Several years ago I compiled a cookbook for my girls. I included many of the girls favorite recipes as they were growing up. As I grew up in the South and my mother and Aunt Rhea were wonderful cooks, I used many of their recipes over the years and they became favorite recipes of our family. As I'm helping Audrey after Lauren's birth, and helped Whitney and Claire after Toby, Greta, and Emerson were born, I often go back to my cookbook for recipes. Over the years, I have changed the way I cook, using much less oil, butter and sugars. I'm much more aware of making sure we get plenty of dietary fiber and calcium, as well as eating fewer empty calories, as in pastas, breads, cakes, and cookies. I like to think Papa and I are healthier as a result.
