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You Can Cook–Inventing a Salad
Time for another installment in my YOU CAN COOK series. This time I show you how easy it is to INVENT A SALAD. Yes, you can cook, and you can create (invent) a salad out of a bit of this and a bit of that and your favorite foods for inspiration. Today’s example. In the…
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Greek Pastry Hack
Greeks are famous for their pastries. While other Middle Eastern countries have similar pastries, it seems that the Greek versions are better know. We have baklava, the favorite of the Western world, and bougatsa, the custardy treat that international travelers discover in Athens as a warm breakfast walking and eating treat. We also have the…
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Salade Nicoise With Salmon
The Perfect Summer Salad. Oh, my goodness! What a wonderful expression of summer anywhere in the Mediterranean! Salade Nicoise, the simple salad from Nice, is nothing fancy, however, it is amazing in its simplicity of assembly and perfectly sunshiny in that so many fresh vegetable flavors represent summertime on your palate. You can find my…
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Briam Baguette
Briam is a Greek roasted vegetable dish like ratatouille, which makes it seem a natural transition to a baguette, which is French, like ratatouille, which is similar to briam, which is Greek. Am I going in circles? Yes. What am I trying to say here? Read on, but if you’d rather go straight to the…
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The Greek Way Recipes
The Mediterranean Diet done the Greek Way is easy. Mostly, you’ll cook one vegetable dish and call it dinner. I have curated a huge sampling of recipes from my blog–Greek recipes and a few others. They’re all meatless, and many are vegan. This is the type of one-pot meal that Greeks enjoy throughout the week…
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The Greek Way
The Mediterranean Diet is prescribed by many doctors and dieticians as one of the healthiest. Just this year, it was selected for the fifth year in a row as the healthiest diet in the world by a panel of experts assembled by U.S. News and World Reports. But is it? This diet that I was born…
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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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the digital alias of Despina Panagakos Yeargin
