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hm..id have to say.. falafels!

Can't go wrong with caprese salad.

feta, luscious tomatoes, cucumber, kosher salt...oh boy!

Baked kafta for the main meal & kanafeh for dessert.

ratatouille

Angel hair pasta with garlic, olive oil, and pecorino romano is my kind of comfort food!

Any dish with feta cheese.

i love polenta
creamy pillows on my tongue
food that makes me smile

handful of cheese and
a drizzle of olive oil
would be perfection

my roots call them grits
mixed with bacon and butter
...i'll have some grits, too

Tomato salad (called different things based on the country, and not limited to the Mediterranean) - tomato, feta, cucumber, onion, parsley, with some olive oil and vinegar. I'm not sure why we Americans think salad = lettuce.

A good pita gyros is the best thing ever.

spanakopita

I love everything, but hummus and spanokopita rate highly.

it must have feta to be a favorite!

eggplant parma

Roasted eggplant and garlic

Simple grilled fish.

anything with artichokes

My favorite is dolmas (dolmades) with or without meat. Yum!

Baklava. and how.

anything with tzatziki

greek salad in any form

Oh, this just sounds delightful - if I had to pick one, I'd say I love some tasty stuffed grape leaves. Now I've got a craving! I guess I'll have to hit up my kitchen, because there are hardly any good mediterranean restaurants out here in Hawaii!

spanakopita!

My mom's meat dolmas. MMMMMMMMM.

Spanikopita!

Greek salad

simply grilled squid...mmm!

Hummus, anything with eggplant, and FETA!

Hummus

Falafel and pita with a lot of good hummus on the side.

A nice big Greek salad!

I'd rather have a falafel than an awful fall.

I second the "anything with tzatziki" comment and I love love love a Horiatiki salad (tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, feta) - puts the iceberg I choked down in the cafeteria today to shame

Pistou soup. Its been our favorite for years.

Definately HUMMUS!!

spanakopita and baba ganoush

This question is nearly impossible for me to narrow down. How about anything with lots of eggplant, garlic and/or yogurt?

I'm not sure this counts, but I love baba ganoush - especially from the Wegmans' salad bar.

greek salad and gyro.

Grilled octopus

Hummus! Spanikopita isn't far behind.

another vote for hummus here :)

not "dishes" exactly, but baba ghanoush and hummus are two of my favorite things on earth

hummus and Eggplant are my faves

Grilled feta cheese + grill tomato!

I like an odd blend of Falafel on top of Polenta...

Baba ghanoush - I could go for some now, actually...

Soulvaki -- chunks of grilled marinated lamb, in a pita pocket with cukes, red onion, mint and yogurt sauce.
Also any freshly caught fish grilled with lemon, olive oil & oregano -- octopus...oh heaven.

baba ganoush if it's done well, hummus even if it's not, and some grilled haloumi cheese

Tabouli may be my favorite food in any cuisine

kalamata olives, hummus, arugala and roasted red peppers on focaccia bread...

...mmm I'm all for a plant-based lifestyle!

hummus good olives warm pita bread and a splash olive oil

fish, olives, olive oil, freshness...

Cucumber Yogurt Salad!

any fresh grilled seafood

hummus

Grilled whole fish brushed with olive oil; anything with feta

Mmmm... bathing in hummus while eating falafel.

nice and chunky tabbouli with warm greek-style puffy pitas

Ooooopah! Flaming cheese.

A perfectly cooked tortilla de patatas from Spain.

A huge Greek Salad...preferably from my local diner.

Gyros are delicious. That could be at the top. Also up there would be any sort of fresh squid dishes and that silly flaming cheese you can get at some Greek restaurants (no clue if it's authentic or not, but it's fun and tasty).

hummus preferably from the recipe in casa moro.

Greek yogurt with honey. I have another favorite made with ground lamb or ground beef, cinnamon, and pine nuts, but I can not remember the name of it. Thank you.

hummus

Kifta kabob, or is it kefta kebab. The dish that is spelling many ways. Either as a sandwich or with fattoush.

Squid or octupus grilled with some sea salt on top. Demitris, a great BYOB in Philly, is where I had it the first time. (Not sure if it is still there, but wonderful simple Greek food.)

I love anything with artichokes!

hummus adn taramolsalata

Taramosalata - no doubt! Whipped caviar with so much garlic that it's cruel to go within 50 feet of anyone for the rest of the day - yum!!!

for crying out loud, some of these posts are absurd. Polenta and chicken parm are NOT Mediterranean food. Anywhoo, my vote will be for falafel.

