Chestnut Shallot Stifado over Sweet Potato Puree
Here’s a wonderfully rich but totally vegan dish inspired by the Greek stews called stifado, which are defined by the presence of beautifully caramelized whole, small onions. Chestnuts replace meat, chicken or mushrooms, which are the ingredients stifado is usually made with. This dish can be vegan if you replace the cream in the sweet […]
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 […]