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MILFAY
Tonight's greek traditional freshly made dessert from our chef, Milfay!!! Yummy....

Milfay you will shortly learn is one of the simplest, lightest, and most delicious desserts around....when it's made the way my Mom made it.

Ingredients 
1 box of unsalted saltine crackers
1 box of vanilla instant pudding
1 container of cool whip
1 container of milk
1 deep baking pan

(Please note...none of the ingredients are specific in measurement. It varies on the size of your dish AND as I am writing this from memory it's hard to be specific.)

Directions
First, start by following the directions to make the vanilla pudding. Once you have completed that, set it off to the side and allow it to set.
Next warm 2 cups of milk in either a sauce pan or in the microwave until the milk is warm but not steaming hot.
Once the milk is warm, place it in a deep dish. Remove the unsalted crackers from their packaging and take two crackers at a time and dip them in the warm milk. 
Once the crackers are moist (but not falling apart) begin to layer your baking pan with the crackers until you have a complete layer of crackers. This will make the bottom layer of the milfay.
Next take the vanilla pudding and cover the cracker crust in the pan, smoothing the pudding as you spread it.
Then repeat the process creating the cracker crust.
Next finish by putting a layer of cool whip over top of the crackers.
My mom also likes to break up crumb over top of the cool whip.
Finally, set the milfay in the refrigerator overnight to give it time to set.
And just that quickly we are done! Simple as pie...or as is the case: Milfay!
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Summer is coming....tzatziki is here!!!

Tzatziki Sauce Ingredients:1/2 English cucumber, peeled
16 oz (2 cups) Cold plain Greek yogurt (either full fat or fat free will work)
4 cloves garlic, pressed
1/3 cup chopped dill, fresh or frozen
1 1/2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (Juice of 1/2 lemon; please squeeze a real lemon)
1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
1/8 tsp black pepperThe Cucumber should be peeled, finely diced and strained of it’s juices. I squeezed it really tight by the fistful.Getting rid of excess juice is important so that you tzatziki sauce isn’t watery the next day. 

Combine the strained and chopped cucumber with 2 cups plain greek yogurt, 1 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice, 4 pressed garlic cloves, 1/3 cup chopped dill, 1/2 tsp salt (add more to taste) and 1/8 tsp black pepper and a little bit of olive oil ( 1-2 tsp).
 Mix everything together and add more salt to taste if needed. It’s best to refrigerate for about 1 hour before serving to let the flavors meld. It tastes even better after refrigerating overnight! 

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Happy Women’s day!

The International Women’s Day is being celebrated each year on March 8.

It used to be called the International Working Women’s Day and this event is a commemoration of the incident in 1908 were 129 women died. It was said that these women are factory workers who have been demanding better pay, shorter work hours, voting rights, etc.

To avoid publicity, the owner of the factory locked them up and fire broke down which caused the death of the 129 women.

On this International Women’s Day, remember that as a woman, all life spring from you. So look at the world and smile. For without you, there would be no life.

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30 Things Only True Greeks Will Know by Lauren Perry

1. You’re skinny. At least you are when Yiayia hasn’t seen you in approx. 7 days. Forty minutes into being at her house, once you’ve eaten homemade bread, spanakopita, cookies, ice cream, potatoes, etc., maybe you’re not so skinny since the last time she saw you.

2. You’re fat. Much more of a certainty than number one. “You look like you’ve put on a little weight… have you put on weight? Are you still doing the exercise? Oh popo…” or if you’re lucky, “Your father looks like he’s gained weight. Don’t you think he’s gained some weight? Tsk tsk. He needs to quit eating so much.”

3. If you’re not married, you might as well be dead. This seems harsh, but I actually feel like I am being pretty gentle. The disappointment in my grandmother’s face every time she remembers/knows/inquires as to the fact that I am 26 years old and not married, well, it never lessens. She is very good at looking like she feels a new hurt all over.

4. Your Yiayia/Papou is already dead, even if they’re alive. “Yiayia, I love your dress,” is a grave mistake. It’s answered, without a beat, with “Oh, you can have it when I die!”

5. Your significant other is dead to your family if they don’t go to church. First question, right off the bat every time I have ever started dating anyone is “Does he go to church? Does his family go to church?” Don’t even bother saying no. 

6. If YOU don’t go to church, oh my god. See #4. “I pray for you every day, koukla. Who’s going to pray for you when I die??”

7. If you don’t want to have children, see #4. There is no excuse that will satisfy Yiayia. Oh, you just got a full professorship? You’re a doctor? Don’t care. Make the babies!

8. You need to know how to cook. The entire Greek arsenal cookbook. And cook it well. Men need to know how to cook the meat, and women need to know how to cook essentially everything else. How will you survive if you don’t?

9. You need to know all (and I mean ALL) of your Greek relatives. Including your third cousins who still live in Greece. Go see them! Before they die!

