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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 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

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

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

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

Greek Chickpea Salad

Classic Mediterranean flavors are what make up this easy Greek chickpea salad with fresh veg, heart-healthy fats, and bright herbs keeping it light, lean and tangy. The most popular recipe request I'm emailed on the regular after readers sign up for my newsletter (if you ... continue reading... about Greek Chickpea Salad

How to Make Yummy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Tossed in cinnamon and maple syrup, these roasted sweet potatoes perfectly caramelized exteriors give way to tender, creamy centers with each sweet bite, making them ready for any grain bowl, burrito, or salad that comes their way. Over the years I've learned I'm best at ... continue reading... about How to Make Yummy Roasted Sweet Potatoes

20 Caprese Recipes You’ll Go Crazy For

From the best caprese salads to caprese skewers and the classic caprese sandwich, this list of 20 favorite tomato, mozzarella and basil themed recipes will have you going crazy for caprese. You know those quizzes you see all over the internet touting, "Choose your favorite ... continue reading... about 20 Caprese Recipes You’ll Go Crazy For

Greek Salad with Avocado

This healthy Greek salad with added avocado and an easy-to-make Greek salad dressing is just the right recipe for simple no-cooking eats all summer long. Sometimes the classics are just what the doctor ordered. Especially when it's Dr. SummerHasArrived who's making the ... continue reading... about Greek Salad with Avocado

Friday Faves

Hello and happy almost Easter Friday! Here it is another Friday and all I can think about instead of getting things done is what would taste so good for Easter brunch (because last weekend's bridal shower brunch was pretty amazing) and why is work taking me so long and the ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Greek Cobb Salad

This Cobb salad with a twist loads all of my favorite Mediterranean salad ingredients plus the best Greek marinated chicken ever into one savage salad to make a complete, healthy meal in one big bowl. This Greek Cobb salad is like the Woodstock of salads, bringing so much to ... continue reading... about Greek Cobb Salad

Greek Salad Dressing

This easy Greek salad dressing with olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, and dried herbs is one of my favorites to dress any salad and tastes so much better than store-bought. Home cooks are too often conditioned to grabbing a bottle of store-bought dressing off the ... continue reading... about Greek Salad Dressing

Lemon Chicken Thighs with Artichokes

This lemon chicken recipe makes juicy, bone-in chicken thighs with the Mediterranean flavors of white wine and artichokes for an easy chicken dinner ready in 30 minutes. 30-Minute Lemon Chicken Thighs with Artichokes Easy chicken dinners are always at the top of FoodieCrush ... continue reading... about Lemon Chicken Thighs with Artichokes

Garlic and Herb Rub Pork Tenderloin

Fast dinners don't come together much quicker than this garlic and herb rubbed pork tenderloin recipe that's seared on the stove then finished in the oven for a lean and juicy main dish cooked in just 30 minutes. Quick Pork Tenderloin Recipe Low-fat and healthful meals are ... continue reading... about Garlic and Herb Rub Pork Tenderloin

Friday Faves

Hello, hello, and happy Friday! It's been a funk of a week. The brew ha ha of the holidays came to an end, then the new year was full of promise, and then I spent my birthday on a fabulous vacation with my favorite guy, which meant I came home with new inspiration and ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Crunchy Green Salad with Dilly Chickpeas and Avocado

There are all kinds of salads. Dinner salads. Main-meal chef salads. Caeser salads. Caprese salads. Fruit salads. Seafood cobb salads. A list of salads you may never have enough days to make. Holy crap, does the salad train ever end?? I for one hope not. Because I am a salad ... continue reading... about Crunchy Green Salad with Dilly Chickpeas and Avocado

10 Good-for-You Grains You Should Be Cooking With Right Now

It's time to move beyond quinoa with10 ancient grains you should be cooking with now, plus 30 recipe links to cook from. Kamut. Freekeh. Teff. These aren't foreign countries, they're ancient grains, and just like blue jeans with torn knees and backyard chicken coops, ... continue reading... about 10 Good-for-You Grains You Should Be Cooking With Right Now

Kohler Food and Wine Experience and Cook Like Cat Cora Giveaway

Last fall I was invited on a once in a lifetime trip with a few other food bloggers to visit The American Club and the Kohler Food and Wine Experience in Kohler, WI. But I must admit, at first I was a bit puzzled. After completing four home remodels and choosing luxe Kohler ... continue reading... about Kohler Food and Wine Experience and Cook Like Cat Cora Giveaway

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

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