For many years, my family has gone to the annual Greek Food Festival in Fresno, CA. Since being away at college, I have dearly missed the Pastizio, a "glorified macaroni and cheese" as my mom describes it. There was a recipe published in the Fresno Bee courtesy of Elaine Kourafas, and I tried it tonight. It was a great success!

( Recipe and a pic )

Does anyone have a recipe for Greek faijtas?

I've tried looking through tags, and doing a search on allrecipes.com, but couldn't come up with anything.

Thanks in advance!

I had the yummiest dessert tonight! It's called Galatopita, a Greek baked custard. The recipe need a little tweaking to make it exactly the way I want it, but even the way it was, it was very good. I found that the recipe was far too sweet, so I used 1 cup of sugar instead of the recommended 1.5-2, and next time I'll start at half or three ( Read more... )

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So my husband doesn't like moussaka. I don't understand this, but it has to do with an aversion he has to eggplant--which I personally cannot fathom, but well, what can I say? He's odd.

But, he does like pastitsio, so I make that every now and then, and I made some the other night. As far as I am concerned it is comfort food in a casserole dish-- ( Read more... )

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So, I woke up with a craving yesterday morning--I needed moussaka. (Pregnant women are always waking up with cravings.)

Which meant, I had to make it, which was okay--I had ground lamb in the freezer, plenty of eggplants from the CSA and fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, herbs and all that good stuff and of course, olive oil.

So, I made it.

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i made the most delish burgers for dinner tonight.

( Chicken or Turkey Spanakopita Burgers and Fries with Yogurt Dip )