FACT SHEET:           ASSUMPTION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

                                            GREEK FESTIVAL (PANEGYRI) – 2008

WHAT: 

This year’s theme – “Experience Greece”.

To enjoy Greek food, pastries, wine and spirits, free live Greek music and
Greek folk dance groups. Also featuring a Greek coffee house/taverna, gold jewelry, boutique, souvenirs, as well as metal arts by Peter Zoudis and oil paintings by Pantelis Zografos. Tours of the internationally acclaimed church, explaining the Byzantine architecture and iconography

Thousands of your friends and neighbors from the tri-state area will join
our party. Get there early for great food and stay late to kick up your
heels!
 

FEATURES: 

Full dinners: Greek baked lamb shank, chicken riganato, and fish (Friday only) served
with rice pilaf, green beans and mushrooms, Greek salad, and roll.

Pastitsio: creamy Greek “lasagna," baked macaroni and seasoned beef layers,
topped with a rich creamy bechamel sauce.

Moussaka: baked layers of eggplant, potatoes and seasoned ground beef, grated
cheese and béchamel sauce.

Dolmades: grape leaves stuffed with seasoned beef and rice.

Tiropita: cheeses and herbs wrapped in a light filo crust, served warm.

Spanakopita: cheeses, spinach, and herbs wrapped in crispy filo dough.
Greek salad: salad greens, tomato, Greek olives and feta cheese, served with roll and
butter.

Gyro: pita bread filled with either lamb/beef or chicken slices topped with
onions, tomato, lettuce, and a cucumber-cream sauce. (tzantziki)

Greek sausage (loukaniko): Greek sausage smothered in sauteed onions and green
peppers, and topped with Greek sauce in a hoagie bun.

Greek hot dogs and fries: Smith hot dogs, covered with Greek sauce, served in a bun;
French-fries, covered with Greek sauce and melted cheese.

Mezedes:  hors d’oeuvres plate of feta cheese, Greek olives, dolmades, meatballs, and roll.

Saganaki:   healthy slice of Greek headcheese (kaseri) flambés and served with pita bread.

Fried Sweet Dough:  sweet dough fried and covered with confectionery sugar. 

Baklava:  the most famous of all Greek pastries made with walnuts, butter, sugar,
spices, and baked in layers of paper-thin filo dough, topped with cinnamon-honey syrup.

Kataifi: shredded pastry rolls filled with buttered walnuts, sugar and topped with
syrup.

Loukoumades: Greek puffed doughnuts dipped in honey, topped with either cinnamon or
powdered sugar and served hot.

Yogurt cake: delicate cake topped with nuts and syrup; chocolate yogurt cake is
available also.

Pecan floret:  flaky filo basket with glazed pecan and walnut meats topped with honey
syrup.

Kourambiedes: almond butter cookie, lavishly covered with powdered sugar.

Koulourakia: flavored butter cookie, good for dunking and complements Greek coffee.

Galaktobouriko: custard-filled pastry wrapped in filo dough, covered with light syrup and
cinnamon.

Ergolavos: Crescent-shaped, glazed almond cookies.

Tsoureki: Greek sweet bread.

Baklava Sundaes: 4 oz. of ice cream covered with baklava, chocolate syrup, whipped
cream, and topped with maraschino cherry.
 

Paintings by Pantelis Zografos – oil paintings of scenic Greece and Greek historical
themes.

Metal arts by Peter Zoudis – gold/silver and brass art work of Classical Greek, religious,
and modern themes.

Penelope’s Gold Mart - gold(14K and 18K) and silver jewelry from Greece
 

Kakias Family Band from Columbus (OH): plays continuous live Greek music and songs
each day for your listening and dancing enjoyment.

Dance groups: featuring the Cleveland (Ohio) Sts. Constantine and Helen Hellenic
Dancers on Friday; the Pittsburgh Grecian Odyssey Dancers on
Saturday and Sunday; the Hellenic Dancers of Erie will perform daily.
The dance groups, dressed in authentic Greek costumes, will perform
popular folk dances from various areas of the Greek Mainland and Islands.
 

Continuous church tours daily, featuring the Orthodox Christian faith and Byzantine iconography.