Anything with feta.

couscous with feta, kalamata olives, tomato

falafels and hummus, for sure!

gyros

Kourabiedes-Greek Butter Almond Cookies-are my favorite!

teraustin@mindspring.com

Dolmades

If I HAVE to pick only one....tzatziki sauce.

Many posters have said falafel but I differ from these folks due to the fact that falafel is my favorite food period.

That being said, my response would be shawarma.

Meglo91 and I ought to meet for dinner. I LOVE octopus "tiganito" (grilled)
with a horiatiki salata on the side.

Lamb Kabobs. I love lamb

hummus, gyro and Couscous. Of course a Greek Salad is also nice.

gyros are great..I'm kind of limited on this subject

Baba Ghanoush.

today it would be Fasoulakia

Either hummus or baba ghanoush on warm pitas. Or falafel, spanakopita, moussaka, stuffed grapes leaves, and lamb schwarma. Oh, and baklava. I could never pick just one.

babaganoush

Stuffed grape leaves

mussels cooked in white wine parsley sauce

Couscous, hummus and flaming cheese!!!

Pastitsio!

Gyros

Falafel.

Greek yogurt

babaganoush

I love love love making red pepper hummus

Gyros

I love baklava, chicken soulvaki, and anything with hummus on it.

Shish kebob-lamb.

Pastitsio. (Actually, anything with a lot of carbs and cheese really.)

stuffed grape leaves

All my favourites! Falafel, baba ghanoush, hummus, spanakopita, ful medames, tzaziki, tabbouleh... Vegetarian paradise

Tsatsiki with Pita.

felafel in pita bread, with all the sides stuffed in....

A simple spinace and feta salad.

falafel with hummus and tzatziki

falafels!

Paella mariscada, salad nicoise, anything with harissa

i love dolmas!

Love the Gyros !!!

hummus..gyros..spanikopita...hummus...gyros..spanikopita...over and over.

Are we excluding Italian? Because if not, I'd have to pick that entire cuisine (it is my heritage, after all).

If yes, then I pick couscous with vegetarian chickpea stew - the one with the caramelized onions and sultanas.

Or hummus.

hummus is awesome

I think it's a tie between Greek salad (with lots of feta cheese!) and pitas with hummus.

Garlic hummus, I love it!

gyros

Falafal with a lot of tahini

eggplant parmasian

hummus, of course.

tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil leaves

moussaka

Tabbouleh ftw!

Pitas and hummus. Simple and delicious.

My favorite Mediterranean dish is Baklavah. Thanks for the giveaway!

I like all Mediterranean food. Tabouleh and hummus are among my favorites.

I love anything Greek. Moussaka the best, thanks for the chance

Stuffed grape leaves.

tabbouleh

Smooth silky hummus with warm pita bread.

My favorite is Fata (Lamb and Bread Soup).

Olives, olives, olives.

Mousaka or lamb souvlaki with tzatziki!

Greek salad with Kalamata olives, Feta, and fresh lemon juice dressing, served with warm Pita bread.

Mojadara is wonderful!

I make a vegetarian Mousakka that rocks!! And I just love saying "mousakka".

Hummus is great!

I love a great gyro

Grilled squid.

Paella!

Caprese salad with crusty Tuscan bread!

i love hummus!

Moroccan chicken with olives and preserved lemons

Set me up with some fresh-baked bread and hummus, artichoke salad, tapenade, roma tomatoes and (real) sharp provolone, and you've made me a very, very happy woman.

hummus and gyro's.....the salads sound awesome also!
haven't had much Mediterranean food....need a cookbook!

Would have to be a Mediterranean Pizza! Yum!

spicy grilled eggplant

linguini with white clam sauce and shrimp scampi.......

Roasted lamb chunks, with yogurt sauce and a soft, fresh, hot flatbread and some cucumbers, tomatoes and olives. Oh my.

bread chunks in olive oil, yum!

This may seem boring, but my favorite really is fresh-baked bread, dipped into good quality olive oil, with a sprinkling of black pepper. It just doesn't get any better than that!

greek salad like they had at Palacinka before it closed.

Hummus!

Grilled eggplant rollups with feta, grilled onion, tomato and a herb mix of rosemary, marjoram and lemon juice.

dolmathes

mmmm hummas, and gyros, spanokapita- i love mediterannean food.

Haloumi Cheese sandwich in a pita with tomatoes - wow so good!!

My family is Lebanese and I've inherited the "old" recipes - nothing written down, but my favourites are kousa (I grow my own), anything with tomatoes (I roasted a huge crop of tomatoes with olive oil, balsamic vinegar & S&P this summer-yummy!), olive oil, tabbouleh, kibbee, you name it. Everybody's old recipes are different...

