I love the name of this blog. The Passionate Plate: Savoring Life in Small Bites. Admit it. It’s awesome. You wish you had thought of it first but you didn’t so move on and don’t cry in your soup over it. When I started up this blog, that’s… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Call me a quitter if you must but I’m giving up on my idea to post photos of all the food I eat everyday for a week. UNCLE!!! Nice idea but frankly it’s just too boring. Like I need to tell you. I realized it was a pretty lame idea when I got to… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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While my food most certainly could have been better today, as in three smaller meals instead of two big ones, I’m grateful for it nonetheless because I also baked two large batches of cookies to decorate this weekend and no cookie dough, not a… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Our next door neighbors are going to spend a few days in wine country and so I baked a batch of the world’s easiest, yummiest, peanut butter cookies ever and if it matters to anyone, they’re gluten-free. Four ingredients tossed together that take 25… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Here’s my food photo for . . . No. Wait. That’s not the right photo. Something must be wrong with my Flickr account. Let me try one . . .more . . . Ignore the photo! I did NOT eat the Tootsie Rolls! I double pinky swear! Wait. Here it is . …. Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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So here we go. My food for the day. Click on the photo (I dare you) and you’ll be whisked over to Flickr where you’ll be able to not only view a larger version but you’ll be able to download the photo for use as a screen saver, tee-shirt… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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I don’t start my New Years resolutions on January 1st with everyone else. I wait a couple weeks. In doing so not only am I claiming my individuation  from the masses but by now since nearly everyone else has already crashed and burned on whatever… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Though I haven’t been posting on my blog for the past couple months I’ve been uploading my baking photos regularly to Facebook and one of the comments I most often receive is “How do you fix all these yummy things and not gain weight?! You must be… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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104 days until Italy.  104 days until lemon gelato. 104 days until carciofi alla guidia (fried artichokes). 104 days until melon gelato. 104 days until pasta alla carbonara. 104 days until pistachio gelato. 104 days until a steamy mound of pasta… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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I’ve never found diet books to be particularly helpful since the problem for me has never been about not knowing what to do. I don’t need one more food plan or another exercise routine. After more than forty years of trying diet after diet and… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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