Roasted Tomato Soup with Bulgur
A couple of weeks ago I served this soup at my last Greek Supper Club. A good salad is hard to make in Autumn but I’m all for soups. I came across some sweet, ripe tomatoes at the market and roasted them to concentrate their flavour and get a bit of smoky flavour (which I […]
Potato Crusted Fish With Braised Greens
Potato-Crusted fish and what is it? I’ve previously made fish dish that’s totally enveloped in potato and although it’s a dish requiring some finesse, this version proved to be more challenging. Here, we have fish fillets covering one side with overlapping potatoes, like tiles on a roof, like potato fish scales. The idea is not […]
Sofia’s Kotopita (Chicken Pie)
Happy New Year everyone! This is the first post of 2011 and it’s a dish that takes me back to Thessaloniki, perhaps it will trigger some of your memories? I first had a Kotopita (chicken pie) at a taverna in Thessaloniki, in the Agia Sophia area in fact. A Kotopita is made of filling of […]
Roast Pork Loin With Apple Stuffing
Happy New Year, Xponia Polla, Kali Xponia! I hope 2015 is full of wonderful memories, personal and professional successes and above, good health! Our family had a quiet New Year’s Day but we still have a wonderful late lunch/early dinner. It was decided to have pork, a traditional meat during the Christmas holidays for Greeks. […]
Stewed Pork With Leeks, Celery and Avgolemono Sauce
The cold months are here, at least here in Canada and the light, summer time dishes and salads have given way to soups and stews. Today’s dish is a classic, using pork shoulder, leeks and celery. Pigs in many villages in Greece are fattened up all year then slaughtered in December and broken down and […]
Lamb Two-Ways
Here’s a dish for a special occasion/dinner or something to prepare on the weekends. It’s Lamb Two Ways…not really that hard, just an extra step when preparing the lamb.What I’ve done here is separate the ribs from the loin from a Frenched rack of lamb that I bought from my butcher. If you’re not too […]
Loukaniko Gemisto
Sometimes foods sound better in a different language than English, like this one. “Loukaniko| means sausage in Greek and “Gemisto” means stuffed – put the two together and you get a stuffed sausage. Allow me to explain: I was in Toronto’s Greektown, stopped to see my friends at Megas on the Danforth (near Chester Subway). […]
Octopus Ravioli
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know that I love octopus and if you love Greek food or have visited Greece – you know octopus is cooked in array of ways from braised to grilled, roasted to pickled. When one buys an octopus, you get eight tentacles and the head. Everything but […]
Snails Stifado With Creamy Sour Trahana
A couple of weeks ago I hosted a Cretan-themed dinner, featuring traditional dishes from Greece’s largest island – Crete. This island is considered the birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet and these folks like to stick to their traditions. That includes using their staples with include snails and sour trahana. Snails…you want to call them escargot? […]
Fassolakia Ladera
Greek cuisine is full of vegetarian main options and many of those being main courses that are filling, nutritious and delicious. It’s Spring and herbs are abundant at the markets and in some of your herb gardens. The main ingredient of this one-pot dish are flat, runner or pole beans. Fassolakia. These flat beans are […]