Greek Food at home?

I am also married to a Greek, with 3 hungry children to feed and we eat mostly Greek food. There is so much but recently I have cooked ...

Yiouvetsi - meat cooked in a tomato based sauce with onions and carrots and added to this is kritharaki (orzo shaped pasta - looks like rice). Cook the meat in a pressure cooker so it's really tender - then make the sauce. It can then be slowly cooked in the oven with the pasta added stirring from time to time - don't let it dry out. Finally grill some cheese on top before serving. You can use feta or any grated hard cheese if you prefer.

Moussaka is the most famous Greek dish. Lightly fry thickly sliced aubergine (eggplant) and potatoes. Leave to drain otherwise it will be very oily. Place a layer of potato on a deep baking tin, then a layer of aubergine, then spread a layer of a typical bolognese type sauce, followed by a layer of aubergine and a layer of potato. Make a thick bechamel sauce and pour over the whole dish. Sprinkle some grated cheese and nutmeg and bake in a hot oven for about 20 - 30 mins.

It's impossible to say the cost because every country has different prices for ingredients.

Other dishes include Pastitsio, Stuffed tomatoes (in the summer), chicken soup with egg and lemon, fasolada - white bean soup, fakes - lentils, souzoukakia - slightly spicy meatballs in a tomato based sauce.

Being in a half Greek Cypriot household too many to mention but here are a few favourites

Dolmades

Fried/BBQ Haloumi

Watermelon & Hamoumi Salad

Moussaka

BBQ Lamb in all it's varieties

Afleia ( Pork stewed in red wine and coriander seed)

there are lots of sites on the web with recipes but I've fount the Complete Middle Eastern Cook Book by Tess Malos is a good resource and the Greek and Cypriot work well so that I have so far not embarrased my self with the in-laws

All my food is Greek (despite being British) I am married to a Greek - with 2 children and we live in Greece.

This week we've had

Pasticio

Lentils (fakes)

Chicken soup with avgolemano

Too many ingredients to mention

The pasticio serves 12 - lasts us a few days

Lentils - I make a huge 6ltr pressure cooker (I fill it to 1/2 way)

Large saucepan of chicken soup for a greedy family of 4

Lentils cheapest and easiest - followed by soup (using 2 legs) and then pasticio which took me 2 1/2 hrs to cook and prepare and costs the most - but still works out cheap for 12 portions. Everything is homemade.

Spanikorisi (Spinach Rice)

Spinach, Rice, Onion, a little tomato, Greek Seasonings, Salt

Very inexpensive, but everyone loves it at dinner. Search for recipes online

Pork Souvaki. I use pork butt/sholder, cut into large cubes and marinated overnight in lemon juice, oil, salt, oregano, and a little smoke seasoning. Skewer onto large metal BBQ shish kabob swords, and grill

baklava , but it's been a long time , i don't like to see the children to hyper from all the honey