Friday, September 21, 2007

Greek Night

What's Cookin'? It's been a while since I've reported my menu, which reflects my lazy cooking as of late. Tonight I tried Greek cooking, which was a first! I made falafel and tzatziki in Mediterranean flat bread, baked French fries with garlic feta dip, and hummus. Everything was made from scratch except the flat bread. My falafel needs improvement in technique, if not in taste. The recipe specifically states not to use a food processor lest the chickpeas become too thin. I mashed the chickpeas by fork, but they never mashed properly. My falafel patties crumbled in hand and dissolved in the deep frying oil, so I added many more bread crumbs to the second batch, to no avail. I decided to serve "falafel scramble" instead of patties, which tasted just as good.

The only downside to all this, realized too late, is that now Chris won't so readily agree to take me out for dinner at my favorite new Greek restaurant down the road because he'll think I can cook it myself!

1 comment:

  1. Greek cuisine is one of my favorites and I would like to publicly declare that what my wife prepared for me tonight was some of the best I've had.

    I can imagine that it was a very difficult meal to prepare... what a great treat to come home to after a stressful day at work.

    Thank you Katherine!

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