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Happy Friday everybody 🥹🥹 I’m still over h

Happy Friday everybody 🥹🥹 I’m still over here fighting for my life against The Allergies. I’ve decided the current DC pollen is Satan’s dandruff and you can’t convince me otherwise 🥲🥲 Furthermore, Stout wishes all a beautiful Friday night pizza night 🍕

All I have to do is print a return label and place

All I have to do is print a return label and place it on the bag of clothes that has been sitting by my front door for too many days.
But I have decided this task is absolutely monumental. I have decided that the 5 minutes it will take to complete this task will so incredibly disrupt me that I keep moving it from the current day’s list to the next day’s to do list🙃
But you know what I’ve decided is quite easy breezy? Figuring out how to use the leftover pineapple juice 🍍 in my refrigerator for the bone-in pork shoulder I have come into possession of. Because, tacos! 🌮
Here we have Sweet & Spiced Carnitas for Street Tacos! Tomorrow, maybe printing a label 🥲 But maybe not. There’s always Friday. There is always 2053!
What task have you deemed absolutely colossal this week? No wrong answers. Just vibes. Vibe and taco ✌️ 🌮
(Just posted the recipe in The Cook’s Club!)

Please enjoy @whatkatefinds and me (really just me

Please enjoy @whatkatefinds and me (really just me) trying to finding a pose 😅 You all my jumpsuit was cute until it was weird and I had to find different ways to pose in it and Katie was all the way here for it. This was my first time meeting her in person and she is EVERYTHING!
Please also enjoy the third photo which captures THE GOLD OF THE INTERNET! THESE HUMANS! 🌈 @whatkatefinds @jamiebgolden @themattiejames @thelazygenius and @erinhmoon (not captured @emilypfreeman and @thenester).
In case you missed it, this past Tuesday, so many amazing humans gathered together to celebrate @thelazygenius and the launch of The Lazy Genius Kitchen 🔪🧂 Kendra invited us to the most extra book launch party and it really was a whole lot of magic! 🎈 Lots of people throw book launch parties but in true Kendra fashion, at her own party, she made everyone else feel seen and known. And fed🥹
This is all to say that THE LAZY GENIUS KITCHEN IS OUT!!!!!!!! I will be talking about this book lots as I continue to share recipes and teach how to cook in this space, in fact, it is the June book club pick for The Cook’s Club 👩‍🍳 So make sure you grab a copy. Today.

Very causally signing a salt cellar 🧂 Last wee

Very causally signing a salt cellar 🧂
Last week at the D.C. Pub(lication) Crawl for @thelazygenius event, @chrissyjhopes brought me a salt cellar to sign and you all that is when I knew I’ve made it 😅 (Very truly trying not to let this go to my head 🥹 I’m doing great about it.)
Of course I had to also add a Bri McKoy signature drawing especially for Chrissy who always wins Pictionary when we play during my Live events. (By the way, this title is hard won because my drawings are ROUGH.)
Peep that little lemon I added …and I do not care what you say that is a lemon. Also, please see how Chrissy collaborated with me on the drawing to make it better 😅🍋
I am headed to Greensboro tomorrow for @thelazygenius book launch and I am so excited about it all! The Lazy Genius Kitchen being in the world 🥳 Seeing you all 👯‍♂️Wearing a new jumper that was made for “post exercise” but I am going to wear it just for existing🥲 Mmk?! Let’s go!

