What child requests a vegetable based meal when they can have whatever they want only one meal a year? THIS ONE DID!! I think my parents probably thought I was insane. I really don’t recall anything else that I would consistently ask for besides fasolakia, almost every year that was my pick. When we were kids on our birthday as a special treat, my parent would have us request whatever meal we wanted, and they would make it for us. I think it is just made based on what how your own family makes it and then you just taste as you go. It is one of those dishes that I am not sure anyone in our family has an exact recipe for and I doubt that they ever really measure(d) as they add things. Even though it is a little different based on who makes it, I absolutely love it every single time. She passed away when I was 12, so my memory is likely not exactly accurate, but that is how I like to remember it anyway 🙂 My dad’s mom, my Yia Yia, also used to make this stew and my Dad and my great Aunt Marge still make it. I am not sure if it was actually this way, but in my mind I swear she had to always have had always something like this, or one of her other stewed green concoctions, cooking on the stove at her house. There is something about the smell of this stew cooking that reminds me of her unlike any other smell can remind me of anything else in the whole world. I can still remember exactly how her kitchen always smelled and just how it felt in there. My Great Yia Yia (Yia Yia is Greek for grandmother), in my opinion made it the very best, I still think of her any time I smell this stew cooking. This is a traditional Greek dish that many different people in my family have made for my entire life.
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