Bean lovers rejoice! This Greek recipe, called Sympetherio, hails from Crete and is the absolute perfect paradigm of the healthy Mediterranean diet. In the Greek diet, as you know, beans have played a major role forever. Here, a medley of beans, grains and vegetables are mixed together into a nutritious whole. Feel free to use […]
You can leave the ice out of this Greek recipe for an avocado smoothie with Greek honey and Greek yogurt and you can also opt to pour it over ice cubes in a glass. It makes for a filling Greek breakfast and good example of how to incorporate the green Mediterranean diet into your daily […]
I love a good Caesar salad and this Greek salad recipe, or rather Greek-inspired recipe for kale Caesar calls for a tangy, creamy dressing with Greek yogurt and extra virgin Greek olive oil and chickpeas. Another great example of the simple, healthy plant-based foods that are part of the green Mediterranean diet.
Pesto doesn’t have to be the classic Genovese recipe! I make this easy Greek recipe for pesto with any sweet greens I have on hand and like to think of it as the perfect—and literal–example of the green Mediterranean diet! Here’s an added benefit: The almonds are a good-mood superfood, high in plant protein and […]
Orzo, called kritharaki in Greece, is the stuff of comfort food and often baked with tomatoey chicken and/or lamb. This Greek recipe for orzo pilaf is a vegetarian’s dream, packed with healthful vegetables and a great example of green Mediterranean diet cooking. The halloumi cheese adds a special twist.
This Greek recipe for glazed carrots calls for some of my favorite traditional Greek ingredients: extra virgin olive oil, Corinthian currants and petimezi, which is grape molasses. You can find them all online!
This Greek recipe is inspired by a traditional recipe from the Blue Zone Greek island of Ikaria, renowned for its longevity and home to some amazing green Mediterranean cooking. Pretty much everything in the cabbage family – brassica – figures prominently in the local cuisine and the original rendition of this calls for something called […]
My friend Johnny Livanos, creator of one of the first Greek gins, Stray Dog – and, yes, you can really taste the nuanced spectrum of Greek herbs that he uses in his distillation process – created this cocktail for his family’s restaurant Ousia. Ring in the New Year with a clink and have a sip […]
This Greek recipe for a sumptuous dessert calls for some of the most iconic ingredients in Greek cooking: phyllo pastry, extra virgin Greek olive oil, tahini, Greek honey, and mastiha.
This Greek recipes for Kydonato—after the Greek word for quince, kydoni, is a popular Sunday dish in northern Greece, typically made either with lamb or beef and typically stewed all together. Lamb shoulder or other stewing cuts are the norm. The recipe that follows calls for lamb shank, which facilitates a much more elegant, even […]