Hello sweet friends. I’m taking a break from our Sunday post this week to give myself a bit of a holiday. I’m camping in Mississippi – in an RV with air conditioning – I’m not totally crazy. I’ll be cooking this camping menu, listening to a lot of 90’s music, swimming in a river, and…
You all have seen me pitz around my kitchen pulling cakes out of the oven – no surprise there. There’s part of me that you might not be as familiar with. She’s outdoorsy, she can build a fire, she can make a cobbler over hot coals, she owns a bow and arrow, she is a…
Hello sweet friends, I’m glad we made it here to this moment. This week I’ve been focusing hard on the things right in front of me. You know? The world is spinnin’ real wild, but the small things of an everyday life have to get done. I’ve had those in focus – checking the front…
I still have pandemic brain. Maybe now more than ever? The brain that doesn’t know what day it is. The brain that wants to leave the house but also does not want to step food outside. The brain that stays ready for that early bedtime but wakes up at 3 in the morning with oh……
Hello sweet friends, We sure did make it to another fine Sunday. It doesn’t matter what condition we’re in. It’s Sunday and hopefully we can spend at least an extended amount of time in our pajamas. You know that idiom ‘you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time’? It’s a weird one…
Welcome to my home, firm, sweetly yellow bananas. You’re beautiful. You’re perfectly ripe. I know you holler for me every time I pass the fruit bowl. “Me! Me! I’m perfect! Eat me now!” I hear you. I’m just ignoring you. But here’s the thing, I have a plan for you. I’m going to reach for…
Hello friends! My favorite thing to do every morning is pick out the coffee cup I’m going to use. A luxury of having exactly too many mugs is that you get to choose from an array of places, memories, and gifts from friends when you’re selecting a cup. This morning I picked a cup my…
I’ve been staring at my pantry these days looking for exactly anything other than what I have. You do that too, right? Sure there is a bounty in this home, a true wealth of nutrients but like…. where is the box of Entemann’s coffee cake that happens to be literally the only thing I want…
Hello friends! It’s that time of year again though, what a doozy of a year we find ourselves in. I won’t call it ‘unprecedented’ and I won’t use the word ‘uncertain’. Enough of that. We’re living through everything all at once. Truly. But we always have – we’re just feeling it more. We can take…
Hello dear friends. I mean this most sincerely – how are you? I’m ok. I can tell you, I can’t remember ever feeling the way I’ve felt this week. The best way I can describe it is maybe… soul tired? But I know it’s not permanent because GodAlmighty nothing is. It feels like this has…
Hi friends. Where are we this week? In such a dark dark place. I read this headline today and could only say “My God” aloud. It’s hard. It’s always hard sometimes we feel it more deeply. We have a lot of places to go in today’s Sunday post but let me start here: I read…
Hi friends – yes, it’s me – the girl that brings Deviled Eggs to the party just so she can eat them all. (Wait… remember parties?) As we’re slowly, very slowly, starting to merge together once again, maybe you’ll see fit to make approximately too many Deviled Eggs to eat most of and share with…
Hello sweet friend! Gosh we made it to another Sunday. Can you believe? Will you do me a favor? Tell me what you do when you settle down with this post? What’s your routine? I can tell you my routine in writing this post for you – it’s really my favorite thing to put together…
I turn 39 today! That’s a mind-bender of a sentence to type. The only person it might be weirder for is my mom as we seem to be, someway somehow, approaching the same age. I stopped my mom’s age somewhere between 45 and 48. She’s older now and thriving thankfully, but if forced to say…
If this dessert were a kid on the playground it would the little one flying headfirst down the slide, screaming “LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!”. It feels a little dangerous, it definitely makes you smile, and it will not quit until it has your attention. So here we are. I feel like you’re already headed…
I’ve been swapping dinner and breakfast. Just yesterday for breakfast I had a hot dog with mustard and potato salad. For dinner – scrambled eggs and a tortilla. My morning are slower this week. My motivation to go for that jog has faded into the deep (early quarantine) past as has my desire to even…
Hello friends! It’s another fine Sunday and I hope it finds you well, healthy, and with coffee. How’s your family text thread? Mine is filled with daily updates of everyone’s gardens, the frequent mention of cakes we miss eating together, pictures of our animals, and the occasional guilt-trip offshoot text which, as you might imagine,…
