Christmas

Traditional Vasilopita Cake Recipe + Video

Vasilopita, which translates to Saint Basil’s pie, is a traditional New Year’s Day dessert. Every Vasilopita has a coin hidden inside; the family head cuts the pie into pieces, and whoever discovers the coin is considered to have a prosperous year ahead of them. This practise stems from the legend that citizens of Cappadocia gathered […]

Kourabiedes (Greek Shortbread Cookies) Recipe

Kourabiedes are one of the most delicious Greek shortbread cookie sweets you’ll ever taste. These butter cookies, which are sometimes flavoured with brandy, vanilla, or mastiha, are the buzz of Greek tradition and dessert served during the holidays. The primary distinction between Kourabiedes and conventional shortbread cookies is that these delightful delicacies are frequently filled […]

Melomakarona Greek Cookies Recipe + Video

Recipe by Famous Chef of Greece Akis Petretzikis MELOMAKARONA: Greek Traditional Christmas cookies with crushed walnuts. These yummy cookies are traditionally served at Christmas in Greek households worldwide. TRADITIONAL MELOMAKARONA RECIPE: NEW MELOMAKARONA WITH CHOCOLATE INSIDE RECIPE: INGREDIENTS: For syrup: 2 Cups (500 ml) water 3 1/3 (800 g) granulated sugar 1 Cup (150 g) Attiki […]

The Top 7 Greek Christmas Traditions

Greeks always live up to the phrase “go big or go home”! They love their family get togethers, traditions, delicious food, and Orthodox Christian rituals. Greeks (in Greece) don’t just decorate Christmas trees but boats too. In North America, they don’t just eat Turkey, they eat lamb, pork and more. Christmas traditions in Greece officially […]

The Top 6 Greek New Year’s Traditions

Greeks love big family celebrations and when it comes to New Year’s, there’s no exception. Greeks love to eat, drink, and party with their loved ones and ring in the New Year with style! Many attend NYE galas, however now in a pandemic with many restrictions, most will get together with their family at home. […]

The Greek Roots of Santa Claus

Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nikolaos of Myra, was a 4th-century Christian saint and the Greek Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (Greek Anatolia in present-day Turkey). He is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker because of the numerous miracles ascribed to his intervention. He was known for hidden gifts, such as slipping […]

Greek Baklava Cheesecake Recipe

“The first “cheese cake” was produced on the beautiful Greek island of Samos. Physical anthropologists excavated cheese moulds there dating from about 2,000 B.C. Most certainly, for thousands of years before this, cheese and cheese items have been around, but before this goes into prehistory (that time before the advent of writing in human history), […]