Recipes related to holidays and special occasions
Everyone loves eggplant parmesan! Here’s a baked eggplant dish with Greek cheeses that will have you coming back for seconds very fast! Opt for intensely flavored Greek dried herbs and olive oil, which you can find at my online store here.
These are the classic braided Easter cookies that are a tradition on every Greek table.
This dish is made all over Greece, but this particular version, the original of which calls for a wild Cretan chicory called askolimbrous is from Crete. You can use any sweet or even bitter green for this. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you’ll need to make this, visit my online shop here, […]
Orzo is one of the most popular Greek pasta shapes. In Greek, it’s called kritharaki. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you’ll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where you’ll discover a host of lovingly curated Greek ingredients.
Quinoa gets a Greek touch in this easy salad with chick peas, octopus, tomatoes, and fresh herbs. To find the Greek olive oil and Greek balsamic vinegar used in this recipe, click here.
A wonderful, filling but light salad, that calls for Greek olive and Greek balsamic, which you can shop for here.
Greeks own grilled octopus! Here is one of my favorite ways to make it indoors. It pairs beautifully with avocado toast and the colors are stunning, too! For the olive oil, balsamic and Greek oregano you need for this recipe, shop here.
This wonderful salad, so simple, is one of the masterpieces of Greek seasonal cuisine. All you need is super fresh sweet greens in season, some beautiful zucchini and excellent Greek extra virgin olive oil, of course, available here.
One of the great classics of Greek urban cuisine, artichokes a la polita, or “of Contantinople,” braised with carrots, potatoes and, here, shrimp.
I love beets and I love them even more when paired with something tangy like taramosalata. Did you know that tarama,the fish roe used to make this filling dip, is one of the most nutritionally dense foods in Greek cuisine? To find some of the artisinal Greek products you’ll need to make this, visit my […]