summer

Salmon With Soy and Petimezi

by Peter G January 24, 2012 Greek Food

My favourite way of getting those all important omega 3′s into my diet is by eating salmon. I find it quite a versatile fish and definitely love getting creative with it. My recent blog post on salmon burgers prepared with home made brioche buns, really got a lot of attention. Generally though, I find I have been quite slack with recipes for salmon here at Souvlaki For The Soul. Looking [...]

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Summer Lovers-Tomatoes and Gazpacho

by Peter G January 17, 2012 Recipes

Summer time. It conjures up images of ice cream. Beaches. Sand. Stone fruit. Crickets chirping. And for me…tomatoes! I have always associated tomatoes with summer. There’s something about this sexy fruit that hypnotises every part of me. I can never resist eating them or photographing them for that matter. Last year I made a bruschetta that combined the classic Italian Caprese ingredients as a topping. The year before I made [...]

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Vanilla “submarine”

by Peter G January 13, 2012 Greek Food

If any Greeks are looking at these pictures they will immediately recognise this as “βανιλια” or “βανιλια υποβρυχιο”. This literally translates as vanilla and vanilla submarine. In Greece, vanilla fondant is often served as a “spoon sweet”. You dip your spoon in the fondant, scoop a little, dunk it in a glass of cold water and lick it like a lollipop. The longer it’s exposed, the softer it becomes and [...]

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Strawberry Cloud Cake

by Peter G January 2, 2012 Recipes

I hope you all had a great start to 2012. I say “let’s get straight into it”. My second last post last year , saw me attending a pre Xmas celebration where I took along a strawberry cloud cake. I promised a blog post on this no-bake wonder and here it is! I first came across this unusually named dessert whilst watching a cooking program on the ABC here in [...]

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Biftekia with Salsa Verde

by Peter G November 30, 2011 Greek Food

I think I may have a “thing” for sauces. If you scan through the archives you can find my recipe for chimichurri salsa, roasted corn salsa and walnut skordalia. What can I say? I like a good sauce to accompany a dish. It makes it all the more satisfying. Regarding the recipe today, “biftekia” are basically hamburgers. I like to think that the Greeks do biftekia exceptionally well and most taverns will serve up a version [...]

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Rock Melon and Yoghurt Pops

by Peter G March 7, 2011 Recipes

People really like their ice cream. The reason I say this is because one of my most popular searches here at Souvlaki For The Soul are my Greek yoghurt and berry pops. Remember those? Anyway, I thought that since summer was coming to an end I could sneak in just one more ice cream recipe. Not that it’s become cold overnight

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Zucchini and Walnut Skordalia Bruschetta

by Peter G February 17, 2011 Greek Food

Technically our summer is approaching the end here. That doesn’t mean the heat will stop though. It’s been known to be humid right through till April. I am however starting to see a lot of the later summer produce at the markets. Lots of late season tomatoes (which are my favourite, by the way) stone fruits and zucchini. As I explained last time I prepared my

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Pineapple Granita

by Peter G February 14, 2011 Recipes

Let’s see. We made cinnamon ice cream and then we turned that into baklava ice cream sandwiches. Next stop on the agenda are semi-frozen desserts. And you can’t get any easier than Granita. Originally hailing from Sicily in Italy, Granita is a blend of fruits, sugar and water. It’s a very close relative of the sorbet. The beauty of making Granita is that you don’t need

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“Baklava” Ice Cream Sandwiches

by Peter G February 3, 2011 Greek Food

After making the cinnamon ice cream I wanted to push the envelope a little further by having a go at making ice cream sandwiches. These were not going to be any ordinary ice cream sandwiches though. I wanted to apply my “Greek touch” to the whole process. For quite a while I had wanted to incorporate the flavours of baklava

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Cinnamon Ice Cream

by Peter G February 1, 2011 Recipes

Who remembers the ice cream vans that used to come around the neighbourhood in the early summer evenings? That familiar siren with its hypnotic beat could make any child stop whatever they were doing. It would bring hoards of us to the van and for twenty cents you could walk away with a double scoop of your favourite

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Braised Chicken with Snake Beans

by Peter G November 30, 2010 Greek Food

Food memories. I’m sure we all have them. Cold, canned, tomato soup from school camp? A slice of freshly baked chocolate cake? Big, red juicy cherries in the summer time? Im sure I could conjure up a hell of a lot more if I put my mind to it. One childhood food memory that will never go away is the one of “fasolakia” cooking on the stove top in the [...]

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Guest Post by Mowielicious: Blackberry and Ginger Granita

by Peter G August 2, 2010 Recipes

I was at blogger’s dinner a few months ago when someone mentioned Mowie. Everyone’s eyes lit up and the conversation centered around his gorgeous photography and wonderful kitchen creations. What’s not to love? He bakes. He styles. And he does it all with such beauty and finesse. I have often found myself

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Home Made Tomato Ketchup

by Peter G June 1, 2010 Recipes

I’m heading back in time slightly with this post. It’s actually quite therapeutic looking at all this wonderful summer produce amidst this dreary winter weather. I made ketchup. Or more specifically home made tomato ketchup. During my heirloom tomato phase, I found myself with quite a few leftover and was racking my brains out for ideas on how to best use them.

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“Ladenia”-with Heirloom Tomatoes

by Peter G April 7, 2010 Greek Food

I hope everyone had a great Easter. Sorry for the lack of posts but my computer died recently and whilst it’s being repaired, I have been using a friend’s borrowed laptop. It doesn’t always want to work with WordPress but I’m making sure it does today. I want to continue where I left off recently and that means more heirloom tomatoes!

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Heirloom Tomato Salad

by Peter G March 23, 2010 Greek Food

Another mission accomplished. I found heirloom tomatoes here in Sydney! Finally! (The closest I’ve come to heirloom tomatoes was finding these kumatoes early last year). I fell in love with these fruit when I first tried them in San Francisco