The Heart of the Matter - eating for life

Heart of the Matter #32: Breads - Sweet and Savory

2009-12-07T12:00:00.000-08:00

This month's theme for the Heart of the Matter monthly healthy eating round-up was Seeds, Nuts and Seed-like things and I'm very excited because we got a lot of entries! Thank you to everyone who participated!The first entry came in from Aparna, over at My Diverse Kitchen: A Vegetarian Kitchen in India, who sent in her take on the theme with her Healthy

Heart of the Matter (HotM) 30: Seeds and Things

2009-10-05T13:11:00.000-07:00

This month for Heart of the Matter, my co-host Ilva and I are going with the theme of Nuts, Seeds and Nut-Like Things. "Things" being other nut- and seed-like ingredients such as peanuts, which are considered nuts by most people (hence, the name) but are actually a type of legume. We got only a few entries last month (all of them fabulous!), but we're hoping

A Roundup

2009-10-01T05:51:00.000-07:00

September's (and half of August) HotM theme was the letter A, heart healthy food that in some way has an important A in it and although we didn't get many entries this month, they are very interesting and varied!The first out is Lisa from The Cutting Edge of Ordinary who made us a non ordinary Crunchy Apple & Grape Salad that looks great and if you use lowfat mayonnaise, it is practically

HotM 29 - A as in August (and September)

2009-08-12T00:28:00.000-07:00

I am completely to blame for this very late HotM announcement, Michelle discreetly probed and pushed me but my brain obviously went on vacation coming here. Anyway, better late than never. So I am proudly presenting you with a new theme for what remains of August and as a bonus, September as well: A as in August (and September). Do you realize what a incredible freedom of choice this gives you?

Budget-Friendly Food - the Roundup

2009-08-06T01:37:00.000-07:00

This month it was Michelle's turn to host the HotM but life came in the way so I took over, she has sent me all the entries and some has been sent to me directly but I am afraid that I have missed someone so please forgive me if it is so and send me a line with your entry so I can add it to the roundup. July month's theme was heart healthy Budget-Friendly Foods and I have here a bunch of

soon, very soon

2009-08-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

This is just to let you know that the roundup will be up soon, we arrived in Sweden yesterday and I need to fix some issues with a reliable and working internet connection first but then I will fix the roundup among the first things!

Slight Change in Plans

2009-07-26T07:38:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,There has been a slight change in plans for Heart of the Matter this month, and I will not be able to do the round-up because I had to leave town unexpectedly. Please send your HotM entries to my co-host, Ilva, at Lucullian Delights. Her email is luculliandelights AT gmail DOT com. If you have already sent in your entry to me, please know that I have forwarded it on to her, so there

Heart of the Matter 28: Budget-Friendly Foods

2009-07-02T19:00:00.001-07:00

If you’re in the U.S. or many other parts of the world, you’ve no doubt heard about The Recession for months now. Many people are tightening their belts and making changes in their lifestyle to try and conserve funds or prepare for uncertain times. But no matter where you are, it never hurts to be a bit frugal occasionally or to have a few meals in your

Join The Party-June's HotM Roundup!

2009-07-01T23:54:00.000-07:00

It's time for the HotM roundup, June's theme was The Best of June's Produce and we have got quite a few great entries as you can see. I will get going straight away, today is going to be one of those busy (and hot) days and people are beginning to trickle in so join the party, there's room for each and every one of you and the buffet table is full of food!Murasaki Shikibu from Samurai Viking

Heart of the Matter #27 - The Best of June's Produce

2009-06-07T08:26:00.000-07:00

It's time to announce the new Heart of the Matter theme for this month, I have chosen one that works for both hemispheres so there's no excuse not to participate! The theme is ... The Best of June's Produce. So be it spring summer autumn, take the food/ingredient you like the best and that you can get this month and cook up something heart healthy, you can choose to make it savoury or sweet,

Heart of the Matter 26: The Locavore (Round-Up)

2009-06-05T00:36:00.000-07:00

The theme for Heart of the Matter 26 was "The Locavore" or using local foods - using an ingredient, or several ingredients, from near your home. I hope it encouraged at least some people out there to seek out some kind of local food or be inspired to start growing something of your own! I'm sad to say though that only two of you out there were able to join us

Heart of the Matter 26: The Locavore

2009-05-03T20:29:00.000-07:00

Eating locally is big these days - the closer to home your food comes from, the more economical, carbon-friendly and overall good-for-everyone it can be. People who eat mostly local foods have even garnered their own title: locavores. Locavores are people who eat mostly food that has been grown or produced near their home (sometimes a radius of 100 miles -

