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Pasta Revisited
In my last blog, I reminisced a bit about pasta e fagioli recipes my mom and grandfather prepared over the years and the baked version I planned to try. This recipe from Good Housekeeping was a delicious variation, including spinach, as well as the traditional tomatoes, pasta and beans. However, I added a bit too…
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Hidden Benefits
When I was growing up, my mom served many delicious traditional dishes—including hand-rolled pasta, painstakingly seasoned porkette (an Italian pork roast), and many others—and exposed us to many new ones. Recently, however, we’ve learned to remake many of these recipes to reduce the fat in our diet and focus on old favorites that are more…
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Smart Stand-Ins
As we trimmed our meat consumption over the last several years, we discovered the versatility of meat substitutes—soy burgers that we can grill, crumbles that replace ground beef, sausage patties for breakfast and others. I often prepare stuffed portobello mushrooms, a recipe from Cooking Light. With this recipe, a mixture of crumbles, tomatoes, reduced-fat cream…
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Entering the Process
If you think about heart-healthy cooking, images of fresh fruits and vegetables most likely come to mind. Although these foods are essential, there’s an extra dimension to healthy cooking: entering the process. On busy nights, I quickly toss together ingredients just to get dinner on the table at a reasonable time. But some evenings I…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 