Hello friends!
It’s another fine Sunday and I hope it finds you well, healthy, and with coffee.
How’s your family text thread? Mine is filled with daily updates of everyone’s gardens, the frequent mention of cakes we miss eating together, pictures of our animals, and the occasional guilt-trip offshoot text which, as you might imagine, are my least favorite. So. Ya know. We’re all just in it and doing our best.
Accomplishments this week include and are strictly limited too, stress-baking funnel cake, stress-vacuuming, and stress-making myself a really nice gin and tonic. And yet… I’m ok, you’re ok.
The offering this week is below. Take what you need and only that:
• Here’s what we’ve been through: April was Death, April was Hope, April was Cruel. (The Washington Post)
• Would you rather go into the deep deep ocean or into outer space? Both are such a mystery but like… shoot me into the stars. Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Into The Sea: the explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth. (The New Yorker)
• Mmkay mmkay – so what I’m hearing is, we should have been buckled up: This Is The Most F*ed Up Astrological Week of the Year. (The Cut)
• Catch me on the latest episode of Ladyland. (Ladyland Podcast)
• This is the most thoughtful piece written on the Alison Roman drama: Alison Roman, the Colonization of Spices, and the Exhausting Prevalence of Ethnic Erasure in Popular Food Culture. (Pajiba)
• Correct. The Answer Is Tots. (Eater)
• On a whim this week I made Small Batch Baked Funnel Cake out of pate a choux dough and I have to say – what a stroke of genius. Please don’t sleep on this! (Joy the Baker)
• The best gift a man has given me: Justin Wilson’s Homegrown Louisiana Cookin’. It’s a treasure. (Biblio)
• Adriana makes the best strawberry cakes. She’s the queen. Mini Strawberry Sheet Cake. (A Cozy Kitchen)
• I don’t really need like, mass celebrity collaborations but Dave Grohl can give us anything and everything: Times Like These. And while we’re brushing against the Foo Fighters, let it be known that Taylor Hawkins if the best (and most humble) rock drummer we have. (YouTube)
• Hands down, the best sunscreen I’ve used on my face in a long time: Versed Guards Up. It protects against everything and goes on not too shiny, not too matte. (Versed)
Have the most lovely day!
xo Joy
Dani H
Love your Let It Be Sunday posts, love the interview, love the music, love your recipes and your blog and just plain adore you!
Thank you for bringing light into my day!
joythebaker
Thank you for such kindness, Dani!
Lin
I used to love to watch Justin Wilson on television! He was ahead of the times with his cooking show! Onyon….lol! Thanks for the sunscreen info. I placed an order as I have sensitive fair skin and need to wear it for sure. Be well Joy and thank you for always giving me some good things to look forward to each Sunday!
joythebaker
Justin Wilson is just such a treasure! So glad you’re here Lin!
Kamaile
I look forward to your Sunday post! I just made your small batch granola and it is SO good. I planned on eating it with some yogurt but I’m eating it from the pan still kinda warm, crunchy and so full of flavor. I’m never buying granola again.
joythebaker
I am constantly guilty of eating just about everything straight from the pan.
Nora
I appreciate the effort you put into these and look forward to them every Sunday. How about when you have so many family text threads on your phone, you mistakenly send a text about a birthday gift to the recipient??!! Oh well, more fodder for laughter the next time we get together. . . .
joythebaker
Yep, Nora. I feel ya!
RitaM
Thank you for the song…It’s Times Like These…OMG, loved it this way with each little cameo…great collaboration! Will play it many more times. Stay Safe out there everyone…
Beth
I read two full books this week (haven’t done that in ages) and my brother, an aunt we weren’t previously in regular touch with, and I have been texting each other garden pictures…it’s a strange time, but it’s nice to connect with others in ways we didn’t before.
joythebaker
Cheers to getting through two books and high-five for renewed family connections.
Jeananne
Wonderful interview! And thank you for introducing me to another great podcast
joythebaker
Yes, absolutely!
Terry
As always you choose excellent articles. The Pajiba article was so on point, I read the Interview with Allison Roman and really wondered what her point was. It did not make me want to buy her cookbooks. I agree with the author. We should want to know the story of what we are cooking and the traditions of the ingredients. We can’t truly appreciate the food if we don’t respect te the culture that created it.
Marie
I always look forward to these weekend reads. This week I especially enjoyed Mason Hereford’s (of Turkey and the Wolf) perspective on the huge issues with the Payroll Protection Program (PPP).
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/payroll-protection-program-restaurants
The last paragraph really resonated with my heart.
joythebaker
Thank you so much for sharing this, Marie!
MrsB
I used to watch Justin Wilson on Louisiana public television every Saturday morning I learned about Peychaud’s bitters and how to make independent rice….. because every grain standscapary.!
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MrsB
Every grain stands apart…. Damn autocorrect.
Samantha
Great reads and ideas :)
Kelsey
I loved that article on the deep sea dives- and the women scientists on board. Thanks for sharing!
joythebaker
Isn’t it amazing!?
Lori
Dave & the Foo Fighters —love, love, love!
Trysha
One of my most prized possessions is a Taylor Hawkins drum stick from the Break A Leg tour. In the pit, front row, only the security guard between me and Dave Grohl. It was magic. Any chance to see the Foo Fighters, always take it. You will never be disappointed.
joythebaker
THAT IS AWESOME! I’ve been to two Foo Fighters concerts and I always leave ragged and exhilarated.
Nikki
Thanks for the sun screen rec! I’ve been looking for a mineral based one that isn’t so chalky. It was leaving residue on the collars of my shirts and that’s not cute.
joythebaker
Yes Nikki! This one isn’t chalky at all I think you’ll really like it!