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Appetizer and Mezze

The Best Cucumber Sandwiches (No Cream Cheese!)

Cucumber sandwiches are the quintessential tea party sandwich. This finger food are best served the same day you make them. Perfect for graduation, Mother’s Day, bridal showers, baby showers, and more.

Dips and Condiments

How to Make Sauce Gribiche

Sauce Gribiche is a classic French sauce made with hard-boiled eggs, capers, cornichons, and fresh herbs. The egg yolks, whisked together with olive oil and mustard gives it a creamy, velvety texture. It’s perfect over steamed asparagus, poached chicken, boiled potatoes, and more.

Salads

Easy Mediterranean Quinoa Salad

This Mediterranean quinoa salad recipe is packed with bell peppers, cucumbers, olive and feta and finished with a lemony olive oil dressing.

Desserts

Koulourakia (Greek Easter Cookies)

Koulourakia are Greece’s iconic Easter cookies, fragrant with fresh orange zest, vanilla, and warm butter. They’re shaped by hand into twists and spirals, a tradition that includes even the littlest family members. This version combines butter and extra-virgin olive oil for a cookie that’s crisp without being crumbly, and lightly sweet.

Soups and Stews

Spinach Soup with Feta and Dill

Spinach soup with feta, lemon, pine nuts, and dill—inspired by the flavors of traditional spanakopita—is creamy and super nutritious.

Italian

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

Spaghetti aglio e olio with garlic, olive oil, red pepper flakes and parmesan. An easy Italian pasta recipe that uses only pantry basics, you just need 5 ingredients and 20 minutes.

Fish and Seafood

Baked Scallops with Fresh Herbs and Orange

These plump sea scallops are blanketed in a zesty Pecorino Romano and herb crust, then baked until golden and velvety. Elegant enough for a party, but easy enough for a Tuesday night.

Middle Eastern

Juicy Grilled Chicken Kabobs

Grill the juiciest, tastiest chicken kabobs! The secret is in the sauce! I make a punchy chicken kabob marinade loaded with Mediterranean spices, lemon juice, and 15 cloves of garlic! It infuses this chicken kabob recipe with so much bold flavor your family will ask for second helpings!

Salads

Broccoli Salad (No Mayo!) 

Vibrant, healthy Broccoli Salad is packed with crunchy vegetables, sweet dates, and toasted almonds, all tossed in a creamy yogurt dressing.

Soups and Stews

Authentic Molokhia (Egyptian Jute Mallow Soup)

Molokhia is Egypt’s most beloved comfort food — a silky, deeply savory green soup made from jute mallow leaves, golden garlic, coriander, and rich stock. The secret is the tasha: a sizzling pour of fragrant garlic and coriander-infused oil that transforms the soup in moments.

Desserts

Italian Lemon Cookies (Anginetti) 

These Italian lemon cookies, called anginetti, are soft, lightly sweet, and finished with a bright lemon glaze. A traditional Easter (and Christmas!) favorite from southern Italy, they’re as beautiful as they are easy to make.

Meat and Poultry

Juiciest Chicken Burger

Best chicken burger recipe! Juiciest Mediterranean-style chicken patties with Italian seasoning, chili flakes, and crispy breadcrumb coating.

Salads

Mediterranean Three Bean Salad (Easy 15-Minute Recipe)

Bean salads are the perfect picnic salad. They stay fresh, keep well, and serve a crowd. My Mediterranean three bean salad recipe features kidney beans, cannellini beans, and chickpeas tossed with fresh veggies and herbs in a zesty vinaigrette.

Meat and Poultry

Juiciest Grilled Lamb Kabobs Recipe

Call them lamb kabobs or lamb skewers these grilled morsels are a warm weather favorite. Tender juicy lamb pieces, marinated, skewered and grilled to perfection. Serve with a tomato salad and hummus.

Entree

Pomegranate-Glazed Lamb Ribs

When a friend gifted me a lamb last summer, I worked through every cut with confidence, until I got to the lamb ribs. I couldn’t find a recipe that sounded great, so I invented one! Slow-roasted in a foil packet with ras el hanout, then glazed with pomegranate molasses, honey, garlic, and rosemary. They turn out sticky, burnished, and completely irresistible.

Sides and Small Plates

Roasted Radishes (Easy 30-Minute Side)

Roasted radishes are an affordable, healthy, and easy-to-make side dish. Add them to a salad, spoon them over labneh, or enjoy on their own.

Entree

Tuscan-style Beans and Greens

A shallow bowl of tender beans and ribbons of greens, soused in peppery olive oil — this is the dish I fell in love with at a candlelit dinner in the hills of Siena, and the one I’ve been making ever since. Tuscan-style beans and greens is weeknight-quick, endlessly adaptable, and a dish I often return to when I want something fortifying, but light.

Salads

Mango Salad

With fresh ingredients and a Mediterranean twist, this Healthy Mango Salad is a bright and flavorful side salad. Easy to make and ready in 15 minutes!