Hello friends! Happy Sunday! Happy Mother’s Day! It’s been a week. It feels like some folks are diving back into normal socializing, normal life, and I feel distinctly not ready. In the same way that we all talked about how to work from home, how to socialize from home, how to cope at home… we’re…
Cream puffs were one of those elusive baking projects I had just resigned myself to never understanding. There was magic there that belonged only to… I dunno… Italian or French grandmothers that just wasn’t for my self-taught baker brain. I got over that little hurdle I set for for myself and unlocked the magic of…
Good morning, friends! Welcome here! It’s the first weekend of May, my favorite month of the year (which probably has something to do with the fact that it’s my birthday month)! I’ve always loved this weekend. When I lived in Los Angeles my girlfriends and I would throw a notoriously epic Kentucky Derby party. Since…
I’ve been faced with a lot of myself these past few weeks – forced to gaze upon a lot of my own, shall we say…. tendencies . I’ll eat a bag of chips within 24 hours of bringing it home. I’m very resistant to emptying the clean dish washer. I will go back to the…
Hello friends! Welcome. Let’s call it another Sunday and take a good deep breath about it. I hope you found some small ways to go easy on yourself this week. For me that has meant leaving the dishes in the sink for a while because I’m just deeply uninterested in washing them, again and then…
Hello dearhearts. You know what it is – another day of finding small comforts that ease our minds and hearts. It’s ok. We’re up to the task. This week my comforts have been slowly consuming last week’s Strawberry Pie at the start – yes, start – of almost every meal. Dessert first: a classic, rule-breaking…
Hello sweet friends! I’m glad you’re here! I’m glad we’ve made it to another Sunday. Where is your steadiness coming from these days? Mine comes from pitzing around in the backyard, pressing and preserving this year’s spring leaves, and roasting chicken to make chicken stock. I’m holding onto the small steadies these days and recognizing…
I’m here today with a humble invitation: French Onion everything. To French an onion is to caramelize it (not technically, but you know and love the soup from whence these onions came). Caramelizing a vegetable means, in not so precise terms, that we’re using the vegetables natural sugars, heat, fat, and time to transform a…
Hello friends! Happy Sunday to you, and Easter at that! How are you? How are your people? This week I’ve committed to finding lots of different ways to stay steady. I’ve been running by the river. I’ve been laying in the grass in my little backyard. I’ve been over-caffeinating every morning. That last one doesn’t…
Hello friends – how are you holding up? I’m spending even more time than I usually spend futzing around in the kitchen. It’s both that I have a hard time focusing as the days start to melt together, and that I actually want to languish in the kitchen making the fanciest coffee I can with…
Friends, hello! I very much need you to know that cake is available to you, right now, from your very pantry, warm from the oven, melty on the inside, in all ways perfect. This single serving molten chocolate cake comes from my first cookbook where it lives on forever in print as Single Girl’s Chocolate…
Hello dear friends. How are you holding up? We’ve made our way to another sweet Sunday though much of the week feels more more unmoored than usual. That’s ok. We can still be lighthouses – the duty of such steadiness, for me, shifts from friend to friend as we ebb and flow through various states…
I’ve been squirreling around my pantry (ever so grateful) finding myself surprised by what I’ve tucked away and forgotten. Gosh there is a truly eclectic assortment of pastas, just about every type of rice, half a jar of Nutella that I finished off with a spoon this morning, and (admittedly) a few boxes of brownie…
Hello my dearhearts. How are you holding up? I just took a big deep exhale just posing that question. I’m ok. You’re ok. All of us are doing our best for ourselves and for the people around (but far away) from us. Those are truths we can carry with us today. How are you staying…
Hello friends. Let this be a bit of sunshine in your day. This is a very vintage Joy the Baker recipe I’ve brought back to life for this modern day. Cupcakes feel… I dunno… maybe a little trivial considering our current reality, but even as strange as things are, some things remain the same –…
Hello dear friends. Welcome to another Sunday. It’s a weird one, but we’re in it just the same. In one of my posts this week Suzy Parker was kind enough to help me switch my brain with a blog comment. She left a comment with a “modality to get back to the present moment”. I’ll…
Someone on the street today said (from a safe distance) “How are you?” . “Great!” I said. Confident for several seconds before adding, “Ya know… scared and anxious but also… great?” That’s where we are these days. In two realities: one of occasional fear and constant uncertainty, the other of just normal TGIF feelings. We…
