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15 March 2022
HELPFUL TIP: It’s preferable to buy whole beans and stir clear from trimmed or pre-packaged beans. No matter the color or the variety, you need to prep them by trimming them. Make sure you do this just before you need to use them as they tend to oxidise and dry out quickly. Before trimming them, you need to sort ...
8 March 2022
Tahini and tarama are two of the many superfoods of Greek Lent and they're both surprisingly versatile.
15 February 2022
Adapt a Mediterranean diet lifestyle and mindset easily, wherever you are, by following a few basic tenets.
21 January 2022
BEAN TIPS: There’s always been a lively debate between dried vs. canned beans and which are better for you. Dried beans are definitely more nutritionally dense and taste richer and fresher. But most require soaking, which has become an apparent inconvenience to many people. Canned beans are a close second in terms of nutrition, and I use them a ...
14 January 2022
Lentils figure prominently in the plant-rich Mediterranean diet. Indeed, lentil soup is one of the staples of almost every cuisine around the Mediterranean and for good reason. This humble pulse is a nutritional powerhouse. There are many varieties of lentils that are native or popular around the Mediterranean and many varieties, like these red lentils, more typical of Indian ...
10 January 2022
Mediterranean Diet: 5 Essential Greek Soups The Mediterranean diet is renowned for its variety and healthy choices, not least of which is the array of delicious, easy soups that found all over the region and are based on a long list of Mediterranean ingredients you can find almost anywhere. Where do Greece and Greek cooking come in when it comes ...
3 January 2022
January is Slow-Cooking Month, a time to retrench after likely holiday excesses and to retreat into winter mode more fully. At least it is for me, especially from my perch in Greece and on Ikaria, where the Mediterranean diet reigns supreme.
27 December 2021
Good luck foods are one of the most fascinating chapters in global food history. For Greeks on New Year's, the food of luck is either a bread, cake or pie called vasilopita. There are dozens of different regional renditions, some sweet, some savory. For the Italians, it's lentils, which symbolize money. In the American South it's black-eyed peas. I am devoting this blog to my favorite black-eyed pea recipes, equally delicious for good luck and good health! They're the perfect Mediterranean diet ingredient: humble, versatile and easy to cook.
1 December 2021
FACTS & TIPS: Why Hazelnuts? I had originally created this recipe with bits of cured pork in mind, using a very small amount of meat the way my ancestors would have a few generations ago. But then I wanted to challenge myself and make the recipe totally vegan. Nuts do the trick, and hazelnuts are really special because they’re ...
1 December 2021
FUN FACT: Many of us have seen, tried or at least heard of a Greek salad, but chances are we may also have experienced it in its American version, with lettuce and vinaigrette. Real Greek salad calls for neither! The brininess of the olives and/or capers or sea fennel provides ample acidity and lots of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants ...
