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Tahini-Chocolate Mousse
Greek vegan and Lenten tahini-chocolate mousse Tahini (sesame paste) replaces milk and butter in many Greek Lenten desserts, both traditional and contemporary. It goes particularly well with chocolate...
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Classic Greek Bean Soup / Fasolada
Greek bean soup, fasolada Beans are a New World product but bean soup. fasolada in Greek, is Greece’s national dish! Makes 6 servings 1 pound medium-sized white dried beans 2/3 cup extra-virgin Greek...
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Black-Eyed Pea, Smoked Salmon Salad in Avocado
Avocado Stuffed with Spicy Black-Eyed Peas Black-eyed peas, total Greek peasant food!, get an elegant twist served up with sun-dried tomatoes inside an avocado. You can easily prepare this recipe...
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Three Regional Greek Skordalia Recipes
Arcadian Walnut Skordalia Recipe from the forthcoming book, The Country Cooking of Greece, Chronicle Publishers, San Francisco This hearty, earthy skordalia, made dark with the addition of walnuts and...
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Split Pea Puree w/ Shiitakes
Yellow split pea puree with shiitake mushrooms Fava is what Greeks call yellow split pea puree. It’s a wonderful vegetarian and vegan dish but also a first-class meze. Fava can be a carte blanche, the...
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Raw Zucchini Salad w/ Mastiha Oil & Cretan Graviera Cheese
Zucchini Carpaccio with Mastiha Oil and Cretan Graviera There is something irresistible about the light, sparkling clean flavor of raw zucchini, which acts as the perfect foil for buttery sheep’s milk...
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Bean Soup with Vegetables and Orange Zest from Hania/Haniotiki Fasolada
Fasolatha 6 servings 227gr (½ lbs) dried navy beans, picked over and rinsed 1 cup extra virgin Greek olive oil 1 ½ cups red onion, finely chopped 1 cup finely chopped celery with leaves or ¾ cup...
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Roasted Artichokes with Potatoes and Olive Oil
Artichokes roasted with potatoes make a perfect Mediterranean Diet dish and veggie main course. Adapted from the Country Cooking of Greece (Chronicle Books, 2012). This is a springtime country dish...
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Piperonata
Piperonata I tried out this recipe for the first time at a friend’s house many years ago. She had served it as part of a Lenten table. It’s not a traditional fasting dish, but it certainly fits the...
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Ikarian Onion-Wild Fennel Pie
Ikarian Onion-Fennel pie, perfect for Lent and vegans! So, what to do with all those onions after peeling them to use their skins for dying Easter eggs? I did two things: onion-wild fennel pita (savory...
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Ikarian Patatato with Wild Fennel
Wild fennel, called marathos in Greek, is the favorite spring herb on Ikaria. Wild fennel, called marathos in Greek (marathon, from the ancient Greek Marathon, literally means refers to a specific...
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Delicious Rock Samphire – Kritamo to the Greeks
Rock or Sea Samphire, one of the great treats of a Greek spring. There are a few food-related chores left to do here on Ikaria before taking off for Athens again, among them collecting and pickling...
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