I do this thing when I’m filled to the brim with tasks and opportunities and responsibilities and stresses…. I add more. I really just pile it on. I somehow think that adding new responsibilities and stresses will erase the ones I’ve already loaded on my shoulders.
It’s illogical. It’s a terrible idea. It’s downright crazytown.
I’m in Crazytown and I’m about to move into Lost My Marblesville. Someone please send a straight jacket.
In related news, I’ve decided to move into a loft in downtown Los Angeles. I’m driving to Seattle in a Uhaul next week with my little sister… pray for us. Aaaand I’m teaching my first cooking class in Sonoma this weekend!
More on all of these things soon. For now… here’s what I’m stress eating.. no joke.
Mini Chocolate Dipped Bananas rolled in crushed honey roasted peanuts. If you really commit to your stress… I mean, really just get in there and wallow in it… I’m sure you can down a cool seven bananas in no time. Just. Like. Me.
Half spongy souffle cake, half warm pudding, all lemony goodness. Lemon Souffle Cake. Maybe I ate this whole souffle right out of the pie pan. Maybe. Maybe not. But… yea, definitely. That totally happened.
I have bathed in this Buttermilk Ranch Dressing.
I like to eat brownies right out of the freezer. Dense, cold chocolate cake with melty frozen marshmallows? Yea… I never said I was normal. S’mores Brownies. Friends for life.
Giant Vanilla Sugar Cookies. There’s nothing like a cup of tea and a cookie the size of your face to wash your troubles away. Dreamy.
Note: Am I encouraging emotional overeating with this post? No. Yes… No. Well… maybe a little. I’m half kidding, half overcommitted and definitely stuffing cookies in my face at every opportunity. That’s just the honest truth. I hope you can handle it.
Rachel
LOL! I am the SAME way and just freak out and totally over-commit when I am already over-done! I think I do it so I can “pick and choose” what I want to do, but of course, I end up getting all the “must-dos” and never have time for the fun stuff! Most summers you will see me making jam at midnight! sigh … it’s just wrong but I can’t help myself!
Kristen
Hope you enjoyed our quasi sunny Seattle weather this past week. :)
Calantha
Do I have to be stressed to eat all of those things? Because I’m feeling pretty calm right now, but I too want to eat that entire lemon souffle cake… and the brownies, and bananas… etc.
Siolite
I just made these for dinner, they are amazing!
cookeaze
I absolutely love these recipes and look heavenly! Great complement to me..
Terresa Wellborn
Yipes, I hope you’ve found your marbles by now. In the meantime, I’m certain you have some yummies to nosh.
PS: The downtown LA public library *rocks my socks.* Lucky you!
Nicole aka Gidget
oh man, I made that ranch dressing earlier this week and it rocks! never thought of eating frozen brownies! :)
Abby
YUM I made these cookies on the weekend and they were a big hit…. thanx :)
stephchows
good luck with all the craziness :D
Twyla
Remember when the side of the U-Hauls used to say “Adventures in Moving”?? Drive safe and enjoy the journey with your sister. You will talk about these memories for the rest of your lives.
Sophie @ yumventures
Love it! Sometimes you just need a comfort food to savor, enjoy, and let your mind come to peace. The brownies looks like they would be my cup of tea :)
Rocky Mountain Woman
Perfect – I’m catering a wedding for 150 people at my house in April, how many chocolate covered bananas does that earn me?
Rocky Mountain Woman
Val
I totally had a week of over eating last week. Literally anything that consisted of chocolate or sugar was gobbled up by me. I completely felt like cookie monster.
This week Im hoping to redeem myself and not touch anything that begins with C-H-O-C.
Good luck with the move and the class :-)
Sassy
Hang in there, Joy! You reminded me how much I’ve wanted to make those choc dipped bananas. MY boyfriend votes for me to make the smore brownies however.
Flourgirl Treats
This post really made me laugh! I felt like you were writing about my life!
Nikole
On behalf of the residents of Lost My Marblesville, we welcome you and your yummy stress inspired treats! :) Made the ranch dressing and chocolate dipped bananas tonight, they were a big hit. Thanks Joy and good luck with the crazy days ahead!
