Side Dishes

Courgettes, Baked Onions, Shallots and Bacon with Caper and Chilli Dressing.

This is a tasty salad that can be served as an entrée or as a main course dish with steak or lamb. The dressing is really zingy and the chilies add a spicy punch to the taste buds.

Creamy Polenta

Polenta is a staple of northern Italy.  It is good as a side dish to a main, but can also be served as a first course.

Crete-Inspired Sweet Cheese Pie

There are so many different types of cheese pies in Greece.  Served sweet and savoury, they are simple to make good for a snack or dessert. In this recipe I have used a readily available cheese, feta, combined with cream cheese to dilute and soften its salty flavour, as fresh soft Greek cheeses are not always easy to find.

Makes 1 x 22cm pie

Greece - Crete

Crisp Roasted Vegetables

To get really crisp roasted veges, parboil the potatoes and kumara before they go in the oven. You can prepare and parboil the vegetables ahead of time, and do not have the oven too hot as the sweeter vegetables like kumara will burn.

Crunchy Green Salad

Coleslaw is another name for a salad based on raw cabbage. This coleslaw classic is an old favourite.