Yiouvetsi is pure comfort food! You start the process on the stove top and finish it in the oven. The result is a combination of sweet and savory in one bite. Yiouvetsi is made with various types of meat including lamb, chicken and beef. I have even seen it made with shrimp. I had chosen … Continue reading Yiouvetsi Hirino (with pork)
Revithada is chickpea stew from the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Greek string bean stew with lamb. I used lamb shanks. On the bone. Cooked long till the meat fell right off in a rich tomato sauce. This is just another example of Greek comfort food. Something your mother or your yiayia might have ready when you came home from school or on a Sunday. Now … Continue reading Fasolakia Yiahni me Arni -Green Beans & Lamb Stew
Koulourakia are the best butter cookies in my book! They are the official Greek Easter cookie, but we do enjoy them all year long. To quote my friend Kathy : “Koulourakia have been prepared since at least the time of the Minoan civilization. The Minoans sometimes prepared the pastries like small snakes, because they worshiped … Continue reading Koulourakia- Greek Butter Cookies
Beautiful Ladokouloura are a traditional olive oil cookie, that is naturally vegan and perfect for the Greek Orthodox Lent. These are so delicious and so easy to make, you will want to make them often! The traditional aromatics are cinnamon, orange, cognac. Because I was out of cognac, and had a different Greek liqueur made … Continue reading Ladokouloura
Ekmek Kataifi is my hands down most favorite Greek dessert of all time! I had even requested a huge tray of this dessert for my sweet sixteen. Kataifi phyllo can be found in Greek, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern markets. It resembles shredded wheat or even vermicelli, but is neither of those things. Kataifi phyllo is … Continue reading Ekmek Kataifi
This Greek dessert hails from Panorama, a suburb of Thessaloniki located up on the hill that overlooks the city. It was invented by a local baker there. Trigona Panoramatos are custard filled phyllo triangle cones that are syrup dipped and they are amazing! For a long time I had believed that the custard was a … Continue reading Trigona Panoramatos
George has always told me about the savory sweet Vasilopita that his mother Georgia used to make. All he could recall was that it has chicken and sugar in it. Well that’s not much for me to go by! And his mother is long gone now. So I decided that this year I wanted to … Continue reading Yiayia Erasmia’s Vasilopita
Variations of stuffed grape leaves or dolmades are made all over the Balkans all the way go the Middle East. They differ according to cultural culinary traditions. This is the Greek version. This one is herby, lemony and filled with ground beef and rice. You can make the same thing with only herbs and rice, … Continue reading Dolmades – Greek stuffed grape leaves
Makaronia me kima- Greek spaghetti & meat sauce. Classic Greek mama food. How I loved coming home from school & seeing this on the stove top! Comfort food at its finest! It may look like a bolognese sauce, however it is certainly a different dish. It’s really a simple recipe made with a lot of … Continue reading Makaronia me kima
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