Here in this photo you see me absolutely overwhelm

Here in this photo you see me absolutely overwhelmed by connection because this evening was the first book club discussion for The Cook’s Club. TBH, I was so nervous. I don’t know why. I wasn’t sure anyone would show up, or share, or that I picked a book that was too sad, or that people would feel uncomfortable. I was very wrong. The hour flew by. We drank Chardonnay (in honor of the author’s mom) and ate Mochi ice cream (a favorite of the author’s). We cried. You all I cried. We also laughed and we raised a glass to everyone who shared a tender story. And in the end one of the women said, “You have made food fun for me again.” (That’s one of the times where the tears came.)
The internet can feel like a v big and scary place sometimes. We’re not always getting the full truth. But also we’re not always sharing the full truth. And that’s ok, it’s the internet, not your neighbor’s kitchen. But sometimes you stumble into a community and someone says, “Welcome home” and that is what The Cook’s Club has been for me💛

Bri & Kendra Eat Sauces!! Enjoy as we eat signatu

Bri & Kendra Eat Sauces!!
Enjoy as we eat signature fast food sauces and determine which are worthy of being signature! We try:
🫙McDonald’s Sweet n Sour
🫙Popeyes Mardi Gras Mustard and Blackened
🫙Ranch
🫙Arby’s sauce and Horsey sauce
🫙Chick Fil A sauce
🫙Zaxby’s sauce
🫙Wendy’s Hot Honey and Ghost Pepper Ranch
We name the sauce that is truly the most flavorful and can stand on its own! What is your favorite fast food sauce?!

It rained today forever. All I wanted was sunshine

It rained today forever. All I wanted was sunshine. But then my puppy and I put on rain coats and went outside and I was ok.
If it is raining where you are, emotionally or physically, you can go outside. You will not melt. You will survive this.

No one loves a surprise ending more than me. A twi

No one loves a surprise ending more than me. A twist no one saw coming. That moment when your jaw drops and you think, THAT WAS CRAZY!
Jesus does this for me. On Easter and for so many different parts of my own story.
The past few years there’s been parts of my faith I’ve unraveled and examined. But the one thing that’s never unraveled is this love Jesus has for me. It holds strong. It is the truest thing I know.
And then this morning as we were reflecting on Easter I thought about how its been years since we’ve had a church home. And that has been lonely. But I have never felt alone.
If you have felt lonely recently in your faith journey I want you to also know you are not alone. And both can exist at the same time. Loneliness and not-alone-ness. Hope is wild, isn’t she?!
Happy Easter, friends. (Also, this photo was taken last week in Boston😁 Permission to post a photo of your favorite humans even if it wasn’t take today.)

In a scientific study 👩‍🔬it was found that

In a scientific study 👩‍🔬it was found that 0% of people enjoy cooking in the spring.*
In this weirdly cold, warm, it’s raining, just-kidding-no-rain-today season I’ve been deconstructing a lot of my favorite meals. Deconstructed tamales, deconstructed lasagna (photographed), deconstructed pizza (I mean I’m just rolling pepperoni and cheese up into pre-made crescent dough🥹). Deconstructed cereal (a technique where you eat your wheaties straight out of the box 🙃). This is who we are right now. Cut out the extra steps of assembling your meal. Call it deconstructed. Call it art nouveau. Eat. Repeat.
*This was an actual poll I just did in The Cook’s Club. Exactly 0 people voted for spring as their favorite season to cook in😅 And then we spent one hour brainstorming meals to cook for the rest of the season. Pure gold!

4:00am wake up call 🥲 Packed and ready for Bost

4:00am wake up call 🥲 Packed and ready for Boston!
Listen, I have put in the hours, the research, the calls for help (we have a whole thread in The Cook’s Club for where to eat 🤩). Here’s the lineup:
Tatte for ☕️
Little Donkey for 🍽
Trifecta for 🍸
Carmelina’s for 🍝
Saltie Girl for 🦪
Drink for 🥃
Alive & Kicking Lobsters for 🦞
Longfellow for 🍔
Zuma for 🍣
Am I missing something?! Do you travel to eat?!

