"Kris" > wrote in message
...
On Sep 13, 2:34 pm, "cybercat" > wrote:
> Just watched a travel show about Greece that had some interesting but
> pretty
> vaque fool-related information. The narrator said that there is a Greek
> restaurant tradition of inviting guests into the kitchen to see what is
> cooking and make their choices.
>
> I have little experience with Greek food but love lots of the common
> ingredients--feta, olives, tomatoes, seafood.
>
> Favorite Greek dishes, anyone? There was one I had regularly that was a
> kind
> of stew featuring lamb, but I have forgotten the name since we moved away
> from Vienna, where the restaurant was.

Tiropita (cheese-filled phyllo bundles), a great appetizer
Patates Moussaka (potato version of the eggplany dish)
Souvlakia, a grilled meat kebab
Pastitsio, a greek noodle dish with meat sauce and bechamel, is always
good comfort food.

So many, I could go on....

Kris

Why I am proud to be Greek

Because nights in Greece finish in the morning.
Because we drink our coffee slowly and not in 'gulps'.
Because flirting is our national pastime.
Because we go out almost every night, even if we are penniless.
Because we respect our Grandmothers sometimes more than our wives.
Because we know how to 'spend' better than we know how to 'save'.
Because we never visit others empty-handed...we bring a cake or a bottle of
wine
Because we do not share the cost of gasoline with those traveling with us.
Because the word 'filotimo' (helping someone because it is the right thing
to do) doesn't exist in any other language.
Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they bloody steal one of
ours!
Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment.
Because we love and hate with passion.
Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family; not with
therapists and counselors.
Because Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still quote
them!
Because we invented the theatre.
Because we gave birth to Democracy.
Because we jump-started science.
Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping
under trees.
Because when others created wars, we created the Olympic Games to stop wars.
Because we don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food!
Because we get angry quickly, but forget about it even more quickly.
Because Greek men are not ashamed to cry.
Because we dance when we are sad and party when we are happy.
Because we work to live and we do not live to work.
Because 97% of the cosmic stars are named after Hellenics.
Because although we know danger well, we dare.
Because when you shout 'adel fi' ( brother) in the streets, everyone turns
around.
Because 'Greeks do not fight like heroes; heroes fight like Greeks.'
(Winston Churchill, 1941)
Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder!
WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY? No one will love you more deeply than a Greek.
Yia sas!