Hello dear friends!
I hope this Sunday finds you happy and well! It’s a holiday weekend here in the states which means we’re blessed with a second Saturday – isn’t it fine!? I took a last minute weekend trip to Miami to visit my friend Lauren for the weekend. Miami is a wonder! The architecture, the palms, the sunsets, the ocean – it’s gorgeous and it’s such a trip. I’m content thanks the the sidewalk cafes alone.
This past week has been packed with recipe testing and Bakehouse workshops and there’s nothing like hard work to make an afternoon bike ride on the beach feel pretty great. I hope you’re feeling steady and accomplished this weekend! The reading offering is below and stay ready for a brownie recipe this week.
I appreciate you very much! As always, take what you need, leave what you don’t:
• Prepare your heart and grab something to wipe your eyes. My Wife Was Dying, and We Didn’t Tell Our Children. (The Atlantic)
• This sentence gave me anxiety so I thought I’d ask you to help me carry the burden by sharing it with you: “Ignoring email is an act of incivility.” No, You Can’t Ignore Email. It’s Rude. (New York Times)
• The long-read I’m working my way through this week: The Desperado (The Atavist Magazine)
• Maybe you too watched the fresh hell that is Abducted in Plain Sight unfold on Netflix. If so, I have several questions, the most present of them being: WHAT!?!?!?!?! Up next in my Netflix viewing is The Two Killings of Sam Cooke. (Netflix)
• One of the most beautiful songs in the world: Bill Evans Peace Piece. (YouTube)
• This is interesting! Music as a tool to influence the brain: How Focus Music Hacks Your Brain (YouTube via Cheddar)
• Treasure. How To Write About Food: in the classroom with Jonathan Gold. (Foodaism via Ann Friedman)
• This week I bought caviar at the grocery store. Caviar! Like that a thing that people just buy and eat. WELP. I did! It was delicious! Salmon and Caviar Blinis. Listen, it’s really fun to buy something unexpected and treat yourself! (Serious Eats)
• It’s hard to forget the delicious simplicity of Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce but if you have, that was a reminder for you. (Food 52)
• I was a pretty strong hold out but I did it. I bought an InstantPot. All I make is beans beans and more beans and I love it so much, thank you for listening.
• This week at The Bakehouse we made pasta together and honestly had a roaring good time. How To Make Fresh Pasta From Scratch. (The Kitchn)
• Talk amongst yourselves, I’ll give you a topic: The official fast food French fry power ranking. (LA Times)
• Dinner this week: Sausage and Mushroom Risotto. (Joy the Baker)
• Next month at The Bakehouse we’re holding a one-day BakeAway workshop. You’ll learn baking, food styling, food photography for the iphone, iphone photo editing, and social media know how. It’ll be a fun full day to learn some new skills. Check it! The BakeAway Intensive: Social and Styling. (The BakeAway Nola)
Have the most lovely Sunday!
My love to you.
xo Joy
Lori
I got an Instant Pot too and hope you start posting some recipes….. I want to use mine more and I like your recipes!
Have a happy day.
Jacquie Gariano
I just read the article “My wife was dying…” Loved every bit of it. I wish we could all live our lives this way.
Lizzie
At first read I thought you said you bought an “InstantPet,” and I was intrigued. Was this like a 21st-century Tamagotchi, or a Furby for grown-ups? My curiosity only deepened when you said it made beans. Jelly, not fried, I figured. And then I went back and re-read and finally got it, but was also a little disappointed that there’s no such thing as a little toy pet that dispenses candy. (Or is there?)
sasha lindberg
Lizzie, if it exists, I want one too. My pets don’t dispenser any candy at all sadly.
Cy
Hello Joy, I finally caved in too and love my Instant pot. The baked chickpeas on Deb’s site ( Smitten Kitchen ) for “Nile nachos” are amazing! 24 minutes, no soaking? Love!
Betsy
Thank you!!
Annie
This time of year my instant pot makes bone broths and vegetable stock on a nearly constant rotation. It’s the best!
Gail Hardie
Pasta maker tips? Do you have a recommendation for home cooks? Thanks!
sasha lindberg
Gail, I use my Cuisinart food processor to make the dough, and a Marcato Atlas pasta machine to roll and cut. Both work great!
Mac
Abducted in Plain Sight was the craziest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I guess you could suggest it was a sign of the times but seriously! How crazy, creepy, was this story? I hope we are more enlightened these days and would recognize a child predator when we see one. I hope.
Brenda
Try making risotto in your Instant Pot. Really. Also, way to rock those Krewe sunglasses.
Daphne Strassmann
Ha! I was going to say the same about those Krewe sunglasses. They are the best and she wears them well!
Lin
Thank you so much for the introduction of Bill Evans to me!! What a lovely song to hear first thing this morning!! Bliss!!
April
I gave in & bought an Instant Pot too. I only use it to cook beans & chicken stock. It’s worth it for that alone for me.
Also, tons of Japanese sweet potatoes that my daughter likes for lunch.
Yael @ Nosherium
Yay for caviar! I have an Instantpot and use it to make yogurt every week. I just used it to make beets and liked it very much. I still prefer to cook most things on the stove, but it’s nice to have.
Cat
“take what you need”- i didn’t know i needed some Bill Evens in my life this AM, but i was grumpy, and not wanting to get out of bed, and i clicked on it because “sure, why not”- that, and the ongoing youtube line up has got me up, moving and shaking and turned my day around. – thank you.
Paula
Blessed with a second Saturday as if a calendar happenstance is a gift from the gods? Haha
Cute banana tree bunny ears.
Rena
How wonderful you are in Miami! You look so happy and beautiful on the picture! Enjoy <3
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
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