Bubbling hot tomatoes, shrimp, and salty half-melted feta all scooped on to some nice crusty bread - shrimp saganaki qualifies as some serious comfort food.

Saganaki is technically a cooking vessel used quite extensively in traditional Greek cooking, but over time it's been adulterated to refer to what is inside the vessel. In this case it's the conventional pairing of tomatoes, onion, shrimp and feta cheese.

This version hails a little more from the Northern region of Greece because of the added heat from the red pepper flakes. If you're not a fan of spice, feel free to tone it down a notch or two.The 1/4 teaspoon really does add a significant amount of heat.

Usually a splash of ouzo is in order to add that extra kick and impart that rarely identified flavor that accompanies this particular dish, but I couldn't find any. I'm too much of a weenie to venture into any civilian liquor stores around here - mainly because there's a very real possibility I'd get mugged or walk into the middle of a robbery.

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