The Heart of the Matter-the Flower Roundup

2009-04-28T01:42:00.000-07:00

It is time for the Heart of the Matter roundup. This month's theme Flowers was not the easiest but I have a beautiful little bouquet here to present you with. I am so impressed by all the entries, you have taken such care of both of recipes and presentations - Thank You!First we have Jugalbandi's incredible Sagz-to-Sexy Smoothie, Bee wanted to call it a liquid salad but was afraid it sounded

Winners and Announcement of April's HotM theme

2009-03-30T02:25:00.000-07:00

So we finally got two winners, one in each category and I am not going to make it a long wait for the hopefully happy winners! So here we go: there were no problems with getting a winner for the Best Presentation Category who wins the Hawaiian food parcel, Michelle and I are happy announce Bee and Jai from Jugalbandi as winners! Congratulations for a well deserved 1st place for their entry Baked

Vote for your Favorite HotM Recipe!

2009-03-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

We have a three-way tie in the Best Recipe category for the Heart of the Matter Birthday Bash Round-up! We need your help to pick a winner so that they can receive their prize! Please have a look at the contenders (in no particular order) and vote for your favorite recipe by Sunday, March 29. On Monday, March 30, my co-host Ilva over at Lucullian Delights

Don't Forget to Vote!

2009-03-23T12:50:00.000-07:00

Don't forget to vote for your Favorite Recipe and the entry with the Best Presentation from this month's round-up for Finger Foods for our 2 year Birthday Bash! You needn't have entered the actual event to vote for your favorite entries! There are prizes for each category: the winner of the favorite recipe category will win a special box coming all the

HotM Birthday Bash Roundup!

2009-03-19T00:28:00.000-07:00

Aloha! And thanks for joining us for the Birthday Bash Round-up for the Heart of the Matter. We're 2 years old now and I don't know about you, but I'm ready to celebrate! We had so many great entries this time - bloggers who have been with us since the beginning, some who have been showing up steadily since they first heard about us, and new bloggers who

Celebrating Two Years of Heart Healthy Cooking!

2009-02-16T08:25:00.000-08:00

Heart of the Matter is turning two years old! Nearly three years ago, Ilva from Lucullian Delights and I started thinking about beginning a monthly blog event dedicated to heart-healthy eating. In February of 2007, Ilva, along with Joanna from Joanna's Food, made those thoughts a reality when they launched the website for Heart of the Matter - Eating for Life and called out to the food blog

2009-02-11T06:19:00.000-08:00

Just to let you know that we will soon post the new theme and I think you will find that it was worth waiting for!

The Heart of the Matter 23 - The Roundup

2009-01-31T04:46:00.000-08:00

I asked for entries and you rose to the occasion! You can't imagine how nice it was so see your entries trickle in after fearing that this was the last edition of the Heart of the Matter-Eating For Life event - Thank you so much! And the variety of entries is also inspiring to see, we have a lot to choose from when we want heart healthy slimmer recipes and they come from all over the world too.

HotM 23 - Slimmer Recipes

2009-01-02T03:35:00.000-08:00

I wish it was as easy to shed whatever it is that you don't like about yourself and your life as it is to change into a new year. It really would be very nice if it went as automatic as the clock ticks over from one year to another but alas it isn't. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't make the effort so here we go with new spirits and hopes. Lately the Heart of the Matter has lost a lot of

HotM 22: Heart Healthy Decadence (Round-up)

2008-12-28T12:19:00.001-08:00

This month's theme for Heart of the Matter focused on decadent treats that were heart healthy. Unfortunately, we didn't get very many entries this month, and so I waited a few extra days, hoping that we might get a late entry or two because December is such a busy month anyhow - and it seems to have worked, because we did! Thanks to the wonderful bloggers who

A December Full of Heart-Healthy Decadence (HotM 22)

2008-12-07T12:36:00.000-08:00

December is a month full of festivities: holiday parties to attend and coordinate, visitors to entertain, baked goods to create, presents to make or buy, occasions to celebrate with friends and family, cards to write and good cheer to spread. For many of us, it's the busiest time of the year, but also a time of year when we get to let our kitchen prowess

HotM 19: grains

2008-12-03T04:48:00.000-08:00

Grains were the subject of this month's Heart of the Matter ... and here you'll find a small number of very good ideas from some of the best bloggers around. Cooking wholegrains always seems tricky to me: there's that whiff of 70s sandal-wearing earnest hippie-dom which is hard to shake off - boring brown food that tastes like horsefeed.Not these days. The 21st century way with wholegrains is

