Paella is the perfect definition of a one pot meal. There's something exciting and vital about paella that can be missing from other one pot meals-like pork and beans for instance. Not that I have anything against pork and beans. They're nice and homey and brown.
Apparently I was in the mood to bake on Sunday! I didn't mean to crank out so much stuff, but that's what happens when you cook professionally for years. You start cooking and before you know it, you have enough food to open a cafe. It all started [...]
Things have been super stressful and busy lately and I haven’t had the time to really cook dinner. Last night I was ruminating about what to have, kind of over crackers and cheese with an apple, or my nightly spinach banana smoothie. Wanted something hot and freshly cooked but fast and easy. I had [...]
As we all know, we must eat our vegetables! I wanted to make a vegetable dish that would last a few days and be just as good as a salad or a warm side dish. So I gathered some of my favorite vegetables and combined them, some cooked, some raw. And I topped it [...]
I LOVE Lidia Batianich, she reminds me of a composite of all the best cooks in my family rolled into one. Her food is homey and satisfying, I love it when her mother joins her, and I’m verklempt when they start singing! Such great old school stuff! Recently she made a lamb ragout, and [...]
I love Ricotta salata, it reminds me of my childhood.
Whenever I feel particularly overfed (which truthfully is daily!) I make this soup because it’s fast, easy, delicious and very nourishing. I make my own bone broth (formerly known as stock), but you can substitute store bought. But if you have the time, I really think homemade broth is far more nutritious. I like [...]
This recipe was sent out via the Greek family communication network (email) shortly before the holidays. In addition to having our own family newsletter that comes out twice a year, and a family reunion at the farm once a year, and the occasional cousins gatherings throughout the year, we have a Dimotakis family group [...]
I love to mess with traditional Greek ingredients updating the presentation to a more contemporary dish. I call this Greek Chic (because it sort of rhymes and because you could also mispronounce it and call Greek Chick, which also works). We had some friends over for lunch on Sunday, and I felt like messing [...]
A few weeks ago I had invited a couple of friends over for a nice weekend lunch. My friends love it when I cook Greek so I decided to do a Greek inspired menu. I had originally planned on a Swiss chard pie, Potato Wedges fried in Olive Oil, an Orange Walnut Cake with Honey [...]
