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Pro Tips: Ask A Butcher

Pro Tips:  a new series on Joy the Baker wherein I ask my expert friends loads of questions about their field and get the nitty gritty for all of us.  Previously: Ask A Financial Planner and Ask A Sommelier.

Today I’m talking to dear friend, Cara Nicoletti, a fourth generation butcher working in Brooklyn. Yea… the cuts go way way back.

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Mostly Almost Sweater-Weather Recipes

I chose the hottest day of August to leave my house, get into the oven (my car), drive to another oven (the French Quarter), to quick-shop at my favorite clothing store (UAL) with one very specific purpose: to buy all of their sweaters. I didn’t buy all of them… I bought two, bulky thick, delicious wool numbers.  I walked out of the store (back into the oven), successful and sweating. 

Sometimes you just have to do some wishful shopping.

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Let It Be Sunday!

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.

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I Love You, London!

I walked 37 miles, in one pair of Pumas, over 6 days in London. I figure that’s a mile for every time the words ‘fish & chips” “one pint” or “another croissant, please” fell out of my mouth and food appeared on my plate.

I’ve been to London before. Each time for a stop-over headed elsewhere, ooorr the sort of trip with no room for variance where you find yourself looking up at Big Ben wondering how you’ll ever get a good picture of it and prove you were actually in London and knew it.

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Let It Be Sunday!

Hello friends!  Thank you for your patience with me.  I’ve been in London for the past handful of days and my internal clock is a little screwy.  I’ve been in town teaching a workshop on styling, food photography, and Instagram with some wonderfully accented, living in London ladies (@belleannee, @angrybaker, @prettycitylondon, and @hannahargyle).  We’ve wandered the city taking pictures of Notting Hill, eaten as much salad as we have Thai food, and shared inspiration and as much odd knowledge about the Internet as we can.

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Maple Bacon Cinnamon Roll Cake

Remember a few years back when we started putting bacon on and in all of our desserts?  I think it came just after the Red Velvet and giant cupcake phase.  We needed a salty kick in the pants. See: Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies.  

I think we’ve moved past the bacon-on-all-our-desserts trend,  but does that make it any less delicious?  Hardly. 

We’re making a breakfast cake inspired by, but much more simple than a cinnamon roll.

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Let It Be Sunday!

Below is your moment, several moments, of intentional Internet diversion.  It’s been crafted with love and care on a couch in New Orleans while watching season 9 of Grey’s Anatomy and eating the above Drake on Cake.  It’s all very serious business over here.

I’ve been prepping today for some travels to Philadelphia, New York, and London. You sure can follow along with the good times on Instagram where there will be plenty of photos and stories and you can be as nosy as you’d like.

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Everyday, New Orleans.

It’s 172 days until Mardi Gras.  Not that we’re counting. 

Sure we’ve got this year’s Thanksgiving to consider, Christmas lights to hang eventually, a New Year to cheer and then some sort of diet resolution to endure… but really, down here we’re counting down the days to Mardi Gras (now that we’re no longer counting the dog-days of August + the days until the Saints play football).  I think we’re working off a different calendar.

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Very Versatile Orecchietti with Sausage + Parmesan

Coming back from a long (end of summer, to boot) holiday weekend is a great time to count our small victories: those little moments in life where we find that sparkle of success.  It’s the accumulation of all those small victories that propel us through a day (whether we acknowledge them or not) and when our heads hit the pillow at night we have that moment of ‘yea… not so bad, not so bad… zzzZZ’.

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Let It Be Sunday!

Hello my friends! I hope you’re having the most lovely weekend! We’ve gotten the extra day we all need deep down in our hearts and I hope you’re celebrating today with a good sleep-in and a lazy day ahead.  

I’ve had some plane travel in my recent past and lots more in my near future. This view is common to me.  It carries a plethora of emotions with it: excitement, sadness, loneliness, togetherness, oh-crap-we’re-actually-flying-ness, where am I going again?

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