Hi Everyone!
I just signed on to this site today, I'll go by the name "Mexinana", as I'm Mexican and a grandma. I was raised in the Pacific Northwest, where I raised my 4 children also, who are all grown-up now with kids of their own. I relocated to the mid-West in 2001 and have been in Ohio/Indianapolis ever since. There's so much more to see here and do in the mid-West that it really makes me realize how "young" the wild-wild West is! There's much to love in both places!
Anyhooo, I'm a pretty good cook, I like to make main meal dishes. Since I grew up with a mexican mom and a step-father who was a swede (in the Pacific NW) I know how to make more American dishes than traditional mexican ones, but mexican food is still probably my favorite food. I could eat my homemade beef taco's 2 or 3 times a week, but being health conscience my waist won't allow it. So, I've modified my beef taco's to chicken taco's with flour tortilla's instead of frying the corn ones, making them a little bit healthier.
I've never been much of a sweet tooth and it seems that a lot of "sweets" are baked, so while I'm a pretty good main dish cook, I'm a not-so-great baker of cakes, candies and such. Oh, well, Mary Poppins I'm not!
I hope to join in the comaraderie here, share recipes and make new friends.
Thanks in advance Betty Crocker for providing this wonderful web-site!
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispostions and not our circumstances." -Martha Washington