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Mediterranean White Bean and Tuna Salad Toasts

Simple Mediterranean white bean and tuna salad toasts are a quick and healthy lunch idea any day of the week. For as long as I can remember, tuna fish has been a lunch time staple at my house. There are always cans of tuna fish in the pantry, and whether I'm feeling the ... continue reading... about Mediterranean White Bean and Tuna Salad Toasts

50 Favorite Mediterranean Diet Recipes

Once again, The Mediterranean Diet has been named the overall diet of the year. This list of 50 breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes makes it easy to add more of the Med-inspired lifestyle to your weekly meal plan. The Best Overall Diet Just as we were setting our sights on ... continue reading... about 50 Favorite Mediterranean Diet Recipes

Mediterranean Zucchini Boats

Zucchini boats make the perfect vegetable vessel for ground turkey sausage, kalamata olives, sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, basil, and Parmesan cheese for a Mediterranean spin on everyone's favorite stuffed zucchini recipe. If David Letterman brought back his famous Top 10 ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Zucchini Boats

Mediterranean Chickpea Salad Stuffed Avocados

This easy Mediterranean chickpea salad with fresh herbs and a garlicky lemon dressing gets spooned into creamy avocado halves for a protein-packed, vegetarian meal in one. While we're all fans of pinning, liking, and bookmarking new recipes, most of the time we're making ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Chickpea Salad Stuffed Avocados

Outrageous Herbacious Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

This easy Mediterranean chickpea salad is infused with flavor thanks to a heaping helping of fresh herbs with a garlicky lemon dressing that ups the crunch from red bell pepper, celery and red onion for a simple side dish or topping for greens. Accidentally Vegan Chickpea ... continue reading... about Outrageous Herbacious Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

Mediterranean Orzo Salad

This vegetarian Mediterranean orzo pasta salad with crunchy vegetables and spinach, briny olives, and feta cheese makes a healthy, easy-to-make, meal-prepped meal or flavorful pasta salad side. I LOVE any recipe that shines with Mediterranean flavors, and this orzo salad ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Orzo Salad

Mediterranean Chicken Quinoa Bowl with Broccoli and Tomato

Chicken quinoa bowls have staked their healthy claim on quick and easy meal-prep dinners that are flexible enough to mix and match ingredients for take-to-work lunches that never get boring, too. Healthy Chicken Quinoa Bowl This quinoa bowl combines what seems to be my ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Chicken Quinoa Bowl with Broccoli and Tomato

Mediterranean Quinoa Salad

This healthy vegetarian quinoa salad makes for a simple lunch or dinner, thanks to staples like roasted red bell peppers, kalamata olives, and feta from your fridge and pantry. Mediterranean Quinoa Salad Recipe I get that feeling. I look at my watch. Scratch that, I look at ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Quinoa Salad

Mediterranean Grilled Pork Chops with Tomato Salad

A fresh and flavorful Mediterranean tomato salad serves as a salsa when it tops juicy grilled pork chops for a 30-minute, quick and easy dinner or BBQ meal. It's finally summer, so who wants to spend all day cooking? Not it. Who's ready for fast and easy? ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Grilled Pork Chops with Tomato Salad

Mediterranean Tomato Salad

This easy, healthy tomato salad is studded with fresh Mediterranean flavors to eat a simple side salad or a topping for chicken, fish, steak or pork. It goes with everything—it's like the salad version of The Bachelorette. Through every stage of my calling as a home cook, ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Tomato Salad

Mediterranean Grilled Balsamic Chicken with Olive Tapenade

A simple marinade with two kinds of balsamic vinegar, fresh herbs, and grainy mustard gives this grilled balsamic chicken topped with an easy olive and sun dried tomato tapenade a classic Mediterranean flavor zing. This recipe is brought to you by Kroger It's no secret that ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Grilled Balsamic Chicken with Olive Tapenade

Slow-Cooker Mediterranean Egg Casserole

This hearty, filling slow cooker egg casserole recipe with Mediterranean flavors, goat cheese, and prosciutto is simple to put together and can be assembled the night before so it'll cook while you sleep! This post is in partnership with KraftRecipes.com. As always, thank ... continue reading... about Slow-Cooker Mediterranean Egg Casserole

Mediterranean Mini Frittatas

Eggs just might be one of those miracle ingredients. You know, the kind that can easily morph into breakfast or brunch then slide onto lunch and slither into brinner. Yep, breakfast + dinner = BRINNER! Bring on the mini fritattas. If breakfast + dinner = brinner maybe this ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Mini Frittatas

