Greek

Are you tired of eating meat all the time, or are just craving veggies? This is a wonderful and easy wrap to make. It’s light, healthy, tasty, and low carb-if you want it to be 🙂 . You can make it with any veggies you…

If you have been to Greece you know that they love their tomato based red sauce dishes. You can find just about any fish, meat or veggie cooked in tomato sauce and served on it’s own with some yummy warm bread, to slop the sauce…

Fourth of July is around the corner. If you are having a gathering, or just cooking for your family, these recipes are easy and fun to make so you can have time to enjoy the festivities yourself. Most of them can be done, or mostly…

Mil-fay is the Greek pronunciation of the dessert “mille-feuille”, meaning a thousand layers. One summer when my mom was in Greece (she went just about every summer) she had tasted the Greek version of this French dessert and she came back home so excited because…

These are one of my favorite snacks/side dishes to eat and the sister to spanakopita, another one of my favorites 🙂 . A nice creamy and perfectly salty bite with a crunchy exterior. You can’t only eat one piece of this savory pastry, so go…

This salad is a healthy and well rounded meal. You have your veggies, your proteins, your dairy, your healthy fats, and add some broken up oven pita bread chips and you have your grains & crunch! This is a wonderful salad for lunch or a…

This is a simple vinaigrette that is great on salads, other vegetables, and meats. I love the fresh taste of lemon so I prefer to make it with lemons but you can also substitute the lemon with apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar when…

Souzoukaki in pita was one of the sandwich options offered in our family’s restaurants when I was growing up…along with the traditional gyro, pork souvlaki and chicken souvlaki. Traditionally, souzoukakia are oblong and plump meatballs that have been pre-fried or baked and then left to…

Nothing like a nice starchy potato to comfort you. These rosemary, garlic, and lemon potatoes will do just that! A wonderful side dish to pair with roasted chicken, a steak, or even loukaniko (a Greek sausage, but you can use Italian sausage too 🙂 ).…

We Greeks love our tomato based veggie dishes (that also have a lot of yummy and healthy olive oil) like my Greek style green beans with potatoes and chicken-meat optional, eggplant with potatoes, or my stuffed eggplant…and here is another one…cauliflower in tomato sauce. A…