From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods.

So I figured it could be cool to post some recipes - both healthy and fatty. For my first post I’ll be sharing a healthy one that seemed both tasty AND creative. With these cheese crisps you can morph the crisps to be whatever shape you’d like when they’re still soft coming out of the oven. HOW FUCKING COOL?! Could you just imagine dinosaur cheese crisps or kitten cheese crisps or cute little hearts. I would have too much fun with this… 

I found some helpful comments on the site as well.

“If you are a carb counter, this is a great way to form a taco shell and just line it with a lettuce leaf and fill with your favorites. Also after you form the cheese, you can fill with omelet stuff or whatever.” 

“When I’m in a hurry, I just fry these up in my non-stick skillet. I make bite size ones for snacking or for “chips” to dip in something yummy!”

Anyway, here’s the recipe, found on recipes.sparkpeople.com.

Cheese Crisps

Nutritional Info

• Servings Per Recipe: 1
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 456.0

• Total Fat: 30.0 g
• Cholesterol: 79.0 mg
• Sodium: 1,862.0 mg
• Total Carbs: 3.7 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.0 g
• Protein: 41.6 g

These are an oven-baked version of the Italian frico. It’s just basically thin rounds of baked cheese. One of the cool things about it is that they are moldable when still warm. If you drape them over an upturned glass, they will form a cup that you can fill with anything you like. It makes a really nice presentation for a party.

Ingredients

1 cup grated hard cheese (such as Parmesean) - NOT the dried powdery stuff

NOTE ON TYPE OF CHEESE:
You can use any kind, really, but the results will be different. Hard cheeses, such as Parmesan, Romano, Asagio, etc, will make a crisp “shell,” whereas cheddar will be more chewy and “lacey” (the fat separates out), though still firm. Softer cheeses such as mozzerella will not work well.

Directions

Toss cheese with any seasonings you’d like — garlic powder (about half a teaspoon for a cup of cheese), hot pepper powder, even cinnamon. Or leave plain.

Pile 1 to 4 Tablespoons of cheese (depending on the size you want) on a baking sheet covered with a silicone mat or parchment paper oiled on both sides. Flatten the tops so they are in more or less an even pile. There should be at least two inches between smaller mounds, 4 inches between larger ones.

Bake 5 to 6 minutes until they are a light golden brown (they will be a little darker at the edges). It happens fast, so watch carefully.

If you want to mold them into a shape, you want to “drape” them while still warm. You can make cups over an upturned glass, or “taco shell” shapes by draping over any cylindrical object that is at hand (rolling pin, side of glass)

Serving Suggestions: Fill with fruit, dip, salad. Spread flat ones with sugar-free jam (I’m not kidding), or any spread you want, or eat plain.

Number of Servings: 1

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user THATCATHOLICBOY. 

Number of Servings: 1

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=922321

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods. 

So prom season is around the corner and finding that perfect dress can be stressful for anyone. I did a little digging and found some decent sites that provide plus size dresses at reasonable prices. What I also love about these sites is that their plus size clothes are actually modeled by plus size women. Who’da fucking thunk it! (Sorry, that’s always been a pet peeve of mine - when a site sells fatty clothes but won’t model them with fatty bitches.) ANYWAY - 

Rissy Roo’s is in the middle of a sale right now, with dresses as low as $48: http://www.rissyroos.com/catalog/Plus_Size_Dresses-24-1.html

Sydney’s Closet has continuous sales in their clearance section, with dresses as low as $79: http://www.sydneyscloset.com/prom_dresses/Cheap_Prom_Dresses.asp

Prom Girl has dresses as low as $98. They also have a special section devoted to sizes 28 and larger: http://www.promgirl.com/shop/pretty_princess_plus/viewall?ob=pa&sortgo=Go&nt=12

Plus Size Bride is for, in my opinion, those with an unlimited budget. Though their prices are higher they do provide an extremely wide selection of gowns, and you can even have a dress in the skinny bitches section made for big girl sizes (for a price - 18 to 20 is an extra $15 and 22+ is an extra $20). Find them here at: http://www.plussizebridal.com/SearchResults.asp?productid=&manufacturer=&category=PR&searchtext=&sizechart=&Price=&superrush=&MOVE=P

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods.

I haven’t read this one yet, but it’s been in my Amazon cart for a while. Fat Girl, written by Judith Moore, is a memoir written because she was compelled to unveil the truth about being fat. I found a response from Moore on http://www.vachss.com about why she wrote the book: 

“ I wrote Fat Girl because I’d read books that other fat women wrote about how they were fat. Most fat women didn’t write the truth about fat. They didn’t write about fat fat fat fat thighs and how tender flesh on the inside of fat thighs rubs and rubs. The skin on one thigh rubs the skin on the other thigh down to raw blister. Every step you take, this raw blistered skin hurts. You can’t tell anybody “I have blisters” and “I hurt” because first off, you don’t want to talk even in whispers about anything that goes on in the gloom between your thighs. No way. You are disgusting and what goes on between your thighs is disgusting, so you don’t tell. Besides, anybody you told would know you got the blisters because you’re fat. They’d cluck-cluck-cluck that you were fat because in one sitting you poked in your snout and gobbled, with warm garlic French bread: an entire four-serving bowl of the perfect Cobb salad (Romaine and Bibb lettuces, Haas avocado whose soft ripe flesh turns an immeasurably buttery green, watercress, tomato loosed tenderly from its tight skin, cold chicken breast and ham cut into batons, hard-boiled egg, chives, crumbled Maytag Blue cheese, bacon fried and broken up, and for dressing, a heavy sluice of whatever you like). Anyone you told about that Cobb salad and French bread would feel either revolted by you or sorry for you. You don’t want anyone to feel either way, not about you. You don’t wish friend or stranger to feel sorry for you because you don’t feel sorry for yourself, you feel fat.”

