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This blog features heart-healthy gourmet cooking in the Mediterranean style using a standard, 1000-watt microwave oven almost exclusively. (Very occasionally, the slow cooker is featured.) This blog will show that virtually any recipe can be adapted to the microwave with excellent results and quick preparation.
About the Meals
Most dinners require 30 minutes only from preparation start to dinner time. The notation, “a simple dinner,” precedes a posting that is extremely easy, and these meals can be found by searching the keywords simple dinner in the search box.
Some foods are included that are not part of the Mediterranean diet but are rich in omega-3 fatty acids or other heart-healthy nutrients. Salmon, for example, is normally featured twice a week. All recipes follow a lactose-free diet. All entrees are poultry or seafood. Many dinners are gluten free.
I follow the MIND diet as well as the Mediterranean. The MIND diet includes whole grains three times a day, one leafy green vegetable plus one other vegetable once a day, beans several times a week, snack on nuts most days, eat poultry and berries (blueberries and strawberries are highlighted) at least twice a week, and fish once a week. Exclusions are red meat with limited sweets and pastries, limited cheese, limited butter or stick margarine, and limited fried or fast food.
Cooking times will vary slightly. My husband and I have small servings for both dinner and reheated lunch (in covered ramekins) the following day. I have over time varied the listing for the number of servings in an attempt to satisfy my viewers’ tastes. If more servings are desired, double cooking time in the microwave for each doubling of food. (This is a standard microwave practice.)
Personal
Celia Hales is posting the new dinner entrees she served in the evening to her husband and herself, with enough leftovers for lunch the day following. Warm-ups in the microwave generally take 3 minutes for two ramekins at a time.
I have 36 years’ experience with cooking in the Mediterranean style and 17 years’ experience with using the microwave exclusively. Comments and suggested variations are encouraged.
–Celia Hales, Ph.D.
Thanks for the follow….your blog is right up my alley in our busy world. Looking forward to reading through it!! Tina
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Thank you, Tina. You will have to double the food and therefore double the cooking time for your family.
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Hi, thanks for finding and following my Spanish blog! SD
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Thank you for following my blog, looking forward to catching up on yours.
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Thanks for visiting and following my blog (Creative Economy in the Kitchen). Yours looks great–I love heart-healthy Mediterranean style food!
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Thank you for following my blog. I love all things Mediterranean … especially the food!
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Thank you for following me Celia. I will post more healthy recipes and look through yours as well. Can you believe I don’t even have a microwave? Lol In fitness, Bob
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Thank for following my blog. I hardly use the microwave, but your posts are quite interesting. 🙂
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Hi…I nominated you for the Leibster Award because I enjoy your blog. You can check it out here for more info: http://chasenchanceranch.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/a-very-humbled-thank-you/ Tina
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Hi Celia,
Thank you for following my blog. You have a great blog ! I like using the microwave to save time whenever I can. So your blog will be very helpful. I love Mediterranean food too.
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Thank you for following my blog. I look forward to checking out some of your recipes–sometimes life can be very busy and it’s great to have some quick dinner ideas!
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Thanks for following! How clever to have entire healthful meals cooked up in the microwave!
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Thanks for the follow! I’m intrigued by your cooking style! Definitely always looking for ways to make quick meals!
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Hi Mel ,Thank you for stopping by my blog.I like the sound of your recipes but will adapt using other cooking methods, I don’t use a microwave( for my own reasons) that’s one reason why I love Thai cooking as it’s very fresh and minimal cooking as a general rule( the prep takes longer.) My husband prefers Farang food so I’m sure he will enjoy your tasting your recipes The Buttery Salmon with Tarragon and Lemon in White wine sounds delicious.
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How clever, adapting these healthy recipes to the microwave, I look forward to receiving your recipes in my inbox!
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I love your recipes! I am Greek and was just telling my new husband that we need to eat more of a Mediterranean style diet! Love all the recipes and will definitely be using many of them 🙂
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Thank you so much for writing! And congratulations on your new marriage.
You can adapt many of the recipes for cooking on top of the stove, but this creates grease in the air, and this is the reason that I use the microwave. The microwave is also faster.
My husband loves our Mediterranean diet. You will also notice that we eat only chicken and seafood, and that is a health issue. My husband Paul asked me 28 years ago, right after we were married, to serve only chicken and seafood.
We are very healthy. The experts know right about the Mediterranean way of cooking.
Most cordially, Celia
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Don’t look at this blog if you’re hungry! Beautiful photos as well.
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Thanks for following my blog. What a clever and creative point of view you have. Love Mediterranean cooking.
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Dear Celia,
I love your blog! I am nominating you for the Versatile Blogger Award ! Cheers!
