Salads
Apple Walnut Salad with Endive and Dates
This apple walnut salad is a holiday-worthy fall and winter salad recipe, with dates, arugula, chevre, and apple cider vinaigrette.
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Entree
Easy Greek Salmon
This easy Greek salmon recipe bakes salmon, green onions, and cherry tomatoes in a Greek-style sauce with dill, oregano, lemon and garlic.
Appetizer and Mezze
Peperonata (Stewed Peppers with Balsamic, Basil, and Mint)
This Italian Peperonata recipe makes for a flavorful, colorful, and perfectly simple vegan side dish or appetizer.
Breads
Seeded Whole Wheat Bread
This nutritious whole wheat bread recipe pays off with its delicately fluffy crumb and perfectly crispy-crunchy seeded crust. And it’s surprisingly easy to make! This wholesome and flavorful seeded whole wheat bread recipe is one of the many loaves I baked over the two years when I returned to New England after living in Spain.…
Meat and Poultry
Roast Turkey Breast with Garlic and Herbs
Roast turkey breast with warming spices and fresh parsley and garlic is always juicy, never dry. Adding roasted grapes makes it special!
Soups and Stews
Acorn Squash Soup with Turmeric and Ginger
This gluten free and vegan acorn squash soup recipe gets a flavor-boost with ginger, turmeric, and warming ras el hanout blend. Perfectly cozy fall and winter soup!
Dips and Condiments
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto (Red Pesto)
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto, or Red Pesto, is a sweet, tangy, and garlicky sauce perfect for sundried tomato pesto pasta, sandwiches, and beyond.
How To
Homemade Pasta
Learn how to make pasta nonna-style with this easy homemade pasta recipe! We break down how to make simple egg pasta dough from start to finish, and what to serve it with.
Just For Fun
10 Years of Joy and Flavor with The Mediterranean Dish!
I picked 10 top recipes to celebrate 10 years of The Mediterranean Dish, and reflect on TMD’s journey to becoming what it is today.
Drinks
Greek Mountain Tea: The Cozy Herbal Antioxidant Tea
Learn everything you need to know about Greek Mountain Tea (Shepherd’s Tea), including Mountain Tea’s benefits, how to brew it, and what it tastes like.Â
Meat and Poultry
Roasted Cornish Hens with Warming Spices and Garlic
Roasted Cornish hens in a warm Mediterranean spice rub with citrus and garlic are an easy but impressive meal for a cozy dinner.
How To
How to Taste Olive Oil: A Step-By-Step Guide to Go From the Basics to the Pros
Learn how to taste olive oil like a pro with this guide, including olive oil tasting notes, what olive oils to use for baking, and more.
Appetizer and Mezze
Roasted Grapes with Sherry and Thyme
Easy roasted grapes recipe with olive oil, sherry vinegar, black pepper, and thyme, as well as all the delicious ways to use roast grapes.
Fish and Seafood
Baked Lemon Garlic Salmon
This lemon garlic salmon recipe is ready in less than 30 minutes. It’s a quick and easy weeknight dinner recipe everyone will love.
How To
Homemade Seafood Stock
Easy homemade seafood stock recipe also called seafood broth you can make with leftover fish bones and shellfish scraps, simple aromatics, and just 30 minutes!
Meat and Poultry
Baked Greek Meatballs and Potatoes with Garlic and Lemon
Baked Greek meatballs and potatoes is the one-dish dinner everyone will love! Beef meatballs and veggies cook in a lemony Ladolemono sauce.
Ingredients
Olive Oil 101: Everything You Need to Know
We break down everything you need to know about extra virgin olive oil to help make sense of this Mediterranean kitchen essential.
Pantry
The Complete Guide to Italian Pasta Shapes and the Sauces that Love Them
Learn all about Italian pasta shapes with this simple guide! Includes over 20 types of pasta and how to pair them with sauces.
Appetizer and Mezze
Albóndigas (Spanish Meatballs) in a Catalan-Style Saffron Sauce
Juicy, tender, and aromatic, these Albóndigas (Spanish meatballs) simmer in a brothy sauce spiked with white wine, parsley, saffron, and almonds.Â
Recipe Roundups
35+ Bold and Easy Fish Recipes Anyone Can Make
Lots of ideas for gorgeous but easy fish dinners. Includes fast shrimp recipes, grilled salmon, seafood stews, and more.
Desserts
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Cardamom
An easy flourless chocolate cake recipe with olive oil, cardamom, and no dairy or butter. A gluten free chocolate cake everyone will love!
Fish and Seafood
Baked Dijon Salmon with Lemon and Garlic
Easy Dijon salmon recipe with a garlicky, lemony Dijon sauce spiked with coriander, paprika, and oregano. The salmon bakes in foil so it’s tender every time–fail-proof!
Soups and Stews
Mediterranean-Style White Chicken Chili with Chermoula
This easy white chicken chili recipe gets a Mediterranean twist with Chermoula, a bright and herby North African sauce made with parsley, cilantro, spices, and fresh lemon.
Meat and Poultry
Baked Tomato Chicken Thighs and Couscous
This tomato chicken thigh recipe loads chicken thighs with warming Middle Eastern spices and bakes them in the oven with couscous and veggies for an easy one-dish dinner.