Shrimp Stuffed Peppers
Here’s a fun new appetizer that combines two of my favourite meze: stuffed mini peppers and Shrimp Saganaki. Cheezy mini sweet peppers get stuffed with a cheese/tomato mixture, shrimp also place in the peppers and you end up with a glorious amalgam! Although these sweet mini peppers are now found in most grocery stores, you […]
Asparagus Gratin
It’s time to focus on vegetables again. Asparagus is back in season and I do love it so. It can be used in soups, steamed, sauteed, grilled, pickled and in this case, baked. Asparagus are a relatively new player on the modern Greek food scene. Asparagus has been cited in ancient times as a panacea […]
Greek Comfort Food Cooking Class
Greek cuisine is rooted in simple ingredients, locally sources and used at their prime, when in season. I’ve come up with an Autumn roster of dishes to help you with your Fall/Winter entertaining. Join me on Sunday, November 17th at St. Lawrence Market Kitchen for an afternoon of Greek Comfort Food dishes: Warm Artichoke Dip […]
Recap – Meat Feast – Greek Supper Club
Last Sunday, I hosted a five course meat feast supported by Nisos Importing and Greek wine and spirits from Celebrity Wines poured by Apostolos Gerakinis. Yes of course, we dined outdoors in the courtyard of the Bob Rumball Manor MENU Appetizers: Lamb Souvlaki with Bacon Tzatziki Cretan Dakos with Tomato, Feta, Kalamata Olives Cypriot-Style Meatballs […]
Moussaka
Who hasn’t tried Moussaka? No one. Who’s had a bad Moussaka? Everyone! Here’s another classical Greek dish where the ingredients are tweaked but not toyed with. I’ve updated this dish, made it more healthy by grilling the eggplant and I use extra-lean ground beef. Three skills are involved here: grilling, making a good meat sauce […]
Recap – Carnivale Greek Supper Club
A couple of weekends ago I hosted a Greek Carnival-themed Supper Club. It was a meat-heavy menu: lamb, pork, sausage, beef and cheese! All dishes were prepared using Cretan olive oil from Nisos Importing and Greek wines and beverages being poured by Apostolos Gerakinis. Thank you as well to Portioli Coffee Canada for serving cups […]
Cross-Rib Pot Roast
One of my family’s favourite Sunday meals centers around a Prime Rib Dinner. It’s not a cheap cut of meat (Prime Rib) but it’s fitting for a Sunday meal. From Medieval times, the wealthy used to get to eat the tender, more expensive cuts and the rest of us were left with scraps, offal and […]
Duck Baklava
The recipe’s inspiration comes from a trip to New York City last year while I was also preparing for some pop-up dinners in New Jersey. On one of my free evenings, I attended a grand tasting of Greek wines hosted by New Wines of Greece. There, I was able to sip on some of Greece’s […]
Makaronia ’tis Popi’s
The Greek language is rich, there’s a word for practically everything and the flip side is that there’s also a bounty of slang, new Greek that’s used in everyday conversation. There are many short forms for people’s names…like Popi for Penelope. Popi is also used in the expression “tis poutana’s ginetai” (when a situation is […]
Kataifi Shrimp
I know you’re going to love making and eating this easy appetizer/meze offering. Shrimp has a wide appeal, its available fresh or frozen practically everywhere, it’s sustainable, easy to prepare and of course, delicious. We’ve all had fried shrimp…begining with breaded and fried, more recently Panko bread crumb (from Japan) has entered many households and […]
