I was asked to upload some pictures of the real Greek Easter. “But what is the real Greek Easter?” I asked. The answer was more than obvious: it had to do with food. The traditional Easter Meals. And the several layers of cholesterol in form of grilled lamb, kokotetsi and eggs.
Below is the proof:
Kokoretsi-roll: homemade by Yiannis. And a grilled lamb for 15-20 people.
Roasted over charcoal: simply delicious
The family men start the fire and the charcoal as early as 8 in the morning. It takes some 5 to 6 hours until the bones separate from the meat. A sign that the grill is ready to be eaten. Βest delicacy is considered to be … the crunchy skin, that certifies the grill master is a virtuoso in the art of Easter lamb.
Shameless ready – Grab it!
While the men grill the main dish, several plates with starters come from the kitchen: stuffed wine leaves, tomato and cucumber pieces, cheese, bread, olives, eggs, tzatziki and Russian salad dips. Just to accompany the Ouzo. Then real men need a real booster in order to conclude the hard task of grilling lamb and kokotetsi under the May sun.
Kokoretsi – lamb liver, lungs and other lamb intestines. And pork steaks for the kids, who do not like lamb.
When the grill good is ready, the lamb is taken apart, kokoresti is cut into pieces and they both land on the table under the big pine tree. Salads and other starters appear again from the kitchen.
Very modest: dyed Easter Eggs
The clue of the Easter meal is a good cup of strong coffee…after an orgy with fruit salad, profiterole, ice cream, homemade Mille-Feuille and small baba-au-rhum.
Before we set for the way home, we kiss and hug each other and wish to meet again next Easter – all in good health and spirit 🙂
PS We will survive against all austerity odds 🙂
Indeed! A very happy easter to you KTG. I am in England this month – but our 14 year old granddaughter cooked us a lovely light Greek lunch today – home made – she made lamb keftedes, and a salad with sauce, and home made galaktoboureka – and Easter biscuits!!
Lamb is pretty hard to come by (and expensive) in the US. Unless you live in an urban area with a Greek population…forget it.
Beef is king (except that it is more expensive now than it has ever been in history). The “pink slime” (where processors took waste parts of the cow that were contaminated and pumped chemicals into it to kill the bacteria, then mixed it with ground beef) thing has scared some Americans off of ground beef.
Pork and chicken are less expensive but are pumped full of fluids, raised on genetically modified and pumped full of antibiotics.
Organic Beef, chicken and pork are available but cost 2-4 times the amount of the regular product.
We are truly a country of Frankenstein food produced by big businesses that care only about profits and little about quality. They bribe the Congressmen through lobbyists so that they can proceed without fear of regulation.
You may be suffering in Greece, but I hope that you still have access to better food than we do.
William, that sounds so tasty the way you describe it. But, I think you are generalizing as I have a friend who works for FDA and they do checks, and do you have any proof on the bribing part as I believe the FBI would be interested in hearing from you.
Well Homie, how is it that USDA allowed the use of “pink slime” as an additive in ground beef? Good wholesome stuff, right? Do you think consumers pushed that through? I’ll give you 3 lucky guesses who did. Hint. Follow the money.
Next let’s take the “Monsanto Bill”.
The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefiting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds immunity to the federal courts, among other things.
The bill states that even if future research shows that GMOs or GE seeds cause significant health problems, cancer, etc, anything, that the federal courts no longer have any power to stop their spread, use, or sales.
I think it is so important to eat food with imbedded pesticides, don’t you?
Same 3 LUCKY guesses who pushed that through. Again, hint. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
excuse me, are you spoiling my clean Easter lamb with monsanto?
I don’t believe Greece allows this garbage in their food supply, correct?
Sorry. Just trying to spotlight how clean and yummy and nutritious your Easter Lamb was with NO Monsanto. I think I will go look at your pictures again. Sigh!
yes, please, take a new look at the pictures and do not spoil it lol
I believe Monsanto is just trying to come up with a way to feed the world’s people. Eventually as the world’s population grows and grows, the food supply will become less and less. So, companies like Monsanto are looking for cheap ways to feed a hungry world.
But, yes, I will agree with you 100% that I would not want to eat that crap either or feed my child that. But, unfortunately, the rest of the poorer countries may not have the luxury to buy organic products like you and me and they still need to eat. So, Monsanto will feed the masses if not the lucky ones like us who live in Greece.
Companies like this are not interested in feeding the world’s hungry, they are interested only in as much profit as possible, and don’t particularly care how they make that profit. There is no difference in mentality between companies that try to control the food supply to people through Frankenstein policies, or companies that lace their products with inferior ingredients causing death (Chinese baby milk is an example of the latter). The driving force is profit, not charity…
If they had any interest in feeding the hungry, they would allow the hungry to feed themselves instead of stealing their land, they would not “create” seeds that don’t germinate, and support policies that cause famine on a regular basis. But then, a famine is good for business, if for no other reason than providing a fertile testing ground for their Frankenstein products…
It is not hard to see that for many people the gravity button is set on high in Greece. Not that anywhere is perfect. But some places are more perfect than others.
William do you mean gravity as like the opposite that Peter Pan was not firmly anchored to the ground and thus lite in the gravity?
Kinda, I guess. I mean that many people must come and then do not want to leave. I believe that I would be one of them. I am weary of what America has turned into. And that it may soon get worse.