Tonight Kicking Back the Pebbles will be participating in Greek Dinner Around the World!
Read all about the inspiration, the idea, and the people behind the event, on 9 Muses News by blogger Keri Douglas.
A list of participants can be found on said blog post, but I will also list members of my community who are taking part down below. Make sure you follow them as well as Kicking Back the Pebbles on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram (and use hashtag #GreekDinner) to catch up with all the wonderful dinner parties around the globe!
Our party will be more of a quiet late dinner at home, featuring a simple green salad with great Greek products and a glass of traditional Kefalonian wine. Stay tuned.
Greek Dinner Around the World ~ January 15th, 2015
- Sia Aristidou @GreekWedding
- Nidhi Raghav @nidhi_raghav
- Katie Aliferis from KatieAliferis.com/@Katie_Aliferis
- Krystina Kalapothakos from Kouzounas Kitchen/@KouzounasKitche
- Katina Vaselopulos @KVaselopulos
- Gina Zarcadoolas from Foodie WineLover/@FoodieWineLover
- Ekaterina Botziou from The Greek Wives Club/@ebotziou
- Eleni Anagnostopoulou from My Easy Gourmet
- @eatgreekflavs
![This year I've lost my mom to cancer and it's been devastating in many more ways than I could ever fathom. It's been traumatizing, to say the least, since I was her sole caregiver up until the very end, but what that entailed is a story for another day. Today is merely about some things I realized I'll never get to experience again. And it hurts...
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You see, loss manifests in manifold ways. Stupid as it may sound, you never expect to miss the things you do. Scrolling through hundreds of clips on my phone while toying with reels—which Instagram finally decided to launch for Greece but has also managed to make them a pain to create!—I came across old footage of mom cooking up a storm on several occasions, and then it hit me:
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I'll never again get to wake up to the smell of her slow braised roast that magically found its way to my bedroom to the other end of our family house on Easter Sundays (she claimed it was a weird air drift bringing all the smells from the kitchen into my room but nowhere else in the home 🤣 ). I'll never get to recreate her pie phyllo even though I have her recipe down to a T—I can't match her skill. And we'll never nail her meatballs either—my brother is especially sad about that. We're actually, physically, literally missing her flavors. Our taste buds don't experience the exact amounts of salt and spices, the specific drips of olive oil, the unique chemistry she created in her rustic pots and pans. Will a food ever taste again like mom's soul food? I doubt it, no matter how hard I may try to recreate it.
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All this to say, somehow it felt fitting to have my first ever reel pay tribute to what I'll miss greatly—my mom's freckled hands tackling business in the kitchen. And it won’t feel like summer again until there's (codfish) pie.
[I plan to post the recipe on the blog, but I can't bring myself in the kitchen quite yet. Cooking's always been about mom—how and what she taught me, what wisdom she instilled, what skill she imparted. Bear with me.]
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Great event! I miss Greece and its food very much!
Sorry, I guess I’ve missed the Pawty…sigh… 🙁
Awww, no worries little Binky! There’s so much I’ve missed lately too… been busy chasing dreams like you! 😉
What a clever concept!
Thank you! If you follow us around, I hope you enjoy! 😉
That is wonderful Athina!!! I will be a guest this time, and cannot wait to see what everyone is making… 😀
Hehehe… you didn’t just stay a guest! I’m happy we proved to be too much of a temptation. 😉
Hehehe!!! I could not resist Athina!! 😀 😀
See you at the Party! 🙂
Yay!!! 🙂