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Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Athena's Moussaka (Greek Eggplant Casserole)

Athena's Moussaka (Eggplant Casserole) (Recipe from the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Annunciation in Atlanta, GA from a Greek Festival in the 1980s.)
1 large eggplant
salt as needed
4-5 T. cooking oil
Slice into 1/4 in. rounds, don't peel. Salt each round lightly and stack in colander with paper towel and weight for 3 hrs. to extract liquid. Rinse in cold water and dry with paper towels. Brown in oil on both sides-drain on paper towels.
Meat Filling
1 T. butter
1 diced large onion
1 clove garlic minced
1 lb. lean ground beef
1/3 c. tomato sauce
1 t. sugar
1 T. wine vinegar
3 T. red wine
1 bay leaf crumbled
1 T. parsley chopped
1/4 t. cinnamon
3/4 t. salt
1/8 t. pepper
In large skillet, saute onion and garlic until golden, add meat and brown, breaking up with a fork. Pour off excess fat. Stir in liquids and seasonings. Simmer over low heat until liquid is absorbed.
Bechamel Sauce
1/4 c. butter
3 T flour
1 C. milk
1 C. heavy cream
1 t. salt
1/8 t. white pepper
dash nutmeg
2 eggs well beaten
Romano, grated for topping
Melt butter, still in flour, add milk and cream, a little at a time, stirring constantly. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and smooth. Mix in seasonings. Add sauce to eggs, beating well. Return mixture to saucepan. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture is very thick. Do not boil. Cool.
arrange half of eggplant over bottom of 9 x 12 in. baking dish, spread meat filling evenly over eggplant. Cover with remaining eggplant. Pour bechamel sauce evenly over top, sprinkle with Romano cheese. Bake in preheated 325 oven for 45 min. or until golden. Cool slightly before serving. Serves 8 to 12.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Athena's Perfect Greek Pastitsio

Athena's Perfect Greek Pastitsio
Saute a medium to large onion in 1 T. real salted butter. Add 1 lb. chuck hamburger and stir while browning. Drain fat well. Add 1- 16 oz. can tomatoes drained, and 1/2 6 oz. can. tomato paste, salt and pepper to taste, breaking tomatoes up with a spoon. Add a broken bayleaf, 1 tsp. cinnomin and 1 tsp. dried or 1 T. fresh basil and about 1/4 C. Parmesan cheese. Cook slowly 15 min. Taste and adjust. Should be savory and sweet.
Meanwhile make Rigatoni. Boil 9 minutes (al dente) in salted water. Drain well. Season and stir with 1 1/2 T. butter, lightly salt and pepper (white pepper preferred), 1 tsp. dried or 1 T. fresh chopped parsley, 5 dashes garlic powder or 3 dashes garlic salt, 1 T. extra virgin olive oil (preferably Pompeii) and 3 T. parmesan. Taste. Should be delicious even served by itself.
Layer 13 x 9 inch glass casserole with buttered rigatoni. Pour meat sauce over and spread evenly.
Make Bechamel sauce. In a large saucepan, melt 2 T. butter and 2 T. flour and stir for one minute. Add 1 qt. (4 C) whole milk and heat stirring. (If using fat free or skim milk, I have also used part fat free evaporated milk to add creaminess). In a small bowl, whisk 2 medium or 3 large eggs beaten with 2/3 c. of the hot milk mixture in a small bowl and then add back into pan and whisk. Let almost boil. Do not curdle by boiling. Remove from heat and season with 1/4 t. nutmeg, 1 t. salt and 1/4 t. pepper. Pour evenly over meat sauce from edge to edge of 13 x 9 in. pyrex casserole dish. Top evenly with bread crumbs (roll a dried piece of crusted white or whole wheat bread between your palms over the dish)whimsically arranged 4 long sprigs of fresh parsley with stems, and parmesan cheese. This makes an attractive topping as the crumbs brown. If you do not have bread crumbs you may use paprika.
Cover tightly with foil. Bake 350 oven covered 30 minutes, then uncovered another 15 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving in party rectangles. Makes about 8 servings.
Serve with Athena's Greek Salad (recipe to follow later), Greek bread and butter, and tall glasses of iced tea with lemon.//
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Once in a Blue Moon, A Little Star is Born