Natalie
At least you picked amazingly good things to snack on all of this stuff looks amazing!!
sooyoung
good luck with the moving and your first class! if i lived in CA i would definitely take your class!
Hayley
i love you haha
kimberly
I did a post about my favorite food bloggers this morning and borrowed a few of your photos for your part. I hope you don’t mind. I also mentioned your On the Lamb project and wish that I lived in southern cali so that I could join you!
Have a fabulous Sunday~
xx
Katie @ Cozydelicious
Moving is terrible – but comfort foods are wonderful! I love that you put buttermilk ranch on there! Sometimes I think it’s silly that my favorite comfort food is salad. But drenched in great, homemade ranch and topped with bacon crumbles, it is just the best!
MAC
Funny….I just posted about feeling like Dorothy – from The Wizard of Oz, swirling around in her house, in that tornado…you get the picture – so I relate.
Not fair….I just finished cleaning my kitchen, and now after reading those recipes I’m heading back in.
Breathe….breathe
Lisa
Joy the Baker! What kind of mixer do you use? I am looking to buy a KitchenAid, and want to know the best Wattage, power output, etc.
Feel free to email me.
Thanks,
Lisa
Corrine
Oooof, I drove from Seattle to Denver in a 24 foot U-Haul with my senile grandma and my 7 month old son…. “CRAZYTOWN”… a LOT of stress, roadtrip eating done on that trip! LOVE the Lemon Souffle!
Sarah
totally feels you on the whole stressing issue. about to take my second section of my accounting license test on wednesday, along with my masters class test on monday. why i chose this career path i’ll never know..
Jean C.
But….. not 4 posts back you said that you wouldn’t be moving into something you couldn’t afford…. easy come… easy go…. good luck with everything! At least the banana’s were the mini sort! LoL…
shush-mi
I see no problem with emotional over eating. I think its the only thing keeping me sane sometimes. And definitley cheaper and easier than resorting to drugs right? anyway I turned 28 yesterday there was a lot – a LOOOOOT – of emotional over eating related to that…. but I think I have made peace with ageing now… at least til next year :(
Erika from The Pastry Chef At Home
Yay for chocolate dipped bananas and the pretty plate they’re on!
Yay also for the class you will be teaching . Joy cooking live = happiness for whoever will be attending. I’ve taught chocolate making classes before and I tell ya, grown people do revert to behaving like children when there’s a tank full of melted chocolate around! Just smile your lovely smile and be as witty and charming as you are here on your website and all will be fine. :)
Karin
When I see the gorgeous food you create I think I wouldn’t need stress to over-eat. I could do that any day ;-) Hope the moving will go well!
Marie
Definitely stress ate this week too. I’ve had more chocolate and pasta this week than I’d care to admit to. Oh, men…
Chantelle
WoW! WoW!WoW! I am so excited right now, I just discovered your blog! It’s wonderful…and has given me a huge kick of inspiration, starting up the mixer right now. Thank you Joy :)
Jess
MmMmM I remember those Giant Vanilla Sugar Cookies! So Good!!!!
Angie
Can I just tell you how glad I am to know I’m not the only person who responds to stress by shoving multiple cookies in my face? Thank you. I feel more normal now. Why can’t I be addicted to excercise when I’m stressed? That would make much more sense.
Excuse me, I’m going to check if I have the ingredients to make your sugar cookies. Love you, Joy. Good luck with everything!
Meghan
I moved from South Texas to NorthWestern Ohio with a uhaul and my mother. :) I can be done, and we really did have a good time. Good luck! Make sure you’ve got lots of tunes and goodies. The goodies I’m sure you’ll have no trouble with.
Silvia
I moved ten years ago and sometimes I still find some boxes full of stuff somewhere in the house and I decide every time not to open them, after all, if I did not miss the contents, what’s the point anyway?
Relaxd, it will pass, in the meantime enjoy your comfort food, mine is porridge with cranberry jam…
Yael
Oh my!! Been there, done that!Many, many times over!
