7. Mint Chocolate Chip Shake
March is the month for green beer, four-leaf clovers, Irish pride, and for many, seasonal pleasures like fast-food Shamrock Shakes. Luckily, a healthy homemade swap for this Mint Chocolate Chip Shake by Amber Shea Crawley is only six ingredients and a blender-whirl away.
8. St. Patty’s Day Shake
This St. Patty’s Day Shake by V Lish.com has all of the frosty, minty flavor of a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake®, yet it’s jam-packed with healthy ingredients! So good (and good for you) you could drink one every day.
9. Shamrock Shake Parfait
Ahh, Shamrock Shakes. Most of us have distant memories of this holiday treat. Why not sink your teeth into this yummy Shamrock Shake Parfait by Gretchen Price? Layers of vanilla cake and light mint mousse will bring you back to St. Patrick’s Day in the fast food line. The cake is so light and moist paired with the lightest, airiest mousse a combination worth a pot of gold.
Middle East Meets Middle America
An ancient cuisine is finding a foothold in the mainstream.
Middle Eastern cuisine is a category as vast and broad as, well, the desert.
Distinguished by intoxicatingly aromatic spices and herbs, generous vegetable inclusions, plant-based proteins such as chickpeas and other legumes, and healthy fats pressed from sesame seeds and olives, it offers a bounty of dishes for vegetarians and vegans as well as for lovers of chicken, lamb, and beef (though not pork because of halal and kosher prohibitions).
A significant part of the Middle East lies on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, and although there is some overlap with what is commonly known as Mediterranean cuisine, the region’s food, like its population, is wide-ranging, distinctive, and diverse.