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Let It Be Sunday, 164!

March 25, 2018 by Joy the Baker 26 Comments

Hello sweet friends! 

Are you well?  I hope you’re well.  

I’ve spent the weekend quietly in Austin Texas at a small blog conference keeping to myself.  My Dad asked me if I was here to network and I answered him with silence because I was eating my second plate of tacos on my airbnb bed…. aka networking very hard.  

I’m teaching myself how to make video content for my site.  Turns out that learning involves watching a lot of YouTube videos of teenagers showing me how to work iMovie and transparent overlays.  So… listen… life is full of adventure.  

I’m back to New Orleans tomorrow.  My mom is coming to visit and she’ll be my assistant this week at The Bakehouse.  She has no idea how many petit four cakes we have to make.  

I hope your day is restful.  Here is my Internet offering: 

•  The kids are right and thank you to Teen Vogue for giving platform to these voices: Emma Gonzalez on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control.   Please also see The Most Powerful Moments From March for Our Lives.  There’s an image of children shrouded in white, holding up photographs of children killed in school gun violence.  It stopped me in my tracks.   

•  My Life Since the 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting: Scarlett Lewis’s Story. (The Atlantic)

•  This spread in Vanity Fair shot by Annie Leibovitz is VERY IMPORTANT. Pay attention to these words and images: Lena Waithe is Changing The Game.  

•  Let’s consider this worldview and its repercussions – they may be outside of our own experience:  The Stop.  (Undefeated)

•  An incredible glimpse into the life of a really remarkable man.  I mean… if someone told me I couldn’t kayak across the Atlantic Ocean I would wholeheartedly agree with them and then go eat a cheeseburger.  Youfeelme?  Read this:  Alone At Sea. (The New York Times Magazine)

•  Can you relate to this?  Class Anxiety: When You Live a Different Life From Your Parents. (Cup of Jo) 

•  This time of year has me noticing my dusty baseboards and the cobwebs in the corners.  Time for a deep clean and a closet purge.  A clean-out closet checklist for Spring thanks to TheKitchn.

•  I once dated a guy who had a signature scent.  It was something very amber-y mixed with all the nag champa he burned in his apartment.  If you’re raising an eyebrow… well, you’re right to – but I come here with no shame and to let you know that I had a great time being 28.  I really appreciate a signature scent but, thanks to both indecision and laziness, I haven’t landed on mine yet.  Here’s some help for me and hopefully you, too:  A Guide To Finding Your Signature Scent.  (The Cut)   

•  Maybe you’re not spending every day listening to Brandi Carlile but I’m here to tell you that you should.  By The Way, I Forgive You is a beautiful heart-pulling album. (NPR)

•  Because I trust what Ann Friedman recommends, I’m going to listen to this podcast series on my road trip back to New Orleans tomorrow:  Five Women.  (This American Life)

•  If you’re getting into Easter-related egg things this week you might consider: How To Make Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs.  I happen to like dying brown eggs because I think it deepens the color.  And while you’re dying eggs, why not also make a quick (not really) chocolate chip brioche.  (The Kitchn and Joy the Baker)

•  You had me at ‘mushroom butter’.  You had me at ‘salsa verde’.  You had me at ‘buttery rice’.   I’ll take it all.  Tamar Adler on Saving the Salisbury Steak from TV-Dinner Obscurity. (NYT) 

•  Perfectly Crisp Mushrooms.  I bet we could do this with eggplant too! (Tasting Table)

•  This week marks the 1 year anniversary of my brunch book Over Easy!  Do you have it?  What have you made? 

Have the most lovely day!  I’ll be back next week with two carrot recipes for you!  (They’re good… trust me!) 

xo Joy

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  1. Robin

    March 25, 2018 at 12:50 pm

    Thank you for this blog and the hard work you put into it! Yesterday I made the single lady pancake. I am not single. I had a sick husband and a son away at work. That was the best dang pancake I’ve ever had! Being single has its perks ;)

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  2. Kathleen

    March 25, 2018 at 12:19 pm

    I made the Cornmeal Waffles from your Over Easy cookbook for my parents this morning. Served with butter, maple syrup, bacon and strong coffee. A delightful morning. Thank you for the reliably delicious recipes.

