@Pouki
Hello noisers and how are you today? Finally the weekend has arrived, a shiny day is here and still enough hot for October, feeling lucky that we don't need to feel it's winter time yet! Today my day started with some pc thing I had to deal with (as everyday), and I'm not sure how I would like to spend the rest of my day. I think I'll go later for some coffee with friends, to enjoy more this wonderful day!!! Lucky me, today I don't need to cook, since I made yesterday spinach pie, one of the most wonderful Greek traditional foods you'll ever taste!!! I uploaded a picture of all three stages - ready, without a piece and the piece itself with lots of feta cheese!!! lol :) So, I'm waiting for your news, how did you spent your day and what did you eat? Have a great Saturday!!!
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aaaaaah such a good meal, I love them the Cypriots have them as well in all forms with meat, wih vegetables, with fruits and feta with spinach, very tasty food ;) Have a fantastic weekend Pouki !!
Yes I know... thanks you too! :)
Reminds me a lot of Albanian Byreke - is it pretty much the same thing - basically a baclava with different fillings, although I found that they could sometimes be done as kind of wraps too.
Byreke reminds me of Turkish "burek". That's how they call whatever is with pastry and fillings. Yes you are correct, it's something like this, although I never taste/herad of Albanian Byreke. It's very common in Greece to make pies with everything - meat, chicke, vegetables, cheese, sweet ones etc. Baclava has also syrup that we don't use for pies, unless they are for desert :)
almost certainly the same then given Turkish domination of the Balkans in the past. I have also seen it spelt burek too. Funnily enough where I live now a "burak" is a beetroot and is often used to describe a peasant / redneck i remember Baclava, was thinking more the structure when comparing rather than the content. Baclava - stolen from Greece of course - is an Albanian New Year's cake
In some places in Greece they use something like baclava as well for New Year's cake :)
I guess it goes back to Ottomen times when there was no real border,
Yes, I guess so too... so none know for sure who of all has the 100% recipe of anything - I know where I live, I know I have common foods, desserts, coffee and more with other countries, and I don't mind telling so... I mean, I don't like saying that everything's "Greek", because I know it's not...