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Strawberry Shortcake Doughnuts

Listen, every few months I like to pop in here and remind you that it’s time to make the doughnuts.  Literally and figuratively.  

This Spring marks the 1 year birthday of my sweet little brunch book, OVER EASY?  Does one throw a birthday party for a book? Certainly not.  But you can’t stop me from making doughnuts about it.

I’ve surrounded myself with strawberries the past few weeks.

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Let It Be Sunday, 168!

Friends! 

I hope there’s a lightness to your Spring weekend.  Lightness and rest, and at least one wood-fired pizza.  

My friend Jon and I shot a new batch of recipes for the site this week so there’s some good stuff coming up!  We celebrated our hard work with pizza, at a new place called Echo’s in New Orleans.  It’s easily on my list of perfect Spring-time meals in the city.

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Yogurt Pita and Baked Chicken Shawarma

There’s a spot for sour dairy in my refrigerator.  Not the accidental soured dairy that’s been left too long, forgotten behind the orange juice.  I’m talking about the intentional soured diary that has claimed its space on the lower door shelf of fridge.  It’s a spot of honor really, next to other highly reached-for items like ketchup, hot sauce, and white wine. 

I have this hazy memory of a Frasier episode wherein Frasier reprimands Nigel (?

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Let It Be Sunday, 167!

I’ve waited on this magnolia in my backyard for weeks and weeks and here it is in all its glory. It smelled like sweet new syrup and the bees were absolutely love drunk.  

This week synopsis with a lot of omissions:  I found a package of peanut butter cups in my travel purse this week and thanked my past travel self for the indulgence.  I walked in the sunshine, had one of those weird nightmares where I screamed myself awake, had dinner with my older sister and her boss, and drove to Ponchatoula Louisiana for the best strawberries I’ve ever eaten.

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Bourbon Caramel Brownies + A KENTUCKY DERBY GIVEAWAY!

Let me tell you about my FAVORITE holiday of the year.  It involves Spring weather, show-stopping hats, bourbon,  and very fast horses!  It’s The Kentucky Derby and just around the corner! 

Here’s why the Derby is so so great whether you’re in Louisville Kentucky or not – it’s not just the greatest two minutes in sports – it’s an all-encompassing celebration of Southern food, cocktail, and style.  Y’all, we’re lifestyling! 

While flocks of people to Churchill Downs every May for Mint Juleps, horses, and Southern-style hat fashion, for years I’ve been celebrating the Derby with my dear Kentucky friend Whitney.

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Let It Be Sunday, 166!

Hello friends! 

I want to come here and lament about how last week was a doozy… but I think I offered the same sentiment last Sunday.  This feels like it goes beyond a Mercury Retrograde situation and into the real of daaaang we’re just working hard, aren’t we?  The good news is that in the past few weeks I’ve had a sweet visit from my Mama and some quality paper flowering making times with new friends.

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Spring Pea Veggie Burgers

Hey friends!  I made us burgers out of one freezer item + one canned bean item and every green thing you might have in your produce drawer.  

It’s more likely that I have frozen peas and a can of garbanzo beans in my kitchen than a package of meat, so I always make some sort of miss-mash of a vegetable patty the is equal parts easy and satisfying.  The flavors are simple but totally malleable.

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10 Things I Do To Refresh In Spring!

We’ve all got plenty on our everyday To-Do Lists – things like, put on pants, brush teeth, don’t lock your keys in your car.  We usually nail it, we’ve gotten good at this.   Then there’s the Weekend List that’s usually a bit more fun and may or may not involve pants.  There’s also the To-Email list that is well… just deeply stressful. And the To-Dust list that we willfully ignore because of the All The Things You Can Do Besides Dust List which is suddenly very relevant every time dusting crosses our minds. 

I’m here with a new submission.

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Let It Be Sunday, 165!

Friends!  

I’ll tell you now that there is no April Fools Day moment in this post.  I don’t fancy myself much of a trickster save for the one time I put vaseline all over the toilet seat one April Fools Day when I was little.  The slippery seat was met with less than enthusiastic reviews from my family. That joke didn’t go over well and I mostly stopped with the pranks right there.

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Carrot Caramel Ice Cream Sundaes

Remember that phenomenon a few years back when we pressed everything from hash browns to quesadillas and chocolate chip cookies inside of our waffle makers?  We had some success.  We had some failures.  We learned that waffle irons are mostly best for things like, say… Blueberry Buttermilk Waffles. 

Can we waffle that?  Well, lately I feel the same way about caramel.  Name a single ingredients and the first thing that pops in my mind is….

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