Loukaniko with roasted fennel & maroulosalata.
a Santorini salad with greens and fava (yellow split peas)
Fabulous array of Greek pastries at a place in Hershey we’ve eaten before. Ekmek beat out the rest, of course 
We also took home melitsano, fava & skordalia to complement our dinner tonight 
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My Easter lamb arrived this afternoon.
I need to stop at the Greek store to buy some mahlepi and mastic for my Easter bread.
I’d never heard of melomakarona until you mentioned it somewhere. A few years ago, a Greek opened a grocery store in San Francisco (Church Produce, at 30th and Church), and I sent a friend over to get some sweets. I asked for kourambiedes and finikia. The owner (from Greece) didn’t know what the friends were talking about. It got straightened up in the end, and the cookies are very good.
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Finikia and melomakarona are the same on most islands. My family also calls them finikia but mainlanders usually call them melomakarona. Melomakarona is the word used by most Greeks and Greek bakeries in Toronto so now I go with the flow.
Some Peloponnesians have another nut filled honey cookie they call finikia, which is distinct from melomakarona.
My family also called stuffed grape leaves yiaprakia instead of dolmades. Yiaprak is also a Turkish word for stuffed grape leaves. Common word on some islands.
Yes, it was yiaprakia in my Anatolean Greek family.
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Tis the season. Tsoureki
Terkenlis in Thessaloniki is famous for their chocolate -covered Tsoureki.
of course, a Dubai chocolate Tsoureki now exists 
https://akispetretzikis.com/en/recipe/8840/tsoureki-dubai-chocolate
from Epirus
I do not think I have had Loukaniko sausage while in Greece. I love fennel in nearly every form so that combo looks delicious to me!!!
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It is delicious, and this rendition (traditional or not) has inspired me to order it more often when at Greek restaurants.
I love fennel, too.
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