Beef Noodles With Metaxa and Mushrooms
I’ve made this dish many times: back in Greece with kavourma, with pork, chicken, veal, beef and pictured here, with leftover ribeye steak. The dish works best with thin pieces of meat that brown and cook quickly and will remain tender when the sauce and pasta are cooked as well. In essence, it a beef […]
Chorizo Carbonara
I first tried Carbonara the summer of 1988, in Corfu during my summer vacation in Greece. This pasta dish is made with eggs, lots of black pepper, diced guanciale (or pancetta) and here in Canada, bacon does the trick too! Traditionalists will scream if you add cream (ha-ha) and if you make a Carbonara properly, […]
Spaghetti With Grouper, Capers, Kalamata Olives
This dish takes me back to a visit I took to the island of Santorini. A beautiful island of steep cliffs, villages dotted atop of these cliffs and the blue Aegean sea below. The island also boasts of many excellent tavernas serving local specialties, lamb and many fish and seafood dishes. One dish that stood […]
Zucchini Rice With Shrimp
In the northern hemisphere, our gardens are teeming with the bounty of summer and Greeks like to grow zucchini. It’s an easy vegetable to grow and it can be stuffed, fried, grated and use in phyllo pies, raw salads, cakes, fritters and today, rice! The flavours of this dish are inspired by Zucchini Fritters and […]
Sheet Pan Gnocchi With Shrimp and Feta
One of the better “convenience products” now available in supermarkets are these packages of vacuum packed gnocchi. In other words, they are shelf-stable until you open the package. A great new pantry item to add to your list. Of course, making these potato dumplings yourself would be better but this sheet pan gnocchi recipe is […]
Classic Greek Pork Chops
The first time I went to Greece I was 7 years old. It was a culture shock as Greece’s ingredients were still very local. I recall being with relatives at a taverna and an uncle ordered a brizola…I thought it was a steak. It was in fact a juicy grilled pork chop. I told my […]
Cypriot Inspired Meatballs
The Cypriots are known for their Seftelia, which are seasoned pork crepinettes wrapped in lamb caul fat. They are slow cooked over glowing embers. The fat in caul fat melts, keeps the ground pork moist and the combo of pork and lamb is to die for! Not everyone can find caul fat so this easy […]
Baked Ouzo Shrimp
I love shrimp, they are affordable, sustainable, plenty, easy to prepare and cook and most importantly, they are delicious! Sometimes I butterfly them like this instance so that they can absorb all the flavours of this Ouzo-forward sauce. Although this dish is baked, you could adapt by placing in aluminum pan and baking in your […]
Ouzo Shrimp With Spinach Rice
I like taking two Greek dishes and putting them together to make a new dish. In one pan, sauteed shrimp with Ouzo and cream sauce. In another pan, a simple spinach rice inspired by traditional Spanakorizo. Put them together and you have a delicious pairing that will be a hit with family or next time […]
Grilled Ribeye Steak
It’s summer time and that means backyard entertaining, picnics, camping or just grilling for yourself! Steak is probably the most common protein that’s grilled and for good reason – tasty results from the simple formula: fire + heat + meat = yum world. There are many cuts but my favourite is the rib eye or […]