Vasilopita – The Story Behind the Greek New Year’s Cake
One of the marvelous things about living in Greece is that I get to celebrate Christmas twice. Greeks do celebrate Christmas on 25th December but as a celebration of the birth of Jesus...
Category: Greek Cuisine
Petimezi – Concentrated Grape Juice – Nectar of The Greek Gods
Exactly what is petimezi, this delicious, sweet elixir, the world’s oldest natural sweetener, created in ancient Greece thousands of years ago? Hippocrates, the father of medicine, mentions petimezi as long ago as...
How to Make Pastitsio (Greek Lasagne)
I love the kind of food that can be cooked first thing in the morning and then just left until it’s time to eat. This enables you to get on with the rest...
Recipes For Traditional Greek Christmas Sweets
Christmas in Greece, as anywhere else in the world, involves large quantities of food. In any Greek home over the Christmas season, kourabides, melomakarona and dipples, can be found piled high on...
Recipe – Greek Country Sausage Spaghetti Sauce
Christmas, is just around the corner, so I’m finally making a start on the preparations. MGG (My Greek God) is down in the basement, hunting out the Christmas treasures, the tree is up, but...
Recipe – Quick Greek Tomato Sauce with Basil
Oh, I’m late home today, it’s already one o clock, and we usually eat at two, I’ve not even thought about lunch! After putting on my thinking cap, I came up with...
Recipe For Youvarlakia – Greek Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Youvarlakia – Giouvarlaki – Uvarlakia Whichever way you choose to spell it any of these variations are delicious! This is Greek comfort food for those colder days. Youvarlakia are Greek meatballs...
Giouvets – Youvetsi – Beef Stew With Orzo Pasta
It’s Sunday, time for the traditional, Greek family lunch and one of the most popular Greek dishes; “Giouvetsi”; beef stew with orzo pasta (Kritharaki, or, manestra in Greek). This is the ideal...
Recipe – Authentic Greek Moussaka
Why do I still insist on asking my Son what he would like to eat? Will I never learn? As soon as the question is out of my mouth, I could kick...
