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Entree

30-Minute Marinara Sauce

Fresh-tasting, velvety, and endlessly versatile, this marinara sauce is the essential Italian-American sauce every cook should master. This recipe takes only 30 minutes!

Breads

Date Nut Bread

Naturally sweet, warmly spiced, and beautifully moist, this Date Nut Bread is an easy baking project for winter weather. It’s the perfect loaf for cozy breakfasts, gifting, or an afternoon coffee break.

Drinks

Tart Cherry Spritz with Thyme and Aleppo Pepper

This tart cherry juice mocktail is a refreshing, nuanced non-alcoholic spritz layered with fruity tart cherry juice, and a thyme-honey syrup with a subtle hint of Aleppo heat. It’s sophisticated, lightly fizzy, and perfect for holiday gatherings or cozy winter evenings. Serve in cocktail glasses with a lemon twist for a festive, cocktail party-worthy drink—without the alcohol.

Sides and Small Plates

Crispy Potato Stacks

Crispy Potato Stacks are an elegant, easy side dish and a lighter Mediterranean Diet-friendly twist on traditional gratin.

Meat and Poultry

Saffron Citrus Marinated Lamb Lollipops with Mint Yogurt Sauce

These Saffron Lamb Lollipops are one of my favorite easy-but-elegant meals. A bright saffron and garlic marinade gives the lamb incredible depth, and a quick sear keeps them juicy and caramelized. Perfect for a celebration meal or a special weeknight dinner.

Desserts

Apricot Walnut Cookies

These buttery brown sugar cookies are perfumed with nutmeg and studded with chewy apricots and toasted walnuts. They’re Maureen Abood’s grandmother’s best recipe, excerpted from her book Lebanese Baking.

Sides and Small Plates

Honey-Roasted Delicata Squash with Parmesan and Pine Nuts

Honey-roasted Delicata Squash with Parmesan and Pine Nuts is a cozy, colorful fall side dish. Sweet, tender squash meets savory cheese and crunchy pine nuts for a simple yet elegant addition to any autumn meal.

Dips and Condiments

5 Ingredient Mint Yogurt Sauce

This cool and creamy Mint Yogurt Sauce is one of my favorite back-pocket Mediterranean condiments. It instantly brightens almost any meal.

Drinks

Sparkling Pear Ginger Beer Mocktail

This sophisticated ginger beer mocktail, which features a dazzling spiced sugar rim and candied pear chips, is made with pear juice, elderflower syrup, and ginger beer. With seasonal flavors and a festive appearance, it’s perfect for serving right through the holiday season and into dry January. 

Fish and Seafood

Super Easy Pan Fried Red Snapper

Learn how to cook red snapper at home! A simple dusting of spices and a sprinkle of flour give this red snapper recipe a gorgeous golden crust. Quick to make and bursting with bright lemony flavor, this is a surprisingly easy and healthy weeknight dinner that comes together fast. 

Desserts

11 Mediterranean Christmas Cookies

These 11 Christmas cookie recipes bring the Mediterranean to your holiday table–from nutty, to spiced, to lemony and delicately sweet!

Drinks

Date Tahini Dairy-Free Eggnog

This vegan eggnog relies on soaked Medjool dates for natural sweetness and tahini for silky, rich body—no eggs or cream required. A high-speed blender transforms the ingredients into an ultra-smooth consistency, while warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom deliver classic holiday flavor.

Drinks

Rosemary Grapefruit Mocktail with a Sumac Salt Rim

This sophisticated grapefruit mocktail balances the bright tartness of fresh pink grapefruit juice with herbal rosemary-infused honey syrup and crisp tonic water, all finished with a beautiful sumac-sea salt rim.

Meat and Poultry

Chicken Chasseur

This French “hunter’s chicken” turns bone-in chicken thighs, mushrooms, canned tomato, shallots and herbs into a comforting autumnal feast.

Breads

Fougasse

Make this rustic French fougasse bread at home!Crispy, airy, and shaped like a leaf (or a head of wheat) it’s a stunning bread that’s simpler than it looks.

Desserts

Greek Almond Cookies (Kourabiedes)

Kourabiedes are the quintessential Greek cookie. These tender, crescent-shaped almond cookies, scented with orange zest and orange blossom water, have a wonderful melt-in-the-mouth texture. Kourabiedes, sometimes spelled Kourabiethes, and pronounced kou-ra-bie-des are traditional Greek shortbread-style butter cookies, often shaped into crescents or rounds, and heavily dusted with powdered sugar to resemble snowballs. My recipe has…

Entree

Butternut Squash Lasagna with Walnuts and Sage

Butternut squash lasagna is perfect for an autumn dinner party or as an elegant vegetarian Thanksgiving centerpiece! Featuring sweet squash, caramelized shallots, fresh sage, and crunchy walnuts, it’s baked to perfection in a creamy garlic-infused béchamel sauce.

Sides and Small Plates

Spanish Sautéed Mushrooms (Champiñones al Ajillo)

Sautéed mushrooms with garlic, or Champiñones al Ajillo, is a simple and earthy vegetarian option you’ll find at tapas bars all over Spain. Learn how to sauté mushrooms the Spanish way!

Soups and Stews

Bouillabaisse

Learn how to make Bouillabaisse, a classic French fish stew brimming with several kinds of seafood in an aromatic tomato-saffron broth. Served with a crunchy crostini and a golden saffron aioli called rouille, this elegant dish is the thing to serve when you want to impress.