Spatchcock Chicken
This dish instantly takes me back to Thessaloniki (and Greece) – just this past May. I stayed for about a week at my favourite uncle’s place, “Theo Mitso”. My uncle saved his drachmas, built a wonderful new home in the suburbs and surrounded the family with a lawn, gardens, olive and varied fruit trees. In […]
Pork Tenderloin With Sour Cherry Pan Sauce
Last year, I was sent an invitation to visit a town in western Macedonia, near Kozani called Siatista. Most towns have one central square but Siatista has about three as the main road spirals up to the acropolis (Mount Grivas). Siatista was an important arena during the struggle for Macedonia (and northern Greece’s) struggle for […]
Ergon All-Greek General Store
Readers of this blog will know that I try use and feature Greek products in my cooking whenever possible. There is still a supply/demand gap here in the West but the situation is improving year by year. In Greece prior to it’s entry into the EU (1981), one would only find local Greek goods and […]
Spinach & Feta “Gratin”
My visit to Greece this past May consisted of two parts: the first part was spent attending the Sani Gourmet Festival and the second was with family and friends in Thessaloniki. I stayed at my uncle’s house in Elaiones, a suburb that sits overlooking Thessaloniki on one side and nearby Panorama – still lording high […]
Mussels With Ouzo (Μυδια Ουζατα)
I know you’ve been waiting for some new recipes to appear on this site and with me just coming back from a wonderful (albeit brief) Spring visit to Greece, I bring you a quick and easy mussels dish that will take you to a Greek taverna and keep me at bay until my proper vacation […]
Pastitsio Gialantzi
I came up with the name of this riff on Pastitsio last week and I rather like the title of it too…”Pastitsio Gialantzi”. Pastitsio is a favourtite Greek dish made by arranging one layer of tubular pasta followed by a ground meat mixture and then sandwiched with another layer of pasta. A deep dish baking […]
Sfakiano Lamb With Yogurt
During last year’s visit to Greece, I visited the largest island in Greece (and Mediterranean), located south of mainland Greece. My journey to Crete began from the opposite end of Greece, in the northernmost province of Macedonia. I left our summer home in Halkidiki and headed towards Thessaloniki (30 minutes) then took a train south […]
Kontosouvli
In Greece, there are many souvlaki and gyro joints all over the country and on nearly every corner. Then there are tavernas, small eateries that specialize in grilled meats that go beyond souvlaki and gyro, serving pork chops, biftekia, sausages, lamb chops, whole roast lamb on the spit, kokoretsi and kontosouvli. Kontosouvli another rotisserie offering […]
Potato Pizza
Last year I was watching a local Greek program that also has a cooking segment included in each episode. I’m interested in this show as I like to keep abreast of local Greek community affairs and, see what other dishes are being presented (I too have appeared on this show). A dish that I had […]
Stuffed Peppers (Meatless Version)
Who’s your favourite famous vegetarian? In Canada we have Pamela Anderson, Alannis Morisette, Shania Twain. There is Bridgette Bardot, Albert Einstein, Paul McCartney, Natalie Portman, Mahatma Ghandi, Da Vinci, Gaudi! Greece has too many vegetarians to name. There are many out there in the world and the list in growing. I don’t think I’ll ever […]