Hello my friends!
Welcome to another fine Sunday! So many of you threw your praise hands up for the article on the mental work of cooking last week – linked here if you missed it. RIGHT? We see each other. That feels good.
Are you dressing up for Halloween? I’m invited to a big New Orleans Halloween party and our love for costumes is pretty serious. I was thinking of dressing as Carole Radziwill as Amelia Earhart. Too Real Housewives niche?
Am I experimenting with Lizzo lyrics on cake? Sure am.
I’m going to Maine on a whim this week which is precisely why, last week, I tried my best to fit two weeks of work into one. Was I successful? Lol. I’ll sure see. Either way – let there be oyster and lobster and fall foliage.
The offering this week is below. It’s on the lighter side until the news settles some. I hope you find something you need:
• This is how we’re trying to live in the world without burning it down: Alone in the Dark in the Bay Area. (The Atlantic)
• Listening to this: Still Processing: The Transformation of Dave Chapelle (The New York Times)
• Rihanna, tell us. (Vogue)
• Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore. Honestly this makes a lot of sense and I can feel it. You, too? (The Atlantic)
• We have to fix this. Invite friends over this week. This is an emergency. One Pot Family Dinners That Cost Less Than $10. (The Kitchn)
• My favorite fall cookbook so far Whole Food Cooking Every Day by Amy Chaplin linked here on Amazon and IndieBound. It’s filled with super healthful base recipes and loads of inspiration and variations. It’s vibrant and colorful and really so heartfelt.
• I thought I was saving Eileen Fisher for my later years but you know what? I’m starting now, I’m ready for these loose linens because they’ve been trying towards sustainability for years. Eileen Fisher Celebrates A Decade of Resale Program. (The Cut)
• Y’all I didn’t know we were doing this. What Does Huffing A Sharpie Really Do To Your Brain? This is not to age to die from Sudden Sniffing Death, deal? (Mel Magazine)
• The song I’ve had on repeat this week: Seventeen. Join me in this screams(Spotify)
• It’s not pumpkin spice season I’m after. It’s almost time for Sweet Potato Pie and you know it! (Joy the Baker)
• What’s the best Halloween candy? Chocolate-topped Candy Corn is the correct answer. (No link.. that was just me being me at you.)
• Are you going to watch El Camino? (Netflix)
Have a wonderful Sunday!
More from me later this week.
My love to you.
xo Joy
Hope Leyenhorst
Love, Love the one-pot dinner recipes. I host a Small Group every Thursday night and we have dinner before or during discussing the latest book we are reading. I need quick inexpensive meals and these grabbed me right away.
Looking forward to seeing how they turn out!
Samantha
Late but happy to read!
Lise Ode
Two things. 1) I love your Halloween costume idea. Question: Did you read Carole’s book, “What Remains?” It’ so good. 2) I hear ya on the dinner party crisis. Sending invites now. xo
nancyabc
Retired teacher who wondered why I had a headache every time I was making a ton of flash cards.
Chelsea
Are you going to start a new account called lizzobeeatingcake?
joythebaker
Not far off. :)
Traci
Go to Two Fat Cats fir a whoopie pie… in portland. Go to Deer Isle if you want see see a pretty little lobster town.
D'Arcy
That Eileen Fisher article has the warm ring of deep truth. I’m almost 36 and am awed by the beauty and style of women who are older than me. Also that drapey, high-quality, neutral-hued textile thing is absolutely my aesthetic jam.
Taste of France
Re Sharpies, is that what’s wrong with the current resident of the White House/Sharpie devotee? Explains a lot.
Valerie
I second the cookbook rec!! Currently obsessed with it and most of my meals for the week are from it.
Angela
Did I miss what kind of cake that was on the front picture? Please do tell! I also would like to make a cake with Lizzo words or a Drake Cake :)
Sarah
Your sweet potato pie recipe is THE best ever. I’ve made it many times, sometimes omitting the coriander because, well, a grain too much of coriander can be too much, and occsionally substituing the heaviest of heavy whipping creams for the evaporated milk. Today’s Let it be Sunday post inspired me to make it again and also revisit the buttermilk pie crust recipe (for which admittedly I have occasionally subsituted store-bought). Thank you for reminding us of the best of seasonal recipes. Also did you know that Louisiana is the leading producer of sweet potatos?
Jaclyn Levy
Omg that link to the first article about the mental load of cooking. Wow. Adding my own praise hands to that! ?
Also since I’m a dork I got excited thinking that El Camino on Netflix was about the real El Camino in Spain. It’s one of my goals to walk it someday!
marcella
Ha ha! That’s a bummer because those are two decidedly different things!
Have you seen The Way with Michael Douglas? That is on the Camino de Santiago and very good.
Deirdre Roberts
Thank you for giving words life..
Lynn
There’s this awesome bakery that a woman named Dot runs out of her home in Round Pond, Maine. It’s very random but special: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=okv9Q87-juU
Rena
This cake makes me really smile ?
xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
http://www.dressedwithsoul.com