Fuji Mama
Ugh. Moving. Ugh. You’re gonna need more of those bananas I think, and probably another batch of s’mores brownies. As for the crazytown part, I don’t know what you’re talking about. And NO, I’m not currently sitting here reading this post while holding a quart of mint chocolate chip ice cream and a spoon. Why would you ask that???
Beth
I’m so relieved that I am not the only one who thinks this way. If crazy is doing things the same way, but expecting different results, then I must be the Mayor of Crazytown! I can never figure out why piling on new projects doesn’t make the old ones go away…
Best of luck with the move. I’m sure you’ll knock it out of the ballpark, as always!
Indianapolis Amy
Crazytown! Love it. A ginormous cocktail usually helps a case of Crazytown!
mini chocolate bananas– those look amazing. seriously, seriously good:)
Talia
I totally do that piling on more tasks when i’m already too busy thing myself! I think it does actually work because the more I have to do the more productive I become. I hope thats what happens for you too!
Maria
You are too funny. I love your blog and your food, keep on!
Rebecca
love it, just whipped up a batch of those brownies with some added conconut and they just came out of the oven and smell divine! Thanks for the stress relief, no skinny jeans for me, my fat pants need to get bigger now!
jaclyn@todayslady
Mmmmmmmmm I want everything!! Ok so I’m not stressed out right now, I actually have 2 weeks off, but I’m bored. This boredom resulted in me making cookies and eating a couple too many….. this will also result in me snacking the day away. I’ve just accepted it. Stress and boredom are like sisters when it comes to emotional eating!
Jessica
hehe, I recently got back from a last minute 5 week trip to New Zealand and am now broke and trying to fix that. ($500 phone bill’s not helping.) You have a friend in Crazytown!
So yeah…I seriously made those brownies last night (no joke!) and had one before bed, after I woke up this morning, and then just a little while ago as a snack. HALP.
Good luck with everything! You got this.
Paula
Good luck with you insane week!!! Now i just want to dive into one of those s’mores brownies!!!
peachkins
I’ll take everything!
linda
yummm…like to be in your kitchen with you now.
good things coming your way!
have fun @ the sonoma class…
can you PLEASE teach in NYC…PLEASE…
your east coasters would LOVE YOU TO COME TO NYC!
relax…go with the flow & just downright enjoy~
emma
downtown? you are a brave soul. i live in hollywood and i thought that was nuts enough. i am for sure going to try this lemony souffle. good luck with it all. wish i could be taking your class this weekend!
Sara
Feel the same way this week, too many balls in the air and the only way i can feel i can keep them moving is with lots of treats :) So sad, but true. Good luck with all your activities coming up!
Kate @ Savour Fare
Big changes are afoot! If I were young and single and fancy free I would totally live in a loft downtown (one of my girlfriends actually lives in the Brewery Art Colony). As it is, at least I can walk to get bagels in our neighborhood. And walk to Cube, of course.
Kathleen
Where have you and your snacking skills been all my life?!?
Jacqui
How exciting to have a new place! Good luck on the drive up to Seattle, I can’t imagine doing it in a u-haul!
I like my brownies out of the freezer too!
Azure
I lived in Bunker Hill Towers in the mid 90’s. We used to ride up and down the glass elevators in the Bonaventure Hotel for fun. (Poor grad students.)
I couldn’t do it now because I’d miss having a garden.
my spatula
i’m stress eating over here too. so bad…and soooo good! :)
Sushi Girl
Oh! Moving! STRESS! As least you didn’t buy that couch! Yet. I am also a pile-er on of more stress and distractions when I am freaking out. We should start a club. Shauna (32) and Gretch (40) should be club members. We could call it the Crazy Train to Marblesville. I am off to bake those S’Mores Brownies and maybe even the Lemon Souffle Cake! *Love*
Abby
OMG…. perfect timing with this post… the kids have eaten me out of house and home and it is time to restock….YUM-O I am all over it now!!
Deanna
Have a great trip! If you stop in Portland make sure and eat at Mothers. I have a list about as long as a football field of good restaurants in the Portland area so if you want more, let me know.
