Elegant, simple, nutritious and inexpensive! This wonderful northern Greek stew makes a great vegan or vegetarian main course as well as a satisfying side dish for roasted meats and the Thanksgiving turkey. 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 […]
Here’s a great meze for Dad! This is the kind of dish Greek guys love to eat when enjoying a glass of wine with their buddies at the local taverna!
Arguably one of the most iconic Greek dips and sauces, tzatziki is incredibly versatile as a stand-alone dish served with crudite, pita or even rusks, or as a spread on sandwiches and wraps (souvlaki and gyro being the most famous). Look for the olive oil and vinegar that willmake your tzatziki authentic by going to […]
Greeks “own” octopus! Try this delicious braised octopus and eggplant recipe from the Greek wine region of Macedonia.
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 […]
Plenty of Greek traditional flavours are used in this dish: sweet Greek giant beans baked with healthy spinach and traditional Greek feta. A traditional dish, appetizing in both taste and texture!
Sausage and pepper dishes are found all over the world. Spetsofai is the Greek version, a regional specialty from Pelion and Volos in Central Greece. You can use store-bought Florina peppers in brine for this dish. They are available in good supermarkets and Greek shops around the country.
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 […]
East meets West in this spicy Anatolian-flavored chick-pea stew.
This is probably the best known snail dish in Crete and a meze par excellence for either wine or tsikouthia (fire water). It is also the only recipe that does not call for blanching the snails before cooking them. There are two stories regarding the provenance of the name: according to some Cretan cooks, it […]