Mama’s Taverna - Greek Recipes

You can call them meatballs, but I would almost characterize these as vegetable fritters flavored with meat. Nevertheless, carnivores will love them and not realize how many vegetables they are eating! I adore summer meatballs, but I’d lost the...

Many of the recipes I’ve gotten from Mama are authentically regional, but this one for “pitakia” is purely a family recipe. How much more regional than that can you get? Mama learned it from her mother, and who knows how much further back it goes? Not...

Why is it that I can make a great omelet but I can’t fry an egg worth a damn? Thank goodness, Zoe taught me how to fry eggs like her mama does, and now I can face the world unashamed. Would you like me to fry some eggs for you? No problem!In [...]

I’m drowning in work right now, but these candied grapes in syrup are a quick and easy confection to make, so I made them. Ingredients2 lb grapes (if you want seedless candied grapes, use seedless grapes!)1 lb sugar1/2 cup orange juice1/2 cup water1...