Tuesday, February 9, 2016

January 30th, Feast of the Three Holy Fathers. Greece

Greek Salad, Greek Chicken, Baked Greek Fries, and Greek Saganaki

A Greek holiday, also called Feast of the Three Holy Fathers. The link below can give you more information.
 http://www.goarch.org/special/threehierarchs/index_html

Since, I was unable to find anything to show foods for this holiday, I just made a Greek menu of Greek Chicken, Baked Greek Fries, Greek Salad, Greek Saganaki, and Greek Lemon Cake.

The Greek Chicken was OK, but probably not the recipes fault. I only marinated it for seven hours instead of eight and I think I over cooked it. With all of the juices around it in the pan, one would not think it would be dry. The recipe stated to grill it, but winter in Michigan not prime grilling. Several reviews said to bake it which I did, but probably too long.

 Greek Salad,  you can't really mess up. It was fine, we didn't add the olives. Just not olive eaters.

The Baked Greek Fries, were good. Basically roasted potatoes, so again, how can I go wrong.

The truly new food for me in this endeavor was the Greek Sanganaki. This is basically like fried cheese using Feta. The recipe has you dipping it in egg and flour and then frying in olive oil. If I were to do it again, I would use some bread crumbs instead of the flour. The breading didn't stick to the cheese very well. 
Greek Lemon Cake

As for dessert, Greek Lemon Cake is a bunt cake. It had good flavor; but as many of the reviews stated it could have used more lemon flavor. It probably could have used some sort of lemon or sauce on it.

I would love to hear your thoughts and inputs. Your own Greek recipes.


Recommended movie, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "My Life in Ruins," or "Hercules."


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