Stuffed courgette
Tzatziki
Kritikos Dakos
Baked Feta

My list goes on and on. I spend 2 weeks in Greece eating & touring, touring & eating, eating while touring and just eating. I didn't gain a pound. FABULOUS food.

almost anything with eggplant--eggplant parmesan, baba ghannoush, imam bayildi,...

Easy! Take a fresh pita and sear it on the flattop grill in the lamp drippings from the 'lamb shank tilt-a-whirl' and then smear it with fresh hummus and a splash of extra virgin olive oil. Then, ladle in a nice helping of tabouli and two beautiful slices of gyro and a dollop of tahini sauce. Fold together and shovel all into salivating mouth. Then, swallow and bliss out.

I love Greek salads!

hummus and pita bread

for me its dolmades with lemon sauce, souvlake with a salad, and galatoboureko for dessert. boy now i'm stuffed.

Mmmm - Mediterranean food, food of my youth! I love fatayah, kibbee, yubruk, koosa, and no eating utensils -- grab it with a piece of Syrian bread. Great, now I gotta go get me some grape leaves and start stuffing!

Falafel, gyros, and tzaziki. Yum!

babaganouch and tabuleh

hummus with fresh pita YUM thanks

baklavah

Red Pepper Hummus is my favorite dish.

chickpea soups

I like Gyros, and greek salad.

Falafels and tzatziki sauce

simple hummus and baklava

oh, hummus!

Shawarma!

We love hummus!

really just olive oil and good bread, of any sort, does it for me. or maybe any other vehicle for olive oil..

I add this not to win a book but to share another of my grandma's recipes:.Babaganoush
One medium sized eggplant, slashed to let the steam out, and a barbecue or open flame stove. Roast the eggplant, turning to keep it from really burning, but enough to let the skin char. That charred taste makes it authentic. If you think it might be cooking too much, it's about right. Remove from the fire when the innards are tender. Let cool slightly. Cut the eggplant to lay open the insides, and scoop out with a spoon into a bowl. Mash it with a fork.
Now add lots of crushed garlic, fresh lemon juice, salt, pepper, chopped parsley, freshly ground cumin, good E-V olive oil. Keep tasting. Set aside for half an hour to let the flavors develop and get friendly with one another.

Scoop up with triangles of freshly made pita. Here's my cheat:
Use pizza dough pressed into thin rounds and let to stand half an hour, can be cooked over the barbeque. Turn them often, pay attention to them. They should puff up.

Grilled octopus!

chicken schwarma, though I have to say I'll eat just about anything with some good feta on top...

Feta cheese on top of everything and anything

spanikopeta

Falafel, pita and hummus

I love the salads and fresh fish from mediterranean diets. And of course the olive oil with bread is much yummier and healthier than butter!

Mushrooms a la Greque with crusty bread and a chilled white wine. Heaven.

grilled fish with lemon

Chard & Pine Nut Tart.

I love mediterranean food more than I can say. We have a local restaurant that makes a mean Chicken Schwarma. I order it every time I go.

Greek salad and grilled pita bread

Marinated lamb.

I'd say anything Greek...probably pastitsio.

I love the salads...

It's such a toss-up. I love falafel wraps. But a nice salad of tomatoes, feta, and cucumbers also tops the list. And I could go for hummus and pitas any time!

I love stuffed zucchinis, a dish my Syrian grandmother taught my mother. You core out the zucchini while whole. Stuff it with rice, beef or lamb, pine nuts and some seasonings, then simmer all day in a pot of tomato soup with a big bone. Add warm pita bread to the meal and it's amazing

Mmmm I definitely have to agree with some of the other posters here, hummus with lots of garlic and toasted pita chips and falafel are some of my favorites!

I add kalamatas, tomatoes, feta, toasted pine nuts etc. to many dishes to make them mediterranean! I guess you could say that I don't have a fave dish, but fave flavors...

fattoush!

falafel made with roasted eggplant!

fool madamas. i could eat it every day with some toasted pita chips. yum!

Definitely falafels and hummus.

I adore Baklava

Lamb, slow roasted with lemon, garlic and rosemary - the smell, the taste - decadence!

Spanikopita and anything with tsatziki on it!

Does eating the entire container of mixed olives count? If you have a glass of wine, it would be a ballanced meal...

this blog is making me hungry for some cabbage rolls and tabouleh!

I heart falafel, tabouleh, and all that good stuff!

My favorite "dish" is really all the apps - mezethes. This is my favorite mediterranean meal.

Spanakopita, hummus on anything, and a big Greek salad with lots of feta!

