I recently carried out my first experiment fermenting whole cabbage heads. I did it solely to be able to make these cabbage rolls. I waited six weeks. Six whole weeks. That’s how good these are. (Psssstt… I have a shortcut if you’re in a hurry.)
Continue reading Traditional Romanian Cabbage Rolls (Sarmale)
There is something special about food traditionally made for holidays. Even though you could make it at any time of the year, you don’t because it would just be all sorts of wrong to do so.
Continue reading Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread)
In a Greek home, koulourakia are to Easter what pumpkin pie is to Thanksgiving. Can you have one without the other and still call it a holiday? I think not.
Continue reading Koulourakia (Greek Easter Cookies)
I had a bag of mixed seafood in the freezer. Make it two. I had some beer that was still in the bottle and not in my belly. Then I had an idea.
Continue reading Buttery Beer Seafood Bake
One of the better known Greek dishes is spanakopita, a spinach and feta cheese filled pastry. This isn’t that dish, but it does have all the flavor– minus the pastry part. And it’s easy to make. We’re on to something here.
Continue reading Spinach & Feta Frittata
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)
Meringues may not be a Greek invention, but ask any Greek if they really care. Hint: they don’t.
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)
If there is ever a global shortage on sugar or honey, I’m not sure what most Greeks are going to do. Greeks really love their sweets.
Continue reading Greek Kumquat “Spoon Sweet”
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