I can’t recall any summer of my life that we didn’t make dry pasta at home for the winter. What has changed through the years is m...

          Searching the Internet for some info on edible flowers, I saw some beautiful pictures of cakes and other fancy desserts decor...

Imagine this. You are in Greece; it’s Saturday night and some buddies are gathered in the living room to watch the football game. There...

This post was especially written for Pretty Greek Villas , a site owned by my friends Marie- Louise and Ben. If you are thinking Greec...

      Have you ever wondered what ancient Greek cooking would taste like? If ancient Greeks could have known that people in the future ...

    Hot summer weather provides us with the tastiest fruits and vegetables for the flavorful dishes that make cooks so happy. And when...

      Lemon flavored casserole stews, or lemonáta (λεμονάτα) as we call them in Greek, are very popular because of the refreshing and s...

    When I was in college cooking was not my forte so, to save me from eating junk food, my mother would load my freezer with dozens o...

Lying at the head of the Messenian Gulf in southern Greece, Kalamáta is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese. This city is...

  Every summer housewives all over Greece make homemade fresh pasta. The hot weather helps it to dry naturally and it can then be used...

      What might characterize our family meals in Greece is the variety of dishes served. Housewives rarely cook only one dish for the ...

Greece is not famous for street food but in cities around the country you will always come across someone either standing by a little g...

Tsatziki may be an all time classic for Greeks but, when we had guests at home, my mother always thought it was too garlicky for every...

          The French term fricassee refers to meat cooked by a method somewhere between a sauté and a stew and served with a white sau...

Moussaka (moussakás in Greek) comes from the Arabic word  musaqa‘h which, oddly enough, means something chilled.  The Greek version...

Everyone loves the wonderful taste of sun dried tomatoes. When you pick a small jar of them in the super market it is hard to imagine ...

In Aegean islands like Sifnos and Kalimnos chick pea stews are a favorite dish all year long. Housewives there place their chick peas ...

Most of the dishes in agricultural regions were created with a simple rule: use what you have, but not all of your ingredients in one ...

  Vines are probably the only plants in Greece where every part of the plant except the roots are used in cooking.  In May fresh...

     For thousands of years, people used wild yeast cultures as starters to leaven their dough and bake their daily bread. These ...