Smyrna Style Cod Fritters
Cod fritters are a classic on the Greek table throughout the year but especially celebrated on Palm Sunday and March 25th. Serve them with plenty of skordalia, the Greek garlic dip, and a simple green salad.
Author: Diane Kochilas
Classic Greek Bean Soup / Fasolada
Beans are a New World product but bean soup. fasolada in Greek, is Greece’s national dish! Greek herbs and great Greek olive oil will make this hearty soup even more delicious. Find them both on my online store here.
Greek Mushroom Pilafi
Another simple dish that’s perfect for lent, but also for vegans and vegetarians. It’s an easy recipe to fix on a weeknight. Greece, a mountainous country, is a mushroom-lovers paradise. Many mushrooms grow in the wild, but there are also a few companies that have made a thriving business out of cultivating them.
Rigatoni with Artichokes, Kalamata Olives and Herbs
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Tarama and Taramosalata (Fish Roe and Fish Roe Dip)
Read about tarama, cod roe, one of the most misunderstood traditional Greek ingredients.
Black-Eyed Peas with Chard and Olives /Mavromatika me Elies kai Seskoula
Beans and greens are coupled in countless main-course vegetable dishes in the Greek kitchen. This black-eyed pea and chard medley is from the Peloponnese.
Stuffed Squid
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Octopus with Short Pasta / Htapothaki me Kofto Makaronaki
A Greek classic, braised octopus with short pasta.
The Greek Lenten Table
Several years ago, I spent the night before «Clean Monday», as Greeks call the first day of Lent, baking the traditional Lenten flatbread lagana with a local Athenian baker. Even though he went about his business methodically and professionally, turning out more than a thousand or so loaves, he didn’t fail to observe all the […]
Tahini
Tahini is the dark golden colored cream made from soaked, peeled, roasted then, finally, pounded sesame seeds that usually replaces olive oil during the most austere fasting days of Lent. But beyond its role as a nutrition-packed Lenten ingredient (filled with protein, vitamin B, calcium, phosphorous and iron), tahini is also one of the most […]