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July 14, 2020
Camp Joy Episode 1: Cast Iron Cornbread Peach Cobbler
Hello friends!
I’m comin’ atcha with the latest ambitious endeavor from Joy the Baker!
I’ve been feeling super nostalgic this summer, thinking back to my days as a pre-teen (woof) at sleepaway camp in Los Angeles. These wafts of nostalgia come as we’re deep into summer 2020 and what a wild, sad sad summer it seems to be.
Some people say summer in cancelled – but we can’t have that!
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Camp Joy: Cast Iron Cornbread Peach Cobbler
Hello friends!
I’m comin’ atcha with the latest ambitious endeavor from Joy the Baker!
I’ve been feeling super nostalgic this summer, thinking back to my days as a pre-teen (woof) at sleepaway camp in Los Angeles. These wafts of nostalgia come as we’re deep into summer 2020 and what a wild, sad sad summer it seems to be.
Some people say summer in cancelled – but we can’t have that!
Continue reading Camp Joy: Cast Iron Cornbread Peach Cobbler at Joy the Baker.
July 12, 2020
Let It Be Sunday, 280!
Hello my friends,
We’re here, smack dab in the middle of July, in the middle of the most wild time. How are you? How are we?
I was on a camping vacation last weekend (thank you for all your kind words about last week’s no-post) which makes coming back to current news and circumstances a little bit more of a gut punch. It’s ok. We’re just going to stay hydrated, and vote, and eat our salads, and take our vitamins and keep it moving because the only way out is through.
In weird and lasting quarantine hobbies I’ve taken up archery and I’ve learned how to throw a lasso (not while on a horse). Ya know – might as well.
July 5, 2020
Let It Be Sunday, 279!
Hello sweet friends.
I’m taking a break from our Sunday post this week to give myself a bit of a holiday.
I’m camping in Mississippi – in an RV with air conditioning – I’m not totally crazy.
I’ll be cooking this camping menu, listening to a lot of 90’s music, swimming in a river, and sitting around a campfire.
Thanks for being here every week.
June 30, 2020
My 4th of July Camping Menu
You all have seen me putz around my kitchen pulling cakes out of the oven – no surprise there. There’s part of me that you might not be as familiar with. She’s outdoorsy, she can build a fire, she can make a cobbler over hot coals, she owns a bow and arrow, she is a Girl Scout forever. That’s me! And boy-howdy (where did that come from?) I’m going to stretch those outdoorsy muscles this coming holiday weekend.
It’s TIME TO GO CAMPING!
Listen… camping is the ideal pandemic vacation. Up and away, into the fresh air, with our boos and babies and the stars and bugs so many bugs. If we going it, we gotta go all the way in.
What follows is a list cooking gear I bring camping, a few of the recipes I use, and some simple tips that make my camp life easier. Please feel free to ask any questions or leave your own tips in the comments below.
Whatever you do this long weekend, I hope you take your summer body outside into this summer sun.
Before we start talking about camping food, let’s acknowledge that there are different kinds of camping. This upcoming camping trip is an RV camp – so I’ll have a refrigerator, small stovetop (that I won’t really use) a fire pit, and grill. I want to cook all my food outside over a fire but I have access to refrigerator which is ideal for a long weekend away.
This could also work for more primitive tent camping, but you’ll need a cooler and a refresher of ice during the weekend. This isn’t a backpacking menu – don’t nobody want to carry all this food around.
Here are a few kitchen things to bring for your next big camp adventure:
• a small grill – I love this small Weber and use it at home and on all 2-4 person camping trips.
• a cast iron skillet for breakfast.
• extra credit for a cast iron camp dutch oven and camping tripod for stews and cobblers.
• a pair of grill gloves a good set of tongs and a camping knife.
• sea salt, all-purpose grills seasoning, and good olive oil.
Listen….
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June 28, 2020
Let It Be Sunday, 278!
Hello sweet friends,
I’m glad we made it here to this moment.
This week I’ve been focusing hard on the things right in front of me. You know? The world is spinnin’ real wild, but the small things of an everyday life have to get done. I’ve had those in focus – checking the front garden for caterpillars, watching my sunflower bloom, giving Tron extra time under the covers in the morning, cleaning the closet, willing myself to clean the pantry. I’m taking a small view maybe as an act of self preservation.
Are you well?
June 25, 2020
Blueberry Extra Crumb Coffee Cake
I still have pandemic brain. Maybe now more than ever? The brain that doesn’t know what day it is. The brain that wants to leave the house but also does not want to step food outside. The brain that stays ready for that early bedtime but wakes up at 3 in the morning with oh… you know… the casual weight of the world upon it.
It’s only a little dramatic, and moderately workable when carefully caffeinated.
There are two things I’m looking forward to – this cake with Saturday morning coffee and a camping trip 4th of July weekend. We’ve got a short goal of cake within reach and a long goal of fresh air in the future.
Touch points are key, especially baked ones.
Let’s make this coffee cake – it’s buttery dense cake, swirled with cinnamon cocoa, studded with blueberries and topped with too much crumble. The original recipe is from my first cookbook. Think of this version as a coffee cake and blueberry muffin mashup. Clap clap!
We’re making a cake base, a sweet cinnamon-y filling, and a butter crumble top.
We’ll use all the good stuff: butter and eggs, flour and leavening, brown sugar, cinnamon, buttermilk and blueberries of course.
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June 21, 2020
Let It Be Sunday, 276!
Hello sweet friends,
We sure did make it to another fine Sunday. It doesn’t matter what condition we’re in. It’s Sunday and hopefully we can spend at least an extended amount of time in our pajamas.
You know that idiom ‘you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time’? It’s a weird one and wow that poor elephant but also – I feel like I’m taking really bit bites this month. I can’t wait to show you what I’m working on later this summer (for IGTV) and then this fall (on magazine racks) and then forever and ever because I think I like the big bites.
I hope this find you with a moment of mellow. The offering this week is below. It’s a short list this week but you’ll find and take what you need.
• Maybe this was your first year experimenting with the words “Happy Juneteenth”.
June 17, 2020
Almond Flour Banana Bread
Welcome to my home, firm, sweetly yellow bananas. You’re beautiful. You’re perfectly ripe. I know you holler for me every time I pass the fruit bowl. “Me! Me! I’m perfect! Eat me now!” I hear you. I’m just ignoring you.
But here’s the thing, I have a plan for you. I’m going to reach for the apples and nectarines. That avocado you’re leaned against is very important because it was very expensive. I’ll get to everyone but you and just when you think you’ve aged past grace, I’m going to reach for you.
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June 14, 2020
Let It Be Sunday, 275!
Hello friends!
My favorite thing to do every morning is pick out the coffee cup I’m going to use. A luxury of having exactly too many mugs is that you get to choose from an array of places, memories, and gifts from friends when you’re selecting a cup. This morning I picked a cup my friend Amy gave me a few years back because the colors reminded her of my blog header. It’s just like offering a little kindness to myself each morning. It’s Friday for me and the coffee is extra muddy. We’re just going to go with it.
This week – ya know.
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