Leave it to the Greeks to combine lamb and grapes. At first blush you might scratch your head, but then you realize it’s a great idea. This combination also looks very pretty. The recipe requires lamb shanks which is one of my favorite cuts of lamb but increasing difficult to find in a regular supermarket. […]
Pastitsio, A Greek Baked Macaroni
December 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The traditional method of baking in Greece was to use a beehive-shaped oven called an avli built on the side of a house. Those who couldn’t afford an oven would send their food to the local baker’s fourno (oven) for cooking. Pastitsio, baked macaroni with meat sauce and white sauce, with its Italian-derived name but […]
Horta – Simple Greek-style Boiled Greens
September 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In Greece and its islands, horta is the name of any kind of boiled wild green, derived from the Greek word for “small garden,” a word that also gives, through the Latin, the Spanish word for large vegetable garden, huerta. There are many varieties of dishes called horta because there are many wild greens, cultivated […]
Greek Classics For A Special Dinner At Home
October 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Greek food is one that is festive, healthy, simple and delicious, and Greek restaurants are always fun to go to. Greek food is easy to cook at home too, as long as you have the basic staples — none of which are exotic — such as olive oil, tomatoes, oregano, lemon and feta cheese. When […]
Greek Comfort Food is Pastitsio!
March 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As much as I love to be gastronomically adventurous when I travel, especially when I was writing A Mediterranean Feast and my job was to eat everything under the Mediterranean sun, I sometimes would eat foods I had already tried simply because I found them so soothing–comfort food away from home so to speak. One […]
Carrots and Dill
July 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Summer eating begs for simplicity, seasonality, and coolness, that is, foods that explore the wide range of antipasto, salads, meze, and other foods served at room temperature. One of my favorite dishes is ridiculously simple, a meze I once had in Greece of carrots serve with a variety of other meze. In this case it’s […]
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