People often come across my blog when looking for a particular recipe from the range in Greek cuisine. Some will find the recipe, and then go away, satisfied that they found what they were looking for. Sometimes they will be disappointed when they don't find the recipe they were looking for, because they read a long-winded story instead about the recipe they wanted, but couldn't make this recipe themselves.
But some of my readers - and these are the ones I write for - come back to read another food story again, because it will remind them of a summer they spent in Crete/Greece, or maybe their relatives/ancestors, or their mother's/grandmother's cooking, or maybe the homeland that they have given up for various reasons, in the same manner that my own parents did so.
I can't guarantee that you will learn how to make the following dishes, but I'd like to believe that you will have learnt something to take away with you when you leave this blog.
(L) = suitable for Lent; for all other sweet recipes, where butter is mentioned (which I no longer use), you can use olive oil instead and the cake/biscuit will be lenten as long as it doesn't contain eggs.
But some of my readers - and these are the ones I write for - come back to read another food story again, because it will remind them of a summer they spent in Crete/Greece, or maybe their relatives/ancestors, or their mother's/grandmother's cooking, or maybe the homeland that they have given up for various reasons, in the same manner that my own parents did so.
I can't guarantee that you will learn how to make the following dishes, but I'd like to believe that you will have learnt something to take away with you when you leave this blog.
(L) = suitable for Lent; for all other sweet recipes, where butter is mentioned (which I no longer use), you can use olive oil instead and the cake/biscuit will be lenten as long as it doesn't contain eggs.
- Achinosalata (L)
- Afghans (NZ biscuits) (L)
- Anthous (stuffed zucchini flowers) (L)
- ANZAC biscuits
- Apple cake
- Apple pie
- Apple pie-cake
- Apricot jam
- Artichokes a la polita (L)
- Artichokes Italian-style
- Ascrolimbi (L)
- Asparagus in an omelette
- Atherina
- Avgolemono soup
- Avronies
- Bakaliaros (salt cod)
- Baked beans (L)
- Bamies (lady's fingers)
- Banana cake muffins
- Banana lassi
- Barbounia (runner beans) (L)
- Batzeta (Pancetta)
- BBQ
- BBQ chicken
- Beef stifado
- Beer
- Beetroot salad (L)
- Belgium fingers (NZ biscuits)
- Biftekia (meat patties)
- Biftekia (filled)
- Birthday cake/torte
- Biscotti
- Biscuit balls
- Biscuits
- BLT
- Blue dragon (Chinese noodles)
- Blueberry muffins
- Bougatsa from Hania
- Bougatsa from Serres
- Boureki (Cretan zucchini pie)
- Bouyiourdi
- Bread and olive oil (L)
- Breakfast Cretan-style
- Briam
- Broad beans (L)
- Broad beans with artichokes (L)
- Broccoli pasta
- Brownies
- Cabbage
- Cabbage salad (L)
- Cactus figs
- Cake
- Cake icing (L)
- Caper pickling
- Carrot cake
- Carrot cake muffins
- Cauliflower cheese
- Cauliflower pasta from Sicily
- Cauliflower soup
- Cheese from Crete
- Cheese pies from Sfakia
- Chestnuts (Kastana) (L)
- Chestnut stew (stifado) (L)
- Chestnut truffles (L)
- Chicken (free-range)
- Chicken and green beans
- Chicken in wine sauce
- Chicken livers
- Chicken marinade
- Chicken pie
- Chicken roast (Greek-style)
- Chicken wings
- Chicken with mushrooms and cream
- Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) (L)
- Chickpea soup (L)
- Chili con carne
- Chocolate cake
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Chocolate chip cookies made with olive oil (L)
- Chocolate muffins
- Chocolate pasta
- Chocolate zucchini cake
- Chocolates
- Clafoutis
- Coffee grounds
- Corn fritters
- Cottage pie
- Cotton and tobacco
- Cretan salad
- Dakos (Cretan rusk salad)
- Dips
- Dolmadakia (leaf parcels) with sorrel leaves (L)
- Dolmadakia with zucchini flowers and vine leaves (L)
- Dolmades (Swiss chard leaf parcels) (L)
- Easter red eggs
- Eggplant parmesan
- Eggplant pizza
- Eggplant risotto (L)
- Eggplant rolls
- Eggs with wild greens
- Fakes (Greek lentil soup) (L)
- Fanouropita
- Fasolada (Greek bean soup) (L)
- Fasolakia yiahni (string beans) (L)
- Fava (yellow split pea dip) (L)
- Fennel fritters (L)
- Fennel soup
- Fettuccine
- Filo pastry (L)
