Zucchini Stuffed with Garlicky Bread Crumbs, Dried Mushrooms, Herbs and Cheese

Most Greek recipes for stuffed zucchini call for filling the zucchini with a rice and herb or rice and meat mixture. I’ve made this a lot easier and a little more international, by adding bread and dried mushrooms. It’s a yummy weekend or weeknight meal.
Sticky Beef with Greek Honey, Onions and Bay Leaves

Crete, birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet, is also the home of this unusual Greek meze recipe for slow-cooked beef with honey. It comes from a small restaurant in Rethymnon called Avli.
Greek Salad BLT

Greek salad has infinite incarnations and this fun Greek recipe for a BLT is just one of them! Best of all…the Kalamata Olive Mayo, made with Greek yogurt! That’s a recipe from my most recent book, My Greek Table.
Ground Lamb Kebabs

This Greek recipe for ground meat kebabs has a decidedly Anatolian aura but is found in variations all over the Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Aegean.
Poached Kalamata Figs

I came across this perfect Mediterranean Diet snack and wonderful way to prepare dried figs years ago in a small village outside Kalamata. It as during the olive harvest, when dried figs are an important source of energy. But these were a treat I had never imagined, poached in salted water then sprinkled with […]
Naoussa Summer Stew with Fried Cheese / Mantza

The Mediterranean Diet stretches from the tables of Crete to the larder of the North, where a cornucopia of peppers and other delicious garden vegetables are combined into this unique dish. Mantza (for “to eat”) is a recipe rooted in the traditions of the Vlachs, a once itinerant shepherding tribe who settled in N. […]
Kalamata Olive-Greek Yogurt “Mayo” / Mayioneza me Eliopasta

A mayo fit for the Mediterranean Diet! Try this delicious mixture of Greek yogurt, Kalamata olive paste, extra virgin Greek olive oil and more on all your sandwiches.