Hi friends! Happy Sunday. You floored me. I read every single one of your comments on the blog this week and it was deeply humbling. You all were so generous. I’m really so thankful we’re all here together every Sunday. If you’ve never commented, thank you for peeking out to wave ‘heeey!’. I love it….
We’re opening the windows wide and letting the love right in the kitchen today! We’re making another of my family’s favorite pies, brought to us by my favorite fellow baker Erin Jeanne McDowell. It’s been too many years since I’ve made a Lemon Meringue Pie and high time this classic recipe has a space on…
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got four grocery lists working. I’ve got the list for brunch with my boyfriend this weekend. I’ve got this prep list for Thanksgiving week, and the list of things I’ll need to buy fresh a few days before Thanksgiving. It’s wild, and I’m not even planning a major Thanksgiving. …
Hi friends! Me here. Joy. Joy Wilson. Joy the Baker. That I greet us as friends each and every Sunday is no accident. That’s sincerely how I feel. If you’re here, if you’ve decided to come here beyond where google has landed you in search of a chocolate chip cookie recipe, I consider us friends….
It’s that time of year where I find myself wearing short skirts with long sleeve sweaters, a chunky scarf with my cut off shorts. It’s silly really, but there’s that delicious bite of autumn in the wind. There’s a hint of a chill in the air down here in New Orleans, but enough of a…
Hi friends! Let me remind you why you’re here. You’re here for the PIE PIE PIE PIE PIE!! (Yes, I’m yelling and flailing my arms in the air – it’s festive). You know when I bust out the Oprah style volumes to yell PIE I’m screaming about one pie in particular: good ol’, perfect in…
Hello friends! Good Sunday to you! You live in the world with me. You know what it is. We’ve waited all week to find out who the next president and vice president of the United States will be and it looks like change is on the horizon! Nothing in politics feels clean or perfect to…
Hi friends. How are you holding up this week of this year? I mean… what a question. I’m staying steady these days. Minding my own business until I need to not. Gosh. I’ve been meaning to tell you – this is a pumpkin blog now. I’d apologize but I’m zero percent sorry for this Cajun…
It only took me over six years of Louisiana be make a proper Cajun sweet dough and pudding pie but friends, here we are! This is the kind of deep nuanced southern secret that takes time to reveal itself. You don’t just transplant to Louisiana and learn the secrets to gumbo and crawfish pie and…
Hello sweet friends! Gosh I’m glad for this day, aren’t you? This week was, as the world does, everything all at once. Last weekend, as I was leaving camp in Texas I heard mention of a storm in the Gulf. In October. So far into hurricane season I did a double take. Turns out it…
I haven’t had to pull out all the stops, and all of my party tricks to host brunch and dinner guests this year. In some ways it’s been a luxury to let the dishes pile and air dry on the kitchen counter and I’ve been a little lazy about keeping champagne cold in the fridge…
In what I can only describe as an act of pure optimism, my boyfriend bought something like 12 pounds of Halloween candy this year. I’m taking it upon myself to devise some sort of pulley or boomerang system to safely get as many of these pounds of candy safely to each and every, few and…
Hello friends, good morning! How are you? No really… how are you? I’ve had one of those weeks where I surrender to the feeling that there simply aren’t enough hours in the day knowing that there are plenty and I’ve just loaded too much on my plate. It’s temporary like everything so, ya know, we…
I’m here to tell ya that this little old chocolate cake says it all. It’s easy enough to say “Oh I just whipped this up this morning knowing you were coming over for afternoon coffee.” It’s elegant enough to say “Thank you for having us over for dinner. I brought a dark chocolate cake for…
Hello friends and welcome to another fine Sunday. We’re calling it a fine Sunday because we’re going to make it so. Yesterday was the last class of The BakeAway – my ambitious 4-week online baking school. We frosted and decorated cakes, made perfect buttercream frosting, buttercream roses, and generally stressed and fretted our way through…
This week I’m taking my dinners on the couch. “Taking my dinners” makes it sound like someone is bringing me dinner. I should say, this week I’m piling quinoa and leftovers into a bowl and plopping down on the couch for a fright. It’s October. It’s spooky season. It’s me sitting on the couch trying…
Hello friends! Welcome to another fine Sunday in the human experience. The skies in New Orleans are clear and blue. It feels like finding money on the ground. Your heart instantly races and you look around to see if this found money can, in fact, be yours. Yep, snag it fast. That’s this day: look…
Hi friends! Before we formally set off on all of our festive fall and holiday baking, let’s take a minute to talk about one of the baking questions I’m asked most frequently. The question is simple but the answer might surprise and can improve your home baking really quite a lot. Q: What’s the best…
There are two things happening on my Instagram right now. Everyone is either apple picking or giving birth to very precious human babes. There’s truly no in between – it’s either your cutie masked face with your apple haul or it’s your cutie newborn all precious and perfect. If your life is at all represented…