Announcement: grains for November

2008-11-09T08:22:00.001-08:00

This is an announcement for November's Heart of the Matter - we're looking for recipes using GRAINS ... all sorts of grains -wheat, farro, spelt , kamut, amaranth, buckwheat, barley, corn/maize, wild rice, millet, sorghum oats, rice, rye, triticale, quinoa. And if anyone can tell me where in Britain I can buy teff I will be eternally grateful.That list: it's

Announcement: grains for November

2008-11-09T08:22:00.000-08:00

The Roundup of October's HotM - Orange and Yellow

2008-10-31T02:54:00.000-07:00

It's time for the roundup of October month's Heart of the Matter, HotM. This month I was free to choose any colour I wanted and as it is Autumn I couldn't resist choosing yellow/orange. It is emblematic of the season on up here in the northern hemisphere and it is always present in the spring that is going on in the southern hemisphere. So it was an easy choice!We have a lot of different entries

The Heart of the Matter -October is Yellow and Orange

2008-10-03T00:50:00.000-07:00

This month it is my turn to host HotM and I even get to choose a colour because this month whatever you make has to be colourful! I have chosen yellow-orange, I know it's two colours really but I find that there's a thin borderline between yellow and orange and I don't want to find myself in the situation of having to say no because an entry is not yellow enough. (Just excuses to cover up that I

HotM 18: Preserving the Harvest (Round-up)

2008-10-01T14:59:00.000-07:00

Heart of the Matter (HotM) is an event designed to promote healthy eating and heart disease awareness. Specifically, each month Joanna, Ilva and I ask you to devise recipes around a specific theme that are healthy for your heart and your body and share them with the rest of us. We archive all the wonderful entries at the HotM blog, so that whenever you need

Protecting Your Heart While Preserving the Harvest (HotM 18)

2008-09-08T14:02:00.000-07:00

After worrying for years about a family history that involves prevalent heart disease, I finally bit the bullet recently and got a total work up of all of my important "numbers" - HDL, LDL, triglycerides (TC), TC/HDL, blood pressure, etc. - that would help me assess my "actual" cardiac risk. For those of you here in Hawaii on Oahu, The Windward Heart Center

Picnics: the round-up

2008-09-07T07:04:00.000-07:00

Picnics - it seemed like such a good idea earlier in the summer. It's been raining non-stop all over Britain, no real scope for picnics ... most of ours either called off or held uncomfortably in the car. We had one on a beach in Cornwall, involving a fire, sand - and rain. I think it's been the same all over, as entries were unusually thin on the ground ... the harvest-home theme for September

July/August announcement: PICNICS

2008-07-17T05:40:00.001-07:00

The theme for Heart of the Matter for July and August is PICNICS ... whether you're travelling, on the beach, in the garden, going for a walk, rambling up a mountain, going for a bicycle ride - you'll need something to eat, and we'd like to know what it is. Every kind of picnic, from the elaborately pleasurable to the purely functional: what heart-healthy foods do you take with you?Here it's

2008-07-17T05:40:00.000-07:00

The Heart of the Matter, The Heart Healthy Salad Roundup

2008-07-02T02:14:00.000-07:00

Now it is time for the roundup of last month's The Heart of the Matter, the theme was Heart Healthy Salads and I am delighted to say that I have received a whole bunch of delicious and inspiring salads for us to try out! I don't have much appetite right now as it is very hot and humid here right now but going through the entries this morning has created a certain appetite I have to say. I think

June is the Heart Healthy Salad Month

2008-06-04T05:16:00.000-07:00

It's time to announce the theme for this month's The Heart of the Matter; we (me, Joanna and Michelle) have tried to choose a theme that is inspiring for both hemispheres, something that we all make all year round even though we might make it more during the summer because it feels right when it is hot. But then I think a lot of us make them when it is cold just to get some comfort out of it

HotM 15: Herbal Essence (Round-up)

2008-06-03T01:03:00.000-07:00

Here's the round-up for Heart of the Matter 15: Herbal Essence - heart-healthy dishes that include herbs as a main ingredient! There were lots of inspiring entries from all over the world that blessed my inbox this month, including several new participants and many of you that have joined us every month to help keep this great event going! I hope you all find something to last you through the

2008-05-05T12:27:00.000-07:00

Herbs are quite possibly some of the most versatile ingredients out there when it comes to cooking. They can deepen and enrich the flavor of whatever you might be cooking, turn a bland dish into one that *pops,* and even serve as a main ingredient in many recipes (traditional pesto made from basil, for instance). Herbs transcend borders and show up in all

E for excellent

2008-05-05T10:31:00.000-07:00

Thanks Ann and Jack! Really appreciated ...

