Healthy Mediterranean Diet Recipes

Everyone who loves crunchy sweet raw red cabbage, please raise your hand.  (Kalyn has both hands raised.)  If you're not raising your hand I hope you'll consider making this Vegan Red Cabbage Bowl using crisp lettuce in place of the cabbage because I loved how the flavors combined  in this recipe, and I'd hate for any cabbage-avoiders to miss out on the other good things here.  Two things that ramp up the flavor are tossing the tofu cubes with a soy-sesame-ginger marinade before they're baked, and a hint of Sriracha in the peanut butter flavored sauce to give it just the right amount of spicy kick.  I made this a couple of times and in the final version I scattered the tofu cubes over the salad like croutons before I drizzled the sauce over, and I thought that was the perfect finishing touch.

We are officially in the season of Tempting Holiday Food.  I'm working hard to bring you a few food choices that are delicious but won't sabotage the diet or raise your blood sugar, and this Easy Shrimp Cocktail with Creamy Sriracha Cocktail Sauce is something I promise will be a hit for a holiday party.  The recipe uses thawed frozen cooked shrimp, which saves the work of cooking them, and the Creamy Sriracha Cocktail Sauce takes about five minutes to make.  In fact, the hardest part of this recipe might be remembering to thaw the shrimp overnight in the fridge, but I do recommend doing that so they'll be icy cold when you serve them.