all right it is the number one festival
in town according to our viewers the
taste of Greece festival in Plymouth
took top honors in our vote for the best
contest and this weekend you can see for
yourself why it won we are joined by
Lewis polis and Georgia fellows which is
we're talking about the festival Friday
Saturday and Sunday good morning Georgia
good morning good morning Louis thank
you for having us it is our pleasure and
I see that are those grape leaves
those are great please these are
hand-picked handpicked well I'll tell
you this okay we have a fence going all
the way around our pool the perimeter of
our back yard
uh-huh years and years and maybe decades
ago the former owners planted grape
leaves and those grape leaves are all
the way around the perimeter of the
fence would you like to come over and
pick them next June please call me yes
oh why do you suppose you won first
place we think it's the food the fun
times ultimately what we hear the most
is that people love coming for the food
very good such as well we have passed
eat Oh what no what is the process it's
always like a Greek lasagna it's layered
with macaroni noodles and then we put a
sauce in between layer it again with
more noodles and then we put a bechamel
sauce on the top seasoned ground beef
and then over here we have spinach pie
of course everybody's favorite
spanakopita we have and then we have
what's similar to the spinach pie is the
cheese pie without the spinach that's
called a Tito PITA mm-hmm and I'm going
to show you how to make grape leaves
I've already put in the ground beef I
have put in chopped onion parsley dill
rice and I'm going to put a little bit
of olive oil in there
dolma --this dolmades home Otto's yes
and I've got my leaves here you put
shiny side up you take a teaspoon or
more it depends on the size of the leaf
then you fold it this way
and that way a little bit like this over
over and it is done
no and in my pan I have put grape leaves
on the bottom I have added the grape
leaves and then I will put my plate it
would be like this you would put a plate
on top so when you cook them they don't
move
interesting now do you have to do
anything to prep the grape leaves can I
literally go home after the show today
pick a fresh gleep greatly about the
vine no you have to do it in June when
the children are getting out of school
that's the the folklore of it and you
take them and you stack them you blanch
them in hot water and cold water after
that and then you put them in the
freezer alright as we look at that year
oh yeah over there notice how I said is
that perfectly right excellent
let me pat myself on the back let's talk
about the entertainment at the festival
in the charity component and the rest
yes so the entertainment we have a
variety of entertainment we have live
music by anymo which is the band that
that is a local Detroit band and of
course we have our dancing those are our
own parishioners they're the children of
the church that learned work all summer
to learn how to do these dances and then
they have a great time do it doing it
they look forward to the festival and
they put on a great show
alright and where can people find out
more information maybe even about the
charity so the charity yes so we have a
$2.00 admission to get in that's the
ticket price and if you bring in three
non-perishable food items you can get in
free and that and that all those items
go to Northville civic concern which is
our our neighbor Northville we are in
Plymouth we're at five mile in Haggerty
right at the corner if you drive by
you'll see all the tents the grounds are
prepared it looks it looks great we're
very excited this weekend and it's also
Friday Saturday and Sunday are the dates
my old stomping grounds over there all
right very good and and we cannot forget
about our pastries Georgia would never
let us forget about yes this we have
baklava
we have Mela macarena which is a honey
cookie Kadamba which is a traditional
wedding cookie and v+ and we also have
our famous loukoumades which are just
wonderful they're like a honey doughnut
so please come and see us they're
delicious
all right anything else anything else
what well yeah we what else we're gonna