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 vanilla. Vanilla ice cream, milk with vanilla and sugar (childhood favorite), vanilla custard, vanilla rice pudding, vanilla tapioca, I splash vanilla in my smoothies, or sometimes drop some into my coffee…you get the idea. So when I saw this recipe on my favorite Food 52 I knew it was a must try. [...]
Inspirations from a Greek Family Farm What happens when you take a Greek family eating a classic Mediterranean diet and transport them to the abundant San Joaquin Valley? You get my family. In the early 1900’s my grandparents emigrated from Crete to California. They purchased 40 acres in Manteca, CA and [...]
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 [...]
I know that when most of us think of sweet potatoes we think of the fall, but lately I can't get enough of them. I spent the entire month of March exploring roasted sweet potatoes and toppings. What I do is buy two or three small sweet potatoes, wash them, slice them in half [...]
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 [...]
