Greek Recipes

Grandma would be proud of my variation on her Greek 'risotto' recipe. I will never forget the first time I tried a Risotto dish at an Italian restaurant. My vegetarian date was all aflutter about this particular Italian recipe called ‘ Risotto al pomodoro ’ so it was the must-have dish on the menu for me that night, and it was not cheap! Now, when the ‘ Risotto al pomodoro ’ arrived at our table, I could not suppress a quick laugh. Immediately, I recognized the dish as similar to my grandmother’s recipe for ‘ Domatorizo ’ (pronounced “Doe-ma-TOW-reezo”). But, my grandmother had never been to Italy, and in fact, I would have been surprised if she would have been able to point Italy out on a map… About all that my grandmother knew about Italy and Italians was that they had attacked Greece along with the Germans in the Second World War, when she was a young woman. So, I ate the ‘ Risotto al pomodoro ’ that night and it was tasty enough, but with the memory of my grandmother’s...