Your Dreams Coming True In The Kitchen

G reek Easter is a matter of cooking lamb on the spit by using a motor to slowly rotate a whole lamb of about 10-20 kg well attached to a long skewer...

I really don't know if home cooked chicken wings are "junk". But after a long time of abstinence, we decided to have some today. The weather is not really that great to use the BBQ so I cooked them in the oven....

I think I may have developed a sweet tooth lately and going ape on sweets. Read an article the other day in a dessert magazine and was inspired to make the following pie:

M y mom was known to be the best Egg-Lemon soup / sauce maker in the family and the whole neighborhood. I was about 12 years old on wards and always watched her when she cooked this soup/sauce. So I can tell you this recipe is hers. Back in the old days we had no stand-up mixer or hand held mixers like we do now. She used whisk those eggs by hand using a fork while adding the lemon juice carefully to avoid curdling of the eggs. Greek cuisine has many dishes made with an egg-lemon mixture. In fact any beef, poultry, fish, lamb which is boiled can be made into an egg-lemon dish. All you have to do is add a 500 ml of the liquid in which the beef or chicken is boiling in to the egg-lemon mixture and there you are. For details please read on.... 

I guess we are trying to continue our special eating habits by putting a bit of "sex" in it. By that I mean, chicken livers/hearts with ouzo. Braise till all the alcohol is out. Leeks and carrots with rice....veggies with rice. Cheating?? maybe not. So here we go.

P iment de Spelette is a very "gentile - civilized - suave" kind of chili because unlike the Jalapeño or Habanero, is mild but still has that bite which even a lady can enjoy. They all have the same size, grow in the Basque area of South Western France/Spain around the area of the town of "Espelette". It can be found fresh, dried, and in powder. I personally have the dried ones very beautifully strung on a cord. In this recipe I used ¾ of one snipped very thinly with a pair of scissors.....

Rajma (Kidney Bean) Curry Indian Bread Indian Bread(somethng between Naan, Chapati, Roti etc...) Delicious!!! I ndian food is easy if and an only if you have the required ingredients. Ok you can have a ready mix of curry powder bought from any super market but it is not the same as to make your own from scratch if you have the ingredients. By changing the quantities between each other you can go from a curry to tikka etc.