Feature: Vegetarian

There are varieties of the diet as well: an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, a lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, including eggs, dairy, and honey.

Greek Yogurt Lemon Cake

Cooking Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Dessert

Joanna was looking at recipes for a Lemon cake. She loves Lemon cake (Lemon Loaf, Lemon Poppy muffins…you get the picture, she’s a lemon fan). She came across a few...

Gigantes Plaki

Cooking Time: 2:15 hours

Sides

Greek

An oldie but goodie! We’ve always had a special place for gigantes ever since our mom used to force us to eat them when we were young. Over the years...

Vegetarian Moussaka

Entree
Sides

Greek

In keeping with the theme of Lent, we decided to take a traditional Greek dish, Moussaka, and make it vegetarian! We didn’t just omit the meat sauce and call it...

Paximathakia

Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Paximathakia are a twice baked cookie, similar to biscotti, or hard rusk-style savory bread, served as thick slices. Here we make a very simple sweet cookie version perfect with coffee...

Greek Quiche

Cooking Time: 55 minutes

Since one of the Greek Sisters (Joanna) is a vegetarian, she’s always coming up with ways to make Greek dishes without meat. This recipe takes a couple of components from...

Kourabiedes are popular Greek shortbread style butter cookies, covered in powdered sugar and quite popular for the holidays. We are providing a super simple recipe that’s vegetarian but definitely delicious...

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White Bean Soup with Spiced Brown Butter

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

American

Just in time for Christmas, this delicious white bean soup is the perfect answer to a cold winter’s evening. It is savory, filling, and best of all, healthy! We’ve enjoyed...

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Greek Yogurt Pancakes

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Breakfast

Using Greek yogurt anywhere and everywhere isn’t really a new concept for us, we’ve been doing it for as long as we can remember. But in a casual conversation the...

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Peppers Stuffed with Feta

Cooking Time: 1 hour

We have some great recipes for stuffed peppers (and more coming up in the near future), but we wanted to do something on a smaller and simpler scale. These peppers...

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Greek Summertime Bruschetta

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

We love this appetizer because it’s always enjoyable and super easy to make. We basically use “paximadia” or rusks — twice-baked bread. You can make your own paximadia by drying...

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Greek-Style Summer Salad with Feta

Cooking Time: 5 minutes

Greek

This is a Greek salad modified a bit to make it super simple with ingredients that are usually on hand. We make this version almost every night during the summer...

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Basic Vinaigrette

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Salads

We were lucky to grow up surrounded by great cooks in our family, neighbors, and friends. Our mom Maria was one such great cook. One of the many things she...

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