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    Three Full Plates and Two Plates That Suck

    Me wearing a color, with writers Tatjana Soli and Jane Smiley

    Kudos and adulations to Gray, Kira, and Mir who bravely soldier on with the plating while a certain Elephant Plate and an uncertain blue-pottery-or-possibly-the-paper Plate are SUCKING WIND like demented Hoovers.

    We ARE currently crafting a FASHION and MAKEOVER challenge that will [...]

    Fashionless Foodie

    Some things are worth the calories. Many of these worth it things are found at Cakes and Ale in Decartur.

    Teeeeny bit of backsliding at the Decatur Book Festival. I went to Cakes and Ale was ambushed by a gang of crispy-tender quail on a bed of polenta so smooth and rich I [...]

    Grinding and Grounded

    Hey, look! A Metaphor!

    I come to report that here in week 4 or 5 or whatever it is, I am down 5/17ths of a Schubert. Or, in non-mentally ill parlance, down five pounds. My fat jeans that I was barely wedging my carcass into have loosened and I can wear a couple of [...]

    The Tales of Two Schuberts

    I have made a grave error. Very grave! I have named my BODY FAT after my old fat bitchy cat, Schubert. I am trying to lose one Schubert (about 17 and a half pounds) because that’s what I gained as I lay in the bed, post surgery, eating post surgical mac-n-chee with pounds of post [...]

    The Unbearable Carbness of Breading

    Lydia is visiting her family’s hardscrabble no tech farm in Pennsylvania (detoxing from the luxurious cheeses of France, no doubt) so will not be back with us for a few more weeks. I am therefore posting a little early. LA LA!

    Hello, WW! According to my icons, I like cats and books and…boat building? being [...]

    Five Full Plates (of Fruit)

    The Random Number Generator has spoken, and it loves the Early Bird today. Not the Earliest bird. But pretty dern close. Bird 2, SillyMe, who said, in a comment that made me snork coffee out my nose, “I started the day with a doughnut. After that fail the rest of the day is automatically [...]

    The Evil Plan

    LOOK AT THAT! Huh? It is a water bottle, a GO RED pin, and one of those resistance bands you use to work out at home, courtesy of my peeps over at the American Heart Association’s GO RED campaign. I did their 16 week lifestyle heart healthy makeover LAST year, and I had GREAT [...]

    Lights, Camera, Emeril Impressions!

    HI! My book comes out on June 8th. It is already in about half the stores. I head out on book tour this week (so please come out and see me if I am coming to a place near you), and I am freaking right the freaky Friday out. I completely gave up learning [...]

    What I Learned on My Summer Vacation. Or Not.

    1) That summer is no time to be learning things. The mamas here on 5 Full Plates are all not waving in the first week of summer, we are drowning it. We each have our own super great excuses for not being able to manage a single lima bean’s worth of MORE on our [...]