Μακαρονάδα-με-θαλασσινά
Today, I’m not even offering up a translation of the title in English. The photos speak for themselves. What you have here is the essence of where I spend my vacations in Greece…Halkidiki. This pasta is an ode to the summer…summers in Greece, summer in the Mediterranean…summer anywhere you may be spending it this year. […]
Lamb Giouvetsi
One of the most rustic and beloved Greek dishes has to be Giouvetsi. Traditionally, this meal is baked in clay pots. There are many variations on this dish from the type of meat used to the spices included in the ingredient mix. Here, I’m using lamb shoulder that’s been rendered down to a fall-off the […]
Grilled Mackerel (Σκουμπρί )
I writing and sharing about my delight in enjoying this often maligned fish, the mackerel. We often associate mackerel with it being smoked or canned (including myself). It’s a fish I see at the fish monger’s all the time, it’s fresh, it’s cheap. Why didn’t I try it sooner? For those that have eaten an […]
Linguine With Zucchini, Garlic, Black Olives, and Toasted Breadcrumbs
When the weather is this good, it’s hard to blog or catch-up on my friends’ kitchen action but here I am…adding to the din. Last week, Martha Stewart lined up a whack of celebrity chefs to show off and show the viewers quick and easy recipes that you & I can can whip up in […]
I’m Feeling Kinda’ Blue
As in blue cheese, that is. During one of my recent food shopping adventures, I was lucky to find some English Stilton for a very good price. Stilton is one of the family of blue cheeses and as the saying goes, “the stinkier, the better”. I have two dishes for you today, the first being […]
Broiled Red Mullet With Garlic and Herbs
Can you tell which pair of fish are Red Mullets and which are the pretenders? These two species of Mediterranean fish get mixed up all the time and often, one gets ripped off with the poorer, harder to clean cousin. Red Mullet is a prized fish of the Mediterranean, ever costly and like much of […]
Remember This Photo?
Well…thank God those days are gone. It was a long winter and any Canadian will tell that we do not take our warms months for granted. I enjoy every opportunity to be outdoors. You would be too if your first snowfall was in late November and the last bit of snow melted in mid-March. The […]
Death By Guilt, Courtesy of Mom
Last year, I took it upon myself to make my mother Eggs Benedict, delivered to her bedside. Instead of “thenk-you, Pee’rre…you thaught-fal, kind son”, I got…“I know, you feed me reech food, fool aaf butter breakfast too geeve me haart-attack. You want to keel me aaf, get rid of me? Niiice Mother’s Day prresent….ZOAN (animal)”! […]
The Greek Gwei-Lo Goes Chinese
For those of you not in the know, a Gwei-lo in Chinese refers to us white folks…it means “white ghost”! One of my new blog friends is Rita from Mochachocolata-Rita and she’s a transplanted Indonesian gal living amid the hustle & bustle of Hong Kong. I really enjoy Rita’s posts, her food and her infectious […]
Rainbow Trout
Regular visitors to my blog will know that I do enjoy seafood or rather, I love seafood and fish. Canada has an abundance of seafood and fish as Canada stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with thousands upon thousands of lakes in between. The other day I went to the market and pulled out […]