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Ten of our favorite fresh and vibrant Mediterranean-inspired recipes. Switch up your meal plan this week with one of these delicious recipes!
Anytime a Mediterranean-inspired meal is on the menu, my family cheers! We all love the bright flavors of lemons, fresh herbs, spicy garlic, and salty feta. From salads to flatbreads and main course dinner ideas, there's something for everyone today.
These are recipes we keep making again and again. We hope you enjoy them too!
This creamy, Lemony Feta Dip is perfect for parties, picnics, and potlucks. Serve it with raw veggies or chips for a delicious appetizer or snack!
This Fresh Herb Greek Salad Dressing is one of those simple, throw-it-all-in-the-blender recipes. The base dressing is delicious on its own, but fresh herbs take it WAY over the top!
If salads seem a bit boring to you, you haven't tried this delicious, vibrant Greek Salad that's loaded with texture, color and fabulous flavor. The fresh herb dressing is the crowning glory!
This delicious, pillowy soft Turkish Flatbread is an easy, one-bowl-no-mixer recipe. It's perfect with hummus, tabouli, for wraps and so much more!
This Mediterranean Couscous Salad combines pearl pasta, crisp cucumbers, juicy tomatoes, tender corn and ribbons of fresh spinach to create a healthy, delicious salad. A sunny lemon dressing and lots of fresh herbs take it over the top!
This delicious Mediterranean Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner is a super easy meal that's perfect for busy weeknights but delicious and pretty enough to serve for a dinner party!
This Avgolemono, a lemony Greek chicken pasta soup is healthy and hearty (lots of satisfying protein), creamy (no cream!) and so delicious!
Served warm or at room temperature, this Israeli Couscous Salmon Salad is light, fresh and delicious. It comes together in right around 40 minutes!
This juicy, tender Grilled Chicken Shawarma is wonderful on its own, in wraps, sliced thin in sandwiches and it's super delicious in salads.
This Turkish Tomato Cucumber Salad has a short ingredient list, but always has a long list of rave reviews. It's fresh, healthy and delicious!
Thought for the day:
He put a new song in my mouth,
    a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
    and put their trust in him.
Psalm 40:3
What we're listening to for inspiration:
If you enjoy any of these recipes, please come back and leave a star rating and review! It's so helpful to other readers to hear your results, adaptations and ideas for variations. Thanks!
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Oh my goodness, everything on this post looks beautiful and delicious! I can't wait to try these recipes! I stumbled upon your blog when I found your buttermilk cake and I'm so glad I did!
Thanks, Jennifer! Glad you found us!
Thanks, Jackie! I know that you mean! I'm very much looking forward to hosting people again.
We had the salmon couscous salad last week and it was delicious.
Yay! Thanks, Lora Lee!
OMG. I couldn't get to any of your recipes because they are pretty much covered by all the ads. I know it's not your fault but it's so annoying. I usually just end up forgetting it. Your site is not the only one that has this problem though.
Hi Jan, I'm so sorry this is frustrating to you. I understand. I don't really care for the ads on television either but I know that it's how they are able to offer quality entertainment for "free". It's the same with us. It's very expensive to run a website, purchase photography equipment and computers, buy enough groceries to test a recipe multiple times and pay the people who work for us to help keep things running. It's, like television, the way we can offer tested, delicious recipes to our readers for free. Again, sorry for the frustration.
So much color!! Bright and cheery.
Thanks, Charlotte!
Your veggie and lemony feta dip try is absolutely beautiful! The dip sounds like it would be delicious. I'm going to try to duplicate your efforts for our next gathering, whenever that might be. Can't wait for the opportunity for a gathering now that the vaccine is available.