Skewer up some oregano-spiced pork for a Greek feast courtesy of Tessa Kiros' new cookbook, Food from Many Greek Kitchens.
Craving a fantastic summer vacay? Escape to Greece and eat like a native with Food from Many Greek Kitchens by Tessa Kiros. Not only does she bring the flavors of the Mediterranean into our kitchens, Tessa is a great cultural tour guide, delving into classic culinary traditions and dishes. And along with the 200+ recipes and engaging writing, snapshots of home kitchens and local markets vividly illustrate the bright, sun-soaked food paradise of Greece.
Get your culinary get-away started with a mixture of menzedes, or shared appetizers – flavorful bites like Tomato Fritters, Peppers Stuffed with Feta and Fried Calamari.
Fry up calamari to share for the perfect summer appetizer.
Then dive into oregano-spiced grilled Pork Skewers, and imagine you’re at a beachside taverna; serve with grilled bread and lemon wedges or wrap the grilled meat in fresh pitas with tomatoes and tzatziki. Add traditional Cabbage Rolls to the meal – filled with pork and beef they’re Greek comfort food at its best.
Classic cabbage rolls are easier to make than you may think.
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So tell us, what’s your favorite Greek dish?
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I love Gyros!!! I love Greek salads!!!
My Patitsio, hands down but my mom's dolmades are a close second!
It’s a toss up between baklava, spanikopita, gyros and kebabs. Of course there’s all the great seafood dishes too. How can one choose just 1 favorite??
Love me some baklava and Greek salad.
Souvlaki, bifteki and tsaziki. Oh, and grilled peperoncini with garlic and greek salad with feta cheese and dolamas and, and….
Gyros and Baklava…they are both awesome
We used to go to the Milwaukee Greek Festival every year just to get an entire rotisserie chicken. The method of cooking and flavorings made for an insanely good bird. Though I do also love avgolemono…
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*Heather*
Grilled lamb kebabs marinated in white wine, cumin, rosemary and garlic! Yum!
Gyros
Briam! All those fresh veggies baking in tomato sauce…that summa time people : )))
I love lemon orzo soup.
Keftedes!!!!!
Love stuffed cabbage leaves, gyros, greek salads, and too many other dishes to name.
Moussaka or spanikopita
Gyros!!!!! I buy one everywhere I go!!!!!
BAKLAVA and stuffed cabbage!!!!!
Dolmades, grilled whole fish latholemonato, grilled octopus and ouzo, and roasted lemon and oregano chicken and potatoes. A favorite in my Greek home! Kali Orexi!
Can't forget "horiatiki" tomato, cucmber, red onion, olives and feta salad with "Greek" oregano with fresh crsipy bread for dipping!!! Simple and yet soooo tasty!
I LOVE anything greek, but am partial to spanakopita…….yum!
haloumi cheese
grilled octopus and a fresh horiatiki salad. Reminds me of summer
Fava bean stew with toasted bread rubbed with garlic, a glass of retsina eaten while overlooking the Aegean. With my love(husband).
I love all the different kinds of Greek dips. I think I can dip practically anything in Tzatziki and inhale an entire bowl of Melitzanosalata. Love Spanakopita. And my favorite dessert is Kataifi.
Spanokopita!
Gyros and mousaka with tzatziki sauce. Anything authentic greek food.
Growing up in a Greek/Cypriot household, there are many favorites. I think Pastisio is my favorite, hands down. Halloumi is my favorite cheese and at Easter time, you canNOT beat Flaounes that Yiayia made! Mmmm, my mouth is watering now.
Greek salad with fresh gyro meat on top and some warm pita points.
I could really go for a moussaka… at any time of day or night.
The spanakoptia (sure spelling is wrong and apologize) is awesome so are the gyros!
The dinner I prepared this past weekend for a friend that had never tried lamb. Grilled lamb, a wonderful yogurt sauce, a beautiful tomatoe salad, pita bread. Delish!!!
lamb gyro with tzatziki!!! Can't go wrong with that!
Definately baklava, though I love some of the other simple fruit desserts.
I would have to say a plateful piled high with crispy calamari to start off a meal.
We can call it baklava, but it's really almond cake because it has many eggs (it looks like baklava and tastes like paradise).
Mousaka definitely!
Dolmades with lamb and rice
I love Dolma Stuffed grape leaf and cabbage and dry baklava. pita is my enemy because I love it so much
I must make the cabbage rolls!
Saganaki cheese!
I love all Greek food but my favorite is Greek style stuffed cabbage. Soooo good!!
I have a recipe for stuffed grape leaves that I love. I'm not sure how authentic it is, but it's good!
My absolute favorite Greek dish would be a nice lamb gyro.
I like two vastly different items one is tzatziki and the other is baklava. To me so so delicious.
My grandmother made a Greek fennel root tart. I don't have her recipe and haven't been able to duplicate it. She would make her own puff pastry and add cheese, fennel root and eggs. To this day, I think of her every time I taste fennel.
Pastitsio