The Full Plate Blog: Feeling a little less controlled by technology...

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Feeling a little less controlled by technology...

Part of my effort to get back in balance in 2010 is to spend less time online. I got ready for this goal before the holidays, when I “unfriended” all of my “friends” on Facebook. Shocking, I know. It wasn’t that I didn’t value their friendship. There were a few really witty friends whose daily posts I greatly miss. But overall, the time of each day that I gained back (and all of the social drama I can once again be blissfully ignorant about) is really, really nice. I am back to living in my own happy little bubble.

My intention was to still keep the Full Plate page active on Facebook, since I know that many like to get the blog updates that way. But, since I have spent way too much time these past couple days trying to (unsuccessfully) post to Full Plate’s Facebook page, I have decided to hop off Facebook entirely. Since I couldn’t even post to the Wall to let the FB “fans” know this, poof, it’s just gone.

So, if you have friends who were relying on Facebook to get Full Plate updates, please let them know to bookmark this site, or you can subscribe to the posts and/or comments right here on the right hand column of the blog, which should send it to the reader of your choice (Google, Yahoo, etc.). Onward!

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About Founder/Editor Eila DeBard Johnson

This blog has not been updated since 2015, but you are welcome to bookmark the recipes, so you can enjoy "bonus hours" with friends and family.

When I wrote this blog, I described myself as a happy, healthy mom of two young children, who has a knack for being able to whip up family-friendly, healthy meals with whatever I find in our fridge, freezer and pantry. In these years of motherhood, I have come to appreciate that there is so much intertwined in "being healthy" and feeling good as a mother, wife and friend. As a super busy mom who raising young children, juggled part-time work, volunteering, keeping the house in order, writing this blog and the elusive goal of “me” time, I understand the need for recipes to be simple.

While I’d love to claim that I cook everything from scratch, with only local ingredients, I don’t. One of my children is a vegetarian, the other is a self-proclaimed "meatatarian", so mealtimes are a constant juggling act around here. But, I do a swell job of getting healthful meals made quickly…that everyone around here enjoys. And if you open my freezer, chances are you'll find a bevy of homemade meals at the ready.

My love of cooking comes from an entire childhood spent in Southern California, where phenomenal produce was available (and offered up) year round... memories of homemade meals and family dinners throughout my upbringing... my incredible exchange student experience living on a farm in Austria in high school... and years of fine-tuning my cooking skills through numerous classes at The Institute for Culinary Education (then called Peter Kump's), private cooking lessons at night after my day job at an investment bank, and a Professional Certificate in Techniques of Healthy Cooking from The Culinary Institute of America. I have a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Northwestern.

Before writing this blog, I ran a (wildly popular) Fairfield County, CT-based personal chef service; consulted on private label food products; and worked in new product development and brand management for a really big food company.

As my children got older, and I had the dinner gig down pat, I shifted my focus and expertise. You can find out more about what I am up to here.