HotM 14: Brunch, the round-up

2008-05-03T03:52:00.000-07:00

We do breakfast in this house. I'm not sure what the difference between breakfast and brunch is, but, no matter what time we get up, it's breakfast all the way here. And looking at the entries this month, it seems to me that brunch is misnamed, because it seems to be interpreted as a cross between breakfast and elevenses. Brevenses, anyone? Elefast?At Lucullian Delights, co-founder Ilva's OVEN

Brunch

2008-04-16T07:35:00.000-07:00

Posted by Joanna at Joanna's FoodIn this house, as you see, the most enthusiasm is reserved for a full English breakfast (although only the children eat sausages). We don't really do brunch, if that means a collision between breakfast and lunch - no matter how late we eat breakfast, they all always want some lunch. On the other hand, we do often have a leisurely weekend breakfast. No-one eats

yes there is a theme for April too

2008-04-15T01:21:00.000-07:00

Just to let you know that there is a theme for this month too, see Joanna's announcement over here!

Party time - HOTM #13, the roundup

2008-03-20T03:45:00.000-07:00

So here it is, the roundup for this month's HotM, or should I call it the party menu for HotM's first birthday? I'll keep it short because I want to post it in time for your Easter shopping in case you find some dishes that you want to make for your Easter meals! But first of all we, me, Joanna and Michelle want to thank all of you who have contributed to HotM during this first year, if it

HotM #13 Party Food

2008-03-01T08:08:00.000-08:00

This month The Heart of the Matter - eating for life turns 1 year! For one whole year we have month after month been collecting heart healthy recipes at the HotM blog and with we I mean Joanna of Joanna's Food, Michelle of The Accidental Scientist and me but above all I mean you, all of you who have been participating! Thank You! We have done finger food, desserts, soups, pasta dishes, vegetables

HotM 12: Stews and Casseroles (Round-Up)

2008-02-26T14:00:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone! The seasons are changing and Spring is arriving before long in my part of the world, and while I can't wait for it to get here (I'm already dreaming of fava beans and big, lucious strawberries), I try to remember that it's important to live in the present and enjoy these last weeks of winter and wintertime food and experiences before they fade

HotM 12 Announcement!

2008-02-21T09:24:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone!It was just brought to my attention by Jai and Bee at the blog, jugalbandi, that I had the wrong email address listed below! If you have tried to send in your HotM entry this month to me and had it bounce back, please try and resend it to: mphilli4 AT uoregon DOT eduThe address below was previously to .com instead of .eduSorry about the confusion

HotM 12: Stews and Casseroles

2008-01-31T09:00:00.000-08:00

It’s that time of the month again! No, not when PMS hormones are raging and I feel like throwing books or other trinkets at LB when he asks me how my day is. It’s time for Heart of the Matter – the much-nurtured blogchild of the lovely ladies, Ilva and Joanna – whereby bloggers all over the world come up with heart-healthy dishes to share. Last month, my

Soup, the round-up

2008-01-29T08:49:00.000-08:00

Soup isn't an everyday event in this house ... more of a once-a-month thing. As a child, we had soup for supper on a Sunday evening, made by my stepmother from whatever was in the fridge. She's a great cook, so mostly it was delicious, but even she would agree that it was a little hit or miss. She's a Scot, hates waste - and, on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, she chucked in a little

HotM 11: Soup

2008-01-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

Hard to believe that it's nearly a year since Ilva and I set up Heart of the Matter to gather together heart-healthy recipes from around the blogosphere (& thanks Michelle for joining us as you promised at the start). We've tried to keep it topical - so this month it's soup to keep us warm in winter ... or chilled and cooling if you are in the southern hemisphere ;)I don't really start thinking

HotM no 10 - Quick and Easy. The Roundup.

