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Greek Lemony Chicken Soup with Rice (Avgolemono)

This is our go-to dish when we want to use up leftover rice or chicken from the frig, or we have purchased a super tasty rotisserie chicken. We can prepare this amazingly elegant and umami packed soup in about 20 minutes, so it’s perfect for a weekday family soup. Classic Greek dishes, like Italian cuisine, are fairly simple as a recipe, but every great dish in both cultures depend entirely on the highest quality of ingredients. Avgolemono soup, (Avgolemono means “egg-lemon”), is a perfect example.

Greek Stuffed Grape Leaves (Dolmathakia)

We searched many years for a stuffed grape leaf that was mind blowing… and we never found one. We wanted Dolmathakia that was exploding with the flavors of Greece… lemon, dill and garlic, Greek oregano and mint from the hills above Santorini, and spicy sausage that tasted handmade. One day our son Tyler came home from having dinner with his buddy down the street, and he spoke with wonder about the stuffed grape leaves he had been served by that Lebanese family. So of course we went straight over there and asked the cook for the secret of her grape leaves. She reluctantly revealed the secret ingredient, after much imploring…