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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yep, you read that right, kefalograviera is a Greek cheese, similar to aged ricotta or asiago. It's a sheep milk cheese. For Greek Easter my cousin went to the Greek market in So. San Francisco and called me to ask if there was anything I needed and I asked for a hunk of this [...]
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 [...]
Somewhere in the late 80’s, early 90’s American’s discovered Panzanella. Funny since Italian women had been making it for centuries! And not just Italians, many other cultures have bread salads; the Arabic Fattouche is the first to come to mind. When I first discovered Panzanella I was captivated by it. I thought it was [...]
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 [...]
This picture is of one of my favorite ovens EVER! This charming dome structure which was probably built sometime in the late 1930’s was the primary bread baking oven for my mother’s family. My mother’s family emigrated from Crete, Greece around the 1900’s and eventually landed in Manteca, CA where they purchased forty [...]
