This dish features snails. I’m very much aware that this dish will not get a million hits or dozens of comments but it’s a necessary post. If I am to accurately showcase Greek cuisine, I must feature all the traditional ingredients, including snails. My friend Deeba has yet to try snails but I think this [...]
As an adult and as someone totally (I mean totally into food), a visit to a market with the freshest of seasonal ingredients on offer is like a trip to an amusement park.
The Kapani Agora (market) in the center of Thessaloniki is one of those attractions…amusement for the foodie. The shouts of store owners and [...]
Recipe update from Oct.16, 2007:
Fassoulada is a Greek navy bean soup. It’s a standard dish during Lent, appears on the Greek kitchen table on many a Friday when meat is not consumed and frankly, one of the most enjoyable yet rustic dishes in the Greek repertoire of cooking.
This soup is best enjoyed with some good, [...]
For the next few posts, you get to enjoy a recap of the Lenten Feast I presented last weekend. Each time I’ll breadown a trio or so of dishes so that you too may prepare and enjoy in the comfort of your own home!
The first of today’s trio is a Black-Eyed Pea Salad. You’ll find [...]
Today is the last day of my mini-fast for Great Lent. Tonight, I’m going to go back to eating regular meals which means yay…meat and [...]
I recently joined the thousands who have added a “slow cooker” to their arsenal of kitchen tools. For those not in the know, a slow cooker is a utensil that is a “plug in”. It allows one to basically throw all the ingredients of a slow-cooking dish into the crockpot, close the lid, set to [...]
Growing up, the only beans us kids ate were the canned variety. They were sweet, gooey, starchy and now that I think about it, tinny.
Step into the time machine with me and its Y2K and beyond. I’ve started dabbling more and more in cooking and I’m having a desire to enjoy the tastes and memories [...]
