When the Going Gets Tough…Greek Style
Cooking without recipes is so freeing, the food is truly yours, and it allows you to add herbs, or spices, and other ingredients to see how they change the character of the dish.
Greek Cookies
Greek Cookies COMING SOON My mother was a fabulous baker and some of my favorite childhood memories are working with her in the kitchen shaping oodles and oodles of cookies for weddings and christenings. I would grab the step stool and drag it by her side, scramble to the top seat and position myself [...]
Ksadelfi Visit!
Bet you haven't heard that word before! That's Greek for (female) cousin and last week I invited a bunch of my cousins over, and as is typical, it's the girl cousins who came. I made kalitsunia (ricotta filled fried turnovers), butternut squash gratin, galactobouriko (custard filo dessert), kalouria (simple cookie), and cinnamon iced tea and my lovely [...]
Eating Greek
My nieces came over for dinner yesterday. It was dinner and Skype day, a way for us to all visit with Claire. I always let them choose what they'd like to eat and they requested Greek, so this time I did an easy Greek family dinner. The kind of dinner we had often growing [...]
Dorothy Eat’s Greek
I have just launched a new site, Dorothy Eats Greek. Since just eating isn't enough, I needed another site devoted to all the Greek things I eat! On this site you'll find recipes, reviews of restaurants and Greek festivals, and be able to follow along as I work on my cookbook. I also will [...]
Walnut Cookies
Several of us daughters of the Dimotakis family have birthdays in January and February, and those of us who live close to each other have made it our tradition to get together during our birthday months to have lunch or dinner at Kokkari, our favorite local Greek restaurant and today was the day. Typically [...]
Custard
I found myself with a half gallon of milk that was two days from it's expiration date which is really odd in my house. Both Bob and Claire are cereal eaters and typically I can't stay on top of the milk consumption, but for some reason, they've switched breakfast foods. My first thought was [...]
Sour Cream Softies
This is an old family favorite. I'm sure the original recipe came from the Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbook series. They were my mothers constant companion when it came to baking. Mom was a great baker and she taught me how to read a recipe so that I choose the best ones. One of her tips [...]
Kalouria
My mom was a great baker. I cherish her spiral notebook with her handwritten Greek recipes and her notes in the margin like “add more butter” or “Mrs. Olga’s recipe”. Mom had several signature recipes, she was known for her Galactobouriko (filo custard pie), Paximathia (Greek biscotti) and Kalouria. Kalouria are a very simple [...]
Kalitsunia
Here comes another Yiayia memory! Even though the woman had nine kids, worked like a dog every single day, and wasn’t a very good cook she repeatedly made two things that were both complicated and time consuming. One was a Greek pastry called Thiples or Xerotigina (same thing, two different names) which is strips [...]