- Flowers (L)
- Food storage
- Frappe coffee
- French fries (L)
- Fricassee (egg and lemon goat/lamb)
- Frozen vegetable medley (L)
- Fruit
- Galaktoboureko
- Galatopita
- Galotiri
- Gardoumia
- Gigandes (baked giant beans) (L)
- Ginger crunch
- Gingernut biscuits
- Goat in egg-and-lemon sauce
- Greek coffee
- Greek salad (L)
- Guacomole (L)
- Halva (L)
- Horta (summer greens) (L)
- Horta (winter greens) (L)
- Hortopita (mixed greens pie)
- Imam baldi
- Kalitsounia (Cretan pasties)
- Kalitsounia (summer greens)
- Kalitsounia for Easter
- Kalitsounia for Lent (L)
- Kalitsounia fried
- Kalitsounia lichnarakia
- Kalitsounia filled with leeks
- Karidopita (walnut cake)
- Kebabs
- Kefalaki (sheep's head)
- Kiwi chow
- Kohlrabi
- Koliva (L)
- Kolotsita
- Koulourakia (Easter biscuits)
- Kouneli stifado (rabbit stew)
- Kourambiedes
- Kreatopita (from Crete) for Easter
- Kumquat
- Ladenia (Greek pizza) (L)
- Lagos stifado (hare stew)
- Lahanodolmades (cabbage rolls) (L)
- Lahanorizo (L)
- Lasagne
- Leek and potato soup
- Lemonade
- Lemons
- Lettuce salad (L)
- Makaronada (Greek spaghetti)
- Malotira (tea from Crete) (L)
- Mango lassi
- Manites (mushrooms)
- Marathopites (fennel pies) (L)
- Marble cake
- Maroule salad
- Mavromatika (black-eyed beans) (L)
- Meatballs (in the oven)
- Melitzanosalata (eggplant dip) (L)
- Moussaka
- Moustalevria (grape must dessert) (L)
- Moustokouloura (L)
- Nettles
- Octopus and pasta (L)
- Octopus stew (L)
- Offal
- Olive oil
- Olive oil cookies (L)
- Olive pate
- Olives for preservation
- Omeletta
- Onion pie (L)
- Onion soup
- Orange juice
- Pallikaria (L)
- Pancakes
- Papara
- Papoutsakia (stuffed aubergines)
- Pasta salad (for children) (L)
- Pastitsakia
- Pastitsio (Greek lasagne)
- Patsavouropita
- Patridge (perdika)
- Pavlova
- Pear pie
- Peas
- Peas and artichokes (L)
- Peppers Florinis roasted (L)
- Pesto
- Pikelets
- Pikilia
- Pilafi (chicken stock rice)
- Pineapple lumps
- Pizza (non-yeast dough)
- Pizza (vegetarian)
- Pizza (yeast dough)
- Pizza biscuits
- Pizza carbonara
- Pizza cookies
- Pizza eggplant
- Plum crumble
- Pork and celery
- Pork chops pan-fried
- Potato fritters (L)
- Potato salad
- Potatoes lemonates (in lemon) (L)
- Prasopita (leek pie)
- Psares (vetch weed)
- Psarosoupa (fish soup)
- Pudding
- Pumpkin
- Pumpkin cornflake biscuits
- Pumpkin bougatsa/galaktoboureko
- Pumpkin pasta
- Pumpkin soup (L)
- Quiche
- Quince (L)
- Rabbit in the oven
- Rabbit pan-fried
- Rabbit stew with spices
- Rabbit stew with tomato
- Ratatouille (L)
- Ravioli
- Roast Greek lamb
- Roast NZ lamb
- Rose-flavoured treats
- Salad dressing
- Salt
- Sandwiches
- Saragli(L)
- Sardines
- Sfakianes Pites
- Sfouggato
- Shrimp in lemon juice (L)
- Silverbeet (Swiss chard) (L)
- Silverbeet omelette
- Singlina
- Snail harvesting
- Snails boiled (L)
- Snails yiahni (L)
- Soft drinks
- Sorrel leaf dolmadakia (L)
- Soup
- Soutzoukakia (Smyrna sausages)
- Souvlaki (home-made)
- Spaghetti puttanesca (L)
- Spaghetti with mussels (L)
- Spanakopita (self-crusting)
- Spanakopita (spinach pie)
- Spanakorizo (spinach rice) (L)
- Spiral pie (Striftopita) (L)
- Spring rolls (L)
- Spring salad (L)
- Squid fried (calamari, kalamari) (L)
- Squid stewed in tomato sauce (L)
- Staka cream dip
- Stamnagathi (spiny chicory) (L)
- Stamnagathi salad
- Stir-fry beef
- Submarine
- Sunday roast (Greek style)
- Taramasalata (fish roe dip) (L)
- The Mediterranean diet
- Tikvitchki (Bulgarian zucchini in yoghurt)
- Tiromalama (malaka)
- Tiropita (cheese pie)
- Tiropitakia with honey
- Tomato fritters (L)
- Tomato fritters (green) (L)
- Tomato sauce for preserving (L)
- Tomato tart
- Tsigariasto (meat stew)
- Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)
- Tuna salad
- Tzatziki
- Tzatziki with avocado (L)
- Umami
- Vasilopita (New Year's cake)
- Vegetable chips and fritters (L)
- Vine leaves for freezing
- Vlita (L)
- Vlita pita (L)
- Water
- Watermelon and feta
- Wild greens
- Xerotigana (L)
- Xidato
- Xinohondro (milk rusk)
- Yemista (in the oven) (L)
- Yemista (in the pot) (L)
- Yiouvetsi (rice pasta)
- Youvarlakia
- Za'atar
- Zimaropita
- Zucchini (courgette) patties (L)
- Zucchini dip (L)
- Zucchini flower fritters (L)
- Zucchini flower pasta (L)
- Zucchini flowers Italian-style
- Zucchini with yoghurt