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Craving Comfort
After the massive snow cleanup on Thursday, I had a huge craving for kung pao chicken. I’m not sure why, but this Chinese restaurant standby combining chicken with dried chili peppers, vegetables, ginger, and peanuts in a mouth-watering spicy sauce is always a quick cure for almost any malady I might have. But, as I…
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Chasing the Chill Away
With temperatures dipping into the teens today, soup seemed like the only satisfying option for dinner. Because I didn’t have time for a slowly simmered pot of soup from scratch, I turned to the new cookbook I mentioned in my last post, Cooking Light’s Complete Meals in Minutes. Tonight’s recipe was a Sausage and Spinach…
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Change It Up
As I mentioned yesterday, meal planning is key to preparing heart-healthy dishes. But it’s also important to have a variety of delectable recipes from which to choose. Dinners quickly become boring when you fall into a static rotation of the same old meals. In addition to relying on my trusty binder, including lots of our…
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Simple Strategies
If you crave meals that tempt the taste buds and fit your nutritional goals, you need to team your meal-planning and shopping strategies. When I start to slide on my meal planning, we invariably end up eating meals that aren’t as healthy and—honestly— aren’t nearly as interesting. I recently discovered a nifty weekday meal-planning tool in…
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Turtle Cake
One of my readers asked for dessert recipes in response to my last post on my family reunion. Although I don’t have recipes for many of my extended family’s desserts, here’s one for a cake that I had hoped to bring to the reunion. Given our recent heat wave, though, I opted to save it…
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La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 