Pasta with country style meat sauce

"Makaronia me kima"... In Greek we have our own version of "bolognese" for the ground meat, full of aromas and taste. And no... it is not influenced by the Italian famous dish. Pasta with ground meat sauce, is one of the most popular pasta dishes in Greece that not many can resist regardless the season! This version today is a more "country style" one including feta cheese which gives extra flavour to the whole dish

Tahini soup with orzo

"Tahini" is a paste of ground sesame seeds and originates in ancient Persia (Iran), under the name 'ardeh' which means "holy food". It is an ingredient that you will find in various cuisines around the world. In Greece mostly it was considered as an ideal ingredient during the fasting periods, due to its high-calorie nutritious value. The last couple of decates though, you find it more often in various Greek dishes (sweet and savour) and not only as a spread combined with honey on a slice of bread or inside a coffee or as a remedy. Here we have a very tasty and velvety soup with orzo pasta.
We have to start thinking about the Winter time...

Lamb with artichokes and yoghurt sauce

Another traditional recipe where the combination of the lamb with the artichoke is in absolute harmony and the lightly sour taste of the yoghurt gives it a twist

Spicy sausages wrapped in peppers

This is a delicious meze coming from up North Greece where they do like their food quite spicy

Rabbit with rosemary and garlic in the oven

A delicious and simple traditional recipe which often can be found in areas of Northern Greece. Rabbit is such a tasty and low in calories meat and so versatile regarding the method of cooking and the herbs you can use with it

Pie with green swiss chard and home made pastry

This is a traditional recipe from Naxos Island in Aegean Sea. Its name, "Sefoukloti", derives from the name "Sefoukla" which in the local dialect means "swiss chard". In rest of Greece usually the name for the "swiss chard" is "Seskoula" and it is a type of "horta" we use often in various dishes... Useless pieces of information for most of you but I think it is not a bad idea to get to know a bit more about the story behind some traditional dishes and I don't mean only the Greek ones. This is a recipe they used to cook after the Easter period when a lot of meat was consumed and they wanted something lighter and with more vegetables involved. The home made pastry again gives something extra in the final taste of the pie