Posts Tagged ‘greek’

Baklava bitch!

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Bak la freaking va! Another shout out to Kevin for such a wonderfully good recipe. This turned out almost perfect. I used pecans in place of walnuts and halved the recipe. When all was said and done, when J, Z, and I had all patiently waited the “few” hours for the syrup to absorb (we actually couldn’t wait more than 2 hours, oops.), the reaction was unanimous. We couldn’t believe this came out of our oven in our home. This was equal to any baklava I had gotten from any restaurant before. Love love love it! Fairly simple recipe other than the nearly impossible wait time at the end.

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Spankin good spanakopita – spinach pie.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

What can I say, this house loves Greek food. Every year we hit the Greek food festival devouring some of our favorite foods, spanakopita, tiropita, and baklava. I bought some phyllo dough the other day and was itching to use it and there could be no better way than some of our favorites. So I went to foodgawker as usual and found this recipe at closetcooking.com which sounded perfect. As I was reading the recipe I saw Kevin also had a recipe for baklava so I was like what the hell. Reading the two recipes I found that the baklava would need to sit for a few hours after it was made so I made it first and moved on to the spinach pie. WOW! This pie was amazing! I didn’t think it would come out this good but it did. Kid tested and mother approved. You can’t beat that.

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