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22 January 2016
NINE WAYS FORWARD WITH PLANT-BASED DISHES. TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE OFFERINGS GREEK CUISINE
14 March 2015
Leek rice is one of the great vegetable rice main courses in the Greek kitchen. It's also a wonderful bed or accompaniment for protein, such as grilled salmon or Greek branzino, grilled chicken, and more. You can skip the cheese and make this a totally vegan and/or Lenten dish. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to ...
13 March 2015
FROM ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE MARSHALL PLAN, GREEK RICE HISTORY. I am getting ready to head up to the New England Food Show , and then to San Francisco, all in the name of rice! Greek rice , which I’ll be cooking as part of a program called Agreeno to promote it. Stuffed vegetables , aromatic pilafs , lemony soups, and creamy rice puddings are on my mind, the classic ...
14 October 2013
This Greek recipe is a great vegan or vegetarian main course, originally from the northern Greek province of Thrace, where the food is a little spicier than it is elsewhere in Greece. You can also serve this Greek rice recipe as a side dish for grilled meat, chicken, and game. It’s great with duck and it’s even great with Thanksgiving ...
22 June 2013
Greek yogurt, renowned the world over for its quality, density, and unabashed, delicious sour taste is a product of the country’s pastoral traditions. Up until fairly recently, yogurt production was ruled entirely by farming and seasonal conditions. Sheep and goats provided most of the milk Greeks consumed. Yogurt was always made with sheep’s milk and was seasonal, produced from late ...
31 March 2012
Prassorizo, or leek and rice pilaf, is a classic Greek country dish. I took that basic idea one step further in this recipe, by adding saffron and turmeric to the mixture and transforming it into patties. You can do this with leftover prassorizo, too. It’s wonderful with a simple green salad.
31 March 2012
Octopus risotto is inspired by a traditional Greek recipe for pilaf with octopus.
25 February 2012
Several years ago, I spent the night before «Clean Monday», as Greeks call the first day of Lent, baking the traditional Lenten flatbread lagana with a local Athenian baker. Even though he went about his business methodically and professionally, turning out more than a thousand or so loaves, he didn’t fail to observe all the traditions of th fast. Indeed, ...
14 October 2011
Greece is fortunate to have one of the best climates in the world, one in which ample sunshine helps produce some of the tastiest fruits and vegetables. Because raw ingredients—from garden to grove to field to sea—are delicious in their own right in Greece, Greek cooking has evolved in such a way so that there is an innate respect for ...
10 October 2011
It was a driving trek of heroic proportions up the dirt road from Rethymnon, the historic seaside fort city on the northern coast, to the tiny village of Potamous, on one of those dusty Greek-island dirt roads that are less daunting than they seem but nonetheless make every passenger but the driver look like they just stepped off a cyclone. ...
