Tag: heart healthy
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Bubbling Bliss
Pizza is often a family favorite on busy nights. Although we occasionally phone our local restaurant for takeout (light on the cheese, of course!), it’s easy to make your own delicious pizza—while controlling the fat. Making pizza dough used to intimidate me. I invariably added water that was too hot or cold—producing a leaden mixture…
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Chocolate Satisfaction
In addition to warm savory dishes, I also long for chocolate on cold winter days. And most other days, if the truth be told! When the craving hit on a recent weekday evening, I turned to a recipe my cousin gave me long ago: Chocolate Cherry Cake Preheat oven to 350°F and combine the following…
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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…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 