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Selected traditional and regional Greek food recipes along with reflections relating to the culinary practices, customs, facts, and history of Greek cookery and gastronomy.
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Chocolate Tsoureki (Τσουρέκι Σοκολατένιο)
In August 2007, my wife Sophia and I visited the northern Greek province of Macedonia. We stayed for several days in Thessaloniki where we admired and sampled the sights and tastes of the beautiful port city. This recipe was inspired by that visit.My...
REWARD: $100 Mastic Shrimp Saganaki Bounty
Have you not noticed how often they became silent when you approached them, and how their strength left them like smoke from a dying fire? -excerpted from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheMy Mastic Shrimp Saganaki recipe - Click to Enlar...
Mastic Shrimp Saganaki (Γαρίδες Σαγανάκι με Μαστίχα)
This is one of my Greek food signature dishes. I created this recipe for my wife and it is now her favourite shrimp dish. For those of you who are unfamiliar with mastic resin, have a look at my previous post about this extraordinary spice.My Mastic ...
Mastic (Μαστίχα)
From time to time, I like to mix a reflection or two in among my Greek food recipes. Today’s topic is one that really tickles my fancy. As far as spices go, there is surely none more unique or rarer than the mastic resin from the Greek island of Ch...
Tsoureki - The Bread That Swallows Its Tail
Tsoureki… Greek Easter Bread Yesterday, in preparation for the Greek Orthodox Easter (or Pascha) celebration, I made the traditional braided Greek Easter Bread known as tsoureki. I baked three loaves, one for my wife and I, one for our goddaughter...
