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Tourlou (Vegetable Stew)

Cooking Time: 1 hour

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As summer soon comes to a close, we decided to do a traditional and easy to make dish. As always, we wanted something healthy (after all, summer hasn’t ended just yet!) but also not something which will have you spending hours in the kitchen. Tourlou is something we grew up...

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Bougatsa

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

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One of our favorite desserts! Our bougatsa recipe is a traditional, custard pie, but in researching the history, we found that it had a deeper history than a simple dessert. Bougatsa is a traditional, rustic Greek pie consisting of a phyllo pastry layered with a filling of minced meat, cheese,...

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Homemade Pork Gyros

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It took us a while to feature a gyros recipe because we focused recently on more vegetarian dishes, but the time has come for one of the most iconic Greek street-food dishes ever – homemade pork gyros! We feature pork tenderloin as the main ingredient, and we made sure to...

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Whipped Feta Dip with Roasted Tomatoes

A delicious and quick recipe for Whipped Feta Dip with Roasted Tomatoes Ingredients: 1 ½ lbs cherry tomatoes 2 cloves garlic, very thinly sliced 4 fresh oregano sprigs 1 cup olive oilKosher salt 12 oz crumbled feta cheese ¼ cup + 2 tbsp olive oil ¼ cup water 1 loaf...

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Baked Phyllo Squares with Feta, Olives, & Harissa

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Skordalia

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

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Skordalia is a delicious, garlicky, dip/spread that is made with either potato or stale bread (or a combination of both) depending on what part of Greece you visit. Our cousin Rania from Greece recently informed us that skordalia is the traditional dish of the 25th of March in which Greece...

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Lasagna & Ravioli: Made in Greece

Ancient Greeks had a pan called a lasana, which, according to Homer, was used to bake flat sheets of dough. The Greeks brought that pan and the flat dough with them wherever they colonized, and one of the main areas they colonized was Italy. Taken into Italian, that word and...

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The True Very Tasty Names of the Months in the Real Greek Calendar

As the months of the year roll towards their end and we are cook the last of the annual harvest – sharp onions, winter squash, eggplant (ah, the moussaka!)—and drink the new wines of the varietals, it’s fun to take a look at what Greeks in villages used to call...

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Tourlou (Vegetable Stew)

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Bougatsa

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Homemade Pork Gyros

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Whipped Feta Dip with Roasted Tomatoes

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Baked Phyllo Squares with Feta, Olives, & Harissa

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Skordalia

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Lasagna & Ravioli: Made in Greece

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The True Very Tasty Names of the Months in the Real Greek Calendar

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