Tag: heart healthy
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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…
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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…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 