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11 March 2025
This delightful salad combines the crunch of smashed potatoes with traditional Greek flavors, making it perfect for summer gatherings or as a refreshing side dish. The creamy yogurt dressing and fresh herbs add a vibrant twist to this classic potato salad.
20 February 2025
This Greek Lemon Chicken Orzo Bowl is a perfect blend of Mediterranean flavors, combining tender grilled chicken with tangy lemon, creamy yogurt, and fresh vegetables. Served over a bed of orzo and topped with a refreshing mint yogurt sauce, this dish is a healthy and satisfying meal that's easy to prepare. Whether you're looking for a quick weeknight dinner ...
14 January 2025
Are you looking for a nutritious and flavorful way to eat? The Mediterranean diet is widely recognized as one of the healthiest eating patterns, promoting heart health, weight management, and overall well-being. In this comprehensive 7-day Mediterranean diet meal plan, we’ll explore delicious recipes and easy Mediterranean diet ideas that will help you embrace this lifestyle. As someone who has ...
2 December 2024
Are you looking to add a unique twist to your Christmas dinner this year? Why not take a Mediterranean approach! Here's a complete Mediterranean-inspired menu, with ideas for every course—from appetizers to dessert.
22 May 2024
Dakos Salad with Yellow & Red Tomatoes is simply a version of “the World’s Best Salad!” It calls for dakos, a kind of rusk, or hard tack. In the Greek kitchen, there are many different kinds of rusks, or paximadia in Greek. Among these, the most famous is the round barley Cretan rusk, called Dakos, which in turn lends ...
19 March 2024
Blue Zone breakfasts are a big deal, but a typical Blue Zone breakfast, Ikaria included, is about quality over quantity. Healthy choices and local foods rule the table, but regardless of where you live it’s easy to adapt a Blue Zone Mediterranean diet breakfast mentality and choose the right foods to jumpstart your day.
4 March 2024
Discover the secrets of the Ikaria Diet, a unique and health-focused approach to nutrition inspired by the residents of Ikaria Island! And in particular, learn more about the Green Mediterranean diet: this amplifies the basic principles of our eating habits and traditions on my island of Ikaria, entirely cutting out red and processed meats. It means consuming more plant-based foods, ...
26 February 2024
What is the typical Ikaria diet breakfast and how can you adapt it to your lifestyle regardless of where you live? Typical Ikaria diet breakfast options will help you start your day right with easy choices that are delicious and nutritious. In the Blue Zone Greek island of Ikaria, breakfast tends to be light but nutritious. It is considered ...
22 December 2023
Stop worrying! That's the best Ikarian Longevity resolution for 2024. And a few foods can help you achieve that.
27 November 2023
Saganaki, in its most popular variation, mostly found in Greek restaurants all over the world, is pan-fried hard cheese. The pan is the point – the word saganaki actually refers to a shallow two-handled frying pan with rounded edges that was part of the kitchen panoply of every Greek home cook in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). There are a ...
24 November 2023
We are edging ever closer to Thanksgiving, one of my most cherished food holidays! And it’s a prime time to delve into the delightful recipes that’ll grace my table. I always love focusing on the Greek recipes that can make your Thanksgiving table pop. There are lots of Greek- and Mediterranean-diet ideas that you can use for this holiday! Sides, ...
31 October 2023
When you let feta into your kitchen and cooking, everything tastes better! Greek feta is a great ingredient for preparing Mediterranean diet recipes and is a mainstay in countless specifically Greek recipes. Salty, slightly sour, earthy, and packed in brine, it’s probably my favorite to include in everything from casseroles to salads and even sandwiches – or just on its own, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with oregano!
