Cooking -or- Are you sure we have time for this?

As you may recall, Michael and I use to cook all the time. In the last 8 months our number of self-cooking nights seems to have fallen off. Really it had fallen off before, when we started asking our ayi to cook for us, but something seemed to change last August that made our lack of cooking much more noticeable.

However, about 9 weeks ago we had a party for some friends of ours and their soon-to-arrive new family member. (Since it has taken me 9 weeks to blog this, Zach is no longer a soon-to-arrive but now an arrived-and-kicking.) We were pretty darn excited for them so hosting this small gathering, or as some might call it - baby shower - to bring a few of their friends together so we could all congratulate them made us feel very happy.

For the get together we made koftas and mango salsa, chocolate cupcakes and icing, spicy popcorn and nut mixture, meringue cookies with and without coconuts, chocolate no-bake cookies, wheat bread, and a banana loaf. The veggies, cheese, and crackers were purchased and required no extra effort on our part.

What was fun, other than sharing the day with friends and eating food, was that it reminded us that we like cooking and we should do more of it.