Hello dear friends!
Welcome to another fine Sunday! We made it through January! I’m not alone in feeling like January was a full 7 years long, right!? Like… I full abandoned and then recommitted to my New Year’s Resolutions all within the first month of the year. What a trip, honestly. Let’s see what February has up its sleeve. Another month of hustling to make dinner / our own dreams come true? Sure. We’re up for it.
I hope this Sunday finds you well. I hope you give yourself what you need. Hydrate, if nothing else.
This week’s offering is a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We’re a little all over the place… and we’re off the grid with an emotionally unavailable man so… I apologize for getting us into that mess.
Please, as is always the invitation – take only what you need.
• We’re workin’. I know you know. The Second-Best Me I Could Possibly Be. (The New Yorker)
• Ask Polly: “I Moved Off-Grid With An Emotionally Stunted Older Man”. Woof… I mean, we can all relate in one way or another, right? (The Cut)
• I was looking for the right words for this and I found some of the right words here: Kobe Bryant and Complicated Legacies. (jill.substack.com via Ann Friedman)
• A Night at the Door With Three Aspen Bouncers. (Punch – which… if you don’t already know – has the best wine and drink writing on the internet)
• A read: The New Trophies of Domesticity. (The Atlantic)
• Have you watched Cheer on Netflix yet? Lotta heart. Hard work and a lot of heart. And my friend Whitney talked me into watching a few episodes of Goop Lab and I really enjoyed the episode on aging. To be honest, I was pretty out on both of these shows because of the hype but good news… they’re great, duh. (Netflix)
• Our friend Scott Hocker speaks to my heart with this talk of Cream of Wheat: New Wave Chicken Fried Steak . (Taste)
• I’m working on my latest New Orleans guide but here’s a quick spoiler. If you’re in town anytime soon, please stop in for ice cream at Sundae Best at the Peter and Paul Hotel. (SundaeBestIceCream)
• This week I made sushi rice, onigiri, and some little lamb wontons I found on Instagram. I often need a kitchen adventure that I don’t have to document in photographs. What’s your next kitchen adventure, please?
• Instead of emptying the dishwasher I googled ‘why is it so hard to empty the dishwasher’ and came across this: 3 Smart Tips That’ll Make Unloading the Dishwasher Way Easier. Will it help? (The Kitchn)
• A sweetie little spice grinder. (W&P)
• These downloadable Galentine’s Day cards are so cute! Get on it! (Etsy)
Take good care today!
My love to you.
xo Joy
22 Responses
So happy to see I am not the only one who puts off instacking the dishwasher! I love stacking it knowing I don’t have to wash! but then…LOL Also thank you for posting the article about Kobe and how it is complicated.
Thanks for being with me! I appreciate you.
Thank you so much for sharing the article about Kobe Bryant’s legacy. It so perfectly summed up the conversation I have been wanting to have about his death and friends’ reactions to it.
Emptying the dishwasher was one of my main chores as a kid and I still despise it. I hand wash as much as possible unless I have a day where I just HAVE to run it. Dishwasher and picking the pinecones up off the lawn so my dad could mow it. Both traumatic childhood experiences. The kitchen experiment I don’t have to document this week is coming in the form of a short rib flatbread with caramelized onions and fresh mozzarella. The crust is an easy naan because pizza dough success has eluded me.
Ooooh that sounds delicious!
Good morning, Joy!
I read this with a cup of coffee and a slice of your tahini banana bread. I brushed some maple syrup on top with a pastry brush for the last 5 minutes of cooking. It’s delicious! Thank you for all you bring to the world!
Meghan
That sounds absolutely delicious! What a happy Sunday!
Hi Joy, I’ve never left a comment but I”ve been a quiet Sunday reader for a long time. Thank you for what you do! You are oh so appreciated!
I’m glad you’re here Carla!
I’ll be anxiously awaiting your next NOLA favorites! I made my first visit a couple of weeks ago and loved the city. My daughter and I planned our trip exploring many, many of your favorites from your last favorites post. I’m disappointed I didn’t find a signed copy of one of your cookbooks at the Garden District Bookshop—but what a great bookstore. Thanks for your suggestions, you helped make our trip very memorable.
I’m so happy you had a lovely trip! I’m sorry there wasn’t a signed copy of my book at the bookstore but I’m glad you got to stop in! Love to you and your daughter!
Ah, the dishwasher.
I have my first one as an adult (I’m old) as I thought they were unnecessary. Well, I’m a convert as they work great and they really do use less water. Y’all probably know all that. I too hated unloading them as a kid.
The deal was I would agree to get one if my husband would unload it every morning (he and my best girlfriend had been trying for years to talk me into getting one). I do almost all the cooking and load it throughout the day as I go. We just run it once, after dinner.
He is half asleep in the a.m. and unloads it as he makes his morning shake. Routine.
Seems to be a good compromise and like I said I do love it. Also, in the 40 years I waited to get one they have certainly improved, so quiet and well designed.
That’s a great compromise! I’m going to hold that one with me for when I get married.
My current kitchen adventure is recipe testing for Annie Mahle’s (of the J.&E. Rigging) new cookbook. I discovered them through your blog and created an incredible relationship which included working on board for 2 months a couple years ago. So thanks. <3
Oh my goodness, AMY!!! That’s incredible! My love to all of you!
Thank you, Joy, for including the “KobeBryant and Complicated Legacies” piece by Jill Filipovic. It was…what I needed. It was in some way soothing.
Joy, I always look forward to your Sunday recaps. Thank you for the thoughtful Kobe article- this is the pov I was looking for.
I am going to New Orleans on Saturday for my first trip- have obviously referenced your guide! Any chance the new one will come out…this week? ha. If not, is there a can’t miss food experience?
I love your lists as always. Especially the Second-Best Me I Could Possibly Be – cracked me up.
I am interested in seeing Goop’s show but I just cannot because I cannot support Goop at all. I think Gwyneth Paltrow is taking advantage of women searching for answers to real needs with pseudoscience some of which I find dangerous. Don’t put weird things in your vagina! That being said if you’re enjoying it then enjoy it, just be cautious of any advice. If you want science-based perspective on some of the Goop ways, may I recommend checking out Jen Gunter (google her) on Twitter and Youtube. (Sorry I usually avoid being the ranting-on-the-internet type of person but I just feel so strongly about this).
Polly gets it! :)
I simply love the galentine cards!
I’ve never before posted to any account, but I am absolutely floored that you would use this platform to encourage your readers to indulge that highly insensitive and linear diatribe on Kobe Bryant. I thought your blog was a safe space [about food and lifestyle]…how utterly insensitive of you and the author of that article. I’m completely and reasonably taken aback — shame on you [for that read recommendation] and to all that were complicit.
I did not feel linear to me and I don’t need your shame.