I’ve got plans for you. My plans mostly involve you making an absolute mess of your kitchen with butter, flour, chopped pecans and chocolate chips. Are you ready for all the fall and winter baking I’m going to talk you into over the next three months? If you’re not ready now, not to worry. There’s…
Friends! Hello and happy Sunday! I’m back at The Bakehouse in New Orleans. Will drove Tron and me back from Houston last Saturday. The drive was smooth, Tron settled in, I rested my eyes. As we neared New Orleans, the trees along the freeway were roughly sheered in half. You could see the fury of…
Each week this fall we’ll revisit a recipe from last year’s Joy the Baker Magazine with new tips, tricks and insights. The latest issue of my holiday magazine will hit grocery store shelves nationwide (and in Canada!) November 1st! This week, let’s make Louisiana Crawfish Pie which, since moving to the south, has become the meal…
Hi sweet friends. The calendar flipped to September without me really being able to wrap my mind around it. Here we are; Time waits for no one. With the flip into September we spiritually have to set aside our watermelon wedges (noooo, not yet!) and reach for the apples and cinnamon (honestly, not a bad…
Each week this fall we’ll revisit a recipe from last year’s Joy the Baker Magazine with new tips, tricks and insights. The latest issue of my holiday magazine will hit grocery store shelves nationwide (and in Canada!) November 1st! This week, let’s make New Orleans Style BBQ Shrimp, which since moving to the south, has become…
Hello, friends! It’s your girl, reporting live from a new TJMaxx jumpsuit in a friend’s dining room in Houston, TX. Turns out the tiny bag of motorcycle clothes doesn’t translate well into life as a hurricane evacuee but thank goodness for a debit card and a discount store. Welcome to another fine Sunday in the…
Hello dear friends! I’m so glad you’re here this Sunday! We have a real treat for you this morning. My friend Kim Baldwin brings you today’s reads. Kim is a wonderful writer and a very hilarious truth-teller in her writing and in her friendship. She’s a gem of a human. Those are the only kinds…
Hello friends! Happy Sunday from your favorite baker on the back of a motorcycle. I’m in Northern California with Will at my family reunion. We have too much food and more water guns than people it’s all going really well my heart is full up. This week’s Sunday reads come from my dear friend Toby…
Hello dear friends! It’s been one of those long long short weeks. Time expanded to fit in a trip to Los Angeles this week to celebrate the life of my dad’s oldest sister, my Aunt Cordellia. Dea, as we all called her, was the most regal, generous, and low-key hilarious aunt. We celebrated life and…
Just peeking my head in here. I know we’re in the absolute dog days of August. We’re at the beach (God willing). We’re eating ice cream with the freezer open. We are most certainly not wearing pants. We are walking on the shady side of the street when we venture out. We are prone and…
Hello friends! Happy Sunday! How are you this morning? I hope you’re riding this latest delta wave of the panini as best you can. It’s all just exasperating and I hope that everyone you love is staying well. I’m trying to enjoy these slow summer days. There’s a sweetness to the way New Orleans slows…
I’ve got weekend plans… well, plans for the bananas sitting at the top of your fruit bowl. We’re not going to let them languish like we usually do for banana bread or those Almond Flour Banana Bread Cookies we love so much. No… these bananas have a perfectly-ripe breakfast calling: banana pancakes! Not just any…
Hello friends! Welcome to Sunday! I was lucky enough to spend most of my week at a fancy pool in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with two dear girlfriends who also turned 40 this summer. For years Whitney, Dean, and I called ourselves the DeCadillac sister after a silly and mildly boozy night in New Orleans when…
Hello friends! Are you ready for a little summer weekending? I’m just getting back from a few days in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and I’ve settled on this very important fact – the hotter the weather the better the margarita tastes. With that in mind, in these very dog days of summer, I bring you the…
Hello friends. Welcome to another fine Sunday! As you read this I’ll be on my way to Puerto Vallarta Mexico for a short trip with my friends Whitney and Dean. The three of us turned 40 this summer and we’re all going to Mexico about it. I hope to cross surfing off this year’s Summer…