Crissie McDowell
humina humina
Gretch
I do the exact same thing! Tomorrow I have a bazillion things to do before a birthday party at night, so what did I decided to do? I decided I’m also going to fit in making a birthday cake…somewhere between going to the gym, getting my oil changed and cleaning my entire apartment…
It’s also called “girls who eat their feelings”…I’m totally the president!
Em
I do things like that all the time! Congrats on your new place!
Noreen
Joy, congrats on your move!! I am contemplating a big one myself (across several states & a time zone). Oh, and I love all those recipes – yum, yum & sugar induced coma, yum!! don’t even really like bananas but dipped & doubledipped in chocolate – ummm!!
Amanda
Good luck on your move! I recently made your Red Velvet cupcakes… and blogged about it… (giving you credit of course) Let me know what you think! (well, maybe AFTER the move…!) ;)
God bless-
Amanda
Anna
Cooking class in Sonoma! How I wish I lived on the West Coast so that I could take a class from you! I am sure you will do wonderfully.
If I make the Ranch Dressing and eat it on a big salad, can I make all the rest and call them dessert?hehehe
Penny's PINK PIGGY
Joy Congrats on the new digs….Have fun and adventures with your life while you’re young….Time has a way of getting away from you and then……Just follow your heart your MIND will follow!!!
Mandie
You JUST did a post about loving and accepting your current place. LOL
Chelsea
I needed this post today, Joy.
Been applying to grad school and got my first rejection today. Bring on the emotional eating.
Btw, I mentally consumed a clean dozen of those Smores brownies upon seeing their photograph.
Thank you <3
Diana merrell
Congrats on the loft. Those chocolate covered bananas look yummy!
Anna
Yuruuul, brand new loft, that’s pure awesomeness.
Shauna
I can completely relate to everything written on this page, particularly the part about piling on more when you’re already overloaded. Case in point: I have three kids under 10, work full-time for the gov’t, and go to grad school. But because that’s not enough, I’m volunteering with my daughter’s Girl Scout troop and looking at taking kayaking lessons. Why? I haven’t the foggiest idea. However, I think I’ll need at least a dozen of those chocolate-dipped bananas and a pan of the brownies in order to cope. Baked goods makes everything better, right?
carolyn
congrats on your move…it will be fun and scary and overwhelming, but mostly fun! choc covered banana pops might be my newest obsession. p.s. slightly thawed frozen brownies are the way to go.
Kaitlin
Congrats on the move! That’s fantastic! I can’t wait to hear about the cooking class :)
Amy
Joy!
You do not need a straight jacket.. you need a hug! And with all that emotional eating.. you would need something with a bit more give.. like spandex or polyester :) .
YOU are a blessing.. wishing you the best, praying for the move.. AND wanting a brownie! I just made a coconut cream pie! I will share if you stop by for that hug,
Blessings,
Amy
Jennifer
Hmmm, I’m not sure which recipe to make first!
The chocolate bananas are easy and fun to do with kids especially if you put out little bowls of toppings and let them design their own. They love that.
But I have my eye on those vanilla sugar cookies. They look like the perfect accompaniment to tea or coffee.
Fred
Congrats on your new loft!!
=D
i.need.sugar.cookies
*_____*
Melissa
Marry me?
Katrina
Ohhh boy. Moving is stressful! I didn’t know you could freeze those brownies. I’ll be making those tonight!
dani
i could wallow in self-pity with a few of those bananas and brownies, for sure!
Eliana
If emotional eating involves having these delights, sign me up!
Food o' del Mundo
A loft!? How much FUN!
Good luck with the cooking class and the drive Joy!
~Mary
Shauna from Piece of Cake
I’m with you. All the way to the brownies from the freezer.
Jen-
Yummy goodness for sure! I’m printing some right now to make tonight with this ridiculous turkey I’m baking that my boss gave me because….SHE didn’t want to make it! HA!
Soooo, about this move. Watz up!? Wishing you the best with love and happy driving music! :)
susan
YUM!!!
