Thanksgiving is a time of excess for most of us. But excess can contain a few delicious health-giving ingredients, too! The five Greek superfoods I highlight below are all exceedingly healthy and delicious to boot. You can find them all on my online shop and worked into this year’s roster of new Thanksgiving recipes inspired by Greek cuisine.
Don’t forget to check out Johnny Livanos’s guest blog post on which Greek wines to choose for Thanksgiving, too!
Welcome, Johnny Livanos, who will be sharing his extensive knowledge of Greek wines & spirits with us. In this first blog, I’ve asked Johnny to help us choose a few delicious Greek wines for Thanksgiving. There is a whole world of amazing Greek wines out there waiting to be discovered. So, skip the pinots and take a sip of something new this Thanksgiving. You’ll be more than pleasantly surprised by the world-class quality of Greece’s wines.
My Greatest Hits with Winter Squashes & Pumpkin!
I love pumpkin as well as every shape, size and color of all winter squashes for that matter. In Greek cuisine, winter squashes have a special place. Left to grow all summer, they are the last of the warm-weather bounty that Nature provides before the Fall and Winter really set in.
Happy September! The light shifts ever so slightly. The breeze carries the first hints of a chill. Soft, bursting figs dangle from trees, begging to be plucked, and grapes are everywhere, pale green, yellowish gold, mottled pink, deep purplish red. Peppers populate market stalls in a palette of bright fire-engine reds and oranges, green and […]
August 15th is the peak of Greek summer, when all of Greece shuts down. It is the holiday of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, but despite the sobriety of the day, it’s also one of the most festive, with panygyria (feasts of food and dancing) everywhere. Especially on Ikaria, which is home to what […]
Summer is the perfect time for using olive oil in easy, light recipes and to experiment with regional Greek oils as seasonings in their own right. You’ll find a carefully selected trio of organic Greek regional olive oils at my online store, each produced from a different variety of olive in very different terrains. Here’s […]
Happy BBQ and Happy Summer ☺
Here are some quick tips for how to use extra virgin Greek olive oil in all your summer recipes.
Spoon sweets are one of the most unique and versatile Greek confections. The term generally refers to a vast range of seasonal and regional fruits put up in a simple sugar syrup in such a way that the intense flavor and texture of each fruit is perfectly preserved.
We’ve made our annual Easter sojourn to Ikaria, the Blue-Zone Greek island renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants. Here in Greece, schools get two weeks off, so we’ve already been here a few days and will stay through the whole “Lambro Evdomada,” or “Bright Week,” as the week after Easter is called.
Happy International Women’s Day! Commemoration is in order and from my perspective that inevitably means the place of women in the kitchen. There are countless unsung female heroes in professional kitchens throughout Greece, mothers, grandmothers and aunts who help out in their kids’ restaurants, in the family business, or as employees of others, typically there to make all the traditional foods. Of course, there are numerous very well-known and respected women chefs, among them Nena Ismirnoglou, Argyro Barbarigou and Georgiana Hiliadaki, to name but three in Greece.
