[trojangal]

The American Heart Association has some awesome cookbooks with great recipes...we are learning to use them at our house!!! All of these are "heart healthy" recipes and are lower in salt, fat, etc per serving. I beleive you can also find some on their website as well.

This is all I've cooked out of since Mr. Trojangal's diagnosis especially since we can't have salt anymore. Threw the salt shaker out of the house!!

Here's one that went over REALLY well if you like potatoes--using the two types really brings out a contrast in flavor. Good substitute for our traditional french fries...

Roasted Red and White Potatoes

Olive oil spray

2.5 lbs of small potatoes--red and another flavor--yukon gold are great!

1 tbsp fresh rosemary or 1 tsp dried
1 large sweet onion
fresh ground pepper to taste

Preheate oven to 425 and spray a large baking pan with olive oil spray.

Cut potatoes into 1 inch cubes and pat dry with a paper towel. In large bowl, combine potatoes with all ingredients except onion. Spread in a single layer in pan.

Roast for 20 minutes, stirring and shaking pan after 10 minutes.

Cut onion into 1 inch cubes. After potatoes have cooked for 20 minutes, add onion and bake an additional 20 minutes or until potatoes are browned and tender when pierced with a fork.

Serving size 1/c per serving--serves 6--
Calories: 94
Carbs 20 g
Fat 1 g
Sodium 77 mg


Three cups of the potatoes can be put aside to make "healthy" potato salad later in the week. Just mix with 2 Tbsp light/nfat sour cream, 1 TBSP light mayonnaise 1/2 c. chopped celery 2 tsp. cider vinegar and 1/2 to 1 tsp German mustard.