The turkeys are safe at this house this year as we prepare to have our Greek fest on the bayou on Thanksgiving day. The weather is so wonderful it’s hard to believe that it is around the end of November and we are even talking about Thanksgiving but there you have it – the every day mystery of living in the Gulf South where weather is usually good.<\/p>\n
Our big dish will be fish, prepared simply in the Greek method. So no turkeys have died for this dinner (that we know of). But it’s amazing that in starting to look at Greek cuisine at how suddenly you find yourself staring down a menu that is actually mouth watering – meat pies, spanakopita, pilaf, fish with potatoes and tomatoes, oysters with pine nuts, chicken skewers, baklava, pita bread, Greek salad, cheese burek and shrimp with oregano in cilantro oil.<\/p>\n
I say Opa! – let the festivities begin! – (btw I looked up the word “opa” and the definition said it is a word Greeks use all the time for no apparent reason.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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