The Best Greek-Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Lent

13. The Best Greek-Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Lent

4 April 2023

Here in Greece, we’re still deep in the Lenten season, a 49-day period before Easter and a time of spiritual and physical cleansing. It’s a great time to reset, cleanse, and clarify intentions for the year. It also happens to be a great time to get back to the roots of the Mediterranean diet. Interestingly, some of the most delicious Greek foods are cooked during this time.

14. 7 Greek Seafood Recipes to Cook During Lent

20 February 2023

Here in Greece, we’re just about to enter into the Lenten season. Greek Orthodox Lent starts with Clean Monday, on February 27th this year, and will last right up until Easter, on Sunday, April 16. For the entire 40 days, those who follow the fast abstain from all animal products and fish but not seafood, which is what I am focusing on today! The strictest practitioners abstain even from olive oil on specific days each week and from alcohol.

15. Braised Mixed Mushrooms with Wrinkled Olives and Orange

6 February 2023

These braised mushrooms with wrinkled olives and orange take their cue from other traditional Greek recipes that call either for seafood, such as squid or octopus, or pork, cooked with oranges and olives. But there is a huge difference. Mushrooms are a kind of delicious functional food – a super food -- and they are gaining in reputation as ...

16. Grilling in the Greek Diet

25 May 2022

From grilled lamb chops to grilled fish, the recipes and techniques for grilling in the Greek diet are countless. Read on!

17. The Easiest, Most Delicious Lenten Mains to Try Now

11 April 2022

Holy Week is right around the corner here in Greece! Holy Week, or as Greeks call it, “Megali Evdomada,” marks the week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, and it also indicates the beginning of the end of the Lenten season . It’s also the last chance to enjoy some of my personal favorite Greek dishes – recipes that showcase some of ...

18. Baked Feta-Stuffed Calamari

6 May 2020

This retro-stuffed grilled calamari is a taverna classic and one often found in the seaside fish eateries along the Athenian Riviera. You can use frozen squid for this, but make sure the tubes are large enough to fill.

19. Lemon-Honey-Mustard – Ladolemono me Meli kai Moustarda

24 January 2020

This is my favorite Greek recipe for a classic dressing! Use it over a simple, fresh greens salads. It’s also great over grilled seafood, such as shrimp and squid. You can try adding a grated knob of ginger to this as well as some fresh herbs of choice, such as chopped dill, parsley, mint or basil. I like to ...

20. Kritharoto – Seafood Orzo

19 February 2019

This Kritharoto - Seafood Orzo, is a recipe for creamy seafood risotto with orzo pasta. Kritharoto is a new name in the Greek culinary lexicon, a hybrid borrowed from Italian risotto and Greek kritharaki, the name for orzo. This dish essentially is a variation on the great northern Greek classic mussel pilaf.

21. Greek Lent: A Fasting Tradition with Healthful Recipes and Great Flavor

12 February 2019

Greek Lent What are the Foods of Greek Orthodox Lent? Several years ago, I spent the night before «Clean Monday», as Greeks call the first day of Lent, baking the traditional Lenten flatbread lagana with a local Athenian baker. Even though he went about his business methodically and professionally, turning out more than a thousand or so loaves, he didn’t ...

22. Orzo Seafood Risotto, Kritharoto

18 May 2016

Kritharoto is a new name in the Greek culinary lexicon, a hybrid borrowed from Italian risotto and Greek kritharaki, the name for orzo. This dish essentially is a variation on the great northern Greek classic mussel and seafood pilaf. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to make this, visit my online shop here , where you'll discover ...