This year, leave the burgers and hot dogs at Jacobs Field and spice up your menu with a Mediterranean flair. Grilling outdoors provides the perfect opportunity to experience the Mediterranean lifestyle, centered on sharing relaxing meals with family and friends, making every meal a easy celebration. Pasta, polenta, rice, bulgur and other grains, as well as beans and legumes, are mainstays.
Meat is eaten sparingly, but fish and poultry is eaten three or more times a week.
Fat in the Mediterranean diet is mainly olive oil, which is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids rather than highly saturated fat from butter or other animal fats. Grilled vegetables are enjoying tremendous popularity in this country, another copy of the foods of the Mediterranean. What makes them so wonderful is the rich, almost carmelized, flavors you get from cooking ordinary vegetables on a grill, especially when drizzled with olive oil. If you are looking for a safe, absolutely delicious salad to take to an outing, consider a pasta salad. Besides, they taste better the day after they are made.