Limnos Style Pasta with Eggplant Sauce / Pseftopetino tis Limnou
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Braised Wild Mushrooms (Manitaria Stifado)
To my mind, this is one of the great vegan dishes of Greece. It is earthy and light, but also deeply satisfying and hearty. For a lovingly curated array of Greek ingredients to pair with this recipe, check out my online store here.
Black-Eyed Peas with Greens and Fennel (Mavromatika me Maratho)
Black-eyed peas are one of the easiest legumes to cook. You don’t have to soak them. They are filled with nutrition and have a wonderful, nutty flavor. In Greece, regional specialties abound for black-eyed peas, among them this lovely, savory, vibrant stew from the Aegean islands, where fennel is one of the core flavors.You can […]
Limnos Style Pasta with Eggplant Sauce / Pseftopetino tis Limnou
Limnos style eggplant sauce, perfumed with allspice, is delicious over pasta.
Classic Skordalia Recipe
Classic Skordalia from my forthcoming book: Ikaria, Lessons in Food, Life & Longevity from the Island Where People Forget to Die (Rodale, Oct. 2014)
Corfu Sweet Potato Bourdeto
Sweet potatoes probably came to Corfu with the Venetians, as did many other New World crops, sometime during the sixteenth century, where they remained poor man’s fodder for hundreds of years. It took the English to popularize them, by showing Corfiote aristocrats the virtues of serving them with syrup. Nevertheless, they have been cooked on […]
Lentil Soup with Kalamata Olive Paste, Roasted Red Peppers, and Olive Oil / Fakes me Pate Elias kai Piperies Florinis
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Giant Bean Skordalia with Crunchy, Spicy Nuts
Giant beans, which are similar to butter beans, are usually made into luscious baked and braised dishes. But sometimes, giant beans are used to make skordalia, the garlic and starch puree that is a classic Greek meze and spread. I took the idea of a giant bean skordalia and the practice of sometimes mashing the […]
Traditional Pies from Ikaria (Pitarakia)
These traditional pies, so called “poor”, are in fact full of flavor and exceptionally healthy. They are one of the most popular, traditional foods of Ikaria.
Spicy Chick Peas
East meets West in this spicy Anatolian-flavored chick-pea stew.
Spicy Cabbage and Rice Pilaf
This Greek recipe is a great vegan or vegetarian main course, originally from the northern Greek province of Thrace, where the food is a little spicier than it is elsewhere in Greece. You can also serve this Greek rice recipe as a side dish for grilled meat, chicken, and game. It’s great with duck and […]
Beet, Walnut,Yogurt Salad
Cretan beet salad with Greek yogurt and walnuts is a perfect Mediterranean Diet choice for chilly weather.