Greek-Style Roast Lamb With Potatoes
Us Greeks do enjoy our lamb. Although we don’t have it on our weekly roster of meals, it’s always revisited. Lamb is often spit-roasted for Easter, lamb chops get the grill treatment, tougher pieces get braised or turned into stews and as I’m showing you today, roasting the lamb. I found a good deal on […]
Hilopites With Feta Pesto
About a month ago whilst surfing the round-up of Weekend Herb Blogging, I paid particular attention to a Feta Pesto, made by Genie of the Inadertant Gardener. I bookmarked the recipe for future reference. Fast forward to last week and I bought a weekend edition of a Greek newspaper which included a food/cooking magazine in […]
Chicken Avgolemeno With Prunes
In the realm of Greek cooking, there’s a renaissance in motion. The folks in Greece are traveling more than ever and expanding their palettes. Greeks of the diaspora have substituted/compensated traditional Greek ingredients with what’s at hand and returning their focus to the classics, kicked up of course! I’ll give the example of Italian-Americans using […]
Greek Horiatiki Salata
This thread goes out more to the Greek restaurants than households out there who have lost touch with their own cooking (not all but many). One of the cornerstones of the Greek table is the salad and in particular the Horiatiki Salata. We’ve all had it by now at a Greek restaurant or at a […]
Bechamel Sauce
Bechamel Sauce 6 Tbsp. butter 1/2 cup flour 5 cups of warm milk (no lighter than 2%) 4 eggs 3/4 cup of Kefalotiri or Romano cheese salt to taste 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg Put the butter in a pot to melt. Add the flour, stirring quickly with a wooden spoon to prevent lumps from forming. […]
Grilled Yellow Tail Snapper
With the warm weather here and having a short Canadian Spring & Summer, I try & BBQ/grill as much as I can. One of the places I visit is a local Chinese supermarket and they have a seafood counter. They usually do not have the best or freshest selection but if you know seafood, some […]