Utterly butterly home

After a week of eating excessively in India I decided it was time to go healthy. Barely 20 days to go before my brother's wedding and I need to do something about my post pregnancy weight. Well, I will have to think of another excuse soon as 'post pregnancy' can't be used much longer

I shared my healthy eating ambition with my mother's cook, a rather large and affectionate women in her forties. After a week of eating steamed and roasted vegetables I walked up to her to tell her that I hadn't eaten steamed vegetables that tasted this good before. Her response, "I always top them up with a spoonfull of butter. After all, you should always enjoy the food you are eating especially when that's what your baby gets to taste!"

My mom has cooked for a number of my friends and they always tell me how yummy her food is. Though I use exactly the same recipes, I can never replicate her cooking. That's basically because she is a great cook but also partly because I can never get myself to use the amount of butter and cream she does! In this land of butter there is little hope of losing weight!