Greek

A lot of you are probably aware of the famous Greek lemon-egg chicken soup with rice, kotosoupa avgolemono, but are you familiar with another lemon-egg soup that is popular to make in Greece? It’s a meatball and rice lemon egg soup and it is just…

Briami is a Greek dish that is the equivalent of the French Ratatouille. It has all these wonderful vegetables in it, such as eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onions and potatoes, and slather it all with tomato (fresh, sauce, paste or diced), olive oil, herbs and LOTS…

If you like Greek yogurt then there is no reason to go buy it, you can easily make it at home. It’s just 2 ingredients! What makes yogurt Greek? It’s all in the straining. If you want a thick Greek yogurt you can actually buy…

Now this is a real simple recipe and a staple in Greece. You will find it as an accompaniment with other main dishes or eaten as a meal with some nice crusty bread straight from the bakery…or you can make your own! Even if you…

Spanakopita is another one of those items that you can practically find in any bakery, cafe or restaurant in Greece. You can also get them from street vendors. It’s a hardy snack, if you just eat one piece, or you can make it a meal…

I have to say, you can eat this stuff with anything. Dip a piece of pita bread into it, serve it over stuffed grape leaves, spanakopita or roasted meats…but the BEST way to eat it is in a gyro sandwich or a souvlaki in pita…

This simple lemon sauce is classically served with stuffed grape leaves. In Greek cuisine, you typically make an egg lemon sauce (avgolemono) but I prefer it without the egg for dolmathes, plus the sauce is more silky and alot easier to make then with the…

Dolmathes is a staple in Greece. Wonderful and flavorful little bundles of joy! You can make them with meat or just with rice. A great vegetarian option. We enjoy both but the recipe here is for meat stuffed grape leaves. You can use jarred grape…