What can I tell you about my New Year’s Eve! It was the most unusual Eve I have ever spent. I sent my son to my parents’ house so as to spend the night and I was at home sick with my husband even sicker, lol. Anyway, the festivities are over and it seems that...
Category: <span>Appetizer</span>
Green Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette
Have you ever noticed that when one bad thing happens, then a series of other bad things follow? This has happened to me as well. After my father-in-law’s death my mother had a small accident in her knee and now her leg hurts very much. This means that she was and still is unable to...
Spinach Crepes
I woke up this morning and that was the view from my bedroom window. For a moment it was like a de ja vu moment in my life. I felt like when I was years back in New Hampshire and I was watching the snow from my apartment’s window. Is this March or January? I...
Spanakotiropita (Spinach Pie with Feta)
It seems that even more often I get to make Greek food lately. It is perhaps because of the love you show for my country’s food that makes me want to cook Greek. Anyway, I am cooking Greek food the way my family makes it, the way we eat it here. I am sure you...
Kolokithokeftedes (Zucchini Balls)
This is another of my favorite mezedes. Mezes in Greek means tapas, little appetizer. Mezedes is its plural. Now, kolokithokeftedes are made mainly with grated zucchini. I love the flavors coming from this dish and since Autumn is still good with us, I thought of making these as an ode to the departing Summer. This...
Smoked Paprika Shrimps
Now, I had great difficulty in finding a name for this dish. I found in Top Secret Recipes site a recipe called “Top Secret Recipes version of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse Wicked Cajun Barbecue Shrimp”. I didn’t know who Fleming Prime Steakhouse was. When I lived in New England there was no such chain, but somehow...
Cheesy Eggplants in the Oven
Yesterday I realized that daylight has started to leave us earlier. This can only mean one thing, summer starts to depart. Slowly but steady. I felt kind of sad. I have the same feeling I had during my school days. Why? Because I am going to school again. Not me of course but my son...
Batzina
I am going to tell you a short story. My father comes from a mountainous village in the central Greece. His village is called Sklithro and is located around 600 m. above the level of the sea in the mountain of Mavrovouni (Black Mountain). The village is very small and not touristic at all. It...
Chicken Salad
These days it is very hot here. The temperature by Thursday will rise to 40° C. How much I wish, I could be in an island next to the sea, swimming and relaxing. Instead I have to crawl from home to work and vice versa. Anyway, who said life is fair? As you can understand,...
Spinach and Feta Scones
Now I have a problem. I have a 7 year old boy, who refuses to concentrate and study his lessons. Everyday I dread the time I return back home and have to help him study. It is like a nightmare for me. Especially now that the weather is getting better and better and days are...