Enjoying life with family & friends through food
I have been wanting to post this dish on my blog for a long time, it should have been one of the firsts since it is a popular Greek dish in America and available at almost every restaurant in Greece. Pastichio is the ultimate Greek…
If you like garlic then this is a dip for you. It uses simple ingredients to make a very flavorful dip. It can be used with pita bread (any bread for that matter) or dolloped on meats and veggies. There are two ways to make…
If you like a burst of sweet and tart in your mouth, with a crunchy side effect 🙂 , you are going to LOVE these little bundles of joy. You have the crunch of the graham cracker, the creaminess of the cream cheese, the sweetness…
Right when my daughter said, the night before, “don’t make any more desserts cause then we will eat them” I thought, “I have some extra homemade Greek yogurt that I need to use up…hum, how about some olive oil and yogurt cake?”…lol. So here we…
Baked Shrimp with tomatoes and feta is such an easy dish to make and pretty healthy too. My daughter, Lexi, is always asking me to make this for her, not that she can’t make it herself-because it is that easy, but she is a teenager…
This is one of my favorite sweet bars to eat when I go to Greece. I love seeds and nuts and this is full of them. The traditional version that I always used to eat, when I was younger, was just sesame seeds and whatever…
I love these meatballs, they are so easy to make and pretty healthy. My mom used to make them with beef, when I was growing up. I’m not sure ground chicken was so easily available in grocery stores 30 years ago as it is today.…
This dish encompasses a mixture of different Asian influences. It uses Gochugaru, which is Korean red chili pepper flakes, Szechuan peppercorn and Toban Jan (chili bean sauce), used in Chinese cooking, and dry Thai chili’s, used in, of course, Thai cooking. Be sure to start…
These oven fries are so good and crispy that you won’t miss frying them…plus they are much healthier. They are good as is, out of the oven, or you can embellish them with some feta, dried oregano and a few squirts of lemon juice, oh…
Have you ever looked in your frig and saw several items that you needed to use within several days or you will have to pitch them? Well, that is what happen with me today. I saw a pack of baby bella mushrooms that I needed…
