Oh Joy! It's Joy, the Baker

Meet Joy Wilson, aka Joy, the Baker, cookbook author and popular food blogger. Today, Barbara and I went to her book signing for her third and latest cookbook called Over Easy. It was fun to meet her in person, get her cookbook and hear her speak.

I really need this cookbook because it's all about brunches. With all the family brunches I've hosted since we moved back to Seattle, I really need some new ideas and this book is chock full of delicious recipes. Joy lives in New Orleans, one of my favorite places. And she has a recipe for beignets, of course, and lots of other wonderful treats like strawberry shortcake doughnuts, breakfast sausage pretzel rolls, spaghetti quiche, a whole chapter on sandwiches and cocktails that include the Aperol Spritz that I drank all over Italy in September. I am excited to start trying all her recipes. She is such a fun person and recently started having cooking workshops at her house in her hometown of New Orleans. I would attend one if I lived there. And don't you just love her taste in shoes?

We were able to sample a couple of her creations that were passed around. One sample was her baked brown-butter banana bread doughnuts

and another was a sampling of onion, gruyere,and grits frittata muffins.

The house was packed to see Joy, the Baker at the Book Larder bookstore where I also went for a book signing by Jessica Fechtor for her book, Stir. The Book Larder is a little neighborhood bookstore in the Fremont neighborhood that has lots of events and guest authors.

We always make sure we go early to the Book Larder for these events because it is not a large place but they make the most of the space that they do have.

Also, in attendance was Joy's sister, Lauren, who is a local Seattleite with her own business called Sweet Lo's Ice Cream

and she brought along some of her ice cream for all of us to sample. This was the best book signing ever!

Next month we are planning another trip to New Orleans because Bruce has a trade show and I told Joy, the Baker that I was looking so forward to visiting her town again. This will be my third time to New Orleans but you can never get tired of the food there. Thank you, Joy the Baker, for inspiring us with another great cookbook and a fun evening celebrating it.

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