The Sunday Five: Getting Old, Staying Cool, and a Must-Listen Album | 10.25.26
Friends, hi! Reporting live from late Saturday night where I’ve just turned the lights off downstairs and settled at the kitchen table for today’s last task – saying a quick Sunday hello to you! We’re hosting Will’s parent’s 50th wedding anniversary at the house in Bellville tomorrow and I simply can’t settle until the house is mostly ready for guests. It’s feeling good. I love the still before the house is filled to the brim.
The Sunday Five On Math, Rumors, and Banana Bread Syrup | 10.18.26
Friends, hi and welcome to another fine Sunday! Here’s this week’s five. Good luck not crying about math… I’m serious. • On the list of things to make SOON very soon is this Coconut Braised Beef to be served with sticky rice, some sort of fresh green herby salad and
The Sunday Five: Cinnamon Season, Postpartum Empties & the Truth About Hootie | 10.11.26
Friends, good Sunday to you! This week’s five begins with me taking inventory: the cinnamon jar, the beauty products I have officially scraped to the bottom, a few of the dozen or so open Substack tabs, and some bad news about Hootie. • Fresh cinnamon, please and thank
Flourless Monster Cookies: Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These flourless monster cookies are packed with peanut butter, oats, M&M’s, and chocolate chips, with crisp edges and soft, chewy centers. An easy one-bowl monster cookie recipe that’s naturally gluten free and easy to dress up for Halloween, Christmas, or any season! Monster cookies have always felt appropriately named to
The Best Pumpkin Desserts
The best pumpkin desserts for fall, way beyond pie: sheet cake, muffins, bars, cookies, and tiramisu, all from Joy’s kitchen, with make-ahead tips.
The Best Fall Dessert Recipes
The fall desserts I actually bake: apple crisp, pumpkin bread, chai cookies, sheet cakes for a crowd, and the weekend projects worth the time.
The Best Apple Desserts
The best apple desserts for fall: crisp, pie, sheet cake, bars, and cookies, all from Joy’s kitchen, with tips on the best baking apples.
The Best Thanksgiving Cookies
The best Thanksgiving cookies: warm-spiced, brown-butter, and nutty favorites that hold their own next to the pie. Easy recipes plus make-ahead tips.
The Best Thanksgiving Desserts
The best Thanksgiving desserts: the pies worth the oven, the sheet cakes that feed a crowd, and the ones you can make days ahead so Thursday is calm.
The Sunday Five: two trendy colors I’m loving + pumpkin season! | 9.27.26
Friends, good Sunday to you! Behold this batch of Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls I’m about to put in the oven. Truth be told, I think they’re
The Sunday Five: great socks and two pizzas to make this month | 09.20.2026
Friends, hi! Me, you, a Sunday!? Let’s go for it! For ten years, Let It Be Sunday was our weekly ritual around here, but seven
My Best Halloween Treats and Party Food
Everything I actually make for Halloween, in one place: the decorated sugar cookies, the no-bake things you can pull off the morning of, the blondies that eat the leftover candy, and the pumpkin bakes worth turning the oven on for. I will be honest with you, I am not much
Easy Summer Cakes
Sheet cakes, snacking cakes, and no-bake icebox cakes. These are my easiest summer cakes, the ones that feed a crowd without heating up the kitchen.
My Best Summer Dessert Recipes
Berry pies, no-bake icebox cakes, popsicles, and easy sheet cakes. These are my best summer dessert recipes, all in one place for warm nights and easy gatherings.
The Bakehouse Texas: How I Ended Up With a Bakery in My Backyard
When I was a kid, I loved to play house, though I was never especially interested in the husband-and-child portion of the game. Funny now, considering I have both and am pleased as punch with the arrangement. What I wanted was the house. I wanted a room that belonged to
