Preparation:

- Chop one or two onions, one or two zucchini, one tomato and one or two green pepper into small squares. - Put a ¼ cup of butter into a frying pot. - Add ¼ teaspoon of salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, basil and a ½ teaspoon of oregano and the same of parsley.

- Fry and stir the mixture while adding the ground beef for 7 to 10 minutes. - Add a ½ teaspoon of salsa and 1 teaspoon of red wine or vodka into the mixture and stir.

- Add a large can of tomato sauce into the mixture and stir.

- Lower the heat and let the mixture cook for 11/2 hours while stirring every 10 minutes to blend the mixture.

Macaroni with meat sauce:

Ingredients: Elbow macaroni, meat sauce and spices (salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, basil and parsley).

Preparation:

- Add 3 cups of meat sauce into a pot and heat to boiling point.

- Add ¼ teaspoon of salt, pepper, cayenne salt, oregano and parsley into the pot while stirring.

- Add 1cup macaroni into the pot. - Stir for a minute to make sure that macaroni doesn’t stick on the bottom of the pot.

- Lower the heat and let it cook for 15 minutes while stirring every few minutes.

Potatoes and chicken

Ingredients: Potatoes, chicken breasts or legs, butter and spices (salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, basil and parsley).

Preparation:

- Wash the chicken and put them in an oven pot.

- Add 2 cups of water mixed with the spices (1/4 teaspoon of salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and oregano).

- Bake at 350 – 400 degrees for 1 hours while turning the chicken every 15 minutes.

- Turn the temperature of the oven into broil and bake for 5 minutes to give the chicken the golden color.

- Take the chicken out and add the potatoes into the oven pot and bake for 45 minutes at 350 – 400 degrees while turning the potatoes over every 10 minutes.

Pastissou

Ingredients: Elbow macaroni, meat sauce, flour, butter, milk, spices (salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, basil and parsley).

Preparation:

- Boil the elbow macaroni until it is almost done (10 – 13 minutes).

- Put a ½ cup of butter in a pot, add to it 1 cup of milk and then heat and stir to mix the butter and milk.

- Add flour while you stir until the mixture become creamy.

- Add the macaroni to 2 – 3 cups of meat sauce and 2 spoons of the cream you made.

- Add salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to the mix and stir until it blends well.

- Put the mixture in a baking container and cover it with the cream.

- Bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 350 – 400 degrees.

- Turn the temperature of the oven to broil and bake for 3 – 5 minutes to give it the golden color.