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Home ยป Chicago Food Tours ยป Opah!

Opah!

August 5, 2007 · WCC Administr@tr · 2 Comments

Despite the blazing heat and humidity, I hosted a Greektown grocery tour this afternoon for my cooking group. We perused the aisles of Athens Grocery, picked up a few sweets from Pan Hellenic PastryShop and feasted on a fabulous lunch at Greek Islands. Here are pics from the grocery tour:

picture161-6925183Imported dried oregano at Athens Grocery!
picture162-4259574Cookies at Pan Hellenic Pastry Shop

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picture172-7438916picture171-2641498Opah!
picture168-2928879The famous & delicious saganaki!
picture170-6793848A majority of us ordered the combination plate:
roast leg of lamb, meatball, vegetables, potatoes
pastistio: baked pasta, meat & cheese casserole w/bechamel sauce
mousaka: baked eggplant, meat & potato casserole w/bechamel sauce
dolmades: grapes leaves stuffed w/rice, meat & herbs w/lemon & egg sauce
picture174-9058902I think the food coma has set in…
picture179-5634831picture178-2025967picture177-4219224picture176-5792006picture175-3842698For dessert, we enjoyed these treats we
picked up at the Pan Hellenic Pastry Shop:
Melonakarona Cookies – cookies soaked in a honey-based syrup
picture181-1681681Baklava – Buttery phyllo sheets filled with honey & walnuts
picture182-8374771Galaktoboureko – custard filled phyllo dough soaked in lemon syrup
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Chicago Food Tours, Ethnic: Greek, Restaurants: Chicago

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  1. Elly says

    August 9, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Way to go on not getting gyros all around. Haha ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m glad you liked all the pastries. Mmmm I am drooling over the galaktoboureko…

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  2. Kayte says

    August 11, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    yummmmmm, Greek food is amazing. especially authentic stuff like that. i had moussaka the other night and it was amazing. i want to try some of that galaktoboureko!!

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