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Baklava is a wonderful Greek dessert. Grease a 14 by 9 inch baking dish. Place eight sheets of Filo dough in the dish. Brush the dough with butter.
Chop one cup of walnuts and one cup of almonds. Mix two cups of sugar with the nuts. Add one teaspoon of cinnamon. Pour half of the sugar nut mixture over the dough. Add eight more layers of Filo dough. Pour the other half of the sugar nut mixture over the dough. Add another eight layers of Filo dough. Brush with butter. Cut through all the layers of dough in diamond shapes.
Bake the baklava at 350° for 30 minutes. Turn the oven down to 325 and bake for another 25 minutes.
Pour two cups of sugar into a small saucepan. Add one cup of milk to the sugar. Add one tablespoon of maple syrup. Heat this mixture until it comes to a rapid boil. Pour the syrup mixture over the top of the baked baklava. Slice the baklava while it is still hot.
Tear up one head of lettuce. Do not use a knife because a knife will make the lettuce turn brown. Place the lettuce in a large bowl. Next add 8 ounces of Feta cheese. Greek Feta cheese is a soft white cheese made by mountain shepherds from sheep's milk (sometimes mixed with goat's milk). Add a 12 ounce can of black olives. The finest olives are grown in Greece. There are more than 137 million olive trees in Greece. Many of them are more than 1000 years old. Next add croutons. Finally top the salad with a Caesar salad dressing. We used a bottled dressing, but you could easily make your own dressing.