This week, Joanna Glass is the TriangleMom2Mom featured mom of the week. If you'd like to be a featured mom or know someone we should feature, e-mail me.

Here's Joanna.

Mom2Mom: Tell us about yourself :

Joanna: I am a Local Leader for Attachment Parenting International.

API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. For life. So they can take those bonds with them into their adult lives and share them with their children. And their children can do the same. A life cycle of compassion and connection.

Through education, support, advocacy and research, our principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.

The international site is www.attachmentparenting.org and the local site is Triangle API, www.triangleapi.org.

I belong to both of those groups as well as a local “crunchy” group, Triangle Natural & Attachment Families.

I am so now a member of Mom2Mom and have already found it to me very helpful with a lot of information to help us learn more about the area we live in.

I am originally from NYC and my husband is from the UK.

We are vegetarian, trying to go vegan. We attempt to maintain a chemical free, organic household.

I have three children, two adult girls 25 & 21, and a little boy who has just turned 3.

I love being a parent all over again. It has given me a very different perspective on what is important in my life.

I am semi WAHM, as I work from my home, but for myself so my hours are very flexible. I do a lot of volunteering with support groups that promote healthy, peaceful and gentle families.

Mom2Mom: What's your favorite family place in the Triangle?

Joanna: That changes. We try to find healthy happy places for the kids to play and explore. We love the Museum of Natural Sciences and currently Lake Benson Park has become a favorite with the toddlers in our group as they have a huge soccer pitch that they can run for hours on.

Mom2Mom: What's your favorite place for yourself in the Triangle?

Joanna: Durham Farmers Market.

Mom2Mom: What's your favorite ritual with your kids?

Joanna: Gardening in our backyard. I have an organic garden and have been working on an edible landscape for the past few years that has made it such an enjoyable place to be for us as a family and for play dates.

Mom2Mom: What did you eat last night? Can you share the recipe?

Joanna: Saag Paneer.
1 pound of spinach

1 large onion

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic

1/2 cup chopped tomato

3 tablespoons plain yogurt

1 tablespoon coriander

1/2 teaspoon garam masala

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon salt

8 ounces paneer cheese, cut into cubes

1/4 cup heavy cream

Cut spinach into shreds and cook in 3 Tbsp. water until tender; remove from heat. (You can use frozen chopped spinach to substitute)

Saute onion, cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger in 1-2 tbsp. ghee or oil until onion is translucent.

Then add garlic and chopped tomatoes, and reduce heat.

Cook this briefly and slowly blend in yogurt a little at a time to prevent curdling.

Add coriander, garam masala, paprika, and salt, mixing well.

Add cooked spinach with liquid, cover and simmer on low heat for approximately 20-30 minutes.

Remove from heat.

Take half of spinach mixture and puree in food processor or blender, and return to mixture and stir.

Slowly stir in heavy cream, and heat through on low heat.

Add paneer cubes and serve.

Mom2Mom: What's your guilty pleasure?

Joanna: So You Think You Can Dance… While eating Good Karma Mud Pie Rice Cream.

Check out our other daily themes at TriangleMom2Mom:

MONDAY: Meet!
TUESDAY: Ask!
WEDNESDAY: Eat!
THURSDAY: Play!
FRIDAY: Out!

WEEKEND: Relax!