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May 20, 2018
Let It Be Sunday, 172!
Hello dear friends!
I’ll tell you what – if you dream of hosting a pop-up bagel shop in your backyard one day, all it takes is many MANY batches of this bagel recipe, a very early wakeup call, several batches of homemade flavored whipped cream, a few friends to help you bring all of your inside furniture out to the backyard, a portable speaker with a Drake playlist and BOOM – you’ve got yourself a bagel shop.
May 16, 2018
How To Make A Kitchen Altar
I’m so proud of my gardenias. After just two years in my backyard, under my well-meaning intentions (that are sometimes neglectful, sometimes plain confused), they’ve flowered into the grand finale of a gardenia fireworks show. My Spring backyard is showing gratitude for the one time I fed it and the eighteen times I half watered it this past year and I am (admittedly) more proud that I should be. I’m back there, spinning around in circles with my arm open singing about all the plants I haven’t killed yet.
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May 13, 2018
Let It Be Sunday, 171!
Hello dear friends!
Happy Mother’s Day. Please take some time to honor the woman whose ear you screamed in for years on end. And if you’re that woman, you deserve all of the flowers and thanks and solitude. Bless you.
I recognize that this day might not be the easiest of holidays. As the years go on, as we tumble around in the world, we’re made to tuck all kinds of change and hurt away.
May 11, 2018
Strawberry Pie Bars
On the long list of things that sparkle this season is the fact that my back porch smells like gardenias. The closed blossoms have a new, green perfumey smell that only deepens as the flower blooms to bright white and ages to yellow.
The beauty is so present these days, the young greens, and the flowering trees – it feels like, if we’re paying enough attention we surely have an embarrassment of riches on our hands.
May 7, 2018
Sweet Laurel’s Grain-Free Chocolate Raspberry Cake
There is always a case for chocolate cake. It’s as simple as that.
When I set out to make a chocolate cake, I’ll freely admit I use a perhaps unexpected recipe straight from Hershey because… well, the proportions are spot on and it makes for the most straight-forward delicious chocolate cake. It’s exactly what I want it to be.
But… since there’s always a case for chocolate cake – there’s also always a case for trying something new.
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May 6, 2018
Let It Be Sunday, 170!
Hello my friends!
I’ve had one of those once-in-a-lifetime weekends in Louisville Kentucky at this year’s Kentucky Derby. It’s such a unique, cultural tradition that I’ve celebrated with my dear friend Whitney in Los Angelesfor the past seven years and it felt really special to be in Kentucky for the real deal. The horses are gorgeous, the jockeys are so strong. The hats were HUGE, y’all, and the rain was real.
May 3, 2018
Frozen Moscow Mules
Hello dear friends and happy festival season from New Orleans! Down here we celebrate… well just about everything with cocktails and music but this time of year there’s something special in the air.
It’s my absolute favorite time of year here in New Orleans, the magnolias are in bloom, the crawfish are boiling, the humidity hasn’t ruined our hair juuuust yet, and with Jazz Fest this week, there’s literally music in the air everywhere!
May 1, 2018
12 Spring Cookbooks I’m Excited About, 2018
It’s that time of year when we get to welcome a gorgeous new crop of cookbooks onto our shelves!
If you’e been over to my little Bakehouse, you know that there are stacks of cookbooks on every flat surface. I think of each one as a restaurant I’ve visited, a friend who wrote the book, or a chef who I admire. Suffice it to say – I’m working on building a library.
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April 29, 2018
Let It Be Sunday, 169!
Friends!
Happy Sunday to you! My head is spinning with springtime New Orleans vibes so please excuse the brevity. I hope this finds you happy and well and wearing shorts despite the lack of tan. We’re all in this together and we’ll make it to summer tan on way or another.
Here are a few of the links that resonated with me this week, please:
• If you’re into true crime and the podcast My Favorite Murder you might also be into the most incredible book I’ll Be Gone In The Dark in which case you’re maybe never going to sleep again which leaves you plenty of time to read about how (in epic news!) The Golden State Killer was arrested this week!!!
April 26, 2018
What To Do In New Orleans This Spring, 2018
Friends!
Are you on your way? Has the sound of brass bands and the smell of gardenias, beignets, and fresh strawberries called you home to New Orleans, yet? We’re down here living our best days and it only makes sense if you join us!
It’s Jazz Fest season and it feels like the city is swelling with visitors. The vibes are good, the river is movin’ fast, and the flower beds are healing from that bully of a winter frost.
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