Repeat after me, “It’s the weather.” I thin

Repeat after me, “It’s the weather.”
I think it’s just the weather.
The past few weeks have felt alarmingly off. I’ve been on the hunt for why this could be. I started naming all the reasons.
I studiously paid attention to the first words to myself in the morning. My last words to myself before bed. Like a little eavesdropper I was shushing everything around me to make it make sense.
I employed the tools I know that help bring me right side up. The systems that bring order where I need order. The gifts that bring ease where I need ease.
And then yesterday a few snow flurries sauntered out of the sky. All charming, all very sure they were in the right place. I nearly lost my mind. I quickly opened my calendar on my phone to confirm the date and then I held court with the snowflakes, “It is almost April. APRIL. I need you to read the room. We need sun. We’re ready for sunshine. SUN. SHINE.”
And then the snowflakes lifted and I was slightly ashamed I yelled at something so magical. This is when it occurred to me that with all my investigating and paying attention and reasoning and praying that maybe it’s just the weather after all.
Sometimes life feels very concerning and out of control and there are really good reasons for it. Sometimes, it’s the weather. Sometimes the thing that is out of place are the snowflakes, not me. Not you.
(More importantly, sometimes, a sheet of bacon grease sweet potato fries eaten straight off the tray for second lunch is the also exact right answer.)

Out of office but very extra about it 😊 The mo

Out of office but very extra about it 😊
The most amazing @jamiebgolden has been with me for the past several days. We took DC by storm. No naps. Only commitment.
Highlights from Jamie’s visit:
🌮🍔All the food! We did Indian, French, homemade (Jeremy and me😁), Thai, seafood, and Cheez-Its 🧀
🐕She met Stout!!!!! His perfectly shaped ears and little legs won her over!
🎥 Watching National Treasure the night of her visit to prepare us for 👇
🏛 Museums. All of them. Listen, a few years ago @jamiebgolden and I met for the first time in London and decided to take a train for the day to Paris. We toured the Louvre in 90 minutes and that’s when I knew I met my museum twin. We conquered our first museum in DC in 29 minutes. It was glorious 🥹
🌸 Cherry blossoms! The cherry blossoms started blooming early this year and we got to walk around and take in their beauty.
🛍 Shops! All the cute independent book stores and shops and then … Sephora. Naturally.
Here’s to the kind of rest that energizes!

Friday night pizza night but make it cheesy breads

Friday night pizza night but make it cheesy breadsticks 🍕🤏
We still used @kingarthurbaking pizza dough recipe but we loaded it with pepperoni and cheese and garlic butter. Cut it into breadsticks and dipped in pizza sauce!

Battle of the sandwiches! I made a club and Jeremy

Battle of the sandwiches! I made a club and Jeremy made an Italian sub🥪 This is mostly because we wanted both and couldn’t decide and then we were like WE SHALL HAVE BOTH!
Also, is Jeremy waving in the background? Is it to you all? To the sandwiches? We don’t know 😅 Here’s to dinner tonight. I hope you get both/and. (Points to anyone who knows who gets that extra piece of bacon on my plate 😁)

What is your favorite food book?! It can be fictio

What is your favorite food book?! It can be fiction or nonfiction 📚
Pictured are some that are on my to be read list:
🧂Taste by Stanley Tucci
🧂Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
🧂The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
🧂Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
🧂Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
🧂Taste Makers by Mayukh Sen
Currently reading Crying in H Mart for The Cook’s Club 🤓 👩‍🍳 Your turn!

I recently had a conversation with someone I love

I recently had a conversation with someone I love very much which revealed I was not a good ally in a certain situation.
This person knows that they know that they know I am an ally. They even said to me : I know you would have said something if it went down in a different context. The grace they had for me was enormous. But I want to take responsibility. I never want to forget how I let them down.
Here is what I want to say publicly : speak up when you know it is wrong. Period. It doesn’t matter the situation, the people involved, the nuance… say something. In an instant, you can make someone who doesn’t feel safe all of a sudden feel covered, seen, known.
This is the whole purpose of bringing others to the table - they all have a seat. They all belong.
Listen to to vulnerable and the marginalized. Say sorry. Start again.

