This recipe comes courtesy of the very popular cooking show, “Everyday Food” which is produced by Martha Stewart and company. I’m going to pull a Martha by improving their “perfect recipe”. I’ve provided the link so that you can compare the differences in the approach to cooking the dish.
First off, I’m using pure pomegranate juice. [...]

Back when my blog was in its infancy and I was still using the Blogger platform, I had participated in many blogging events and one of the more interesting events was where food bloggers would participate in a kind of “Secret Santa“. Participants would draw names from a hat and then send a small amount [...]

How was your Christmas? Are you enjoying yourselves? Spending time with family and friends? Having some richer, more indulgent foods? An extra drink? Good, ’cause I am!
The family’s Christmas dinner went splendidly. All the dishes turned out very well, we had some good chuckles and reminisced of Christmases past.  The centerpiece of our Christmas dinner [...]

Today’s post is a new feature for my blog…Bits & Bites.
On occasion, I will feature someone, be they Greek or a Philhellene who loves Greek food.
In each edition of Bits & Bites, I’ll introduce our guest, fire off ten food and drink related questions and give you the heads-up on what’s new with the particular [...]

Poutinga is the Greek answer to bread pudding. My take on Poutinga inspired by the Corfu (most common) version. Other versions can be found from Santorini.
It used to be that regional dishes of Greece were only to be found in it’s area of origin but in this day & age, word travels fast, distances shortened, [...]

Here in Greece, trees are planted for their shade as much as they are planted for their fruits. Here at my family’s summer home, we have a pear tree that blocks the late afternoon sun and it also provides us with more than enough pears. Want some pears? Come over….guaranteed to get a full bag!
Quite [...]

The first time I ever tasted Halloumi cheese was when friends of the family (part Cypriot) gave us some. Here in Toronto, we have a good-sized Greek community with approx. 130,000 Greeks living in the area, about fifteen churches, hundreds of associations and federations representing towns & villages from all over Greece and Cyprus and [...]

Being someone who grew up Greek in Canada, I was taught to celebrate my Greekness without belittling or diminishing anyone else’s culture in the process. My parents came here (Canada) as immigrants and we as Greeks wave our flag but we also enjoy the culture, company and foods of other peoples.
Canada is an officially bilingual [...]

My relatives can be divided into two camps: the father’s side of the family and the mother’s side. The two camps are also geographically divided with all of my dad’s side of the family residing here in Canada and save for two of my mom’s first cousins here in Canada, the rest of her family [...]

This is my first post for 2009 and I would like to wish you all a Happy & Healthy New Year!
My New Year’s Eve was spent at one of favourite eateries in Toronto and I dined, laughed and drank with eleven good friends…right into the wee hours of January 1st.
The dinner was delicious, the company [...]