{"id":2814947,"date":"2011-06-01T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/?p=2814947"},"modified":"2015-08-27T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:06:11","slug":"nounas-80th-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nouna&#8217;s 80th Birthday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2814948\" title=\"Nouna Tina &amp; Me\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>My Godmother (she&#8217;s also my Aunt), Athena Dallas Afendoulis, turned 80 on Saturday, May 28th. Nouna Tina is an expert when it comes to Greek Cuisine and my inspiration.\u00a0 A local celebrity Greek chef, she appeared regularly, in the &#8217;70&#8217;s, on the Grand Rapids Michigan NBC affiliate WOOD-TV&#8217;s &#8220;Buck Matthews Show&#8221;. If I have questions on how to prepare any traditional Greek dish, she&#8217;s my number one resource.<\/p>\n<p>My cousin Georgia Afendoulis Everse planned a wonderful birthday dinner event for Tina. She didn&#8217;t want her Mother to cook on her birthday, so she asked for a little help from Esther Caruso Koukios of <a title=\"Greek to Go\" href=\"http:\/\/greektogofoods.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greek to Go<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia and I made the Greek salad. (I took this photo just before it was replenished!)<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2814951\" title=\"Greek Salad\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Greek-Salad-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Greek-Salad-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Greek-Salad-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nEsther made Chicken Kapama&#8230; (<a title=\"Kitoula's Chicken Kapama\" href=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/02\/recipe-of-the-weekchicken-kapama\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a link to my version<\/a>)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2814954\" title=\"Chicken Kapama\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chicken-Kapama-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chicken-Kapama-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chicken-Kapama-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>and Beef Stifatho&#8230;(both those dishes were served with rice pilaf)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2814955\" title=\"Beef Stifatho\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Beef-Stifatho-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Beef-Stifatho-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Beef-Stifatho-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>and Spanakopita.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2814956\" title=\"Spanakopita\" src=\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spanakopita-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spanakopita-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Spanakopita-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Every dish was absolutely delicious and everyone had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Yianni&#8217;s video of the celebration. Xronia polla Nouna! We love you!<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oimGew4ON6M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oimGew4ON6M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Godmother (she&#8217;s also my Aunt), Athena Dallas Afendoulis, turned 80 on Saturday, May 28th. Nouna Tina is an expert when it comes to Greek Cuisine and my inspiration.\u00a0 A local celebrity Greek chef, she appeared regularly, in the &#8217;70&#8217;s, on the Grand Rapids Michigan NBC affiliate WOOD-TV&#8217;s &#8220;Buck Matthews Show&#8221;. If I have questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nouna&#8217;s 80th Birthday Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,124,531,15],"tags":[163,162],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nouna&#039;s 80th Birthday Celebration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kitoula\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kitoula\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"headline\":\"Nouna&#8217;s 80th Birthday Celebration\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-01T20:22:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-27T19:06:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#\/schema\/person\/610affd2867fead5d767dc93895afcdf\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"chicken kapama\",\"Nouna Tina's 80th birthday\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Greek\",\"Greek Food\",\"Greek Recipes\",\"Michigan\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\",\"name\":\"Nouna's 80th Birthday Celebration\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-01T20:22:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-27T19:06:11+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/kitoula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nouna-Tina-Me-1024x768.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/2011\/06\/nounas-80th-birthday-celebration\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nouna&#8217;s 80th Birthday Celebration\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/kitoula.com\/\",\"name\":\"Kitoula's Greek Food Journal\",\"description\":\"I&#039;m Greek. 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