Briámi (or briám) is a very simple summer dish made with season vegetables. It’s one of those dishes that don’t take much of our time to prepare, they don’t need any peculiar ingredients- just fresh summer vegetables and everyone in the family enjoys eating! That’s why it is a common option for the family cook, so common that it’s usually served at least once a week in summer!
It’s the time of the year when we seek for healthier and lighter food. Root vegetables are really great right now. The best way to cook them in order to make them even tastier is to roast them.
Asparagus and artichokes are in season and this is the best time to relish both. Greeks enjoy eating these particular vegetables and we cook them in many ways, salads, omelettes, braised or in pies – as you may remember we enjoyed an artichoke pie in our last post.
It’s the season for artichokes and as all Mediterranean people Greeks too, adore cooking this lovely, unique in its taste vegetable.
There’s no better winter comfort food than soup. And when it comes to soup the first one that comes in mind is chicken soup. Why? Perhaps it’s because our mother would always make chicken soup when we were young. It brings back memories and warmth. Both sentimental and corporal warmth.
The famous Greek style beef stew is a winner in the category of “Favorite mom dish”. Everybody in Greece claims that their mother makes the best beef stew and we tend to overreact when defending our mom! And her stew!
Biscotti are lovely biscuits, a bit harder than the usual biscuits as they are baked twice, hence the origin of the word from the latin phrase bis coctus- twice baked.
In Greece we call them “paximádia”. We not only make sweet paximádia, but also savory ones. Today we’ve got the most popular version. Paximádia that are flavored with Greek ouzo and made even crunchier by adding almonds!
