Oh wowza! Delicious!! I love Greece and I love their food so much! Thankfully Vancouver has some amazing Greek restaurants but nothing like eating authentic Greek food in Greece! I love grilled squid!! Love the tantacles too! I live for fabulous Hummus! 🙂The Saganaki is so wonderful! I need squid now!! And Lagavulin! 🙂
I am Greek, I don't I understand what long Greek lunch means. If you mean that you sit on a table and you order food and eat it at your own pace and then reorder and eat more and so and so forth , well that's basically every lunch in a greek taverna.
Some additional informations for you: - To make moussaka you need to fry both the potatoes and the eggplant before you use them. - Some (not many) use in their Greek salad yogurt instead of feta cheese. I tried it and loved it. - This type of halva is made with basically semolina, olive oil and cinnamon and some sesame. It's a very light and very quick dessert most Greeks love. But, you can also add whatever you think goes with these. We usually add walnuts (inside and/or on top), and you can also add dried figs or any kind of dried fruit of your choise (Keyword: dried). After adding all these though *you practically have a supefood.* The version you had was the simplest one. - There're many traditional recipies in Greece, many kinds of seefood too, you would be amazed. If you like seafood, this country can offer you a huge variety. You just need to ask around, dig a little deeper. Regards
We would like to come back one day again and definitely deep dive. Greeks really know how to make delicious food. The nuts over there are so nice, it's almost impossible to find nuts like that here in NZ - it's almost always stale unless you buy a huge bag direct from the farm. Interesting about the yoghurt instead of feta cheese. Thanks for sharing your food knowledge with us!
@@karinandhenward I can only tell you this and please dont get me wrong: if we speak of traditional cuisine, think of the Italian, now think of the French traditional cuisine; now put these together and they cannot match the diversity of the Greek traditional cuisine. We're talking a huge number of recipies. Also, the vegetables in Greece are in both quality and taste multiple levels above the ones produced in the previously mentioned countries. If we are talking about seafood, 1 out of two seafood being sold in Italy it is Greek. And if we talk of olive oil, about 70% of the top quality Italian Olive Oil is actually either Greek or from Spain. This beame a huge thing within the EU which forced the Italian companies to actually determine where the oil they until recently sold as "Italian" comes from (and they still dont do it - not all of them at least). Experts on this field suggest that the Greek olive oil (which is by 90% extra virgin - Greece is the biggest producer of extra virging olive oil globally - note: Greece is not the biggest producer of olive oil generally, but of the highest quality) is the next big thing, not because of the quantity, but bcoz of the quality. Regards
Cinnamon in tomato sauce is common in Greek cooking and nutmeg in the bechamel is also traditional I'm my family Moussaka was always potatoes and eggplant with the meat sauce the potatoes being the base layer and either kasseri or graviera ( whichever was available) to make the bechamel Also Moussaka is more like eggplant parmigiana There is another Greek dish called Pastitsio that is a baked pasta with meat and cheese that would be a better comparison to Italian lasagna
You are right, there is no bellpeppers in a greek sallad but threre can be some variations. In some places in the northern part of greece you can even get it with boiled egg. 🙂
Thanks! We've slowed down our videos, Karin feels to uncomfortable and shy to film in public so we are not sure of the future of our channel right now.
I bought some fresh squid for fishing bait ended up cooking and eating it myself lol in the uk we use fresh squid for fishing bait and frozen rubbery for food it's crazy when you think of it that way 😅
Oh wowza! Delicious!! I love Greece and I love their food so much! Thankfully Vancouver has some amazing Greek restaurants but nothing like eating authentic Greek food in Greece! I love grilled squid!! Love the tantacles too! I live for fabulous Hummus! 🙂The Saganaki is so wonderful! I need squid now!! And Lagavulin! 🙂
Great video guys, I just got back from Greece on July 31st and yeah... you are right! Mousakka has cinnamon and Nutmeg in it.
We left July 31st too!
great video, you know how to eat, you chose very wisely your dishes!!!
Thanks, the food in Greece was absolutely fantastic!!
@@karinandhenward I adore - so much - Greek food!! Fab Greek food! Love travelling in Greece!
I am Greek, I don't I understand what long Greek lunch means. If you mean that you sit on a table and you order food and eat it at your own pace and then reorder and eat more and so and so forth , well that's basically every lunch in a greek taverna.
Probably, we were just being dramatic. Many places around the world rush you out of their restaurant to turn over the tables faster.
