Delicious Fruit Smoothie recipe

Ingredients
1 cup chopped ripe strawberries (5 large strawberries)
1 cup chopped seeded watermelon
1 cup chopped fresh peach
1 cup raspberry sorbet
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

Directions
Place the strawberries, watermelon, peach, sorbet, and orange juice in a blender and puree until smooth and creamy. Add more orange juice if you'd like it a little less thick. Serve immediately in tall glasses with straws.

Diet - Apple-Pear Salad with Spinach and Gorgonzola

Looking for recipes that can help you eat heart-healthy? Try this one! It's low sodium, low fat, with heart healthy oils!

Apple-Pear Salad with Spinach and Gorgonzola

2 medium Granny Smith or Gala apples, thinly sliced
2 meduim Bosc or Bartlett pears, thinly sliced
1/4 cup unsweetened cranberry juice
2 tbs. light brown sugar or preferred sweetner
4 cups baby spinach leaves
2 tbs. crumbled Gorgonzola cheese
3 tbs. walnut halves, dry-roasted
3 tbs. raspberry vinegar or red wine vinegar
1/4 tbs. pepper.

In a medium saucepan, bring the apples, pears, cranberry juice and brown sugar to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer, covere for five to six minutes, or until the fruit is tender. Transfer the fruit with juices to a medium bowl, and let cool for five to 10 minutes.

To assemble the salad, put the spinach in a large bowl or on a platter. Spoon the fruit mixture with juices over the spinach. Sprinkle with the cheese, walnuts, vinegar and pepper.

Makes six servings.

(Source: The New American Heart Association Cookbook, Seventh Edition: Clarkson Potter, 2004)

Diet - Blackened Snapper with Mango Salsa

Looking for an easy, yet healthy recipe? Try this!

Ingredients:
-2 snapper, catfish, or tilipia filets - 4-5 oz. each
-1 mango (skin and seed removed), cut into cubes
-1 ripe avocado (skin and pit removed), cut into cubes
-1/4 cup minced onion
-1/2 cup chopped cilantro
-Salt & Pepper to taste
-Juice of of one lime
-1 Tbsp blackening spices (like Zatarain's)

Combine the mango, avocado, lime juice, onion, and cilantro in a mixing bowl. Season with salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Season with salt and pepper.

Reheat a large saute or grill pan over high heast and add some olive oil to coat it. Rub the filets with enough of the blackening spice to thoroughly cover each side. When the oil is hot (almost smoking), carefully add the fillets to the pan and cood for 2 to 3 minutes per side, until a nice dark crust has developed. The fish is done when it flakes easily with light pressure with your finger.

Top each fillet with the mango salsa. Serve with brown rice and black beans.

Per serving: 430 calories. 40 grams (g) protein. 45 g carbohydrates. 8 g fat (2 g saturated). 7 g fiber. 590 milligrams sodium.

First published in the July / August 2006 issue of Men's Health.