Maybe it's not just the Mediterranean diet . . .

. . . that makes people so healthy, though that's pretty wonderful, too.  We recently had a fantastic dinner with colleagues (dark-haired Piera, who teaches at Hellenic Open University and is finishing her PhD in Adult Education this summer; her husband Angelos, who prepared most of the meal, and our friend, Dimitra, who has been so unfailingly helpful to us throughout this experience).

First, the food....lucky us, Angelos has professional chefs in his family...and it showed!

A delicious ham-like sausage;  black-eyed peas, Greek-style; and chicken breast stuffed with vegetables, pistachios, and cheese (there's another photo of that, below).

Greek-style roasted potatoes; tomato-and-cucumber salad.

Here's the stuffed chicken breast, again.

Piera made the phyllo for this "spinach pie"--spanikopita--which include leeks and feta cheese.

Tabouli salad, something I can't remember, and escarole salad.

And then, after a suitable period for digestion, the fun began.  Greeks really do sing and dance at the slightest provocation.  

As you will see, Ken had no problem "going native."  Of course the wine might have had something to do with it.  Ken discovered that the only way to keep from drinking more than you wish in a Greek household is to not finish the glass in front of you.  No matter your protestations, it will immediately be refilled!!