2007-12-20T04:27:00.000-08:00

OK, here's the roundup for our 10th month of The Heart Of The Matter. And I'm very happy to see that a) we have several new comers, b) several old habitué's and c) that I have received so many entries despite this being such a busy month! A Big Thank You to all of you who took the time to participate!This month's theme was Quick and Easy, something we always need, maybe not every day but now and

HotM 10 - Quick and Easy

2007-11-23T09:46:00.000-08:00

I know this is a bit early but I really think we have to change the dates a little this month too. Michelle posted her excellent roundup days ago, you can find it here and here, so that those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving could use the recipes and now I have decided to change the submission date for this round too, I will follow in Michelle's steps putting the last entry date on the 18th but

HotM 9: Holiday Food (Round-Up)

2007-11-20T09:00:00.000-08:00

Nearly everyone knows someone who has been affected by heart disease, including me. It is a product of both genetics and diet, and while it’s impossible (at this point in history anyhow) to control the genes we may or may not inherit from our parents or grandparents, one area where we can make a stand against this deadly disease is by watching what we eat. Losing someone you love (or almost

HotM 9: Holiday Food

2007-10-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

Ilva first brought up the idea for Heart of the Matter to me last March, when I wrote this post. Back then, it didn’t have a name and was just an idea being tossed around between blog friends - something to try, to put out there for the world to find, and to see what happened. Back then, I was smack in the middle of ramping up to finish my degree and trying find some semblance of balance in my

HotM 8: Baking round up

2007-10-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

Well, as usual, I'm running to catch up with myself. This month's excuse is that it's half term, and we've been busy - but who isn't busy with everyday life? Apologies, especially to those of you who responded quickly to my cri de coeur for help with low cholesterol heart-healthy baking.That means NO butter and not much

HotM 8: Baking

2007-10-01T03:35:00.000-07:00

Baking, for those watching their cholesterol and seeking a heart-healthy diet, is a minefield. I am the sort of blogger who would enthusiastically join the Daring Bakers - but all that cooking we can't eat ... it seems a little crazy. All those eggs, all that butter. There's only so much bread you can eat.In the three years since Lucius's heart attack, I've found delicious ways round lots of the

HotM #7 - the roundup

2007-09-26T00:59:00.000-07:00

Sorry for letting you wait but I had to finish writing a review, what is really sad is that I haven't finished it still but I can hardly let you wait more can I? So here we go with the seventh roundup of the Heart of the Matter - eating for life. This month the theme was fruit and berries and we have a surprisingly varied menu here as you will see!The first entry to arrive and the first I forgot

HotM 6: the very late round-up

2007-09-05T10:07:00.000-07:00

Next time I'm away for a chunk of August, I'll get someone else to do the round-up - how can I have thought it would work? No, that wasn't it ... I just didn't think at all. And next time it's grilling, perhaps the round-up should be done by someone who can rely on a little summer sunshine, even in these times of weird weather. We haven't used our grill once this summer, and I'm not sure that we

HotM #7: Fruit and Berries

2007-09-01T03:56:00.000-07:00

I'm hereby announcing the seventh round of The Heart of the Matter and this months me and Joanna have chosen a theme that at least is fitting for our northern hemisphere: Fruit and Berries! Use it in the way you want, as long as it's heart healthy! You can bake them, grill them or use them fresh; you can make salsas, sweet or savoury ones, you can use your fruit and berries with lean meat, fish,

HoTM 6: the grill

2007-07-29T10:50:00.000-07:00

It's time to announce the theme for August's Heart of the Matter - let's hope the weather improves, because it's grilled food. Ilva and I have been really thrilled by the response to Heart of the Matter in the six months since we set it up ... so many of you have joined in to help us make a bank of heart-healthy recipes which everyone can consult. The main points to consider in a heart-healthy

HotM #5-The roundup (updated)

2007-07-25T05:11:00.000-07:00

Waterlife was the theme of this month's round of The Heart of the Matter and I can tell you that there's a winner among all the entries I have got and that is the shrimp! But there are/is(?) fish as well and we have a great variety of dishes, we have soups, salads, appetizers, seconds and even a drunken shrimp! I didn't expect so many entries to arrive but they did, I thought food bloggers went

Nominations!

2007-07-18T06:26:00.000-07:00

First of all I want to remind you that Sunday the 22nd is the last day for this month's The Heart of the Matter and I'm also proud to say that Joanna and I have been nominated twice for the Blogging For Positive Change award for our initiative to make a recipe base with heart healthy recipes over at the HotM blog, Thanks Amanda and Thanks Barbara!

