Friends, hello and welcome to your Sunday. I hope there’s a big inhale and exhale for your lungs right now. These weeks seem to be racing by but I’d like to press the pause button on these beautiful spring days. The shutters are open and the magnolias are thinking about blooming and the sun is…
Kick those feet up, friends. It’s the freakin weekend and boy have we earned a classic cocktail and a few days rest. Because I can’t leave well enough alone, I’ve taken the classic gin sour and added a bitter pinky hue with a splash of Campari. It’s the kind of cocktail that gets down and…
It’s that time of year! Time to dye the rivers emerald green in honor of Ireland’s ride or die, St. Patrick! While I don’t need my rivers or my food tinted green, if the question is “Would you like an Irish beer?” the answer is a resounding “HECK YES!”. I had my first Guinness worth…
I’m fully invested in making you a super hero in the kitchen. Between the birthday cake and the absolute best chocolate chip cookies, I want the people in your life to feel like that apron you put on is actually a cape. Today’s power move is easy (I mean it!), no-knead (believe the hype), crusty…
This week Drake, I mean, champagne papi reposted someone else’s content without giving them credit. Stars, they’re just like us! Am I going in hard on Drake? Yes. But is it keeping me from making a bunch of womblands jokes? Also yes. Hi, friends! Welcome back to me, Kim, Joy’s stupidest friend. This week I’m sharing…
As a member of the Joy the Baker community since 2010, her dad, Mr. Wilson, has a steady presence here. His Sweet Potato Pie recipe is a foundational pillar of this blog. I feel honored to give an outsider’s perspective on how wonderful he is. From what I have seen over the years, Mr. Wilson…
I must lose track of who I am at the grocery store. At the grocery store I’m a person who grabs a bunch of nearly ripe bananas and puts them in my cart with a pat on my own back. And I’m a person who walks past that very bunch of bananas for a week…
Hello friends and welcome to our Sunday! I hope there’s room for this picture of friendship joy as we all headed into the French Quarter last Fat Tuesday. Mardi Gras is our greatest expression of joy and the sun was shining and it felt exactly like the community celebration we craved. The rest of the…
Let’s talk about truly ICONIC baking combinations. Chief among these iconic flavor marriages is chocolate and peanut butter which I love in everything from chocolate cake, to spoonfuls of peanut butter dipped into the chocolate chip bag. There is also browned sugar and banana, made even better if you set both on fire and serve…
No one asked for my favorite egg salad recipe but I wouldn’t let a silly detail like that get in between you and ONLY THE VERY BEST EGG SALAD SITUATION. There’s something about these post-Mardi Gras, nearly spring days that make me feel like Easter and all the subsequent egg dying is in the air. …
It’s Fat Tuesday, friends! If you’re reading this, I’m literally dancing through the streets with the whole of New Orleans. I wish you were here. You really should see this! To bring a little Mardi Pardi to you day, here’s a New Orleans-inspired playlist. My hope is that the horns get you up and dancing…
I don’t know friends. I just don’t even know. What I do know is that I’ve been waking up at 4am worried about people half a world away. Horrified by the kinds of choices they’re having to make right now. I stress cleaned both bathrooms. I baked two loaves of bread for no reason. I…
My Cajun French friend Sydney has given me a hard time for YEARS for making jambalaya the wrong way. I mean… give a girl from California a few years to explore her own jambalaya journey. Since moving to New Orleans I’ve made my jambalaya recipe the Creole way, with tomatoes. The result is a delicious…
If you got your hot hands on the Joy the Baker 2021 Holiday Magazine you might have flipped to the back pages and noticed page after page of sparkle jackets, andouille sausage, crawfish, and the unsung hero of all late winter street parades: THE MOON PIE. It’s Mardi Gras, baby! It’s that time of year…
It feels like New Orleans is coming out enough of a global pandemic and I hope that means you’re on your way there to help us eat all this food! Here is my list of the best restaurants in New Orleans updated for spring 2022. This is by no means an exhaustive list but these…