"Cry Me A River" cover performed by Caroline Crowley, January 13, 2011 at the Night Of Artiistic Expression at South Walton High School. Wearing all black and silouetted by a huge blue moon spotlight, Caroline mesmerized the audience with a powerful James Bond-like rendition of the popular jazz standard written for Ella Fitzgerald in the 1920s. The piece was set to the orchestra arrangement by Michael Buble. Caroline Crowley seems made for the caberet and torch singing. Watch out for this little lady.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubwtWGArGHU Important Note: Copyright is owned by
•Entity: Warner Chappell Content Type: Musical Composition
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Caroline Grace Crowley releases "Last to Know" cover in youtube premiere
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Athena's Tilapia in Sour Cream Parmesan Sauce

Athena's Tilapia cooked in Sour Cream Parmesan sauce.
(Ma's Recipe, made for Grouper)(Cleopatra Maltezo Marler, mother of Capt. Ben Marler of Destin, FL)(pictured g. granddaughter Christina Victoria Cole and husband, Seth Cole, of Destin on their wedding day)
For 2 Tilapia (or any white fish such as grouper) filets, on an oiled baking sheet
Mix well in a small bowl about 1/2 c. Sour Cream, Salt and Pepper to taste, and a few drops of Tobasco sauce. Then "frost" the fish filets with it, covering completely (use up all the sour cream mixture). Sprinkle liberally with Parmesan cheese, and garnish with Dill sprinkled lightly over the cheese (optional). Pretty, and adds some flavor, too.
Broil on LOW, for about 7-8 minutes for each inch of thickness of fish. Keep checking by flaking meat with a fork, until done. (If you don't have Low Broil, you could improvise with 450 Bake and brown slightly under broiler afterwards)
DELICIOUS, and Restaurant Worthy.
Serve with bread or dinner rolls, Pilaf (rice cooked in broth or with a bouillion cube) or Buttered Rice, and maybe a canned vegetable like chilled asparagus with lemon. Or a salad. Note: I make perfect microwave rice by cooking 2 c. water, 1 c. rice, Uncovered in microwave for 14 minutes. If you cover it, it will run over. Fast and foolproof. Flake and serve.
TANGO...is what it inside you!

http://www.fredastairepanamacity.com/
Buenos Aires is where the dance Tango was born. Internationally, Buenos Aires is on the Atlantic Ocean and sparkles as the "Paris" of South America. It's home to some of the most beautiful shoes, and dancers, in the world! I confess I am hooked on this dance form. One day I hope Keith and I will visit Buenos Aires and go to the cafe which made tango famous around the world. The Argentine Tango is different from regular Tango. It is a dance between one man and one woman. It has it's own vocabulary, it's own language. Love, hate, indifference, romance, playfulness...the gamut of emotions may be expressed in it. Though some of the steps are simple, one could take a lifetime to master them, and enjoy every moment. There is no choreography that once mastered, which cannot be improvised and personalized on the dance floor. There are several styles on Tango...Salon tango is informal, and danced with one person, one dance, at a time, usually in a "salon" or small living room setting or dance floor. Milongas are parties where dances are danced in sets of three before changing partners. There is "street" tango, or orillero. And yes, it is danced on the streets of Buenos Aires in public performances. (What could be more romantic?) And finally, there is Fantasia, which is a highly stylized, large, dramatic and exaggerated dance done on stage to prepared choreography and orchestra. Fred Astaire offers basic tango classes for couples for $10 on Tuesdays at 5:45 in Panama City, Florida.
For your Tango music listening pleasure, I found this link: http://www.ballroomdancers.com/music/search_style.asp?Dance=Tango
Thursday, July 29, 2010
ACTRESS CAROLINE GRACE CROWLEY, now on Tee Shirt

http://www.zazzle.com/caroline_zazzle_tee_tshirt-235605369212307923
Fans of Caroline Grace Crowley, actress of screen and stage, can get a novelty shirt depicting their future celebrity!
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