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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Cook Book: Healthy Liver, Happy Heart by Annie Douglass Lima


Struggling to protect your heart health or reverse fatty liver disease—but not sure what to cook?

Enjoy delicious, wholesome meals that truly support your heart, liver, and overall wellness. This cookbook is filled with low-fat, low-sodium, anti-inflammatory recipes made from simple, real-food ingredients—each one designed to help you lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation, balance your metabolism, and manage fatty liver disease naturally.

You’ll find everything from satisfying main dishes and vibrant salads to creamy dressings, aromatic sauces, and comforting soups—all bursting with flavor, not with sugar, salt, or fat. Each recipe includes complete nutrition facts, clear step-by-step directions, and realistic prep times to fit your lifestyle.

Whether you’re healing from heart disease, working to improve liver function, striving for weight loss, or simply choosing a cleaner diet, Healthy Liver, Happy Heart makes it easy to cook with confidence and enjoy food that’s both healthy and delicious.

Perfect for beginners and seasoned home cooks alike, these recipes help you eat well, feel great, and care for your body, one nourishing bite at a time. Start your journey toward better heart and liver health today—grab your copy now and discover how delicious healing can be!

 

About the Author/Creator

Annie Douglass Lima is the author of two cookbooks, Once Upon a Bowl of Oatmeal and Healthy Liver, Happy Heart. Though best known for her fantasy novels, she also enjoys creating practical, flavorful recipes that make healthy eating both doable and delicious. Having lived in four countries and visited more than twenty, she brings a global perspective to her cooking as well as her writing. When she isn’t experimenting in the kitchen, Annie works as a teacher and continues to spin action-packed tales of speculative worlds.

For updates on her writing and life overseas, and to receive a free fantasy ebook, subscribe to her newsletter at books.anniedouglasslima.com/LimaNews.

 

Connect with the author online:

Email: AnnieDouglassLima(at)gmail(dot)com 

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 Sample Recipe

 

Review:

This cookbook is well thought out and organized, with notes included with healthy tidbits about the various ingredients used in the recipes, as well as some variations that can be used to tailor them to your individual needs. The images also give a tasty idea of what to expect.
 
The way it is organized makes it fairly easy to find what you're looking for. And I definitely appreciated that there were recipes for items that can be used solo, or as ingredients in other recipes, such as yogurt, various sauces and seasonings, as well as basic staples such as chicken stock. 
 
I tried a few recipes that are more suited to my family. We particularly enjoyed the Black Bean Soup. It was simple and easy to make, with ingredients everyone is sure to recognize. And the taste was pretty darn amazing. We'll definitely be making it again, though we'll likely add a pinch or two of salt ;)
  
 We also tried the Chicken Chow Mein, which was both tasty and pleasing to the palette. There are quite a few other recipes I wanted to try before posting this, but there are too many good ones, and I appreciate the various spice mix recipes included. I've been looking for some good, low to no sodium spice mixes and know these will serve my family well.
 

Where to buy 

Available formats: color hardcover, color paperback, black-and-white paperback, color eBook

Universal link to the book on Amazon and in multiple other stores: books.anniedouglasslima.com/liverheart

*The Amazon links given here are affiliate links. That means that if you purchase anything from Amazon after clicking on them, I may receive a small commission, at no extra cost to you.



Saturday, November 28, 2020

Book Tour: Time Management for Creative People by Deirdra Eden



Chances are you’ve tried and failed with spreadsheets, agendas, day planners, and other mathematical and finite ways of measuring time. Applying the strict regimes of industrial systems to a creative mind can kill creativity, damper the enjoyment of your work, and knock you off balance.

In this workbook you will learn to balance, organize, and prioritize all you need to get done by living your life in creative cycles and seasons while maximizing your high and low energy times the way you were meant to.


Your creativity is a powerful force that can be harnessed, focused, controlled, commanded, and become a powerful ability as you masterfully channel your desire to create into the powerful motivating force it is meant to be.

  
  


Deirdra has spent the last decade captivating audiences of all ages with her novels and fairy tales. Her specialty is paranormal theology that delves into documented historical phenomenon and natural disasters of biblical proportions. 




Deirdra Eden's Time Management for Creative People is a fantastic tool for those of us, like myself, who struggle to manage all of the various projects and what nots going on in life. Her illustrations are easy to understand. The chapters are broken up into easily understood sections.
Each section gives interesting insights into how to best manage time and the creative process. The explanations are easily read and understood. And it's fantastic that a section was included after each chapter for any notes, inspirations, thoughts, etc.

I give this book five stars.