I am a busy mom of three beautiful children, ages 7, 3 and 19 mos., and another on the way! I love to cook for my family and love for the kids to be involved in food preparation so they can learn about healthy ways to cook and the importance of nutrition. I love to cook everything from rich French dishes to Thai dishes, Italian, Mexican and Down home American food. I try to keep my ingredients light and use healthy oils and plenty of vegetables. In order to make sure that we get plenty of veggies with our meals, I usually start with the vegetable dish and build my meals around those. My Mother is Swedish, and so I grew up making delicious Swedish pancakes on Sundays, and Swedish meatballs with lingonberries dinners. In my family, cooking is a social event any everyone enjoys helping. A delicious Red-pepper cream sauce with chicken and asparagus in a puff-pastry that is to DIE for. I was intimidated on the first try, but it is one of my favorites and I reserve it for special occasions it's so good! Not too many, but you do not want to see my kitchen after one of my attempts at omelette making! Luck for me my husband once worked as a short-order cook and he makes better omelettes than any restaurant!