What a beautiful kiwi,we should have kept you here love
Some additional informations for you:
- To make moussaka you need to fry both the potatoes and the eggplant before you use them.
- Some (not many) use in their Greek salad yogurt instead of feta cheese. I tried it and loved it.
- This type of halva is made with basically semolina, olive oil and cinnamon and some sesame. It's a very light and very quick dessert most Greeks love. But, you can also add whatever you think goes with these. We usually add walnuts (inside and/or on top), and you can also add dried figs or any kind of dried fruit of your choise (Keyword: dried). After adding all these though *you practically have a supefood.* The version you had was the simplest one.
- There're many traditional recipies in Greece, many kinds of seefood too, you would be amazed. If you like seafood, this country can offer you a huge variety. You just need to ask around, dig a little deeper.
Regards
We would like to come back one day again and definitely deep dive. Greeks really know how to make delicious food. The nuts over there are so nice, it's almost impossible to find nuts like that here in NZ - it's almost always stale unless you buy a huge bag direct from the farm. Interesting about the yoghurt instead of feta cheese. Thanks for sharing your food knowledge with us!
@@karinandhenward I can only tell you this and please dont get me wrong: if we speak of traditional cuisine, think of the Italian, now think of the French traditional cuisine; now put these together and they cannot match the diversity of the Greek traditional cuisine. We're talking a huge number of recipies. Also, the vegetables in Greece are in both quality and taste multiple levels above the ones produced in the previously mentioned countries. If we are talking about seafood, 1 out of two seafood being sold in Italy it is Greek. And if we talk of olive oil, about 70% of the top quality Italian Olive Oil is actually either Greek or from Spain. This beame a huge thing within the EU which forced the Italian companies to actually determine where the oil they until recently sold as "Italian" comes from (and they still dont do it - not all of them at least). Experts on this field suggest that the Greek olive oil (which is by 90% extra virgin - Greece is the biggest producer of extra virging olive oil globally - note: Greece is not the biggest producer of olive oil generally, but of the highest quality) is the next big thing, not because of the quantity, but bcoz of the quality.
Regards
Cinnamon in tomato sauce is common in Greek cooking and nutmeg in the bechamel is also traditional
I'm my family Moussaka was always potatoes and eggplant with the meat sauce the potatoes being the base layer and either kasseri or graviera ( whichever was available) to make the bechamel
Also Moussaka is more like eggplant parmigiana
There is another Greek dish called Pastitsio that is a baked pasta with meat and cheese that would be a better comparison to Italian lasagna
We did try the Pastitsio while in Athens and it was delicious. Really enjoyed having these dishes with different spices in them, yum!
Which restaurant
Girl, you know how to eat, i'll definitely give you (at least) that much .
Mouthwatering calamari, yummy!
Delicious!
As we use to say here in Greece . You know how to live.
So true, fantastic food and drink!
You are right, there is no bellpeppers in a greek sallad but threre can be some variations. In some places in the northern part of greece you can even get it with boiled egg. 🙂
Green bell pepper is a mandatory ingredient in any horiatiki Greek salad. And it has to be green. Can't do without.
Great video.
Thanks! We've slowed down our videos, Karin feels to uncomfortable and shy to film in public so we are not sure of the future of our channel right now.
Greek olive oil is the key
That calamari is how squid SHOULD be served, not the rubbery frozen squid rings most people are used to
Definitely! It was brilliant!
Totally agree w you. But when you don't know, you eat rubber!
Wrong you are !!! Very few restaurants offer fresh calamari from Greece.
Most calamari is frozen from Vietnam and SE Asia !
I bought some fresh squid for fishing bait ended up cooking and eating it myself lol in the uk we use fresh squid for fishing bait and frozen rubbery for food it's crazy when you think of it that way 😅
Their is nutmeg in the meat sauce also cinnamon. Potatoes is not traditional. There if u like eggplant the Lebanese have many recipes u would love
The acidity in the air aches my veins.
What's the name of this restaurant and location?
ΤΟ ΚΥΚΛΑΜΙΝΟ
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It’s a tourist trap in the middle of the junk market!. You missed the real Greek resturaunt opposite!.
Go to Thanasis just around the corner !
They give the bill cuz of tax reasons. By law they have to..
Ah ok, we've noticed they do in other places too since then.
Karin is lovely , henward is funny and direct but a little bit grumpy
Grumpy and knows nothing about salads and cheeses.. Confucius was wrong... lol