An Experience with Greek Cuisine

So about a month ago Amanda and I went to Greece and one of the best parts of the whole trip was the cuisine. Everything was so fresh and prepared so delicately and even the fried foods tasted healthy. Aside from the black sand beaches the thing I missed most had to be the variety of cheeses, because with almost every meal there was cheese involved. So here goes a list and some photos of a few of our favorite Greek delicacies.

Cheese Pies- Made with Feta Cheese and Phyllo Dough
Chicken Schnitzel-Breaded chicken breasts, served with french fries, rice and tomatoes
Gyro- Lamb or chicken served with salad, pita, Tzatziki sauce and french fries
Tomato Keftedes- Fried tomato balls made with tomatoes, onion and flour
Tomato and Cucumber Salad and Freshly Baked Bread
Lobster Slouvaki- Freshly grilled lobster and vegetables served with roasted potatoes and rice
Salad-Cucumbers, tomatoes, chickpeas, olives, feta cheese and pasta or croutons topped with a homemade mustard vinagrette
Cheeses from Santorini- One is a goat cheese and the other a cow's milk cheese served with toasted bread and fresh olives in olive oil. Both paired nicely with an Assyrtiko white wine from Santorini

In efforts to hold on to our adventures in Greece and all the fine dining we did we visited S'Agapo in Astoria. Beautiful and simply decorated S'Agapo brought us back to Greece with a offering a variety of traditional Greek dishes and a few kinds of cheese saganaki (fried/baked) including Halloumi from Cyprus. We had some saganaki, stuffed vine leaves, stuffed seadfood ( shrimps stuffed w/ fresh crabmeat & filet of flounder rolled w/ spinach and feta with lemon potatoes and pastitsio (pasta with chopped beef, fresh tomato and cheese covered with bechamel sauce- similar to lasagna) which was just what we needed.

All accompanied with a glass of wine of course!

(Curious of checking out S'Agapo? Here's a link to their menu with location details http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/sagapo/menus/main.html)