Tag: recipes
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Keeping it Fresh: A Key to Heart-Healthy Eating
The key to staying on a heart-healthy diet is to keep our meal rotation fresh and interesting. After Dan’s heart attack nearly 20 years ago, I knew we wouldn’t maintain a heart-healthy diet if it was boring. We needed to find healthy dishes that were delicious and have a variety of options. I scoured “light”…
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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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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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La Dolce Vita–Rediscovering the Joy of Food
I love to watch TV chefs. But as they show off recipes for deep-fried braciole, crab meat topped with béarnaise and towering shortcake crowned with dollops of whipped heavy cream, I stifle a sigh. Oh, these foods are tempting, but delectable dishes don’t have to carry such a hefty fat and cholesterol price tag. I…
La Dolce Vita: Our Heart-Healthy Culinary Journey 