MXS Cooks

Based on how my body responds, or rather, doesn't respond, to carbs, I've determined that I'm carb sensitive.  I seem to really only be able to make progress on losing weight when I cut out carbs from my diet.  Cutting out sugar hasn't been hard, remarkably, but cutting out breads, pasta, rice and other grains has been.  We were hosting an old friend and colleague who was visiting from India.  It's hard to believe we had known Shuba as long as we had and how long it'd been since we last saw her.  Shuba is vegetarian and has some other dietary restrictions, which coupled with my recent low-carb diet, posed some challenges for our dinner party.  We originally had planned for 5 and possibly kids, so I was struggling with so many requirements that needed to be met.  Finally I came up with a menu that worked for all and after finding out there were only be 4 adults and no kids, things did get easier.  But at that point I had already come up with my menu and didn

Recently I was thinking that I need to compile all the recipes of food I've made for the family so as my kids get older they'll have a reference for all of "Mom's cooking" Lately I think of Mia when I cook and think of key things she should know if she was trying to recreate a dish of mine. The recipes aren't perfect but it's a start for recreating the food the family has grown up with. Great memories usually involve food :-)