Recipe of the week: Salami Sailboats

This is a hilarious name for a simple and last minute SuperBowl snack. How it ended up in my mother’s Hellenic Cuisine cookbook I don’t know! It’s so easy and you might already have all the ingredients at hand. Get the kids to help.

6 whole dill pickles
6 thick slices of hard salami
2 tbsp. of cream cheese

Cut pickles into halves lengthwise and make a slit in each on the cut side. Cut salami into shapes of sails and insert into the slit.

Now comes for the most difficult and labor intensive part. Flute the edges of sail with cream cheese pressed through a pastry tube. Makes 6 hors d’oeuvres.

The cookbook says “Sparkling as the conversation around them.” I find this very amusing. Maybe the recipe contributor was sipping a little sparkling when she wrote that.

Good luck making your Salami Sailboats! I think a few would look cute as a garnish. If you do make them, I want photos!

This recipe is from Hellenic Cuisine by Sts. Constantine and Helen Ladies Society, Detroit MI 1956

Recipe of the week: Skordalia

Do you like garlic? This dip is for the serious garlic lover.

6 cloves of garlic
2 cups cold mash potatoes (instant work fine)
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup of vinegar
1/4 cup of water (optional – for consistency)
Salt and pepper to taste

Peel the cloves of garlic and grate/mash/pound/food process (your favorite method) into pulp. Add garlic to a mixing bowl. Add the mashed potatoes and blend thoroughly.  Add the olive oil, vinegar and water (if needed) alternately, a little at a time and stir. Continue mixing, stirring briskly until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste and stir again until well blended. Cover and stir in refrigerator until serving. Great on bread, as a dip for vegetables or bread sticks.

This recipe is from Hellenic Cuisine by Sts. Constantine and Helen Ladies Society, Detroit MI 1956

Photowalk with new camera

I love to cook. I love crafts. As you already know from previous posts, I am knitting a scarf. I have a needlepoint pillow project in the works. I also love to take photos. This Christmas I received a new camera – a Panasonic LUMIX DMC-Z27. I used it here on a photowalk with my friends at the Fisher Building in Detroit, MI. The photos are on Flickr. Enjoy!
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Photowalk Fisher Building

2010 in review via WordPress

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,100 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 13 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 32 posts. There were 14 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was May 24th with 76 views. The most popular post that day was Gleek Retreat was truly a retreat….

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The top referring sites in 2010 were WordPress Dashboard, facebook.com, hootsuite.com, ht.ly, and stumbleupon.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for greek food, greek village, greece food, greek food photos, and greek pasta.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Gleek Retreat was truly a retreat… May 2010
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About me August 2009


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Tourlou Tava – Baked Veggies September 2009


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Koulourakia (Butter cookies) August 2009


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Greek Recipe Books August 2009