Baked Potato a la Greque
My family comes from northern Greece (province of Macedonia) and it’s capital is Thessaloniki. It’s a city of 1.5 million and it’s still considered a big town where you’ll always bump into someone you know! Our summer beach home is close to Thessaloniki and my brother and I went into the city to have a […]
Ciabatta
One of my goals is to improve on my baking skills. I made bread with my mom recently and I would call the result a success. I wanted to try a bread that required an overnight starter as part of the recipe. A bread with a starter that needs at least one night for the […]
Baked Sea Bass
It’s back to seafood folks. Yesterday I came upon some black sea bass fillets. I was told these were Atlantic sea bass, so I was buying something relatively local and the fish did not make a cross-country journey to get to my table. Had the weather been better, I would have sought a whole fish […]
Mom’s Bread
The following recipe for bread was made under close supervision by my mom. When I was young, I remember her making huge batches of bread in dinner roll form for the revolving door of guests who would visit our home to celebrate my father’s nameday on the day of the feast of St. Nicholas. To […]
Apple Crisp
Some of the dishes I’ve shown you are from my mom’s collection. You might think, “great…Peter shows us deeply secretive family recipes” but it’s hard interpreting recipes from an immigrant Greek mother. Picture this…young Greek woman at the age of 19, emigrates to Canada to marry a man she’s never met before in a country […]
Paximadia- Greek Toasted Almond Cookies
Paximadia are akin to Biscotti. My mom’s being making these for years but I haven’t had a real appreciation for them until as of late. Paximadia are often served with coffee. They are dry and great for dunkin’. I’m a guy and baking isn’t my strong suit but I was relieved that these cookies turned […]
