I’m no fan of the “wilted salad” trend. There’s a reason why most salad greens are served cold. But every so often it’s okay to make an exception.
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Ravani (Greek Semolina & Orange Syrup Cake)
Greeks love their sweets, and they love them best with a heavy dose of a flavor-filled syrup drizzled poured over them. Because why not? Continue reading Ravani (Greek Semolina & Orange Syrup Cake)
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Creamy Caramelized Onion Pasta Sauce
One of the side-effects of trying to create a new recipe is that I don’t know how much of an ingredient I might need, and then am left with extra that I need to figure out how to use. It’s a rough life.
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Strawberries & Cream Upside Down Cake
There is a good chance that if my youngest is in the garden but is nowhere to be seen, he has found some strawberries and is gobbling them up before anyone else gets a chance to.
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Creamy Crab Dip with Rosemary & Kalamata Olives
My Medium Boy’s exact words were “Oh my God, this is delicious” when a spoonful of this dip hit his mouth. I’m not sure, but I think he may have liked it.
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Simple Roasted Whole Trout or Salmon
One of life greatest lessons is that if you give a boy a fish, he eats for a day. But if you teach a boy to fish, you’ll have fish guts in your sink and trip over all his fishing rods in the garage.
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Sweet Bread French Toast
Holidays are wonderful events filled with food, family, food, fun, food, food. And leftovers. Lots of leftovers.
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Traditional Romanian Cabbage Rolls (Sarmale)
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.)
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Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread)
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.
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Koulourakia (Greek Easter Cookies)
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.
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