#greek cooking

[persephonaae]

Made κολοκυθόπιτα (Greek pumpkin pies) the other day! I’ll also include a recipe below!

Ingredients

3-4 small food grade whole pumpkins 

2 cups sugar (preferably brown sugar)

4 tablespoons honey

½ teaspoon ground cloves

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

3 tablespoons olive oil

¾ cup rice

phyllo dough

half stick of butter

When you plan to make kolokithopita, you will want to transfer your frozen phyllo dough to the fridge to thaw for a couple hours before taking it out of the package and laying it on the counter with a paper towel lightly misted with water laid on top. The premade frozen stuff is completely fine, I do not in any way implore you to make your own phyllo as it is very time consuming and the premade stuff tastes just as good (but also not stopping you from doing so if you really wanted!).  In any case, once you have your phyllo at room temperature, take the rice and soak it in very hot water for 30 minutes. (I usually boil some water in the kettle for tea and then pouring it over the rice, covering it with something so less steam escapes) While waiting, this is a good time to grate the pumpkins to use in your filling (you will want to cut off the stem, peel/cut the skin off, and discard the seeds). You will want about 2-3 pounds of grated pumpkin, and maybe some help, unless you wanted to go for the record of world's fastest pumpkin grater while gaining arms of steel. (The texture of Greek pumpkin pie is different than other pumpkin pies since you have to grate the meat which is why you shouldn’t buy puréed pumpkin. The other thing to note is that you can actually do this with most any squash! Doesn’t have to be pumpkin; zucchini is also a common Greek base for kolokithopita, just to give you more ideas if you wanted to experiment.)

To prepare the filling, mix together the grated pumpkin, sugar, honey, ground clove, ground cinnamon, and olive oil. Drain the rice after it has soaked for 30 minutes, and mix it into this lovely slimy saccharine mixture of autumn-in-a-bowl, setting it aside once the ingredients are combined. 

Congratulations, it’s now time to work with the phyllo! Take half a stick of butter and melt it and have it ready on the side. Gently take two to three sheets of phyllo from the stack of dough and lay it on the counter or cutting board. (I usually use three sheets) You will then want to take a food brush and coat the entire side facing up with butter. Once it’s coated take a knife or pizza cutter and cut strips into the phyllo in thirds or fourths if you have the phyllo sheets in horizontal orientation, in half or thirds if you have it in vertical orientation. (The pictures show pies that we did cuts in fourths on the horizontal layout) Go back to your mixture of filling and scoop out a mound of filling that can fit into your cupped palm – it’s always better to be a bit generous with the filling. Gently squeeze out some of the excess liquid and place this filling at the bottom of one of the strips of phyllo and grab the bottom right corner and fold to the opposite side to make what looks like a triangle attached to the rest of the strip. Do this again but now with the corner of that triangle that’s on the left hand side, and bring it up to the opposite end. Keep repeating this fold until you have a triangle shaped pastry that completely encases your filling. This fold can be hard for some people to immediately understand and you might be really slow at it. Don’t worry if it’s a bit wonky, it will still taste fine in the end! Below I have a video that hopefully demonstrates that fold better. 

Keep repeating this with new sheets of phyllo (butter, cut, fill, fold… butter, cut, fill, fold…) until you’ve used all your filling or run out of dough. Each completed pie should be set onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper, set about half an inch apart. Before sticking it in the oven, brush the tops of all the pies with the rest of the melted butter, then bake at 375º for 45 minutes - 1 hour, until golden brown. My last caution is to not burn your mouth when inevitably digging in as soon as the timer goes off. Hope you enjoy, ευχαριστώ!

[coffeenewstom]

Greek Cuisine: korfiotisches Pastitsada

Eines von zwei Gerichten, die ganz eng mit der Insel Korfu verbunden sind, ist Patitsada (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem ähnlich klingenden Pastitsio!). Zahlreich Entstehungsmythen ranken sich um diesen Klassiker der korfiotischen Küche. Die venezianischen Besatzer hätten es auf die Insel gebracht. Wenn ich mich richtig erinnere gibt es dazu auch noch eine Sage mit einer großen Schlacht und…

[nothing-impt]

I’m alive. Have this crispy Athena 🍽️

[mydairpercabeth]

