Greek Easter

[newnumber6]

Far superior to your human Easter, Greek Easter was today, so I went over to my grandmother's house for food.

And it was yummy. There was, of course, lamb, the highlight of Greek Easter. So good. Some of it was so tender it was practically a liquid. But in a good way, not an icky way. Then there was greek rice, potatoes, greek salad (which is basically normal salad but with black olives and feta cheese), hot greek sausage, zelnic (or spanacopita if you want to call it that), bread, pepper, and for desert, brownie pie and cheesecake tarts. Yummy.

No Easter Bread, alas, or colored eggs, but my grandmother probably wanted to take it a little easy this year since even though her busted knee earlier this year has healed, it still is a bit sore when she walks on it too much.

Comments

[kissingdaylight.livejournal.com]

So Greeks aren't human?

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Nope. We're like the cylons, who mingled with the indigineous population of Earth long ago. ;)

Actually it comes from a longtime private joke. Since I'm half-greek, I occasionally mention that, and once in a while, people ask "half greek and half what". But the other half isn't really any one country, it's just a mix of different European ones, so when I was younger and somebody asked me that once, I was struggling for a way to explain it and said "Half... human?". And it struck me as funny so I continued to use it to this day.

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I want to have Greek Easter. That food sounds so good :D

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! Next year on greek easter you can always just wander until you smell lamb, then follow the smell to find the greeks and pretend you're a long lost relation? ;)