The Best Greek-Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Lent

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. Potato Recipes in the Greek Kitchen: How to Use Potatoes in Greek Recipes

23 January 2023

What could be more versatile than a potato? Greek potato recipes span the gamut of just about every cooking method. Whether baked, boiled, roasted, pan-seared, air-fried or fried (in EVOO!), there are countless ways to cook and enjoy a potato in the Greek diet. And when combined with great Greek and Mediterranean diet ingredients, they become even more enjoyable. Oregano, lemon, extra virgin Greek olive oil - all of these and more work perfectly in potato recipes.

28. Spring Veggies: What You Need to Know About Spring Produce in Greece

26 April 2022

When you think of Greek produce, what comes to mind first? Probably tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers – all the basics of a horiatiki, right? Yes, those vegetables are all great, and particularly wonderful when grown from the Greek earth! But there is so much more to the Greek table, especially in springtime, when gardens on the islands start to transform into ...

29. 7 Easy-Peasy Recipes for Spring

5 April 2022

Springtime in Greece means that gardens are starting to fill with gorgeous, luscious green, and that means lots of new spring recipes for your Mediterranean diet repertoire! Combine fresh ingredients with classic Greek products, like feta cheese, extra virgin Greek olive oil, and ancient Mediterranean grains, and you’ve got a recipe for success - actually, 7 of them!

30. Tahini & Tarama: The Two T’s of Greek Lent

8 March 2022

Tahini and tarama are two of the many superfoods of Greek Lent and they're both surprisingly versatile.

31. Greek Easter on Ikaria

28 April 2021

Easter is the most serious holiday in Greece, a symbolic celebration of renewal and a palpable celebration of spring. Most Greeks leave the city for the countryside, their exodus as much a yearly ritual as the roasting of the Paschal lamb or goat.

32. Vegetarian Traditions in Greek Cuisine

10 September 2020

From luscious stews to delicately flavored stuffed vegetables to soups and salads and pilafs, Greek cookery is rife with meatless meals. It’s hard to think of a cuisine so closely associated with dishes like spit-roasted goat and lamb and skewered kebabs as having a strong vegetarian tradition. Yet the penchant for pulses, vegetables, and grains goes back a long way ...

33. 3 Regional, Organic Greek Olive Oils to Explore

1 July 2019

Summer is the perfect time for using olive oil in easy, light recipes and to experiment with regional Greek oils as seasonings in their own right. You’ll find a carefully selected trio of organic Greek regional olive oils at my online store, each produced from a different variety of olive in very different terrains. Here’s a very quick flavor profile ...

34. Greek Easter Check List – Ingredients You’ll Need to Feast like a Greek!

10 April 2019

We've made our annual Easter sojourn to Ikaria, the Blue-Zone Greek island renowned for the longevity of its inhabitants. Here in Greece, schools get two weeks off, so we've already been here a few days and will stay through the whole "Lambro Evdomada," or "Bright Week," as the week after Easter is called.