Greek food is great!! (23)

1 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-03 18:55 ID:Swap/yr7

Maby I think so because I am Greek but how about you?
I know I like it, I mean I was raised partly by it, have you tried it on?

2 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-05 08:54 ID:jJ6XKVn5

i like souvlaki, but i didnt eat much of it.

3 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-05 22:43 ID:L+k1eQ9r

oh a reply! how nice!

well i guess that not many people have tried greek food around here and well souvlaki is good but more considered like fast food which doesn´t really show what greek cousine really is about.

but i got to say souvlaki is one thing you have to try if you are in greece and hope for a good restaraunt/eating-place

4 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-06 03:17 ID:jJ6XKVn5

any recommendation of what other greek food is good?

5 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-06 07:05 ID:D+Ilbngm

Tiropitas are my favorite! I have so much fun making them. Since I love feta cheese so much, Greek food is probably my favorite.

6 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-06 20:25 ID:L+k1eQ9r

thank you!
and it depends on what kind of food you like:
If you like vegetables then you have a lot of things you can try like lenssoup (fakki), beansoup (fasoulada) which kind of counts like the national food of Greece, Fasoulakia (the big long bean-thing that I don´t know what it´s called and it is green, can also be cooked with meat like a stew or what it is called. Moussaka which is a mix of many vegetables like eggplant, zuchini (i think they call it) and well poatoes and onions and stuff.

yeah all this food is mainly cooked with olive-oil which is really healthy and better than butter when you cook.

This is like a general tip, it is better to use olive oil that comes from plants as in not meat like butter comes from cow (not made of meat but you get it right).
That means that the body won´t absorb all the bad fat because it doesn´t recognise its type like if it is fat from butter - the body recognises the fat in butter and makes it its own....

well this was an awful explenation I hope you understand what i am talking about and if not just ignore the whole thing.

7 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-06 20:37 ID:L+k1eQ9r

(one big breath later)
If you like meat then try kokinisto which is veil in the owen like a kind of stew that you can eat with rise or potatoes.
Or maby you want to try chicken with lemon-potatoes also cooked in the owen (less fat than if you fry it but the ultimate way of cooking with less fat as well as making all the bacteria go away is to boil the meat but it is not as tasy in my opinion so just stick to the fat.....)

From the sea you can try squid and clams and fish and other stuff manly cooked like a stew or on the grill (the latter with lemon on top)

And in the fast food section comes souvlaki, grilled corn-thing (what is it called) and giro like greek kebab served with pomme-frites, tomato, onion, bread and some sallads that you can choose from.

If you like soups and meat you have to try greek chicken or meatball soup which is made with a blend of egg and lemons (yeah it sounds weird but it tastes good)

That is all I can think of (for now).....

And sorry for two really long posts hope you liked reading it.....

8 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-08 14:51 ID:O8CUAspK

I guess I scared everyone away with my long posts....
looks around

9 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-10 05:55 ID:jJ6XKVn5

i tried to look at them but they only have souvlaki, bummer... im hungry after reading all that :(

10 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-10 09:37 ID:O8CUAspK

oops sorry, hehe. Me too and around where I live there are a couple of restaraunts but I don´t trust them (I always had the idea that they aren´t as good as in Greece, but that is just me) so I only can wait for summer so I can travel to Greece and eat some greek food (even if my grandmother cooks a lot of greek food, you sometimes need to have things that you can buy on the greek markets and not so often in the stores around here). It is like looking for real ramen, the best one can only surely be found in Japan you know. If you can´t do it yourself that is (which I can´t).....

11 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-13 00:06 ID:Xx0NJG3l

Today I ate a Greek Salad, apparently. Very...intense flavour.

12 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-13 18:34 ID:JhOYwGkK

I guess with feta cheese, olives and oliveoil? Right?

13 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-15 11:34 ID:xe05Pitb

Yep.

14 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-15 17:54 ID:bcKFATnS

good because they sometimes make another kind of sallad and call it greek salland, which is like a "regular" salad.

15 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-11-28 22:59 ID:pXOfpdMD

I love Greek cuisine but I don't eat stuff from animals so I tend to just use techniques with vegetables, like

  • Kalamata olives
  • Kalamata olive oil
  • Aubergine or courgette (zucchini) or broccoli etc grilled with oil and rosemary
  • Potatoes fried in olive oil and garlic and paprika then steamed
  • Giant white beans same way
  • Stuff like that with salt and pepper and lemon juice added after it cools down
  • Baked peppers or tomatoes stuffed with rice, need to fry lots of flavour into the rice first like browned onions, chilli, very thin carrot and celery slices, oregano, this not totally Greek but baking very hot is
  • Simple stuff like olives with bread and oil and vinegar
  • Greek salad can be made with really good smoked tofu, but if you think it gonna taste as strong as feta you gonna be disappointed
  • Finish with halva or 'turkish' delight but I don't make that (shame they use honey in baklava and stuff)

16 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2007-12-04 21:33 ID:SYm872pu

really glad you like greek food and I really like the ideas you use.
The thing about being a vegetarian is that you need a lot of imagination which you seem to have a lot of.
Very fun and nice!

17 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-01-22 12:57 ID:C84OYSoK

why not make this thread on top of them all? hehe

18 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-01-27 04:14 ID:XlusTMLH

Does anyone know where I can have a Pavlova in Tokyo? I want to try it!

19 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-01-27 04:15 ID:XlusTMLH

!!! sorry, wrong thread..

20 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-01-27 06:16 ID:C84OYSoK

it´s ok

21 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-04-11 22:49 ID:AfxkJOkh

I'm eating hummus and pita chips right now.

22 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-04-13 00:53 ID:wvWxjBAY

I like gyros when the tzatziki sauce is fresh and flavorful.

I like a roast lamb slice on top of a big plate of orzo with tomato sauce.

I like Greek style "village salad" with black olives and feta cheese.

I like grape leaves stuffed with minced lamb and onions, and seasoned with thyme.

I like "spanakopita," little appetizer spinach and feta cheese pies in flaky phyllo pastry.

I like Greek style lima beans with tomato sauce.

I like fried cod with "skordalia" sauce of garlic and potatoes.

A lot of Greek food is very good indeed. Some of it I do not care for, but in the main it is very good.

And if you are thinking of cooking Greek style dishes, remember this above all else: do not try to make it so refined. Do not try to be so fancy. The traditional Greek dishes are simple hearty food, and some dishes have not changed much in thousands of years.

Achilles and Patroclus drank red Cretan wine and ate fried fish with garlic sauce while camped outside the gates of Troy. What else could you ask for in a meal?

23 Name: Anonymous Chef : 2008-04-14 21:33 ID:OFGSmVzC

hehe nice one!

I like greek food aswell!

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