I LOVE GREEK FOOD

I’m sitting here at the computer for the second time today attempting to create a blog entry.  This morning I really had one going.  Typed up an extensive paragraph on the subject of food.  It was called “I LOVE GREEK FOOD”.  I was merrily rolling along until something horrible happened.  I pressed the wrong key and deleted the entire work.  Not the worst thing to happen if I had saved my work.  As you will probably agree, not saving as you go along is careless and really stupid.  Even now in the afternoon, trying again, I’m still kicking myself in the ass.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Ok, back to the drawing board.  I was introduced to Greek food many years ago in that great Canadian city, Montreal.  A manufacturer in the small town of Mariesville, near Montreal invited me annually to visit their factory.  Their generous invitations also included overnight stays in a marvelous hotel and dinner at a fine restaurants in Montreal.  Of all the restaurants I have been to in Montreal one called Milos became my absolute favorite. Milos specialized in the freshest seafood I had ever eaten.  Fish like red snapper and sea bass were flown in daily from a select fisherman and grilled to perfection in a simple Greek fashion.  Swordfish came from the Aegean Sea and tomatoes for Greek salad were from Israel.  Deep sea lobsters as large as six pounds were from Nova Scotia. It took only one visit to open my pallet and fall in love with Greek food.  It appears that many others feel the same way since Milos now has other locations in New York City, Athens, Las Vegas, Miami, and London.

How do I replicate the great taste I experienced at Milos?  These cities are not very close to Southington and a trip to Milos also takes a very large bite out of your eating out budget.  A few years ago Marge and I were on a cruise going to Turkey and Greece that included stops at some of the islands like Santorini and Mykonos.  One day I was browsing thru Yelp looking at restaurants and discovered that there was a Greek restaurant in Newington, Ct called Mykonos.  After a peek at their menu I was elated to find that this was a local place that would surely solve my yen for Greek food.

Have been there few times now and have really enjoyed the food and the service.  My visit there this week once again did not disappoint. Our food choices for this visit were:

Arnaoutti - Fire roasted sweet peppers, served with skordalia 

Loukaniko - Grilled horiatiko, Greek sausage

Greek Prasini Salad - Lettuce, fresh green onion, fresh dill and feta with olive oil and lemon.
                            

Gyro Pita served with tomatoes, tzatziki, onion, parsley

 

I’m getting bad, another broken promise. No bitching and moaning again in my blog.  I must be getting a little too mellow.  I guess I’ll have to go back to my old standby bitches, television, restaurants, modern packaging etc, etc, etc.