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Greece – Spetsofai
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As usual we did quite some research for our Greek dish and came across a kind of stew, listening to the name of Spetsofai on a site that surprisingly is called “The Greek Food” (clever, isn’t it?). We like stews and soups and the likes and the ingredients were simple enough – pork sausage (which Nico eats…potentially), green peppers (which Nico eats…when he wants to), onions (that Nico eats…sometimes) and crushed tomatoes (which Nico probably would not even touch with a ten foot pole, if his aim was that good).
So all set for a success, right? Right. Everything went off to a brilliant start, when I could not find just pork sausage, but only mild Italian…well, close enough, just part of the Mediterranean Sea away…
I took care of the sausages (browning it up before slicing and dicing) and the onions, since the sausages were not cooperating at any stage of their existence and the onions, because, well, they fight back and Nico is not a fan of burning eyes. So he came into play when it came to slicing up the green peppers, which are supposed to be in strips, but hey, if he can help, he’s in heaven, 
Then both peppers and onions go into the pan to get sauteed a bit before throwing the sausage in and finally the crushed tomatoes.
You cook it down a little and let the juices reduce a bit and voila – serve it with some potatoes and you have a very tasty dish! Oh, Nico didn’t want anything to do with it… Oh well…
If you would like to print it, here is the recipe:
- 5 mild Italian pork sausages
- 2 big onions
- 2 green peppers
- 1 teaspoon of chopped garlic
- 1 can of crushed tomatoes
- Salt & pepper
- Oil
- Cut the sausage in half and fry it up in a little oil.
- Cut sausages halves into thumb size pieces.
- Coarsely chop onions.
- Slice the peppers in length.
- Sautee chopped garlic, onions and peppers for 5-10 minutes on high heat.
- Remove from pan and put in sausage again.
- Sautee for 5-10 more minutes.
- Add onions, garlic and peppers and sautee for 5 more minutes, stirring frequently.
- Lower heat and add chopped tomatoes and juice and stir.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Cook until the sauce is slightly thickening up.
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Written by Alex
Alex is is taking most of the photos (which is why you don’t see much of him) and from time to time he will also post about some of the activities that he’s been a part of. He also acts as editor for posts, technical troubleshooter and messes around with the WordPress behind-the-scenes stuff. Other than spending time with Nico and Valerie, he enjoys Heavy Metal, writing reviews about it, football (the European kind, the one here in North America he calls “handegg”) and trying out new twists on food.
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Yes, it’s not original to name it that, but look at how quickly they got you there with that name
Unrelated note, I like the random snowfall, it’s just enough to add flavor, but not so much it’s overwhelming.
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ooooh that looks tasty! Thanks for all your hard work with this over the last year.
Hi Emma, it was tasty and really easy to do
And you are welcome, we’re happy that you guys have so much fun doing this, looking forward to another year!
Thanks for hosting this series, it’s been a lot of fun to participate and see how each family creates such fun things. I love how Nico didn’t want to try it. I’m so impressed that he was helping to cut the green peppers though. I know I’m a little partial, being a Florida girl and all, but I love his mickey mouse shirt!
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Thanks for the comment Kim. We love this series (and having you on board!) and we hope Nico can participate more this year now that he’s a little older. He’s pretty good with cutting consider that’s a pretty dull plastic knife! The boy is all about racing these days, so dull is all he gets, lol. Glad you like his shirt, it’s actually from Germany