Dandy
I just found that souffle cake thing yesterday and will be making it with meyer lemons soon.
We lived downtown for years, right above grand central market across from angels flight. We loved it. Sometimes I really miss living in LA but I’m there a lot anyway.
When are you teaching a class down here?!
Cor
Congrats on the loft, and your cooking class will be AMAZING, I am sure.
for the trip:
1)don’t have the AC on high driving through the grapevine (but it is winter so probably not an issue), or if it is foggy, BE careful truckers are no joke!! (SCARY memories from childhood) OH and stop by Anderson’s for Split Pea Soup!!!! and don’t forget to stop in portland for good food and no sales tax shopping!! and once in Seattle go to Dick’s Drive-in and have a chocolate milkshake for me??!! (I miss them)
Foodiebia
This post is right up my alley. I’m taking the bar exam next week and you could say I’m a tad stressed.
Dana
I’d like a bit of each of those, please. How long are you going to be in Seattle? You have friends here you know.
Glenda
I totally understand. I am moving too and had a minor freak out last night over finding out someone put an offer in on the house I want, so in haste put in an offer and then made potato salad. Don’t know why, I don’t really like potato salad, but there were potatoes there and they were a 15 minute distraction from the real world.
Good luck on your big move and on your cooking class. Wish I lived about 2000 miles closer so that I could attend :)
xinen
yay for comfort food! & the loft! rice pudding needs to be in this list too! I heart the chocolate bananas, am so gonna make them soon(:
Rosa
I have the same way of acting when I’m stressed… Great food!
Cheers,
Rosa
Cathy
That is some delicious stress eating. Can you bring some to Sonoma? I’m so looking forward to breakfast on Sunday!
Kristawn
i need all of this in my life, right now.
Annalise
I will definitely be doing some stress eating this weekend and thanks to you I have some great new comfort recipes to try!
Good luck with the move!
Bonnie Lewis
YU-UUM! Congrats on the move!
Esther
Good luck with the move and the drive! :)
Nechelle
1. Congrats on the new home, as long as your new loft kitchen has ample space for those dainty linens and eclectic plates I love to see accompany your food.
2. I was just telling my co-working I want to take a vacation to Seattle, for absolutely no reason
3. Ohhh how I want to be in Sonoma at that class (what are you teaching?)
Have a great time all 3 adventures
Nicole
Best of luck! We all have those moments of “what was I thinking?” Luckily you have very tasty archives!
Megan
Thanks Joy.
I need that lemon souffle cake as my lunch.
heidi
in need of some stress free food. the lemon cake sounds amaaaazing. and the brownies. and the cookies. who am i kidding. it all sounds good.
Lindsey
Congratulations on the loft! Maybe now you can live in the trendy part of LA.
Those chocolate covered bananas look awesome and I must say honey roasted peanuts are my favourite of the various peanut varieties.
Good luck!
Erin D.
Relating completely to a.) adding more stress to help with the stress (works so well, right? [shriek!]) wallowing in chocolate bananas (have been frying a banana and drenching it in homemade chocolate sauce every night this wee,) and c.) suddenly uprooting my life and moving someplace else.
Here’s the thing, though – you’re listening to yourself, following your instincts and DOING stuff. That’s awesome! Some folks don’t have that kind of courage.
Watching your journey is always fascinating, thank you so much for sharing, you wild-at-heart child.
CookiePie
Good luck with the move and thanks for the delicious recipes, as always!! (When things have calmed down a bit, you and I need to discuss this cold-soup hatred…)
Michelle @ H.E.R.
Holy crap Joy, talk about a sugar buzz. Do it like its your JOB! For real.
So the thrill of the clean only lasted a few days and loft cravings continued? Well then I think you made the right choice. And “loft” just sounds much more awesome than apartment anyways.
Lena
I want to nibble on this vanilla sugar cookies! yammy!
Congrats to your great achievements!
kathy
The Queen of comfort food loves this!
Estela @ Weekly Bite
Congrats on the loft!!
I’ll take some of those chocolate covered bananas. Thanks!