The internet is home to some 8,467,326 recipes for chocolate chip cookies. How many of them do we actually need? I would argue, most of them. We need options! We might want to pan-bang our chocolate chunk cookies, maybe a super chewy cream cheese chocolate chip cookie. We definitely need a trusted browned butter version. This…
Hello friends! We’ve made it here together! I’ve been in The Bakehouse kitchen this week testing recipes for the site (so much cake!) and recipes for a big writing project I get to share with you this fall. I thought I knew chocolate chip cookies (and I do) but I tested my little heart out…
Here’s how we’re drinking red wine this summer: with orange soda and ice. I first had this easy-drinking red wine cocktail years ago in Austin, Texas at the Hotel San Jose. Now every time the deepest summer days rolls around and the hot wind loses a bit of its humidity, I find myself craving this…
Hello friends, happy Sunday! We made it to this sweet sweet day. This week I’ve been trying my best to move blocks out of my way. Obstacles in travel, challenges in relationships, blocks in writing. I’m acknowledging them and with my mind’s eye, literally pushing the unwanted stuff aside. The visualization hasn’t made things perfect…
I want a cookie, but make it breakfast. I’m thinking a little chocolate something with the second cup of coffee I know I don’t need (but I’m going to have anyway). I’m hoping for a little snack distraction with an afternoon cup of tea while I think about what to make for dinner. The answer…
Hello my dears! Another steamy Sunday, welcome to it! I spent this week home in New Orleans, watering and talking to my outdoor plants and watering and talking to my indoor cat. This weekend I’ve been in Austin Texas learning the art of pretzel making from the head dough-pincher at Easy Tiger. And while I…
One of the reasons I pop into the kitchen nearly every day is to create or recreate a memory. I feel like… standing over the stove, I can bring back to life a meal, not just in taste, but in feeling, too… like I can feel the heart and laughter inside the food. It might…
Hello my dears! Happy Sunday! Welcome to another – aren’t we fortunate? I’ve spent the last few days in Pawhuska Oklahoma with Ree, The Pioneer Woman. We’re old friends since we were among a handful of other people blogging our little hearts out in 2008. She’s such a dear, and such a big deal now,…
Hello friends! I’m sneaking in with a baking project for your weekend. A baking project that you might also consider meal planning for your week (because who doesn’t want a warm muesli muffin every morning of the week) . A baking project that could keep you indoors in the air conditioning for the hottest part…
Hello dear friends! I hope this finds you fully steeped in this holiday weekend. The days feel a little sideways but that’s the nature of a Thursday holiday. I spent the entire week at home in New Orleans which, for some reason, feels like it hasn’t happened in a while and feels like an absolute…
ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!! ICE CREAM!!! These are the days, my friends. These are them! It’s been my great pleasure to bring you premium ice cream content for the past decade but this year… well, I’ve yet to take out my ice cream maker for the season. In year’s past we’ve done really cool things…
Hello my friends! Can you believe that these gorgeous hibiscus flowers bloom for one day, bring all of their shine and beauty, and then wilt the next? All that effort and beauty for one day. It’s incredible. It blows my mind every time I see these flowers. It inspires me to make the most of…
Hello friends! It’s that time of year again! Time to make our Summer Bucket List! BUCKET LIST buck•et list (noun): a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have accomplished during their lifetime. Also, a 2007 comedic film featuring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. SUMMER BUCKET LIST sum•mer buck•et list (noun):…
Something happened last week back home in New Orleans. I realized I am far more thirsty than I am hungry which means that summer is here (and it is unrelenting) and it’s now time to swap food for various forms of liquid. I’m entertaining smoothies. I’m here for cold coffee. I’m here for summer water…
Hello friends. I’m back. We’re back. We’re in it! Summer snuck right up at me the last few weeks. I spent a few good days in Toronto recently and wow TORONTO – you’re wonderful. Such nice people. Such good food. Such chic restaurants. I’m smitten. I’ve got a boatload of Joy the Baker plans…
Forget the medicine cabinet – I really love a good snoop around someone’s refrigerator. You can really learn a lot about a person in knowing how many different kinds of mustards they have tucked away on the condiment shelf. I have between four and seven different types at any given moment along with at least…
Hello dear friends! Welcome to another fine Sunday! When I started writing this very post the ‘T’ key on my laptop keyboard was not working (even with light touches and full on smashing). I couldn’t coax a T to save my life. I took to google, watched a video or two, removed the key and…
Gosh – if you’d told me ten years ago that I’d be putting the words ‘cauliflower’ and ‘milkshake’ in the same recipe title I would have told you you’d lost your mind. And yet here we are – working cauliflower into a dang milkshake. The thing is, I think you trust me. I’ve given you…
Friends hello! I’ve been traveling for the past week and I can’t be too sure about what day it is. I’m sure that it’s not Sunday and for that I apologize. I’ll share my travels soon, but please take in this picture of baklava and the offering of links below. It’s officially June which means…
Hello dear friends! I’m not going to say this meal is perfect – that’s a big sentiment. The thing is though – it’s not not perfect. Chicken and Waffles is a tale as old as time. A tale as old as sweet and savory. A tale as old as carbs and fried. A tale as…
Hello friends! Today’s Sunday post is a bit different. I turned 38 this weekend and each new year has me feeling reflective of years past. I stood in my closet yesterday, suddenly deep in my thoughts, staring blankly at a few cotton dresses I might throw on when I thought – wait… did I make…
I had a house full of people this week and I pulled deep into my reserves of ‘what can I make in about 15 minutes ‘ recipes. There are blueberry scones that I can make in a snap, if I don’t get too distracted and forget to add the sugar. They’re versatile enough to be…
Hello friends, It’s late Saturday and I’ve, oddly enough, found a cozy spot in my closet to write today’s Sunday post. All is well (right?) and there’s a coziness being surrounded by sweaters and aprons. Also… it’s a small walk-in closet so things aren’t as dramatic as they sound over here. All of my energy…
Here I am, yet again, making a case for carbs – the pasta kind of carbs, for breakfast. The hidden truth is that this pasta dish has an equal amount of Brussels sprouts. One part pasta / one part sprout. I like those proportions and I like those odds. And, in the year of our…
Hello and Happy Sunday my friends! I’m in Los Angeles helping my parents celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary! This picture sums up my dad giving my mom a little bit of a hard time and my mom ignoring / laughing about it. If that isn’t the secret to a long and happy marriage then what…
Rhubarb season is elusive here in New Orleans, but it’s here… I think. It’s here insofar as the cashier at Whole Foods wants to call rhubarb ‘red celery’ which is fully fine by me because she’s not wrong but not fully correct all at once. I feel like I’ve indulgently enjoyed more than my fair…
Hello friends! Welcome to another fine Sunday! I’ve been thinking this week about a few things – mostly cults and pies. I started the week by listening to a podcast about a recent cult (that podcast linked below), and it really got me thinking about if I have the sort of brain that could every…
Hello my dears! A few weeks ago I shared some of the meals that I’m making for myself in the kitchen these days. Meals that include more whole foods… though honestly I think the term ‘whole foods’ is kinda buzzy and I’ve always eaten whole foods along with the occasional NOT whole food(?). Human, you…
