Love portokalopita but I’ve never seen it on a menu in the states :/ if someone knows of a place I’d like to hear. In my experience you can find some decent but not great/authentic Greek food in OC, I’ve had much better experiences in LA. There’s a place called Aliki’s Taverna that was surprisingly good when I went a couple years ago, George’s Greek cafe in Long Beach was also quite good.
The reason portokalopita took me so long is that you literally have to dry out a whole box of phyllo piece by piece. I did it in the oven, which was painfully slow. My friend suggested that I spread a tablecloth over my whole work island like she does w pasta. If I do that, it will take a 1/4 the…