A while ago, I had purchased a rather large quantity of spinach. Even though I often grow my own, spinach is pretty picky about not liking my hot summer temperatures and I don’t always get around to growing it when it will thrive. Thank goodness for grocery stores!
Continue reading Fresh Spinach & Tomato Pasta Sauce
To make good food you need the right ingredients. Sometimes the right ingredients will seem to be so so wrong.
Continue reading Fermented Whole Cabbage Heads
I have known only one person in my life that has ever uttered the phrase “that’s too much garlic”. Yes, I’m still friends with them.
Continue reading Skordalia (Greek Garlic & Bread Dip)
It is amazing what one can create in the world of food with only the simplest of ingredients. Proof again that complex, obscure, and expensive materials are not what makes a cook great.
Continue reading Fava (Greek Yellow Split Pea Spread)
Be prepared, I bought a large (really large) bag of spinach a while back and needed to use it all before losing it to the slime gods. So that means you’re going to see a few recipes using spinach (kind of like when I made a monster load of pesto over the summer!).
Continue reading Spinach Avgolemono Soup
If you’re from the West Coast, you likely know about mizithra cheese from The Old Spaghetti Factory’s browned butter and mizithra cheese pasta (which is really good). What you may not know is that this cheese has a history that goes back thousands of years. That should tell you how easy it is to make if ancient Greeks could do so without modern kitchens!
Continue reading Homemade Traditional Mizithra Cheese
Not long ago, my Medium Boy flattered one of his teachers by suggesting he might live to his 90s. This teacher, a long time colleague of mine, was taken aback at the thought and reminded my son that the average life span of the typical American male was 75 years.
Continue reading Simple Greek-Style Greens (Horta)
One of the greatest ironies in life is that tomato soup season does not coincide with tomato season. I think it’s proof that God has a twisted sense of humor. Either that, or a great deal of faith that we would be able to figure something out.
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It’s the early 90s, Berkeley, Ca. I’m being treated to a nice dinner at Skates On The Bay, a surf-and-turf restaurant literally on the San Francisco Bay. We order the crab and artichoke dip with focaccia bread. I was hooked.
Continue reading Cheesy Crab Dip with Artichokes & Greek Peperoncini
As soon as we get into serious winter weather (or at least what passes for it here), I start to think almost fondly of summer. Almost. Remember, it’s stinking hot here.
Continue reading Winter Squash Yemista
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