About the Passionate Plate

The Passionate Plate: Those who know me best will confirm I have an inclination to be passionate about everything. Whatever I love, care about, or am interested in, I love, care about, and am interested in with all that I am. I hold nothing back, not in my heart and not with my energy. While I’ll admit having passion about everything can get a little exhausting at times it also increases the color dial on life and makes even the most ordinary things and events worth noting. The Passionate Plate is where I’ll note it all, posting about everything in life I’m passionate about and because that covers such a wide range, I’ve created three blogs in one to hold it all.

Savoring Life is dedicated to food and good health from every angle. Like other foodie blogs I’ll share reviews and photos on meals eaten out in restaurants and at our table at home, the never-ending quest for the best of the season at the nearby farmer’s market, and favorite and failed recipes from the decadently buttery to the low-fat and lean. Aaaaaand because I’m a foodie who spent years loving food in ample servings as frequently as possible I’ll be sharing my weight-loss story; what it was like to be morbidly obese in a world that glorifies thin, the diets and extremes to which I went to lose weight and the journey to at last shed 170 pounds and having lost the weight, to record what it’s like to learn how to maintain a healthy weight, being as forthcoming about the successes as about the mistakes that will inevitably be made along the way. I’ll post on body image issues, fitness gadgets and healthy low-cal snacks that keep the foodie in me satisfied until the next meal.

Savouring Life will be about OUR life living in the Bay area. The posts will focus on the mundane events of daily living in our household of two women and two cats, day trips we take around Northern California and vacations we take away from home including a long awaited for trip to France and Italy that’s somewhere in the far distant horizon.

Saviouring Life will be the section devoted to faith and spirituality whether it be personal reflections from my journey to follow Christ to the words of others that have inspired or challenged me in my relationship with God and with others. Saviouring will have stories from my life in the church and thoughts on my great love for the church and endless frustration with the church.

And all this savoring/savouring/saviouring will be done…

In Small Bites: I love the trend in dining out that has moved people away from ordering their individual gargantuan plate of food to selecting a meal of small plates that offer a sampling of tastes to be shared with everyone seated around the table. What I intend to serve up here are small plates, just little bites from my life’s passions.

Enjoy. Welcome to my table!