It's an eastern Mediterranean feast!

[Ellen Forradalom]

I'm having friends over. I'm serving them:

• A roast chicken
  
• tzatziki
  
• hummus bi tahini
  
• baba ghanouj
  
• tabbouleh
  
• feta cubes and black olives
  
• pita bread
  
• for dessert, baklava and galaktoboureko.
  

Who wants the leftovers??

[GOPisEvil]

1. Oh my goodness!

I need to be your friend. Seriously.

I make a good hummus (regular and roasted red pepper), but that is a feast!

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Let me know when you're in Chicago

and I'll cook for ya.

Dessert comes from the Pan-Hellenic Bakery on Halsted Street. I had enough to do and wasn't going to spring my first attempt at Greek desserts on friends--although I'd seen my mother do it.

Incidentally, I'm way far from Greek. I just happen to like the food.

[GOPisEvil]

5. I didn't start eating the cuisine until I was an adult.

My parents aren't Greek, although we all love the food.

I always get my Greek/Mediterranean pastries from Phoenicia, a local middle eastern grocery/bakery/deli. I suck at baking and pastries.

[MrScorpio]

2. Where have you been all my life?

Feed me

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. I'll feed you any time, baby.

:loveya:

[TexasLady]

6. do u make your own tzatziki?

mmmm, I love it....*slurp*

But nothin' tastes as good as in Greece..mmmmmmm

[Maine Mary]

8. Gotta friend GOP?

Perhaps it's my Eastern ways but "slurping" grosses me out.

[TexasLady]

10. ????

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Yep

Tied the yogurt up in a cheesecloth bag and let it drip, drip, drip.

[Maine Mary]

7. OMG- PLEASE invite me!

I PROMISE i'll be good. I'll even forgo the hummus and pita bread. Please? :bounce:

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I'll join the queue for leftovers.

We live on hummus, baba, and tabbouleh in the summer but our winter Meditterean tends more toward spanokopita,tiropetakia, and other heavier fare.

[Squatch]

11. Galacto Burrito?

Is that some Douglas Adams creation?

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. It's a taqueria in SF

So I've heard :-)

[KitchenWitch]

13. Me me me, pick me!

:9

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. There's enough for everyone

Here's a heaping plateful.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Thank you!

You are kind and generous!

[Redstone]

17. Oh, dammit. Now I'm hungry.

Someone else can have my dessert, because I don't eat sweet stuff, but the rest of it...can I have just a little bit, PLEASE?

Redstone

[Ellen Forradalom]

18. Why certainly

Pass me your plate

[Redstone]

19. I would, but I'm headed for the kitchen....

Damn, that must have been good dinner. Some day, we'll have a Tzaziki Battle (I do make a good one). I won't mind if you win, because if you do, I'll have had some damn good tzaziki.

Hope all is going better for you than it's been. I gotta go now. Work in the morning.

Redstone

[Ellen Forradalom]

22. Yes, things are looking up

Thanks for thinking of me! :hi:

[Kali]

20. YUM

I don't know your second desert - what is it?

[Ellen Forradalom]

21. Another phyllo pastry

The filling is a lemon-flavored semolina custard and the whole drenched in syrup like baklava. It is one of my favorites of all time.