TheMakroLife

The Parthenon was built in 13 years.....this wonderful recipe doesn't take that long, but all great things take time, effort, patience and a lot of love!  And if my 7 and 9 year old eat it saying “this is the best thing in the world”…..well, it is worth the effort!!! (yes I am extremely blessed to have children that eat everything!!!) Our family is so blessed to be friends with the Alexoudi Family. The are the kindest people and have wonderful hearts. Giagia Koula is the absolute BEST cook. Being invited to her house to eat is like being invited by the Greek Queen of the Kitchen. It is a magical meal experience EVERY time. And her husband Dimitri....well he's the King of the Greek Garden. His vegetable garden is spectacular and his fruit trees bursting with the freshest farm to table food I have every had in my life. They eat from the earth and it is wonderful. I constantly joke with them that I want them to adopt me (they said they would anytime) for a year where I wil...

The Biblical City of Philippi, Greece Ten miles inland from the port of Kavala (20 minutes from our home in Kavala) is the Biblical City of Philippi. In the 4th century B.C., the settlement was named and founded Philippi after King Philip II of Macedon (Father of Alexander the Great). Philippi was an important outpost on the Egnatian Way.  Two important battles were fought here in 42 B.C. resulting in the defeat of Cassius and Brutus, conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar.  After these battles, Philippi became a Roman colony encompassing 700 square miles.  Saint Paul and Christianity arrived first on the continent of Europe in Kavala in 49-50 A.D.  Kavala was the regular landing place for those wanting to travel by the Egnatian Highway (Via Egnatia), the great Roman military highway connecting the Aegean and Adriatic Sea, across Macedonia.    Archaeological work has revealed a large and well-preserved forum, a theater, the alle...