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Thank you so much! I offer quick meals that my husband loves. I hope that you too enjoy the recipes that I use.
Celia
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Yes I do! Quick meals are the best for my husband and me too.
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Thank you, Celia, for following my blog. Quick Mediterranean meals…love it!
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Your blog is inspiring. I nominated you for a Dragon’s Loyalty Award.
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Thank you so much!
Celia
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Thank you Celia for following my blog. I look forward to trying out some of your recipes. I barely use a microwave so this should be fun!
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Thanks for stopping by my blog. Your blog looks very interesting. I absolutely love Mediterranean flavors. I will have to use some of your delicious sounding recipes soon.
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very nice to meet you! nice blog!
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Your recipes look amazing. Can’t wait to try them.
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I look forward to reading your blog and trying your recipes!
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Hi celia…i love mediteranean cuisine and would love to try your recipes.
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Hi!
Wonderful blog! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Here is the link.
Congratulations!
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Thanks so much!!
Most sincerely, Celia
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My pleasure! I love your recipes!
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Hello there! What a wonderful blog with lovely collection of recipes! Looking forward to explore more.
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Hello friend,
I have nominated you for the Liebster Award as a token of my appreciation.
Here is the link http://plateituprecipes.com/2016/03/04/liebster-award/. Congrats!!
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Thank you very much!
Celia
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Hello! Your recipes look fabulous and I’ll definitely be trying them. I cook a lot of Mediterranean food but I’ve never used my microwave so I can’t wait to give it a go. Best wishes from Tess, Monty and Chicken. 🐾
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I’m nominating you for the Liebster and I love your style!
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Love these recipes. I look forward to getting some ideas and inspiration for my blog. Fellow Blogger, Alli
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Lovely wholesome recipes – and good to know there are some really easy ones, too!
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Hi, Celia, Love your approach to food and looking forwards to seeing more of your recipes!
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I am a big big fan of Mediterranean cuisine and I can find some very good stuffs here which I will definitely try. Looking forward for some great and interesting recipes here. Cheers!!
Supriya
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Hello. Your recipes are interesting and only microwave is an unusual aspect. Margie
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I found your blog under the “reader,” and I was searching for Italian cooking.
Have a good day.
Most cordially, Celia
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awesome ! can i share some of your recipes on my blog as well …of course i will credit you as the source ?
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Yes, you may. Thank you so much!
Most cordially, Celia
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thank you !
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Hi Celia,
Your recipes look promising and I am going to give them a go! Cheers👍
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Celia, I love Mediterranean food and looking forward to go through your recipes.
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Bonsoir. Love your cuisine as I live by the Mediterranean Sea. But I don’t have a microwave oven anymore😉
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Love the Mediterranean way of cooking.
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I know I will enjoy your wonderful recipes.
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I look forward to trying some of your recipes ~Rebecca
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Hi Celia,
My name is Anuj Agarwal. I’m Founder of Feedspot.
I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog THE MEDITERRANEAN MICROWAVE has been selected by our panelist as one of the Top 25 Mediterranean Food Blogs on the web.
http://blog.feedspot.com/mediterranean_food_blogs/
I personally give you a high-five and want to thank you for your contribution to this world. This is the most comprehensive list of Top 25 Mediterranean Food Blogs on the internet and I’m honored to have you as part of this!
Also, you have the honor of displaying the badge on your blog.
Best,
Anuj
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Thank you very much. My husband and I have eaten the Mediterranean way for 20 years. And we once visited Italy nine times in ten years for three-week vacations each time.
Most cordially, Celia
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Celia, I have been receiving your Miracles Each Day for over a year now. I just now stumbled onto this blog. I hope I have subscribed correctly because I surely would like to see your postings on Mediterranean cooking. Ciao!
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Thanks! I recognize your name. Hope you can enjoy the ease of microwave cooking. Most recipes can easily be tweaked for traditional cooking on burners/oven. – Celia
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I wonder if you recognize my name from my blog or from your home town. You were a bit ahead of me in school but I was friends with several of your neighbors. I currently live about a block from your old home. Would love to have you follow my blog: articulation.me You are quite a prolific writer and I have been enjoying your posts. I recently read your book “Being Who You Are”. I practice TM and Yoga and find that ACOL corresponds with the idea that we must open ourselves to the idea that Divinity dwells everywhere and in everything. I appreciate your good work. Keep going.
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Linda, What a wonderful surprise! Of course I remember you. I picked up on your first and maiden names but thought it was a coincidence. You have commented on my miracles blog. I will follow your blog. Thank you for reading my book. And take care. We have a similar background. I didn’t think anybody in Zebulon knew about my writing. And now I know about yours, too. Love, Celia
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