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  3. Stephanie

    March 25, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    Thank you for your post and all the great reading suggestions! Hope you got out and were able to enjoy some of Austin. As a native Austinite, I’m proud of all that we have to offer our visitors. I look forward to visiting NOLA again – I really enjoyed my time spent there one November. Safe drive home .

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  4. John Popovich

    March 25, 2018 at 10:33 am

    Have a safe drive home tomorrow. I always read your Sunday offerings. I am so glad to have been following your work. You always give me something to think about. That’s s good thing.

    Reply
  5. JESSICA MOSICH

    March 25, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Happy Easter week Joy. I bought 3 copies of your book at Powell’s in Portland last September, and you were kind enough to sign each- including one for my sister, who was with me at the time and ran to find me shouting into the children’s section where I immersed in a YA novel “Come see the baker you love who makes the cake with the pretzels.” I have not made that cake, but do make your kale smoothies most weeks, hence the sticky pages, and almost everything with the word bread in it. What’s next for you/us?

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  6. Tiberia

    March 25, 2018 at 9:05 am

    Brandi Carlile – yes, yes YES!!!!!!!!

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  7. Suzanne

    March 25, 2018 at 8:31 am

    Has it already been a year since Over Easy came out? We’ve eaten the Blueberry Sour Cream Waffles at least twice a month over the past year, if not more. I can’t wait to find out what the next book will be about!

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  8. Inga

    March 25, 2018 at 8:12 am

    Thanks for the link on natural way to dye Easter eggs I’m definitely going to use that method!

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  9. Ellen

    March 25, 2018 at 7:49 am

    “Let It Be Sunday” is always a favorite part of my Sunday and today’s post is overflowing with fantabulous reading! Over Easy is in both my youngest Daughter’s and my Son-in-laws’s Easter Baskets this year. Brandi Carlile is an amazingly talented singer and I love her music. The “Looking Out Foundation” that she and her band mates established in 2008 is one of the most worthwhile endeavors by musicians. “Cover Stories” that was released in 2017 was to advance this Foundation. If you have not heard of them, please do check and perhaps be led to make a donation too. Thank-you and have a very Happy Easter!

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  10. Alot

    March 25, 2018 at 7:41 am

    I love your Sunday posts. I always find them so interesting and insightful… Especially since I am generally conservative. Your posts give me a different perspective. I hope, like everyone else, that gun violence comes to an end. However… We cant legislate our way out. I hope all sides can come together to find a solution.

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  11. Paula

    March 25, 2018 at 7:08 am

    My copy of Over Easy is currently sitting by my oven with at least a dozen post its sticking out of it. So far I have made the chocolate hazelnut coffee cake several times (it is a family favourite and never disappoints), the dark chocolate brioche cinnamon rolls and the sticky pecan cinnamon rolls. Clearly this year is the year I conquer the cinnamon roll and perfect my dough rolling skills.

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  12. Ramona

    March 25, 2018 at 6:23 am

    Thank you for your Sunday posts! I love ’em! Oh, and have a safe drive home tomorrow.

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  13. Sharon

    March 25, 2018 at 5:44 am

    So many great links! Thank you for putting this together.

    Reply
  14. Caitlin

    March 25, 2018 at 4:01 am

    Mini cooking videos would be amazing! I love watching your Instagram stories – it’s like having a friend with me in the kitchen – so seeing a more polished version regularly sounds like a treat.

    Reply
  15. Rachel

    March 25, 2018 at 3:36 am

    Loved these links! Also, all of the Mom love. Mine is being as supportive as ever with plans for book two, as long as it happens in London as far away from her shiny new kitchen as possible – I think she must have washed up 80% of the book last time around!

    Reply
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