Thinking about how Hermes intentionally wasted Percy and Annabeths time in the casino hoping to change Lukes’ fate. And how everything Hermes has done since finding out about Lukes future will be in service of delaying/changing his fate. He said Poseidon warned him that no matter how much he tried to help, he would just make things worse. Yet he is still trying to help Luke. Still trying to make things right. But Luke has already chosen his path. Pure Greek tragedy

[daily-deliciousness]

Greek chicken and potatoes

[kouzinacooking]

An Island Lost

Using up those leftovers. Think you’ll all know how it goes once the end of November is imminent – Christmas is coming and planning needs to start. For me, it’s the freezer to get the first survey. All those leftovers stashed away back in the summer make their second appearance. That is, of course, apart from the UFOs – Unidentified Frozen Objects. How come you always think you’ll remember what…

[satoshy12]

Restaurant Phantom

Danny as a restaurant owner in Gotham or something similar The thing is that, as Danny's customers are mostly villains, they are immortal beings. From Ra's al-Ghul, Vandal Savage, and even Queen Hippolyta and few others. For Vandal and Ra's, it was to taste things they had not eaten for hundreds of years and to taste the original flavor that doesn't exist anymore.

And Hippolyta saw the restaurant as she visited her daughter in man's land and didn't know why but ate in it in the end. It had been a long time since she ate those good old traditional ancient Greek dishes.

So Danny's restaurant with his assistant Dani became a pretty famous place for people who are older than you think. And with them, other people joined: Ra's group, Vandal Light, Hippolyta Amazons, a few Greek gods, and even Dr. Fate and Klarion with others.

It was more or less a neutral zone for them to just eat and maybe chat. until JL found out about it.

Danny just had fun to cook the food for them, it was fun to cook things he learned in the Ghost Zone, he was surprised people even knew the names of it.

He had no idea how Mr Savage knew it was Mammoth Meat.

[maggie44paint]

Ulysses (Odysseus) of Ithaca from Paris the musical! Complete with Penelope's guitar and his thunder thighs (they're there I promise)

Aftermath of Athena's influence below!

[ardenzia777]

I have much to draw for ya'll but uh, for now enjoy this crop of a request i'm doing for @mircsy and @abandoned-raccoon since they drew me polites uwu Polites is my currency Anywho, Oiled up Diomedes coming in your future!!

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Two Cypriot Greek Australian sisters created a beautiful recipe book for their Greek grandma's recipes. They recreated all the dishes themselves to confirm the measurements because Greek grandma's cook "with their heart", not measures. There are Greek measuring cups, however! They are very made of glass and they're shown on the video.

[doctorsiren]

I should be studying for my test on the Iliad tomorrow, but I am here instead drawing furry Odysseus ?? 😨

[coffeenewstom]

Greek Cuisine: Κolokythokeftedes - griechische Zucchini-Pflanzerl

Κolokythokeftedes gehören in Griechenland einfach auf die Vorspeisen-Karte. Ob als leckere Vorspeise, ob als Mezze-Gericht, aus griechischen Tavernen sind sie nicht wegzudenken. Ich habe es schon auf Kos, Korfu und natürlich auf Kreta genossen. Dabei ist es gar nicht so kompliziert sie herzustellen. Ob man sie dann Zucchini-Pflanzerl, -Puffer, -Frikadellen oder -Kroketten nennen will, bleibt…

[khuuxu]

They're stuck in my head...

[godsofhumanity]

Hestia, to Zeus: I'm so proud of all of them. Almost everyone has gotten their Kitchen Ban lifted! They've all improved so much! Hestia: Except for HERMES. Hestia: Hermes somehow manages to set a boiling pot of water on fire.

[yourcurrentany]

WAIT I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

IN THE TROJAN WAR ATHENA (Goddess of defensive war) STANDS WITH THE GREEKS (the ones who attack Troy)

AND ARES (God of offensive war) STANDS WITH THE TROJANS (the ones trying to defend themselves)

I know this could be (and most probably it is) because of the fact that Aphrodite is by the Trojans side (and maybe bc he doesn't want to be in the same side as Athena haha.)

BUT

What if it is because he saw all the families willing to be defended by the goddess who SHOULD be defending them, felt their pain, their fear, and just couldn't not help them because he knew she was going to be the one attacking them??

What if he felt their anger and bravery and decided to fight even thought he knew Athena always wins because he just couldn't stay aside??