Healthy Hearts for Valentine's

[Mia in Germany]

Welcome to our February Special in the Diabetic Cooking Forum!

Being the month of Valentine's, this month's topic shall be dedicated to our hearts!


One of the main issues that often go along with diabetes is the so called diabetic heart disease. This term refers to different kinds of heart diseases that can be caused or worsened by diabetes.
For more information about what kinds of heart disease can occur, you might be interested in reading this:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/dhd/

Our thread now is about what we can do. Valentine's is the month of hearts and lovers, so what better than giving some love to our own hearts or those of our diabetic loved ones?

Living diabetes friendly and heart healthy is easy and delicious.
Think of all kinds of berries which are low in sugar but high in heart protecting antioxidants, healthy yummy fats like salmon, flax seed oil, olive oil, good proteins from lean meat, fish and all kinds of legumes, low-carb vegetables and greens and hearty full grains like brown rice, buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth, and diabetes friendly whole grain bread like rye sourdough bread.

Come share your yummy heart healthy and diabetes friendly recipes with us for the love of it!
Maybe share impressions of the walk you take after your meal, too - enjoying the winter air and the first hint of spring raising its head.

Playing is easy:
1) Tag ANY recipe from this site that you consider heart healthy and diabetes friendly - or tweak it so it becomes more heart healthy and diabetes friendly and tell us how you did it.

2) Post a reply to this thread stating which recipe you are preparing, and include the recipe name, recipe number, posting chefs name.
i.e. = Andi Paula's Recipe xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx

3) Make the recipe within the month time period, but we will keep the thread open a couple of days beyond the end of the month in case you want to finish a last minute recipe up.

4) Post your review to the recipe page, and picture if you have taken one.

5) Report back to this thread that you have made and reviewed the recipe you tagged, including the recipe name, recipe number, posting chefs name. Post the photo too, as we love seeing your photos and this just makes adds to the fun.
i.e. = Andi has completed: Paula's Recipe xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx

Please come and join the fun of learning and experiencing a healthy lifestyle together!

[Mia in Germany]

Tags:

Paula

Andi

Mia


Diane
Grilled Moroccan Chicken #15580 by Mirj
Chicken Piccata #8648 by Sue Freeman

[PaulaG]

Mia, so well done. I'm headed out for a few days. Will be sure and catch up when I get back.

[Mia in Germany]

Thank you, Paula
Travel safe! We'll be happy when you're back

[PaulaG]

Good morning Mia. I arrived home yesterday totally exhausted. I plan to be home for a few days. Will have to check out some recipes and do some heart healthy cooking for my hubby.

[Mia in Germany]

Hi Paula
So good to have you back Hope you could recover a little.
I've been cut off because a thunderstorm killed my entire phone line last week, and as here was carnival, absolutely nobody was available
Now I'm finally back and trying to catch up with everything!

[Andi of Longmeadow Farm]

hi baby dolls! Ok, I've had a good vacation, and ready to have the fun of a lifetime.

I have been as sick can be sick. I have hacked up my arm pits and beyond for 3 weeks.

Mia, how are you? Germany treating you well? How have you been doing? Miss you immensely.


Paula, I know you are as busy as bee, what have you been cooking and eating?


I have 3 reviews to submit. All valentine heart healthy!!!

[Mia in Germany]

Congrats to Paula for being Chef of the Day!!!
Way to go!!

[Mia in Germany]

Andi of Longmeadow Farm wrote:
hi baby dolls! Ok, I've had a good vacation, and ready to have the fun of a lifetime.

I have been as sick can be sick. I have hacked up my arm pits and beyond for 3 weeks.

Mia, how are you? Germany treating you well? How have you been doing? Miss you immensely.


Paula, I know you are as busy as bee, what have you been cooking and eating?


I have 3 reviews to submit. All valentine heart healthy!!!

Oooh, sweetie, I missed you, too! You have had a very vivid time as it seems - hope you're doing really really good now!
Germany is treating me with cold but sunny winter weather (cold for our region, not compared to cold in your part of the world LOL) and a gazillion emails to work through after being offline for one week
Have to find some really good recipes now after that withdrawl!

[dianegrapegrower]

This has been a fav for a while: Grilled Moroccan Chicken

Made per the recipe, and served on Israeli couscous - a blend I get at Trader Joes. Has baby garbanzos, lentils, etc. and added celery, onion, and carrots - to give me a larger serving without going over my carb budget. With DH's Perfect Garden Salad. A delicious, and heart-healthy dinner:



Diane

[PaulaG]

Andi of Longmeadow Farm wrote:
hi baby dolls! Ok, I've had a good vacation, and ready to have the fun of a lifetime.

I have been as sick can be sick. I have hacked up my arm pits and beyond for 3 weeks.

Mia, how are you? Germany treating you well? How have you been doing? Miss you immensely.


Paula, I know you are as busy as bee, what have you been cooking and eating?


I have 3 reviews to submit. All valentine heart healthy!!!

Andi, I am so happy to see you. I disappeared to Atlanta on Wednesday and got home last night. The weather can't make up it's mind if it's spring or winter. I am having a serious allergy attack. I have a couple of recipes to review and will post them later.

[PaulaG]

dianegrapegrower wrote:
This has been a fav for a while: Grilled Moroccan Chicken

Made per the recipe, and served on Israeli couscous - a blend I get at Trader Joes. Has baby garbanzos, lentils, etc. and added celery, onion, and carrots - to give me a larger serving without going over my carb budget. With DH's Perfect Garden Salad. A delicious, and heart-healthy dinner:



Diane

Oh that looks delicious!

[dianegrapegrower]

Back with another. We've enjoyed Chicken Piccata for years. Recently I started omitting the butter, to reduce calories and fat - still delicious and weeknight-fast. Served with half potato, stuffed with kale, and topped with roasted red pepper and cheese - carnivore DH walked into the kitchen and stopped in his tracks "Is that dinner? I don't need anything else!". And within my carb budget - though I'd have liked more. And finally DH's Perfect Garden Salad (if you're thinking you've seen this before, you're probably right. We have this salad almost every night, and I photograph it often in the background.)




Diane

[Mia in Germany]

dianegrapegrower wrote:
Back with another. We've enjoyed Chicken Piccata for years. Recently I started omitting the butter, to reduce calories and fat - still delicious and weeknight-fast. Served with half potato, stuffed with kale, and topped with roasted red pepper and cheese - carnivore DH walked into the kitchen and stopped in his tracks "Is that dinner? I don't need anything else!". And within my carb budget - though I'd have liked more. And finally DH's Perfect Garden Salad (if you're thinking you've seen this before, you're probably right. We have this salad almost every night, and I photograph it often in the background.)




Diane

I don't mind seeing this salad often, it looks so appetizing that I want some for breakfast right now!
Wonderful picture, Diane. I have to look for this piccata

[PaulaG]

Okay finally got a recipe done.

Grilled Chicken - Shish Taouk by Kiwi Kathy