What happens when you combine a very traditional recipe for chicken in onion-feta sauce from Sparta, Greece, with the lunchtime favorite, tuna melt? Sparta chicken melt, with Vrisi 36 olive oils and Peloponnese mustard. Yum.To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to make this, visit my online shop, where you'll discover a […]
Throughout the Peloponnese, cabbage is referred to colloquially as mapa–mop! This local recipe is made with very few ingredients, but the flavors are complex and absolutely delicious.
Olive oil, honey and nuts make these classic melomakarona Greek Christmas cookies one of the healthiest sweets you can enjoy. You can find great Greek honey and olive oil on my online store here.
This hearty, earthy skordalia, made dark with the addition of walnuts and red wine vinegar, is especially pungent. It is delicious with boiled or roasted beets.
This is total comfort food and a classic recipe from the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea. What makes this dish special is the addition of large cubes of Greek cheese, which melt slightly and turn this otherwise simple tomato-baked chicken into something soothing and irresistible!
Fish a la Spetsiota is a traditional Greek recipe for baked white fish with aromatic tomato sauce. This classic Greek fish recipe hails from the island of Spetses, a posh island off the eastern coast of the Peloponnese. There are many different versions of a la Spetsiota and this simple one is my favourite.
Pancakes are called tiganites in Greek, and have existed in one form or another since ancient times. There are many regional pancake recipes. This one is a hybrid, inspired by a recipe from Corfu for raisin-studded pancakes. The addition of Greek yogurt makes the pancakes tangy, silky. and fluffy.
This Froutalia Omelet is surely one of the great regional Greek egg dishes, and a specialty of Andros and Tinos. Basically, it is a thick, slowly-cooked (stovetop) omelet filled with potatoes and local sausage.
In the northern parts of Greece, all sorts of meats, from chicken to savory meatballs to lamb and goat, are cooked in sauces based on the local, delicious, thick, strained sheep’s milk yogurt. This dish comes from the traditional cooking of the Vlachs, a once itinerant shepherd tribe, and is sometimes called vlachiko. I have […]
The tangle of zucchini that overflows in Greek summer gardens means that all over the country the number of regional recipes is mind-boggling. Savory pies filled with zucchini are just one category of dishes that call for this summer creeper! There are literally dozens of savory pies filled with zucchini, all slightly varied from place […]