10. Your name only counts if it’s a saint’s name. My first name is Lauren, but not to anyone on my Greek side of the family. My great-grandmother refused to even pronounce the name Lauren. She pretending the sounds didn’t actually exist together. My name, in all holy rights, is Elizabeth. My sister is Maria. My father is John (Yianni), my grandmother is Katherine (Katarina), on and on. If Jesus wouldn’t call you it, it’s not your name!

11. Real Easter is not everyone else’s ‘Easter.’ Greek Easter is almost always on a different Sunday than normal Easter, and god help us if these American schools don’t recognize it. My brother once got a test postponed for his entire science class because the professor asked if anyone was Orthodox, making a joke. My brother is Orthodox. Test postponed.

12. Easter eggs only get dyed red. Because Jesus said so!

13. If you get the quarter in the Vasilopita, you’re golden. But chances are, you won’t. My dad gets it every year. I have gotten it ONCE in all my 26 years, and I still carry that Seran-wrapped quarter around in my wallet.

14. If you don’t say ‘Christos Anesti’ first thing as your head pops up off the pillow on Greek Easter morning, you’re in deep shit.

15. You don’t revere the actual Greeks who live in Greece right now. As Yiayia will readily yell at you, “What have the Greeks done in 2000 years?!”

16. Italians and Jewish people are your kindred spirits. Who else can yell so loud, eat so much, and scold so fiercely? No one. But don’t tell Yiayia. She thinks we are special.

17. You grew up thinking everyone toasted at holidays saying “Skinnyasses.”

18. People who don’t like feta are too weird for words.

19. No matter what Yiayia is lecturing you about, she is 100% right and you are 100% wrong.

20. There is no set measuring system in Greek cooking. It’s a handful of this and a dash of that. But it better come out perfectly or you are shaming your Greek ancestors!

21. You will eat a huge breakfast at 10:30 AM and better be ready for the holiday meal at 12:30pm. Koukla, you need to eat. Eat!

22. You don’t want any dessert? Here, have some baklava.

23. There is no pleasing Yiayia. There’s an old joke about a Greek son whose mother gets him two ties for Christmas. He comes down dressed for Christmas mass wearing one of the ties, and the Greek mother says “What’s the matter, you didn’t like the other tie?” (The original joke is actually about a Jewish mother, but don’t tell Yiayia.)

24. You are never hungry. Even if you want to be.

25. You are never alone. Even if you want to be.

26. You are never without guilt. You think Catholic guilt is a thing? That is some pansy stuff compared to Greek guilt.

27. Catholics think Orthodox are Catholics, too. Orthodox don’t think Catholics are Catholic.

28. As you age, you get Greeker and Greeker. For better or worse. Before you know it, you’ll be that Yiayia.

29. When you set out on a road trip, you say “ella christos panayia mou,” even if you don’t know what it means.

30. You see people make the sign of the cross and in your head, you hear yourself saying, “You’re doing it wrong!” Those damn Greeks. 

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Greece: a whole world

THE ISLES of Greece The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,	5
But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse,     The hero's harp, the lover's lute,   Have found the fame your shores refuse:     Their place of birth alone is mute   10 To sounds which echo further west   Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest.     The mountains look on Marathon—     And Marathon looks on the sea;   And musing there an hour alone,   15   I dream'd that Greece might still be free;   For standing on the Persians' grave,   I could not deem myself a slave.     A king sate on the rocky brow     Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis;   20 And ships, by thousands, lay below,     And men in nations;—all were his!   He counted them at break of day—   And when the sun set, where were they?

THE ISLES of Greece

The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece

 

  Where burning Sappho loved and sung,

 

Where grew the arts of war and peace,

 

  Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!

 

Eternal summer gilds them yet,

         5

But all, except their sun, is set.

The Scian and the Teian muse,
The hero's harp, the lover's lute,
Have found the fame your shores refuse:
Their place of birth alone is mute	10
To sounds which echo further west
Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest.
The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,	15
I dream'd that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.
A king sate on the rocky brow
Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis;	20
And ships, by thousands, lay below,
And men in nations;—all were his!
He counted them at break of day—
And when the sun set, where were they?

The Scian and the Teian muse,

 

  The hero's harp, the lover's lute,

 

Have found the fame your shores refuse:

 

  Their place of birth alone is mute

  10

To sounds which echo further west

 

Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest.

 

 

The mountains look on Marathon—

 

  And Marathon looks on the sea;

 

And musing there an hour alone,

  15

  I dream'd that Greece might still be free;

 

For standing on the Persians' grave,

 

I could not deem myself a slave.

 

 

A king sate on the rocky brow

 

  Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis;

  20

And ships, by thousands, lay below,

 

  And men in nations;—all were his!

 

He counted them at break of day—

 

And when the sun set, where were they?

 

 

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