You can find the entire response here: http://www.vachss.com/media/righteous/why_fat_girl_moore.html

You can also buy the book on Amazon, used, for $.09 (yes, 9 cents!) and new for $3.49 - http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Girl-Story-Judith-Moore/dp/0452285852/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268532919&sr=8-2

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods. 

I bought this book a while ago and never got to finish it thanks to a heavy course load this year, but it’s definitely on my list of beach reads for this summer. From what I remember, it’s pretty funny and easy to read. 

Here’s the low down on this book, from pinkbooks.com: 

“This off-kilter novel centers on three girls who are definitely not part of the in crowd: one’s fat, one’s a dyke, and one is missing a breast. Nicknamed “Lezzylard” by her classmates, Angie is seduced by the prettiest girl in school, an anorexic who just wants to make imaginary grocery lists. Inez, the school’s pot dealer, can’t shoplift because security guards are mesmerized by her single enormous breast. Shelby and Angie can’t be together because then everyone will think Angie’s only a dyke because she’s too fat to get a guy. Manstealing for Fat Girls explodes the locus where patriarchal and class violence intersect, while embracing all that is magical - and dangerous - about adolescence. Set in a working class suburb of St. Louis in the 1980s, the book is replete with music and pop culture references of the era, but the bullying, lunch table treachery, and desperate desire to fit in ring tune for every generation.” 

Here’s a link to Amazon, because I know you’re now ever so compelled to read this fucking masterpiece! You can buy it used for $.01 (yes, that says ONE FUCKING CENT!), or new for $1.94!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Manstealing-Fat-Girls-Michelle-Embree/dp/1933368020/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268521410&sr=8-1

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods 

There’s a group called “Against Plus Size Discrimination (Pro Healthy Body Image)” on Facebook, run by a very good friend of mine. Here’s a snippet from their description:

“…you don’t have to be plus size or a girl to support. This is simply to promote healthy body image…

Bettie Page would be considered plus size today. So would Marilyn Monroe.

I’m sick of groups like ‘real girls have curves.’ Lovely, well some of the bigger girls are built boxy. ‘Real women have __body part__.’ Well now we’re totally discriminating against anyone who might have lost, say their breasts, or had their ovaries removed.”

This group seems to be similar to this blog, actually, except in a different form. So if you like what you see here, then I’m sure you’ll enjoy the commentary over there as well.

To join just copy this link into your URL and enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=278370891030&ref=ts

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods

Their mission:

“You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement which is incorporated into the over absorption of mass media and lifestyles that are wrapped in consumer culture. 

The intention behind this project is to reach beyond ourselves as individuals to make a difference by creating moments of positive self realization. We’re just attempting to make the world a little better. 

Intention is the most important aspect of the You Are Beautiful project in its idea of purity. Nothing is sacred. Everything that has a perceived value becomes commodified. We work extremely hard that this message is received as a simple act of kindness, and nothing more.

Advertising elicits a response to buy, where this project elicits a response to do something. The attempt with You Are Beautiful is to create activism instead of consumerism. 

You Are Beautiful uses the medium of advertising and commercialization to spread a positive message. 
Projects like these make a difference in the world by catching us in the midst of daily life and creating moments of positive self realization.”

From Sabrina Dropkick, Chicago IL; favorite food: baked goods. 

I’ve always struggled with my weight and will (probably) continue to for the rest of my life. But after being introduced by a lovely band called Gossip, I was also introduced to a newfound confidence in my size with the help of lead singer Beth Ditto. 

Here’s a little backstory from her wikipedia page:

“Mary Beth Patterson, known by her stage name Beth Ditto (born February 19, 1981, in Search, Arkansas), is an American singer-songwriter, most famous for her work with the indie rock band Gossip. Ditto, who is a lesbian, is well known for her outspoken support of both LGBT and feminist causes… [she] is known for her noticeable stage dances and her unique and revealing image. She classes herself as a punk, and thus does not wear deodorant or shave under her armpits, having once remarked that, “I think punks usually smell.” She has been lauded for her support of positive body image, despite comments from doctors that she may be causing harm to public health by normalising obesity. She also formerly contributed to an advice column on body image to The Guardian newspaper…On July 9, 2009, Beth’s fashion collection for the UK retailer Evans [began] being sold online in select stores across the UK.”

Needless to say, Beth Ditto is as bad-fucking-ass a woman as she is a musician. You can listen to entire albums of Gossip for free on their site at: http://www.gossipyouth.com/us/music/music-men