we had temperatures that only warmed up to -8 Celcius in the day time and dipped […]
Kotopoulo (Chicken) Maskouli
A couple of years ago while vacationing in Greece, I was up in my Dad’s town (Amynteo) and even though I always enjoy going back to visit the region of my ancestors…I’ve grown tired of chasing chickens (think Rocky Balboa). Amynteo is about 90 minutes north-west of Thessaloniki, in the region of Florina. Beside Florina […]
Greek Food Gazette 11/02/2011
This week’s photo was sent in by friend and fellow Canadian blogger Val of More Than Burnt Toast. Val’s blog offers delicious West Coast dishes mixed in with some international flavours. Val has traveled to Greece and I consider her a friend of Greece and Greek cuisine. As always, send in your photos of Greece […]
Soft Shell Crab With Red Pepper Skordalia
One of the many strong points of Greek cuisine is that within the lifestyle/way Greeks eat is also the meze/appetizers served at one’s home or at the rustic taverna. Mezedes (appetizers) may come in the form of dips, table cheeses, olives, salads, savory pies, meats and of course, fish and seafood. The plates are small, […]