Mediterranean Strata and Friday Faves

Breakfast or dinner, this Mediterranean Strata goes both ways. It’s open minded that way. When nights turn into days and the list of weekend to-dos include brunch or make ahead lunch or just planning ahead for a different take on dinner for Monday night, I go for egg soaked ... continue reading... about Mediterranean Strata and Friday Faves

31 Days of Healthy Comfort Food Recipes to Make In January

Like clockwork, the stroke of a new year encourages a slew of ambitious healthy resolutions — more green juice, less alcohol, more intentional living, less screen time, more kale, less ice cream. You get the picture. One sensible place to start is with our diets, and savvy ... continue reading... about 31 Days of Healthy Comfort Food Recipes to Make In January

Cannellini Beans

This master cannellini beans recipe is the nutritious and inexpensive way to transform dried, shelf-stable white beans into the centerpiece of your healthy meal prep and batch cooking goals. One of the most efficient, inexpensive, and healthy ways to get your foodie bang ... continue reading... about Cannellini Beans

50 Dinner Ideas When There’s No Time to Cook

These 50 easy and delicious dinner ideas are the perfect dinner recipes to make any time you ask yourself, "What should I make for dinner tonight?" 50 Easy Dinner Ideas Why is it figuring out tonight's dinner can be one of the biggest challenges of the day? No more! The ... continue reading... about 50 Dinner Ideas When There’s No Time to Cook

Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday. source: unknown My husband and I were at our daughter's basketball game—masked and socially distanced and where each player is tested weekly and only allowed two spectators per player—talking about how weird it felt to be there. "Happy 2021," we'd ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

60 Healthy Breakfast Ideas When There’s No Time to Eat

What should you make for breakfast when time isn't on your side? All the good things with this roundup of 60 healthy breakfast ideas to keep going all day long. Healthy Breakfast Ideas to Make at Home It seems like "what should I make for breakfast?" is always the question ... continue reading... about 60 Healthy Breakfast Ideas When There’s No Time to Eat

35 Pasta Recipes to Make Now

From quick and easy made with basic pantry ingredients to Italian pastas that stick to tradition, this is the list of 35 of the best pasta recipes to make now. I may as well title this post What Should I Cook for Dinner Tonight, because guess what? The answer is this list ... continue reading... about 35 Pasta Recipes to Make Now

Roasted Beet and Ricotta Salad

​This roasted beet salad topped with dollops of ricotta cheese sweetened with honey and orange is a fast to make salad that is delicious served chilled, or at room temperature. Roasted Beet and Ricotta Salad I'm not the only person to add tangy, creamy cheese to a roasted ... continue reading... about Roasted Beet and Ricotta Salad

Friday Faves

Hello and haaaappy autumnal weekend! It seems like summer is the time when most people find themselves more and more out and about in the great outdoors. But for me, fall is my prime time. The cooler weather, the creep of slowness, the changing flora, and knowing that this ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

The Best Greek Chicken Marinade

This simple chicken marinade infuses the classic Greek flavors of lemon, garlic and oregano plus marinating chicken in yogurt for a more tender bite. The Best Greek Chicken Marinade Hey, ho, whaddya know?!!! You ready for the best? Because I'm giving you the best! It may ... continue reading... about The Best Greek Chicken Marinade

Baba Ganoush

Serve this easy Middle Eastern baba ganoush dip with pita bread or fresh veggies for a healthy app or snack. What Is Baba Ganoush Often served alongside hummus as a meze staple, baba ganoush is a healthy Lebanese dip or spread made from roasted or grilled eggplant mixed ... continue reading... about Baba Ganoush

How to Make the Best Grilled Salmon

Follow these easy grilling tips for THE BEST, easy grilled salmon recipe that's about to become your new favorite healthy summertime dinner. This recipe is brought to you by Weber Grills There may not be another summertime recipe that hits our grill more often than this ... continue reading... about How to Make the Best Grilled Salmon

Caprese Salad (Plus a DIY Caprese Salad Bar)

The best caprese salad shows off summer's finest with creamy mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes topped with fresh leafy basil and fruity olive oil. Serve the salads individually or turn this simple Italian staple into a party by creating a DIY caprese salad bar where everyone can ... continue reading... about Caprese Salad (Plus a DIY Caprese Salad Bar)

The BEST Caprese Sandwich

Juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese, and fragrant basil leaves drizzled with olive oil and balsamic glaze make this classic caprese sandwich THE BEST Italian deli favorite you can make at home. Even though I consider myself to be a master sandwich maker, ... continue reading... about The BEST Caprese Sandwich

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