Friday Flotsam

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrey! der! duh! dey!

Ya know what I’ve really been into lately? Let me preface this by saying you’ve all already been into this for years and years. I’m just (fashionably?) late to the party.

This is what I’m loving: fun podcasts. Like guest-based podcasts. Just two-four people chatting and gabbing and dishing and spilling tea and book talk and all that.

I’m taking a break from murder, you guys! (that came out wrong.)

And I have a few that I’ve been rotating that I want to share, but I knooooooow you all have the goods, and I’d love to hear them!

Books, Beach, & Beyond. It’s the Elin Hilderbrand and Tim Talks Books podcast. It’s my favorite. They interview well-loved authors about their process, their hits, all of it. It’s GREAT, if you love literary chat. I’m obsessed.

Another one that’s giving me a lot of joy these days is Good Hang with Amy Poehler. Gah! She’s just a freaking treat. I enjoy her so much. Her episode with Tina is pure gold. I just love hearing funny women together. Their adoration for each other, the way they treat people, their craft. Can’t get enough of that juice. (also came out wrong.)

Other ones I dabble in (based on the guest) are Call her Daddy, Armchair Expert, Smartless and Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. Hysterical stuff. And we all need that right now.

But I need more! What are some hilarious, refreshing, guest-based podcasts that you cannot get through your week without?

Spilleth.

Okay, we need to have a quick baby micro discussion about tomato pie. I already have a blog post on it. This one. Make it. Do it. But I have a note. I have a note!

First of all it’s the perfect month to make it. And actually, not sure if you knew, but in an old version of the Latonia Perplexia from Yesterlore, the literal translation for August is Tomato Pie. You knew this, right? Well now you do.

But here’s something that’s sort of changing my game. And that’s to make the pie crust in my food processor. Now listen, global grandmothers will turn in their graves, and I agree and get it and understand. But the food processor – omg! It’s been making my pie dough so much smoother. More pliable. Easier to manage. Sure, it takes away the meditative motion of pressing the cold butter through your fingers, but girl. I’m sold.

I made this one for a little late-summer-football-watching hang last weekend and we almost died. The tomatoes are bursting with obscene flavor right now and you HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE or I will rightly come after you.

That’s my PSA for today.

Also, I will never be able to manage Saran Wrap. Or any plastic wrap. Any cling wrap. I thought that years ago I’d managed to figure it out. And I think I did for a few days or hours. But it left right after and has yet to return.

The other day I had it so horrifically jacked up and it was getting worse and worse and I nearly threw the entire box onto the highway. Then Aaron came into the kitchen and started from scratch with the hurricane of plastic wrap on the counter, got it back on track, and I straight-up squealed with unbridled delight.

. . . I need to get out more.

Weekend plans?

Pretty low key around here, which is lovely. I’m about halfway through Wild Dark Shore (canNOT figure out what the family is hiding. I mean, I have an idea, but that can’t be right. Can it?), so I hope to churn that one out. A bit of yard work, an early soccer game, a friend’s birthday to celebrate, Taylor’s new album to dream over, some Chiefs watching, and that’s about it. Pawfect.

I didn’t post anything this week because I’m trying to get back into a work groove. The kids have started back to school, so juggling all their needs and wants and my needs and wants is a lot. But: my birthday is next Saturday and I’m seeing the Indigo Girls next Thursday night, so the vibes are high and the mood is right. I’m boarding the Good Vibe Train with a first class ticket and not getting off! (<–so, so sorry I said it like that.)

Okay, have a fab weekend and tell me your favorite podcasts!