For those working on maintaining weight

[shootingstar]

Shootingstar, I love your food descriptions. Can I come to your house? I'll bring a potluck dish!

I wish my mom had taught me how to cook . . . you've inspired me to bug her when I am visiting the parents this weekend.

Any time you're in Vancouver...

This might sound corny and even puzzling to some folks here especially when alot of ethnic food has gone global..but admittedly, some of the home-style Chinese dishes ..is for me, part of family history. It is part of identity. I consider what I know cooking/food-wise which is not well-documented in English,...a legacy from my parents.

So in the end, eating some of this stuff has very little to do with maintaining my weight. I'm just lucky...it does happen to be generally healthy dishes also that I choose to remember and prepare.

After going on a long vacation nowadays, I go home...and cook a steamed meat dish. It's like comfort food to me. At university, I didn't junk out on pizza, potato chips, etc. I was cooking this type of food for myself..it was therapy from studying and occasionally missing home-cooking.

So take advantage of your mother's cooking know-how. We videotaped my mother making gluntinous rice packets with other meat/bean goodies wrapped in bamboo leaves, then steamed. It's 1 food, though not healthy for maintaining weight, I will allow and ask my mother to make whenever I visit. I have not yet learned how to make this time-consuming thing. My mother will not live forever..I might as well enjoy a few non-weight maintenance special foods now.