I have been in the trucking industry since 2014 now I am 40 years old 6'3 300 pounds and needing to make some healthy life style changes really hoping exercise and a good Mediterranean diet will help me ❤

I love greek salad! I could eat it every single day.

Just started learning how to eat a Mediterranean diet, I made your pasta al a puttanesca for dinner tonight...Fantastic!! I stuck to the recipe as I do whenever I try something for the first time, but my wife and I both thought that next time we might add in some mushrooms...not that the dish needs it, but we both love mushrooms. Thanks for the recipes and the videos on how to make the dishes, they're making a big difference.

I love all types of roasted vegetables. Roasting just brings out a whole other level of flavor. I love the addition of white beans to the Zuppa Toscana. I’m going to try the hummus and tzatziki! I’ve always been interested to learn more about the Mediterranean diet. Thanks for these recipes!

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I've made all but one of these, and a half dozen of them are on my regular menu rotation, along with margherita pizza made from scratch, lemon spaghetti, Greek potatoes with grilled lemon slices, and grilled cheese sandwiches made with feta and tomato slices (I might add some homegrown herbs and olives too). I would say I eat a mostly Mediterranean diet, with a nod to the Caribbean (blackened fish), Scandinavia (salmon, berry dishes), and Asia (various vegetarian stir fries). I'm hoping to move to Greece in the next year or two, and I'd like to grow some of my own veggies there.

All of these recips look great but I think the Quinoa Tabbouleh will be the next one that I make. Thanks!

Thank you for these recipes. I only like to cook easy recipes since I have a family. Making Meal time easy for me is a must!!!

I just realized I’ve never had a fish stew (beyond a clam chowder) - this looks good I’m going to try it! 😊

Thank you for the recipes. As you say, I always tought they had difficult recipes. So this is great news.

So happy to see a video from you!

Great video of you sharing simple yet delicious Mediterranean recipes. I'm going to try out the Quinoa Tabboulah, Fish Stew and the Roasted summwr Veggies and get back to you on how we liked it.

I love the Greek Salad and used to make Puttanesca a lot, but now I have to be careful of too many tomatoes, onions and garlic and oils 😢. But there’s plenty of ways to modify. Will be trying many of these!

Thank you for your clear presentation of these healthy & simple to make recipes. Like that almost all ingredients are within one’s household or easy to get. My grandfater&grandmother came to America from Italy & cooked like this, healthier than all this processed food! Will look @ your site.

Great video, Heart of the Mediterranean culture and philosophy of life is derived from Anatolia . I would highly suggest trying Anatolian food and ancient grains dishes as well . History knowledge is also gives lots of clues , tomato’s not used in Mediterranean diet till late 18 th century for example.👍

Nice to see a new video at last! Can you do a series focussing on single ingredients? Like, meals to make if you have a ton of parsley, or stuff to make if all you have is lentils, etc, etc?

Made the tabboula the other day but added some Greek yogurt to make a creamy version. It was delish!

Thank you 😇💯

I've bookmarked the briam recipe to try. Looks like a great side for roast chicken.

The first 2 recipes so typical in the south of Italy, here in Avellino we eat it with buffalo mozzarella. This goes on throughout the summer😊. Just the other day I was thinking how such simple dishes are so quick to make, in just under 45 mins it's all ready, whether it's salads or pasta dishes. Love living here in the campania region half an hour from the Amalfi coast. Oh and what about a pesto of zucchini, almonds and yellow tomatoes? I could go on forever about the recipes and the vibrant colours of the dishes😂

so happy to find you, good info and recipes to help my journey to better health.

I have made a lot of these dishes. The fish stew and white bean chicken sausage soup are my absolute favorite dishes! Mmmmm! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Love the recipes and please continue gifs and meems so entertaining lol😂

Thanks!

I don't understand...where are the recipes? It's nice that your describing them and how to eat them but I want to make it.

All the recipes sound wonderful! Love the T-rex hands you've got going there, too! 😝😝😝

I’ve yet to try quinoa. Can’t bring myself to try it 😅. That soup looked delicious 🤤!👍🏻

love this

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The edits 😂👌

It's really only a healthy diet when using organic, home grown or spray free ingredients. And that is why it gets expensive for some families, who have to buy their food from the supermarket using chemically sprayed vegetables..

hey thank you for sharing all the wonderful recipes! .. i think it is only attainable with fresh vegetables and fruits from the garden. don't you think so? and there lies the difficulty. we people (or many) in big cities, who live in rental apartments do not have that. we have the vegetalbes and fruits from the supermarket only. these products often lack these valuable nutrients, which are very very important for all the meals. they make the meals what they are!

And i’m a Norwegian American and partly Greek, who got to discover Lebanon 9 years ago.. what a revelation that was! I have to say that the Phoenicians ( modern day Lebanon) founded half of our Mediterranean cities Lisbon, Palermo, Antibes, Cádiz , Málaga, Cagliari… and brought us their Mediterranean diet starting with olive oil , wine and food preservation.

We do not get the authentic olive oil like those in the Mediteraean.

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In your book, Foods of Crete, the recipe "Chicken with Green Peas" (p. 85), please tell me if you mean fresh shelled garden peas, or is this a dried pea?

They all look and sound delicious. Sole error - puttanesca with tuna should not be finished grated parmesan unless the tuna is being left out for a veggie option.

So I ran downstairs I had had lunch no dinner and had everything the greek salad it was very good I'm still trying to like the feta it's extremely salty I'm gonna keep trying maybe you can give me a substitute or convince me of its healt benefits or tell me I can skip it 3 choices 😅 thank you

Were they eating "farm raised fish" or wild caught fish?

I'm going to make Greek Briam today but need to divide the recipe in half since there's just me. I wonder if I should reduce the cooking time?

Curious why you said they ate farm raised fish in the past. I read the transcript to confirm. Did they?

Looks good, but how can I prepare each dish.

You could have given a quick cooking demonstration of the meals.

How do we know if we are eating real tuna

GUYS has anyone used Normotim for weight loss??

I just looked at the populations of these so called healthiest countries. Nowhere near as big as I would have expected.

Hummus is not Lebanese, it's a very popular dish in the middle East

not for me don't like cheese or care that much for olive oil but like vegatables and fruits

There is a big mis representation about what people in the Mediterranean actually it. A Western myth that people make money off. I have lived in the Mediterranean for many years. While people there do eat what this fellow is covering, it is far from the whole story. These people eat loads of white bread products every day. In Greece, family eats a loaf of white bread a day, every day, They have a lot of fillo pastry (read white flour) frequently in savoury and sweet pies. To my horror in Athens, those pies are deep fried. Pasta and rice dishes are consumed several times a week. Desserts are popular and many people have them several times a week. A lot of those are absolutely dripping with sugar syrup , such baklavas. No one in the Mediterranean uses wholemeal pasta., That is the real Mediterranean diet.

Firstly, frittata is not a southern dish and secondly, it's not eaten at easter. The usual rubbish from an American who thinks he knows it all.

These diets are totally impractical. We are in the USA here. It's called the Mediterranean diet for a good reason. Veggies and fresh fish products are still very cheap around the Mediterranean, that's why poor people and peasants eat these simple diets. Here in the USA, these same products cost an arm and a leg, are bland in comparison, or contain tons of sodium because they come in a jar

why the heck can't you pronounce Tzatziki correctly?

Taboulé isn’t really Middle Eastern, it’s actually native to Mount Lebanon and Quinoa Taboulé is totally inappropriate as I was taught to use fine bulgur for taboulé.

All of these recips look great but I think the Quinoa Tabbouleh will be the next one that I make. Thanks!