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Spiedies are local to Binghamton in the central Southern Tier of New York, [1] and somewhat more broadly known and enjoyed throughout Central New York. [citation needed] A spiedie consists of cubes of chicken, pork, lamb, veal, venison, beef, or tofu. The meat is marinated overnight or longer, then grilled on spits over a charcoal pit.
Our spiedies were always of lamb, and were always cooked using spiedie irons--steel skewers.--Mockingbird0 05:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC) Right on Mockingbird0. The reason the skewers were steel was because the steel would transmit the heat into the center of the meat. This was critical for leaner meat such as venison and lamb.
Greece: In Greece and among Greeks of the diaspora, it is known as pichti (πηχτή) and usually incorporates vinegar. Hungary: A variant of head cheese, disznósajt, or disznófősajt (pork cheese or pork head cheese), is made of mixed meat slices (especially from the head of the pig, [19]) spices, paprika, and pieces of bacon cooked in ...
The speciality is a simple dish of baked lamb and rice, served with a flavored yogurt sauce. Recently, it has become very popular among the Greeks and Turks associated to the large Albanian diaspora in Greece and Turkey. [citation needed] Qebapa are small homemade grilled meat skinless sausages made of lamb and beef mix.
Arrosticini are a class of traditional dishes of skewered grilled meat characteristic of Molisana and Abruzzese cuisine (from the Italian regions of Abruzzo and Molise). [1] Arrosticini (rustelle or arrustelle in the local dialects; also known as spiedini or spiducci) are typically made from mutton or lamb cut in chunks and pierced by a skewer.
The basic grain in Greece is wheat, though barley is also grown. Important vegetables include tomato, aubergine (eggplant), potato, green beans, okra, green peppers (capsicum), and onions. Honey in Greece is mainly honey from the nectar of fruit trees and citrus trees: lemon, orange, bigarade (bitter orange) trees, thyme honey, and pine honey.
The word souvlaki is a diminutive of the Medieval Greek souvla (σούβλα meaning "skewer") itself borrowed from Latin subula. [2] [3] "Souvlaki" is the common term in Macedonia and other regions of northern Greece, while in southern Greece and around Athens it is commonly known [citation needed] as kalamaki (καλαμάκι meaning "small reed").
Greece is the world's fifth ranked producer of olive oil, producing more than 1,079,000 tons of olive oil annually, more than 75% of that extra virgin. Greek olive oil is exported throughout the world. [1] Olive oil plays an important role in the Greek diet, being the basis of many dishes.