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Let It Be Sunday!

March 5, 2017 by Joy the Baker 28 Comments

Hello sweet friends! 

It feels like ages ago now, but last Tuesday was fine (and really quite fat) indeed.  We celebrated the last day of Mardi Gras in grand fashion with the last of the beads and parades and floats and headdresses and my goodness we really did it up.  It’s my third Mardi Gras as a resident of New Orleans and I’m slowly getting my footing.  Knowing the traffic and having friends with clean bathrooms close to the parade route feels like a life success in itself. 

I hope today is a day for you to take some for yourself.  Go slow. It’s Sunday.

Here’s some reading:   

•  This is perfect. Read it all, read it all. When Your Greatest Romance Is A Friendship (thank you for sharing this Jessi!)

•  Do you ever take a few moments in your brain space to think about what it would be like to live in solitary confinement for years and years? I do. It’s just about trying to understand another person’s experience.  I must say… this is an experience I have a hard time comprehending.  I first think,  ok you’re alone for a long time and then the horror of being locked and alone for YEARS on end takes root and I have to shake my head to clear the horror. Buried Alive: Stories from Inside Solitary Confinement

•  This week I made this Double Crust Chicken Pot Pie for a friend and her family.  I feel like it’s therapeutic on the give and the take. If you ever need something to make for a friend as a like ‘yo yo yo I care about you’, this is a good recipe.  I don’t know where all those YOs came from, but I’m just going to let it ride. 

•  House on a hill:  Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace As An Act of Art and Politics

•  In high school I had short curly hair, like too short… not chic short.  I played volleyball… not even well.  I was the ‘not the sharpest tool in the shed’ in the advanced-level classes.  I asked a boy to prom (face to face because we didn’t have cell phones or emojis back then)… and it took him a long time to answer… and I didn’t even really want to go with him, but he was tall.  I was friends with a really mean girl because I thought that if we were friends she wouldn’t be mean to me… was I right? Probably not.  I graduated and it was fine mostly but, Lord… set me free.   An evolutionary psychologist explains why you will always be haunted by high school 

•  The man who can see right through the big dudes with lots of money:  This Man Makes Founders Cry.  I would argue that founders are secretly brimming with tears and the right angle of eye contact will bring the walls crumbling down.

•  And then Adele was like… And then Taylor Swift was all… And then Katy Perry went on and on…  Meet the man who writes the hits: The Hit Maker. Is it weird that a dude named Max is writing the songs of my heart for Adele to sing? I dunno.  A little.

•  Is it too early for a little Spring cleaning for the skin?  Lately I’ve been loving a hot soak in the bathtub and a good  scrub using this:  Loomed Exfoliation Mitt.  It strong and simple.

•  Sneak peeks into my new brunch book Over Easy are popping up on the internet.  Here’s some punch for your brunch pleasure:  Orange Sherbet Mimosa Punch

•  Every good book tour I go on calls for a new blazer, best believe.  Also!  I’d love LOVE to see you out in the world and sign your cookbooks, the Over Easy page will be updated often with tour + special guest information! 

•  Towards the beginning of the year I made these Moussaka Lasagna Roll Ups and I think we were all trying to get our footing and figure out our intentions and Whole30 and juice cleanses and… listen, I didn’t learn how to spell Moussaka for nothing.  I’d really like for your to make this recipe. 

Enjoy this day. I hope you water the plants. 

xo Joy

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  1. Steve

    April 2, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    Another vote for indianapolis!

    Reply
  2. Ronni

    March 8, 2017 at 4:50 pm

    That buried alive article nearly did me in. If you’re going to link to something like that, you have to link to something about, say, happy puppies directly after! (I’m jokingly giving you a hard time. Thanks for all the work you put into these every week)

    Reply
  3. Kaleigh

    March 7, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Oh Joy, are you doing the Bakehouse events anymore? I’m coming to NOLA May 6-13 and was hoping to go to one! Failing that, coming to Canada (London in particular) for your book tour would be amazing!

    One last thing that is actually relevant to this post – I just read this article and think you may enjoy it. It’s about the “Cash Me Ousside” teen in particular and how the media treats misbehaving young white girls in general – https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/how-the-cash-me-ousside-teen-defies-expectations-for-white-g?utm_term=.dbwkxpp8X#.fqOB3QQpY

    Reply
  4. Katie Truelove

    March 7, 2017 at 12:25 am

    Looking forward to your Seattle visit! And I also love your Sunday posts- thanks for being you:)

    Reply
  5. milkglassbaking

    March 6, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    Nashville! So close!

    Reply
    • joythebaker

      March 6, 2017 at 5:57 pm

      I think I’ll be adding a Nashville date in late April! Stay tuned!

      Reply
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