Chicken Breast Stuffed With Roasted Red Peppers, Feta and Pistachios
This dish can be as quick or as difficult as you want it to be. For me, the toughest part about this dish was tying up the chicken breasts. I’ve always been a visual learner and this YouTube video clip shows one how to properly tie up a roast or in this case, a stuffed […]
Shrimp & Pasta of St. Nicholas
Do you want the recipe for five or for one hundred?? I knew you would say five. A couple of weeks ago, my mother was asked by her friends in the lady’s auxiliary (Philoptichos) of our parish, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, for a pasta recipe to feed one hundred on the eve of St. […]
Semolina Crusted Pandora With Capers and Kalamata Olives
Living here in Canada and trying to cook Greek food can sometimes be a challenge. Although I can boast about living in a wonderful and diverse food city like Toronto, not all ingredients are available here for Greek cuisine. The most glaring void would have to be fresh fish from the Mediterranean. Often, I must […]
Lunch at the New Acropolis Museum
One of the highlights of my trip to Greece this past summer was my visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. The word “acropolis” refers to the highest point in a city or town. There are other “acropolises” in Greece – Athens’ is the most well-known. The Acropolis of Athens is a limestone rock […]
Athens Central Market & Sea Bream in Avgolemono
If you’re a regular reader of my site then you’re into Greek food, enjoy the reports from my vacations in Greece and you’re interested in Greek cuisine and it’s ingredients. Athens – Greece’s capital is home to about 5 million people. That’s alot of people that have to be fed. Most Greeks will go to […]
Athens: History, Culture and Lobster
How can one summarize the city of Athens in a blog post? That would be a fool’s game. Athens is the capital of Greece, practically in the center of the mainland, the economic and government hub of the country and home to half of Greece’s population. For those who have traveled to Greece, you will […]
Cafe Tempest: Adventures on a Small Greek Island
This entry will be my first “book review” other than anything I’ve written with regards to cookbooks. I was recently contacted about receiving and reviewing “Cafe”, what with my fixation on Greek food & Greece…I’m a natural, right? I of course accepted as I’m preparing for this year’s trip to Greece and I knew a […]
Kakavia (Κακαβια)
Kakavia is also known as “Psarosoupa” or a fish soup. Kakavia also gets it’s name from the pot in which it’s cooked in, the “kakavi”. By all accounts, Kakavia is the pre-cursor to the modern-day bouillabaisse. It made its way from Greece to Marseilles (Massalia) around 600 B.C. The Greeks cooked this in the “kakavi”, […]
Fish ala Spetsiota (Ψάρι-α-λα-σπετσιώτα)
Many, many years ago…1990 to be exact, I was working for a Canadian bank in my first “adult” job and being at the bottom of the ladder, I was given a mere ten days for vacation and that vacation could only be taken after the summer holidays (when those with seniority and children came back […]
Seared & Braised Breasts of Chicken
This following post is actually about a non-visit during my recent stay in New York. Despite my having a full week to sight-see, explore, eat & drink and meet folks along the way – there just wasn’t enough time to patronize all the Greek restaurants of note. Upon my return from New York, I’ve even […]
