I, like many kids growing up, hated those brussel sprouts! I mean there are so many other tastier veggie options like corn on the cob, or french fries. (that’s a vegetable right?) But brussel sprouts get a bad wrap because if you don’t season them right, they taste like you’re eating a mini lettuce head…
Archives for November 2013
Cake Wars: High-End Cake Versus Sister-in-Law’s Cupcakes
So I went to my Greek brother-in-laws birthday party last week and Heather, my sister-in law, made some chocolate cupcakes from scratch. She puts them on a glass dish, and tells us all to dig in, to which I obliged. Heather’s cupcakes are moist, delicious, sweet, and chocolaty. They are retro-cupcakes. They remind…
A Five-Step Stuffed Greek Zucchini Your Yia Yia Would be Proud of
As a boy, I loved eating my Yia Yia’s stuffed peppers. Unfortunately that was over 20 years ago and the times that I’ve eaten stuffed peppers, stuffed zucchini, anything stuffed, seems too few and far between. Because I couldn’t let another 20 years go by, I decided to give stuffed zucchini and stuffed peppers a whirl….