Oh God, Greek food!!!!!

[truegentleman]

I just got back from the Greek festival that they are having in town this weekend. I love Mediterranean food and the women. I can't pronounce the names of the food, but it is pure heaven.

I still have a box of pastries sitting on the table.

 

[Guest]

Is baklava one of them?

Recipe: Baklava
Here's a Baklava recipe that uses standard measurements. The trickiest part is coping with the filo dough, which can be bought frozen in many markets. A decent substitute would be frozen strudel dough. I really don't recommend making your own.

1 pound unsalted (sweet) butter, melted (It really has to be butter, not a substitute)
1 pound filo dough sheets
1.5 pounds (24 ounces) chopped blanched almonds
1 pound shelled walnuts
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice or cloves
Thaw the filo before starting. Melt the butter.
Grind or chop together the walnuts and almonds, and mix together with the cinnamon, allspice or cloves, and sugar. Using a rectangular pan, preferably a 9x13x2, brush the pan with the melted butter. Separate a sheet of the thawed filo. Handling it as little as possible, lay a sheet in the bottom of the pan. Brush it with butter. Fold it over if necessary to fit in the pan. Do this until you have about 10-12 layers. Then put a layer of the nuts and spices mixture on top of the sheet of filo, cover with a other sheet of filo, paint that with butter, and continue in this manner until you've used all of your filling. Top with about an equal amount of the filo sheets as you used for the bottom. If you're a little short or a little over, don't worry about it. Too many layers can get a bit gummy, however. Be sure each sheet is brushed with butter.
Cut across the completed baklava with a sharp knife, into triangles or diamonds. Bake at 350 for about an hour, or until evenly browned on top - think a nice golden color like some of the sunsets you saw in Greece.

Pour the cooled syrup (recipe below) over it and let it sit before serving. If you can bear to.
If you are like me, by the end of this I have filo dough in my hair and nuts stuck to me with honey syrup.

Syrup
2 cups honey (did you bring back any from Greece? shame on you if you didn't!)
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 cinnamon sticks (or 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon)
1 teaspoon grated orange peel (or to taste)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or to taste) (Optional)
Simmer together the syrup ingredients for ten minutes and strain. Set aside. A good time to make this is just after you've put the baklava into the oven.

 

[truegentleman]

Oh yeah, there is some baklava in that box of pastry, plus other good sweet stuff.


I would never even dream of trying to make baklava, I know my limitations.

 

[littlekateyes]

baklava is soooooo yummy!

 

[riff]

There is a greek restaurant about 5 buildings away from my place. I love greek food.

Greek festivals are great! And who could deny the beauty of a young greek girl- the hair, the eyes, the skin.....

I will say nothing about their mom's...

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

OPA!

Saganaki, Terramousalatta[sp?] And Butter Basted Pita!

To JUST DIE For

I Always Order The Quail Fer My Main, And it's Always A Gastronomical Pleasure!

 

[littlekateyes]

Um riff what is up with the AV?

 

[Vulnavia]

I just got back from the Greek festival that they are having in town this weekend. I love Mediterranean food and the women. I can't pronounce the names of the food, but it is pure heaven.

I still have a box of pastries sitting on the table.

Are you in Las Vegas too? I am kicking myself for not being there this weekend.

 

[truegentleman]

Re: Re: Oh God, Greek food!!!!!

Are you in Las Vegas too? I am kicking myself for not being there this weekend.

Nope I'm in SC.

 

[LadyG]

Saganaki..............OH MMMMMMMM YUMMY!

GreekTown here in T.O. is the best.

 

[riff]

Um riff what is up with the AV?

What?

 

[littlekateyes]

What?

Just curios where you got it from?

 

[Guest]

I'm really getting hungry now...

http://www.greekislandscafe.com/IMAGES/FOOD.jpg

 

[littlekateyes]

Re: I'm really getting hungry now...

http://www.greekislandscafe.com/IMAGES/FOOD.jpg

Thinking I need to eat something now!

 

[riff]

I got it from ebaum.

Spanikopita. Good stuff. (spinach pie)

 

[Guest]

What?

You were using that av when I first came here. The combo between the av, your porn pic thread and the fact that you were emotionally unstable medication taking teacher scared the shit out of me.

As for the Greek food, Salad and Tempura for me. Ouzo!!!

I've actually been there twice totaling three months holiday. I stayed at my mate's house for free. That and Greek curency being what it is, I lived like a king.

Greek chicks are such a flirt. I don't know why they like to touch my body parts. LOL

 

[glamorilla]

i think people should eat more greek.

 

[Guest]

i think people should eat more greek.

_____

I think you think we should do more greek.

 

[riff]

What does being a teacher have to do with anything? My students are my sanity. But you would have to be a teacher to understand.

And what is wrong with taking medication?

And what is wrong with being emotionally unstable- we all have our ups and downs.

Truth is, it's people who are convinced they are all right that we should worry about.

Do you know what love is?

 

[Eagle70]

Allright, as the OTHER greek guy on the board (glam, you beat me to it!!!) I've gotta say there is no better food than the stuff my mom cooks...she makes everything you can imagine...pita's of all types, every imaginable dessert, she rules.

BTW, if anyone has any leads on a good looking greek girl, send them my way, huh? I've been dying to meet a good looking greek girl my whole friggin life!!

 

[glamorilla]

neh alla ksero kalitera pragmata na fameh...

krima.



good spinach pie gets me hot.

 

[Guest]

Love

1 - warm liking or affection
2 - sexual affection
3 - strong liking for something
4 - person who is loved
5 - delightful person or thing
6 - form of address used by a man to a woman or child, or by a woman to a person of either sex
7 - no score

 

[riff]

Re: Love

1 - warm liking or affection
2 - sexual affection
3 - strong liking for something
4 - person who is loved
5 - delightful person or thing
6 - form of address used by a man to a woman or child, or by a woman to a person of either sex
7 - no score

Thanks for playing.....

next?

 

[Eagle70]

neh alla ksero kalitera pragmata na fameh...

krima.



good spinach pie gets me hot.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Glam, you rule man

Te, esee nen kseris canena koritsie ya emena?

 

[Guest]

BTW, if anyone has any leads on a good looking greek girl, send them my way, huh? I've been dying to meet a good looking greek girl my whole friggin life!!

Go to Greece or Cyprus. There are prenty of those there.

Problem with living in smaller ethnic comunity out side of their original country is that there are far too many in-breeding!