What kind of traveler are you? Do you unpack your suitcase right when you get home? Are you back up and running into your routine in hours? Or are you like me…? You dig through the suitcase you’ve lived out of for weeks with the sole purpose of finding the bag of Ottolenghi granola your friend gifted you because you want it for breakfast. The laundry can wait. Breakfast, somehow, can not.
I’m home and ready to hop in the kitchen to make new recipes for us. I hope you’re into bread pudding and pork belly… it’s all going down. Not together. Separate dishes. I gathered a lot of food inspiration from my recent travels.
These past few weeks have been challenging. Challenging in the way that we’re still wading through ridiculous political blah blahs, and people are still getting shot and killed in the streets in our country.
Here’s some of the words from the week:
โข We’re having a hard time and we need to figure it out. A picture from Chicago: The Most Dangerous Neighborhood, The Most Inexperienced Cops.
โข How Clinton and Trump Are Preparing For The First Presidential Debate. It’s tomorrow. You want to talk about Sunday Stresses? Call Lester Holt… he’s the king of ’em today.
โข Roy Choi has the right idea about what it means to be a successful food entrepeneur and feed people. Read this: The People’s Cheeseburger
โข Ina Garten is obsessed with her husband Jeffrey. Listen y’all. Love is real.
โข Thanks for getting us all started on this crazy food blogging journey, Deb. You started it all, right? If not for you I’d still be Live Journaling into the void. What I’d Tell New Food Bloggers 10 Years After Starting Smitten Kitchen.
โข I don’t think baseball is even a sport absent the voice of Vin Scully. Ask anybody. The Man. The Voice. The Stories.
โข I was dead-set on only skimming two paragraphs of this article and read the whole dang thing because it’s fascinating: Brangelina Is Dead; Long Live Angelina.
โข Current listen: This American Life: Becoming A Badger. I love the story about the dog hunting rats… it’s charming somehow, just listen.
โข Let’s be real hopeful and stock up on camp socks. No, seriously.
โข On the Bake and Shoot Recipe List for next week: Shepard’s Pie, Guinness Brownies, Bread and Butter Pudding. This week I’ve made the Marrakesh Carrot Salad twice. Don’t call it a comeback.
โข What to bring back from London (or apparently buy in bulk on Amazon): Chunky Peanut Butter Kit Kat. Ok, you’re welcome.
โข A breakfast idea: French Toast For One or Two. Gather ye breads.
Enjoy this day! We’ll talk more soon. In the meantime, I’m going to go laundry.
xo Joy
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I just returned to Oz after a 3 week Pacific North West US visit, and we basically filled our suitcase with Old Bay, hot sauce and aromatic bitters. Living the dream! :)
Your blog is one I always look forward to reading when it pops up in my reader. Often I click the link and just let the tab rest until I need an exhale in my day. Happy to start this morning reading. For real, your Sunday posts are my favorite! And a whole bunch of me just wants to wander around NOLA with you – not in a creepy way, I promise, I’m very normal. Well, that just made it weird.
My sister lived in London and I do remember really good candy bars and they have seasonal flavors throughout the year. Don’t remember the kit Kats, plus as Nigella might say “peanut butter is a partial American perversion”. Brits don’t really eat it. They sound delicious! I’m with you on the packing/unpacking and the granola, although I make my own now( thanks to you!) and it’s so much better than anything store bought. Of course, I’v never eaten a bag of Ottolenghi’s granola. Thanks for all the good Sunday reads. I’m going to laundry now too, although technically it’s Monday morning ( a better day to do laundry when you still live in an apartment building). Welcome home! I’m flying to Mexico City this week. ????
Chunky peanut butter Kit Kats are THE BEST. I discovered them on a 2006 or 2007 trip to the UK and was mad I’d been missing them all my life.
Hi Joy, Love reading your blog! I noticed a Chemex in the picture above. I was wondering if you would ever consider writing a how-to on how to prepare coffee using a chemex and what brand and type of beans to consider buying. I am exploring other ways on how to prepare a good coffee other than just using a coffee machine.
Oh absolutely! I can show you this! I’m no expert… but I can show you my morning coffee routine!
Joy, real talk: is your “Don’t call it a comeback” a reference to One Tree Hill? Because I might die of glee.
Loved the article about Locol!
Chunky peanut butter kit kat was my favourite thing when I was living in the U.K. in 2014, I was so bummed to find out that we donโt get them here in Australia. And as for travel style, Iโm the one who lives out of her bag for a week or two just so I can pretend Iโm still on my trip!
I wouldn’t say no to a savory pork belly bread pudding!
Adrienne, I think you’re on to something!
Hm, hope I don’t give a double comment, I don’t think the first one came through?
Personally I hate packing! And then unpacking. I pull out gifts, food and beauty stuff first, then the rest. But I’m always bad with putting the suitcase back where it belongs, in the basement. I let it collect dust in my small bedroom for way too long and the cats like to use it as their bed, lol.
And camp socks! I love comfy socks and wear them instead of slippers at home. :)
+++ that Kit Kat is so good.
Love hearing about your travels and the articles you link to – look forward to the recipes inspired by your trip. Shepherd’s pie is one of my favourites here in Oz – I have many recipes for it but can always use another! Also loved our all too short visit to New Orleans last year and now enjoying it vicariously through your blog.
I just love let it be Sunday. I have learned so much. Thanks
I always look forward to seeing your Sunday links.
Even more than Brangelina, I liked the story about Gigi Hadid, who elbowed a guy who emerged from a crowd, grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up. After she clocked him, the Internet became enraged. However, I applaud her. No guy should ever feel he has the right to grab a woman.
I’m the worst! It takes me about 30 minutes to pack and about 30 days to unpack.
Those numbers seem exactly right to me!
We are leaving for London/Scotland in a couple of weeks! All the places in your London blog have been noted – Indian food for breakfast? Yes, please! Thanks, mucho and welcome home!
Ah! You’ll have the most wonderful time!
Glad you enjoyed your travels & are back in New Orleans.
I am here through Wed. Hit some snags upon arrival, but thanks be to Nola for “to go daiquiri’s”!!
New Orleans gets really snaggy sometimes which is why I think they let us drink in public.
Did you ever have the green tea Kit Kats from Japan? Sounds weird, but they are so good. And I love your Let It Be posts!
They are strangely pleasing.
I look forward to your blog on Sundays, well every other day of the week too. It reminds me of the Sunday papers I used to read many years ago. Just snippets of life I can pick and choose from. I love The UK as well. Sounds like you had fun. Take care. Enjoy the catching up.
Thanks for being here, John!
Thank you for this words. Hardly waiting to see more from you !
Regardless of the sad fact that I have to work every Sunday, I now look forward to the first day of the week because of this reoccurring blog post.
You make me smile with your sense of humor and inform, inform, inform!
Thank you! I can’t wait to get reading all the compelling articles which inevitably make me late to punch the clock!
Have a super Sunday!
-Andrea
I feel like being late to punch the clock is understandable on a Sunday. Thanks for being here!