On 03/12/2010 9:33 PM, Dan L wrote:

>> I am still limited to lifting, pulling, pushing no more than 10
>> pounds, and I cannot drive or sit in the front seat of a car for
>> another month. But, I can get as much cardio-vascular exercise as I
>> want (can handle).
>
>
> What is the name of your healthy eating cook book?
>
> I have only one by "Americas Test Kitchen, Healthy, Family Cookbook". It
> is not so much a book on eating right, but has lots of recipes that seem
> to be low in the bad things. I probably should find a book that writes
> about eating a healthy diet.



The cookbook is "Eating Well For a Healthy Heart Cookbook" by Philip
Ades MD.

in addition to lots of recipes for interesting dishes, it talks a lot
about salt, fats, cholesterol (good and bad) and the effects on the
cardiac system.


>
> One thing I am not sure about your posting, is that you also had fudge.
> And you lost weight??? I gained weight just by looking at it, however,
> stirring the fudge by hand at the end does require some strength
> exercise.




These brownies are OK, but they don't hold a candle to the recipe that I
usually use, which calls for lots of butter, eggs and sugar.

FWIW the ingredients a

3/4 cup flour
2/3 cup confectioners sugar
3 Tblsp Dutch process cocoa
3 ounces bitter sweet chocolate
1-1/2 Tblsp canola oil
1-1/2 Tbsp corn syrup diluted with 2 Tbsp warm water
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup chopped toasted walnuts


Given those ingredients, you can see they that they aren`t really fudge
brownies. They are missing all those ingredients that make brownies nice
and fudgey. They are a passable substitute.


BTW..... my weight loss has levelled off. I had mentioned the loss to
my cardiologist yesterday. He thought that it was normal after surgery
and said that if I was worried about it I can eat more.