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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 Famiglia
It seems like not long ago I was blogging about our frigid winter, and now we have the flip side—a blistering summer. But I’m not complaining—at least not very much. Summer brings so many wonderful gifts that it’s hard to protest its few downsides. And one of our most enduring gifts of summer is the…
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Weighing In for Healthy Meals
When I’m rushing to get dinner on the table, it’s easy to become slapdash with recipe measurements, but it’s important to pull out those measuring cups and spoons when preparing heart-healthy recipes. It’s very tempting to pour a swirl of olive oil into a pan, estimating that I have about a tablespoon, but if I…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 