Food! Glorious Food!

[lsanderson]

Grilled Chicken Breast in Three Simple Steps
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipes: Lemon and Thyme Grilled Chicken Breasts | Grilled Sesame Lime Chicken Breasts | Sweet and Spicy Grilled Chicken Breasts | More Grilled Chicken Dishes

Greek Pie on the Skinny Side
By DAVID TANIS

Recipes: Greek Skillet Pies With Feta and Greens | More Greek Recipes

Cherries Add a Sweet Touch to Tabbouleh
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

Recipes: Cherry Tabbouleh | More Cherry Dishes

Leopold Brothers Offers a Homegrown Version of Campari
By FLORENCE FABRICANT


By ERIC ASIMOV

Please color me shocked:
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By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS

Walter Scheib, Innovative Former White House Chef, Is Dead at 61
By WILLIAM GRIMES

Comments

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

I could be all over those spanakopita-like pies! But making my own phyllo... I don't know. I did that once, to make baklava. It was wonderful, but like changing my own oil, it is something I can do or that I can pay someone else a low price to do for me. The way it looks in the photo, though, it's a bit thicker, so maybe not so difficult.

It's why

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

There's a Greek grocery store just down the street and around the corner.

Pasta Machine?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Although, the pasta machine idea would be easy. If'n, o' course, you got one. I'm guessing the dough is much thicker than commercial dough.

Re: Pasta Machine?

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

Yes, the stuff you buy in a box is impossibly thin. When I made phyllo, that is what I was striving for, but when the old ladies make it, it is never that papery. The only issue with the pasta machine is that most people only have the 6-inch wide one, which is limiting. But it can get you down to an even thickness that you can then roll the other direction with a rolling pin.

We shopped at Bill's quite often when we lived in Minneapolis. They had gigantes, the giant beans that are popular throughout Greece. We still get those at Bill's when we are up there.