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Each week this fall we’ll revisit a recipe from last year’s JOY THE BAKER MAGAZINE with new tips, tricks and insights.  The latest issue of my holiday magazine will hit grocery store sh...

https://joythebaker.com/2021/09/new-orleans-style-bbq-shrimp/

Gluten-free lemon bars are right up there with clean sheets, new house slippers, pastel colored sweatpants, and a fresh bath towel and bath mat. We’re talking high-quality, high-functioning...

https://joythebaker.com/2021/03/almond-flour-lemon-raspberry-bars/

We’re opening the windows wide and letting the love right in the kitchen today!  We’re making another of my family’s favorite pies, brought to us by my favorite fellow baker Erin Jea...

https://joythebaker.com/2020/11/lemon-meringue-pie-with-citrus-spiced-sugar-cookie-crust/

In these crazy days? We need to have our boundaries clearcut.  I make myself a to-do list every day. I have a list of things I’d like to do to take care of myself each month, ya know…. e...

https://joythebaker.com/2020/07/cherry-and-lemon-ice-box-cake/

. One of my favorite Mardi Gras costumes this year was a woman with a jacket embroidered with the message” I’m ok! You’re ok!”  It felt both celebratory and comforting and like a mi...

https://joythebaker.com/2020/03/roasted-lemon-chicken-soup/

I went back to Los Angeles for a quick visit a few weeks ago.  There was Chess Pie – it was a divine. I spare my parents from picking me up at the airport, and I still have my house key ...

https://joythebaker.com/2020/01/dads-lemon-chess-pie/

There are some things I do with great ceremony in the kitchen.  Work butter into a pie crust, chop carrots for a soup, butter up a whole chicken for roasting.  It can all be pretty precious...

https://joythebaker.com/2017/11/baked-lemon-spinach-risotto/

I feel like I’ve been chasing cold, spitty early Spring rain around the country these past few weeks.  From New York to Boston to Chicago and Seattle it’s been one chilly and bone-damp a...

https://joythebaker.com/2017/03/simple-lemon-and-sage-tisane/

I’m working really hard on my upcoming Brunch cookbook.  I say this as I’m surrounded by pages of proofs, going over page after page, word after word, image after image, testing testin...

https://joythebaker.com/2016/08/lemon-poppy-seed-crepes-with-blueberry-curd/

It’s ridiculous, really.  I’m always looking for any and every excuse to buy a bag of cookies from the grocery store.   The best excuse I’ve come up with so far is that I need to bu...

https://joythebaker.com/2015/09/lemon-vanilla-cookie-krispie-treats/