Greek Independence Day

Blessing of the Greek Banner

With it being the end of the week, something about our celebration this day ended up a little bit neglected (but then again, you try celebrating a different holiday every day in the week and see how it goes). I was able to scan over Wikipedia's article on the Greek War of Independence, which was pretty interesting. When I was in schools, at least, we spent a lot of time talking about Ancient Greece and all its contributions, but after that it never came up again.

The menu for tonight was kebabs and Greek salad. My wife came up with a marinade for the chicken made up of lime juice, minced garlic, garlic powder, and vegetable oil. Lamentably, we don't own a proper grill, but it still turned out fine George Foreman-style. We ate the kebabs with Lebanese bread (basically pita bread) filled with hummus and French fries. 

For the Greek salad, I mostly just went off of Wikipedia's article (apparently the real thing is a bit different from how they'd make it in the States) to see what it should contain, and made it from 2 sliced cucumbers, 1 diced green bell pepper, a handful of baby tomatoes, and feta cheese, seasoned with olive oil, salt, pepper, and oregano. I added red onion slices to mine (since my wife doesn't like onions) and  she added olives to hers (since I'm not a huge fan). It was a very good salad and simple to make. I asked my wife several times throughout the night if she liked the salad as much as I did. She made fun of me for it after about the third time. So in the end, I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an alternative to a green salad.

ευτυχισμένη ημέρα της ανεξαρτησίας!