Tag: feta

Spanakopita Baked Potatoes

Spanakopita filling is soooo versatile! Here is one of my favorite meatless indulgences, for a spanakopita-filled baked potato. Yummmie!

Sorrel and Cornmeal Pie (Aradopita)

All over the north, from Epirus to Alexandroupoli, savory pies abound. Most call for phyllo, either homemade or commercially prepared, but many also call for a crust of cornmeal. They go by various names, can be found in similar renditions all over the region and were an easy solution for the daily dinner table, at […]

Whole Chicken Baked with Rice and Feta

In the cooking of northern Greece, baked rice dishes appear in several places and make for a regional specialty, since in few other places around the country are rice dishes prepared in the oven. This dish, called rithanathema in Greek, possibly traces its etymology to the Greek word for bird, ornitha, and that for food, […]

Red Onion-Petimezi Tart Tatin with Mastiha Whipped Feta

This wonderful Greek recipe inspired by the traditional French Tarte Tatin, is sweetened with petimezi, grape molasses, and seasoned with Mastiha powder and Greek wild herbs.

Greek Figs in a Blanket

Who needs pigs in a blanket when you can have figs in a blanket!? Here’s a great holiday or festive dish, perfect to serve when company arrives. Try it with the delicious succulent dried figs from northern Evia, available here.

Last-Minute Feta Dishes for Thanksgiving

Feta, the briny, creamy, tangy national cheese of Greece, has the power to transform every table because of its universal appeal. Check out my latest blog post on last-minute feta recipes for Thanksgiving. Sure, in a wedge of feta, there is the whole of Greek agricultural history: an ancient shepherd’s cheese born of the mountainous regions of Greece (80% of the country is mountains), preserved in the one of the oldest way known to man, in salt.

Warm Gigantes Salad with Pumpkin-Pistachio Pesto

I am always looking out for new ways to serve Greece’s favorite beans, so love to serve classic Greek giant beans, aka gigantes (GHEE-ghan-des), grown in Feneos, in the western highlands of the Peloponnese, in a dish that echoes my Greek-American heritage, with pumpkin-pistachio–feta pesto. And, yes, those are Greek pistachios and they’re pretty amazing!

Baked Feta-Yogurt Mashed Potatoes

I don’t know about you, but for me, mashed potatoes are one of the biggest sources of stress on Thanksgiving Day. You’ve got to make them fresh and serve them hot in order for them to be the absolute best. I’ve come to love my Greek recipe for baking them, which enables me to make […]

Lemony Greek Noodles with Prawns, Leeks & Retsina

Here’s a simple Greek recipe for a traditional Greek pasta called hilopites, a kind of flat noodle. The sauce that accompanies it is easy to make and is inspired by the Greek recipe for shrimp saganaki. This easy Greek seafood recipe is great for a quick midweek meal. Sip one of the many Greek whites […]

Spanakopita Gnudi

Here is a hybrid Greek recipe with a few Italian influences! Spanakopita, an all-time classic Greek recipe, is the inspiration for this dish, but transformed into something entirely different, buoyant gnudi, in a nod to one of the Mediterranean’s greatest comfort foods. Viva, Greek-Italian friendship!