Posted on Jun 16, 2022
A father's recipe that crossed three continents
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."That’s how my father, Constantine Tsioulcas, taught me to make spanakopita, the spinach pie that he grew up eating in Alexandria, Egypt, the city in which he was born and raised.
Our family recipe, carried over generations from Greece to Egypt and back again, calls for individually wrapped triangles that show off multitudinous layers of crisp, flaky pastry; no bricks of greenish sludge for us. The filling, by contrast, is very simple: spinach, some good sharp feta cheese, a touch of freshly grated nutmeg, some lightly sauteed garlic, a little salt and some healthy grinds of pepper, plus those fragile leaves of dough and that unholy amount of butter. That’s it. (Technically, this dish should be called spanakotiropita — spinach and cheese pie — but that’s a lot of syllables for Americans, as even my father would grudgingly admit.)"...
..."That’s how my father, Constantine Tsioulcas, taught me to make spanakopita, the spinach pie that he grew up eating in Alexandria, Egypt, the city in which he was born and raised.
Our family recipe, carried over generations from Greece to Egypt and back again, calls for individually wrapped triangles that show off multitudinous layers of crisp, flaky pastry; no bricks of greenish sludge for us. The filling, by contrast, is very simple: spinach, some good sharp feta cheese, a touch of freshly grated nutmeg, some lightly sauteed garlic, a little salt and some healthy grinds of pepper, plus those fragile leaves of dough and that unholy amount of butter. That’s it. (Technically, this dish should be called spanakotiropita — spinach and cheese pie — but that’s a lot of syllables for Americans, as even my father would grudgingly admit.)"...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col Charlie Brown I Do Like Me Some Greek Food and Feta Cheese, Now My Oldest Granddaughter is Much More into Greek Culture!
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