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Let It Be Sunday!

September 25, 2016 by Joy the Baker 28 Comments

Let It Be Sunday!

What kind of traveler are you? Do you unpack your suitcase right when you get home? Are you back up and running into your routine in hours?  Or are you like me…?  You dig through the suitcase you’ve lived out of for weeks with the sole purpose of finding the bag of Ottolenghi granola your friend gifted you because you want it for breakfast.  The laundry can wait.  Breakfast, somehow, can not. 

I’m home and ready to hop in the kitchen to make new recipes for us.  I hope you’re into bread pudding and pork belly… it’s all going down. Not together. Separate dishes. I gathered a lot of food inspiration from my recent travels. 

These past few weeks have been challenging. Challenging in the way that we’re still wading through ridiculous political blah blahs, and people are still getting shot and killed in the streets in our country.

Here’s some of the words from the week:  

•  We’re having a hard time and we need to figure it out. A picture from Chicago:  The Most Dangerous Neighborhood, The Most Inexperienced Cops. 

•  How Clinton and Trump Are Preparing For The First Presidential Debate.  It’s tomorrow. You want to talk about Sunday Stresses?  Call Lester Holt… he’s the king of ’em today. 

•  Roy Choi has the right idea about what it means to be a successful food entrepeneur and feed people.  Read this:  The People’s Cheeseburger

•  Ina Garten is obsessed with her husband Jeffrey. Listen y’all. Love is real. 

•  Thanks for getting us all started on this crazy food blogging journey, Deb.  You started it all, right? If not for you I’d still be Live Journaling into the void. What I’d Tell New Food Bloggers 10 Years After Starting Smitten Kitchen.  

•  I don’t think baseball is even a sport absent the voice of Vin Scully.  Ask anybody. The Man. The Voice. The Stories. 

•  I was dead-set on only skimming two paragraphs of this article and read the whole dang thing because it’s fascinating:  Brangelina Is Dead; Long Live Angelina. 

•  Current listen:  This American Life: Becoming A Badger.  I love the story about the dog hunting rats… it’s charming somehow, just listen. 

•  Let’s be real hopeful and stock up on camp socks. No, seriously. 

•  On the Bake and Shoot Recipe List for next week:  Shepard’s Pie, Guinness Brownies, Bread and Butter Pudding.  This week I’ve made the Marrakesh Carrot Salad twice.  Don’t call it a comeback. 

•  What to bring back from London (or apparently buy in bulk on Amazon): Chunky Peanut Butter Kit Kat. Ok, you’re welcome. 

•  A breakfast idea: French Toast For One or Two. Gather ye breads. 

Enjoy this day!  We’ll talk more soon. In the meantime, I’m going to go laundry. 

xo Joy

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  1. Weezie

    September 26, 2016 at 7:42 am

    Joy, real talk: is your “Don’t call it a comeback” a reference to One Tree Hill? Because I might die of glee.

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  2. Kalistrya

    September 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    Loved the article about Locol!

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  3. Oceana | M+M

    September 25, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    Chunky peanut butter kit kat was my favourite thing when I was living in the U.K. in 2014, I was so bummed to find out that we don’t get them here in Australia. And as for travel style, I’m the one who lives out of her bag for a week or two just so I can pretend I’m still on my trip!

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  4. Adrienne

    September 25, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    I wouldn’t say no to a savory pork belly bread pudding!

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    • Suzonne

      September 25, 2016 at 5:28 pm

      Adrienne, I think you’re on to something!

      Reply
  5. Alice

    September 25, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    Hm, hope I don’t give a double comment, I don’t think the first one came through?

    Personally I hate packing! And then unpacking. I pull out gifts, food and beauty stuff first, then the rest. But I’m always bad with putting the suitcase back where it belongs, in the basement. I let it collect dust in my small bedroom for way too long and the cats like to use it as their bed, lol.

    And camp socks! I love comfy socks and wear them instead of slippers at home. :)

    +++ that Kit Kat is so good.

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  6. Ann Burns

    September 25, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    Love hearing about your travels and the articles you link to – look forward to the recipes inspired by your trip. Shepherd’s pie is one of my favourites here in Oz – I have many recipes for it but can always use another! Also loved our all too short visit to New Orleans last year and now enjoying it vicariously through your blog.

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  7. Frances Moore

    September 25, 2016 at 9:25 am

    I just love let it be Sunday. I have learned so much. Thanks

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  8. francetaste

    September 25, 2016 at 8:36 am

    I always look forward to seeing your Sunday links.
    Even more than Brangelina, I liked the story about Gigi Hadid, who elbowed a guy who emerged from a crowd, grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up. After she clocked him, the Internet became enraged. However, I applaud her. No guy should ever feel he has the right to grab a woman.

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  9. Kim

    September 25, 2016 at 8:32 am

    I’m the worst! It takes me about 30 minutes to pack and about 30 days to unpack.

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 8:56 am

      Those numbers seem exactly right to me!

      Reply
  10. Dianne

    September 25, 2016 at 8:13 am

    We are leaving for London/Scotland in a couple of weeks! All the places in your London blog have been noted – Indian food for breakfast? Yes, please! Thanks, mucho and welcome home!

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 8:56 am

      Ah! You’ll have the most wonderful time!

      Reply
  11. Laurie Crouch

    September 25, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Glad you enjoyed your travels & are back in New Orleans.
    I am here through Wed. Hit some snags upon arrival, but thanks be to Nola for “to go daiquiri’s”!!

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 8:57 am

      New Orleans gets really snaggy sometimes which is why I think they let us drink in public.

      Reply
  12. Julie F

    September 25, 2016 at 6:59 am

    Did you ever have the green tea Kit Kats from Japan? Sounds weird, but they are so good. And I love your Let It Be posts!

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 9:01 am

      They are strangely pleasing.

      Reply
  13. John Popovich

    September 25, 2016 at 5:54 am

    I look forward to your blog on Sundays, well every other day of the week too. It reminds me of the Sunday papers I used to read many years ago. Just snippets of life I can pick and choose from. I love The UK as well. Sounds like you had fun. Take care. Enjoy the catching up.

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 9:01 am

      Thanks for being here, John!

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  14. 2pots2cook

    September 25, 2016 at 5:41 am

    Thank you for this words. Hardly waiting to see more from you !

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  15. Andrea

    September 25, 2016 at 5:27 am

    Regardless of the sad fact that I have to work every Sunday, I now look forward to the first day of the week because of this reoccurring blog post.
    You make me smile with your sense of humor and inform, inform, inform!
    Thank you! I can’t wait to get reading all the compelling articles which inevitably make me late to punch the clock!
    Have a super Sunday!
    -Andrea

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    • joythebaker

      September 25, 2016 at 9:05 am

      I feel like being late to punch the clock is understandable on a Sunday. Thanks for being here!

      Reply
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