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Judging Barbeque
In the United States, barbeque means smoking meats using all-wood coals. For most of us, it also means preparing the meat with a rub and finishing it up with a glaze of our own barbeque sauce or our favorite prepared sauce. In England and Australia, barbeque is the result of what we identify here as grilling…
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Speak Like a Greek. Cook Like a Greek Restaurant
There are a few Greek words familiar to the Western eye, but which are also confounding when they have to be pronounced. Retsina, tzatziki and gyro. A few Greek recipes are confounding also. In this post, I’ll show you how to pronounce and prepare a Greek festival- or restaurant-worthy gyro sandwich and the garlicky sauce…
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Brunch for a Bunch–the easy way
This dish is known by many names: strata, souffle, breakfast casserole. I think it’s more like a savory bread pudding, but most people prefer to call it a breakfast casserole. Whatever you call it, it’s and easy prep-ahead egg dish that’s a great substitute for other more time-consuming egg dishes. It’s my favorite go-to brunch…
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Stop! Recipe Update
If you’ve downloaded the recipes for Greek Lemon Chicken and Upside-Down Pear Cake, you’ll want to print the updated versions. Mostly, the updates are for clarification in the instructions, but in case you don’t question recipes, you may be looking at a disaster for the cake. It turns out that I was typing way too…
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Upside Down Jimmy Red Corn Pear Cake
That’s certainly a mouthful! But bake this easy skillet cake, and once you take a bite, that will be a mouthful that is so easily digested and gone way too soon. My recipe is available to print at this link. There’s a story about this Jimmy Red Corn. A red heirloom variety that was saved…
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Greek. Braised. Lemon. Chicken.
Sounds SO boring, doesn’t it? But it isn’t. My husband walked into the house when this dish was cooking and said that it smelled like home. The aroma made him feel safe and cozy, comforted and loved. Now that’s quite the accolades for just a few simple ingredients, but, indeed, this is how it is…
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The Best Greek Soup You’ve Never Had
This is the best Greek soup you’ve never had. And you’ll probably never have it at a Greek restaurant. It’s made in homes all over the Peloponnese area of Greece and anywhere that Greek immigrants from those parts have landed. My father’s side of my Greek family is from Sparta. My father and his sisters ate…
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Tiny Tarts. Greek Flavors.
What takes thirty minutes to prepare? What’s simply delicious? What would make Ina Garten happy? What’s a great addition to a charcuterie board with cocktails? Want me to keep going? No? Just one more! What’s an easy addition to a beautiful green salad and sliced fruit for an elegant lunch? Click here for a printable…
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Happy New Year, Greece, Italy and a Birthday
Perhaps I’m a tad late with the New Year greeting. Perhaps not. Perhaps I’m a bit confused, you say? Perhaps. Here’s what happened for me on the first day of 2022. The olive oil cake that saved the day First Day Conundrum. I set the table the night before to enjoy a traditional Southern New…
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Reboot, the Greek Way
Today is for new beginnings. A clean slate. A fresh start. A day for EASY to prepare but delicious food. January is for balancing the overeating and carb overloading of that joyful time from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. What’s different about how Greeks do it? On the second day of the year, I showed…
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