Tag: Cooking
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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…
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All in the Technique
Although I enjoy many vegetables—particularly in summer—I steer clear of a few. One of those was broccoli rabe (also called rapini), a somewhat bitter green often featured in Southern Italian cooking. On Sunday I decided to give it another shot. After all, a bitter green has to be healthy—right? I pulled a recipe from Good…
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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 