Fillet of Sole With a Tomato and Olive Sauce
Sometimes the easiest, most straightforward dishes can provide you with the biggest culinary surprise. Such was the case recently when I was flipping through one of the cookbooks I brought back from Greece. I had some fillets of sole but I just couldn’t decide how to prepare them…until I saw “the recipe.” Here’s the humble […]
Succulent Poached Salmon With a Fennel & Orange Relish
It’s Royal Foodie Joust time and this my first entry since I won back in July for my Apricot and Pistachio Cake. The “Joust” was created by Jenn The Leftover Queen and the premise is simple…a friendly competition where a dish has to be presented using three chosen ingredients. The winner of each Joust chooses […]
Fresh Salad
During this past vacation in Greece I again returned to the warm embrace of Athens. I visited some old friends, made some new ones and I also had to cook and film a pilot to promote the concept of “Kalofagas” as a TV show. If you would like a sense of where I’m coming from […]
A Reprise of Greek Appetizers
Ask a bunch of Greeks over for dinner and drinks and it’s expected that your spread’s going to have some dips for noshing on . In continuing with my replay of my Birthday dinner, today I’m offering up three Greek dips, Cretan Dakos and to help stave off palate fatigue, a simple and delicious fruit […]
Agape’s Spaghetti With Mint
A food event co-hosted by the mother & daughter duo of Giz and Psychgrad of Equal Opportunity Kitchen has just kicked off. The goal of the food event is to raise the awareness and need for organ donation. The food event is called Tried Tested and True Two and participants have until July 21st to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Olive Bread (Ελιόψωμο)
Next week is home stretch for the Greeks’ Great Lent. Our family (like many other Greeks around the world) will surely fast right up until when the bells strike midnight on “Megalo Sabbato” and we crack those first Easter eggs and shout “Christos Anesti” or Christ has risen! One of foods we will be eating […]
Latholemono (λαδολέμονο)
Latholemono literally translates to oil-lemon. Oil and lemon are ingredients indigenous to Greece and found in every kitchen, used by every Greek cook and enjoyed by millions who love Greek food. Greeks love their seafood. If it weren’t for it’s northernmost borders, Greece would be an island, surrounded almost entirely by the sea. Years ago […]