Day 355: What's the difference between "dolmas" and "dolmades?" If you answered, "It depends on how hungry you are," you understand the question. "Dolmas" is singular, although there is an annoying tendency in the US and some other places to use it to mean more than one simply because it ends in S, and speakers of English are always know better than foreigners when it comes to the foreigner speaking their own native language. If you missed it, that was sarcasm, and I have no intention of apologizing. Anyway, dolmades are what's for dinner tonight, and herein lies a more compelling reason for retaining the grapevine even though it hardly ever makes grapes. Dolmades are stuffed grape leaves. Stuffed with what? I use a mixture of lamb, rice, dill, onion and (depending on availability) one or more items from the list which includes pine nuts, currants, garlic, mint, parsley, all of which I have added at some time or another. Today's have pine nuts in, but my mint was too far gone to pick. Once done simmering in broth, they will go in the fridge to be served chilled with a little lemon juice drizzed over them.
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