Although probably not considered the healthiest of a Mediterranean diet, what's better than a gyro (& American fries!)

Flaming cheese. OPA!

kibbe naya (raw), molokhia--an egyptian soup, fattoush, shawarma, and of course kofta sandwiches

I love a good Greek salad - with lots of herby notes. To me it's the perfect harmony of flavor, texture, and color.

ahh so many..I love anything with artichokes, tabbouleh, eggplants, bakalava. but if I had to narrow it down to one dish that epitomizes mediterranean food for me it would be a plate of warm, marinated olives.

Ful mudames

chicken tarna with tahini sauce and baba ghanouj... insanely, insanely good.

white bean salad with feta, lemon, parsley, mint...yumm

i love fattouche with lots of za'atar

hummus! hummus! hummus! also ANYTHING with olives in it!

I love homemade hummus with fresh, homemade pita bread and tabbouli.

homemade hummus with olives, feta, and warm pita

Hummus with pita and grilled squid. Delish!

i love schwarmas!

I love Greek salads with olives, tomatoes, and feta cheese. But I crave spanokopeta even more!

baba ghanoush

Pasta all'amatriciana

Falafel. No....baba ganoosh. No...falafel topped with baba ganoosh!

israeli salad and grape leaves and tzatziki (and so much more)!

hummus got me through college, so i'd have to say that.

pastries flavored with olive oil.

Baklava made with pistachios....and hummus, feta, pita, cracked olives, fresh tomatoes, oregano, and EVOO.
Ok, now I'm hungry!

garlicky hummus with warm fragrant pita bread swirling around in my mouth

Baklava!

taramolsalta and hummus

dolmades!

Meatless rice stuffed dolmades with lots dill

Hummus, anything with greek olives, spanokopita. I love it ALL, and if I won I might know how to make it....

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I love spanikopita....I think that counts as medierranean. Thanks for the great giveaway.

Beans and Greens are my favorite!

I love a good risotto, perhaps with fennel and shrimp. Start with a greek salad, end with baklava.

My favorite is a beautiful pita stuffed with fresh greens, sauce, kalamata olives and falafel! Oh yeah, that's good stuff.

I apologize for butchering this but the rolled grape leaves, I believe they are called dolmaides or something similar.

anything that has eggplant, artichokes, olives, seafood and/or a good olive oil scores up there with me! and of course Baklava for dessert!

Souvlaki!!!

Tabouli

falaffel!

Cracked Greek olives are yummy served with homemade pita bread accompanied by tzatziki, baba ghanoush and fresh feta. I could make a meal of that. But if we are including Italian here, I would have to go with fried zucchini flowers stuffed with basil and ricotta cheese. There is nothing better!

dolmades-rice stuffed-yummy!

On the streets in the Mediterranean, I ate a pita stuffed with falafel, lettuce, french fries, onions, and tomatoes, wrapped in newspaper. Wonderful!

Gotta love that hummus, with some roasted garlic.

I like Gyros. Thanks for the chance to win.
erma.hurtt@sbcglobal.net

calamari! hummus! (but not together)

Tabuli and hummus on pita bread is my favorite

Gyros, hummas, olives.

sofrito!!!

Definitely gyros

Hummus, mmmm!

A good fish meal made mediterranean style

Gyros

Spanakopita

Gyros

Turkish food for me!

Stuffed Eggplant,actually anything eggplant. Every year I try to grow them.

Not loc-cal but Baklava
rosans4@comcast.net

Dolmades! I love them!

I love baklava for dessert. and greek salad with feta cheese sounds good right now.

Spanakopita, Greek Salad, Feta Cheese (!) Greek style Lamb and Chicken, and don't get me started on all my favorite Italian dishes!

truly, i like it all, but if i could only have one item for the rest of my life, it'd be hummus on pita. i'm easy to please.

...we enjoy Greek Salad, Fakes (lentil soup), and Yemista (stuffed baked vegetables).

spanikopita, yummmmm Thanks

Grape leaves (stuffed)

Spanakopita

i love some hummus!
thanks!

My favorite are gyros.

I'm not familiar with Mediterranean foods at all

baklava has to be my favorite but I have not tried but a few dishes but I have been wanting to try more.

spanikopita

Caprese salad .... delicious!

My 7 year old takes dolmas to school almost every day for lunch. I would have to say that they're my favorite because they've saved her from a 5 day a week pb&j habit.

I have never been able to recreate the wonderful dolma I had in Turkey. Mmmm...dolma...

Gryros!!

Fresh pesto on pasta and a Greek salad, is my favorite meal. Thanks for having the contest!

feta with any veggies

Can't beat the gyro!