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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

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

Greek Salad with Chicken

Crisp, crunchy, and fresh with tangy Mediterranean flavor, this Greek salad topped with chicken can be meal prepped ahead for weekday lunches or a light and healthy dinner too. Lunch. It's the meal that we all have the best of intentions in planning ahead for, and too ... continue reading... about Greek Salad with Chicken

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

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

50 Favorite Mediterranean Diet Recipes

The Mediterranean Diet has been named 2019's diet of the year, and 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 Diet of 2019 Just as we were setting our sights on eating ... continue reading... about 50 Favorite Mediterranean Diet Recipes

Greek Chicken Gyro Salad

Greek food and especially gyros are one of my favorite kind of meals, but since I'm not much of a fan of lamb, it's my marinated Greek chicken and chickpeas that adds the protein to this easy Greek gyro style salad with a yogurt tzatziki sauce perfect for a meal prep lunch or ... continue reading... about Greek Chicken Gyro 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

Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad

Quick and easy to make for lunch or even a light dinner, this healthy Tuscan salad puts high protein front and center with chunks of albacore tuna and white beans tossed with arugula and more Mediterranean flavors. It's not every day that a salad wakes me from a dead sleep. But ... continue reading... about Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad

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

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

Chopped Grilled Vegetable Bowl with Farro and #FreshCoastRetreat

This vegetarian Mediterranean bowl is filled with grilled vegetables and farro, then topped with a garlic yogurt sauce, kalamata olives, feta and hummus. Recipe inspiration comes in many forms. This recipe's inspiration came from a mish mosh of veggies in my crisper and a trip ... continue reading... about Chopped Grilled Vegetable Bowl with Farro and #FreshCoastRetreat

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

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  • This creamy BLT pasta salad is where healthy meets happy and it’s easy to eat more greens. It’s loaded with tomatoes, arugula, and avocado, plus crispy bacon that’s all topped with a super simple Ranch-style dressing made healthier with a combo of Greek yogurt and mayo. Tap the link in my bio and search “BLT pasta” for the recipe.
  • Mixing tortilla chips with super easy homemade enchilada sauce and topping it all with lacy edged sunny side ups, crunchy radishes, and creamy avocado, is one of the quickest and most satisfying breakfast + brunch recipes you’ll totally be making for a 20 minute dinner too. Search “chilaquiles” with the link in my bio.
  • This Greek salad with avocado is exactly what winter ordered. It’s fresh, crunchy, tangy, and above all, a delicious bright spot in the dearth of these frigid elements. It has the basic flavors of a traditional Greek salad but with that extra somethin’ somethin’ aka 🥑🥑🥑 to make your Mediterranean heart happy and healthy. Search "Greek salad" with the link in my bio. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
  • Here's another reason why caprese isn't just for summer anymore 🍅🧀🍗 . With just a few simple ingredients including store-bought pesto, fresh mozzarella, and sweet balsamic glaze, you can make this healthy, stand out, one-pan chicken breast dinner in under 30 minutes for this week's winner winner chicken dinner. Recipe link in my profile then search "caprese chicken". @delallofoods ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
  • Fresh herbs are key to this easy quinoa tabbouleh with chickpeas where mint and Italian parsley perk up quinoa and chickpeas for a dose of vegetarian and gluten-free protein in this superfood salad loaded with crunch and spunk. Winter blahs? We got you. Tap the link in my profile and search "quinoa chickpeas" for the recipe.
  • Quinoa, kale, chickpeas and pistachios turn a hum drum lunch into a protein packed feast because whether you're declaring resolutions, revolutions or re-solutions, ‘tis the time of year when we all want to eat better. More healthy. More wholesome. But why do we need the new year to remind us we should be eating healthy, whole foods? To eat seasonal? To eat and live right? Well...with veg-heavy salads like this on the table, the answer is right on your plate. Get the recipe with the link in my profile then search "quinoa kale". ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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