The Heart of the Matter #5 - Waterlife

2007-06-29T05:21:00.000-07:00

So now when Joanna's roundup of HotM #4 has been up for a couple of days, here and here, it's time for the announcement of July month's round! But first I have to say that I am so happy that so many have discovered this event because it really helps us to fulfill its purpose, that of building up the HotM blog with a recipe base of heart healthy food where you can go to find recipes and

HotM 4: vegetables roundup

2007-06-27T05:00:00.001-07:00

One thing's for sure, everyone knows that vegetables are good for you ... this is the best yet for Heart of the Matter, now in its fourth month. Ilva and I set it up so that we could all pool our knowledge of good good-for-you recipes, concentrating on food that won't damage your heart. It's a record entry, with contributions from 32 different blogs: thank you everyone for taking part - it's

HotM 4 - vegetables

2007-06-01T07:33:00.000-07:00

Time to announce the fourth round of Heart of the Matter, and this month's theme is vegetables. They are the basis of the healthy eating pyramid. So just about the easiest thing you can do to help your heart's health is to eat more vegetables ... five a day, seven a day ... you know the drill! The trouble is, once you start to eat more veg, you can quickly get bored of them plain steamed / boiled

The Heart of the Matter #3: Pasta - The Roundup

2007-05-25T00:05:00.000-07:00

This months HotM theme was heart healthy pasta and I somehow knew that we would have quite a few delicious entries coming in. There are all sort of pasta dishes to choose from and it's really nice to see so many new participants, I have even discovered new food blogs this time and that is the way it should be in this type of events, not only does it enrich your choice of recipes but also enrich

Pyramid plan for healthy eating

2007-05-15T02:55:00.000-07:00

I originally posted this at Joanna's Food, but I'm putting it here too to spur you all on in thinking about heart-healthy pasta dishes for Heart of the Matter 3 ...Until recently, health departments displayed a healthy eating plan using a pyramid: the base showed complex carbs - bread, pasta, cereals, pulses, rice; next, fruit and veg; then protein, divided into meat/fish, and dairy products; the

The Heart of the Matter #3-the announcement

2007-04-25T00:49:00.000-07:00

So here we go again: the third announcement of The Heart of the Matter and this month's theme is pasta. Simple and something we eat a lot of already so invent a new dish or post an old favourite, the criteria here is that it is heart healthy, it has to be low on animal fats so try to forget about butter and cream and fat cheeses and go for lean meat, vegetables, nuts and grains. I think that this

RoundUp 2: puddings

2007-04-24T05:28:00.000-07:00

First of all, a huge apology to all American bloggers who were confused by my use of the word pudding rather than dessert. It's what I've always called the sweet course of a meal ... only now I've looked it up, and I see that, these days, I rarely eat pudding, mostly dessert.This is how the two-volume Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines pudding: a preparation of food of a soft or moderately firm

Clarfification!

2007-04-05T22:31:00.000-07:00

To answer an American English speaker's question: all desserts! Pudding is just a British English way of describing it, don't ask me why!Ilva

Calling all pudding-makers! HOTM 2

2007-04-02T03:41:00.000-07:00

Now that April's here, it's time to announce the second round of Heart of the Matter, after all your fabulous finger food creations. This time, it's puddings. It might seem as if there's something inherently contradictory about healthy desserts, as a lot of the point of pudding is self-indulgence. But indulgence doesn't have to come laden with saturated fat - think of a meringue or pavlova with

Roundup #1

2007-03-26T01:57:00.000-07:00

In the beginning of the month Joanna and I announced a new event called The Heart of the Matter- eating for life that concentrates on promoting food that is good for your heart. We all need to think about this, it doesn't really matter whether we are young or old, sooner or later bad eating habits catch up with you but unfortunately we often realize this when it's too late. Now personally I don't

If you want to use the HotM logo in your post you are welcome to lift it!

2007-03-13T07:35:00.000-07:00

Here you have the current logo for the Heart of the Matter - eating for life event in two different sizes so that you can use the one you feel like!

We were lucky

2007-03-09T02:23:00.000-08:00

In July 2004, we set off on our summer holidays, the car laden, as usual, with sports kit - tennis racquets, golf bags, fishing rods, walking gear, several changes of footwear each: everything that was needed for the usual active family holiday. We drove to Scotland, stopping on the way to visit friends, where we would be staying with several other families from our wider family in a huge 18th

The Heart of the Matter-eating for life

2007-03-07T01:37:00.000-08:00

I think it's fairly safe to say that we all know or know about someone with heart problems. After all the heart is what keeps us alive but we often forget that we are responsible for making its work easier within this body of ours. One year ago Michelle of the Accidental Scientist wrote this post about women and heart disease and that prompted us to start talking about making a monthly event