This past weekend my grandma passed away💛 Look

This past weekend my grandma passed away💛 Look how darling she was! We will never be able to fully capture her impact on this earth but it reached even to this space we have here.
A few summers ago I introduced you all to her Sour Cream Salad 🥒 and you all became as obsessed with it as I was. I often would tell her some of the kind DMs and comments you all would leave about that cucumber side dish and she would beam. She really liked this community we have here on the internet✨
This is what I will always carry about my grandma, she was the Chief Gatherer of People. Her house was a lighthouse, a safe haven, an Inn for the weary, a cafeteria for the hungry, a venue for all manner of parties and celebrations, an infirmary for the sick, a church for the wandering.
All were welcome. All the time.
In almost all the photos I have with her I’m in her kitchen stringing green beans or frying potatoes or prepping a roast. Her food was miraculous and I mean this in the most literal terms. Even if she prepared you just a few fresh slices of tomato with the perfect sprinkling of chunky sea salt, something in you healed. Became more alive. Became more aware.
I am beyond blessed to have had Dorothy as my grandma. And I know if you met her, she would have adopted you as her own.

In the past few years that have been so chaotic an

In the past few years that have been so chaotic and uprooting, I can find the line I held to that grounded me: without question it was and is listening to Black people, specifically Black women, listening to People of Color, and listening the LGBTQ+ community✨
Listening, really listening to them about Black Lives Matter, about anti-racism, about Black joy, about love and identity and justice, about history and God and art, this is what has drawn me closer to God, that has made me realize how expansive His love is.
For so long I made sure I was not putting God in a box only to realize I also stuffed the people He created in that same box. They had to look and think and act a certain way. They had to love in a certain way.
It was a miraculous welcoming. A welcoming that started with listening that bloomed into solidarity.
I cannot fully express how much brighter, how much more welcoming, how much more laughter (the laughter and joy!), and how much much more intention my life possesses now because I finally stopped to listen.
Thank you for letting me share this. It is important to me for you to know how wide the doors are flung open in this community. To remember that we door openers and not door monitors 💛

This is the story of two grown women who incorrect

These dumplings are my favorite “I’m hungry ri

These dumplings are my favorite “I’m hungry right now!” meal🙃 2 minute cook time. Comes with their own plate. Say no more.
Have you tried these?! Also, please do not sleep on the Japanese BBQ sauce. Furthermore, I should have let the dumpling cool down a bit … my face gives it all away 🥲BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON. And it did 😁

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Happy Friday everybody 🥹🥹 I’m still over h

Happy Friday everybody 🥹🥹 I’m still over here fighting for my life against The Allergies. I’ve decided the current DC pollen is Satan’s dandruff and you can’t convince me otherwise 🥲🥲 Furthermore, Stout wishes all a beautiful Friday night pizza night 🍕

All I have to do is print a return label and place

All I have to do is print a return label and place it on the bag of clothes that has been sitting by my front door for too many days.
But I have decided this task is absolutely monumental. I have decided that the 5 minutes it will take to complete this task will so incredibly disrupt me that I keep moving it from the current day’s list to the next day’s to do list🙃
But you know what I’ve decided is quite easy breezy? Figuring out how to use the leftover pineapple juice 🍍 in my refrigerator for the bone-in pork shoulder I have come into possession of. Because, tacos! 🌮
Here we have Sweet & Spiced Carnitas for Street Tacos! Tomorrow, maybe printing a label 🥲 But maybe not. There’s always Friday. There is always 2053!
What task have you deemed absolutely colossal this week? No wrong answers. Just vibes. Vibe and taco ✌️ 🌮
(Just posted the recipe in The Cook’s Club!)

Please enjoy @whatkatefinds and me (really just me

Please enjoy @whatkatefinds and me (really just me) trying to finding a pose 😅 You all my jumpsuit was cute until it was weird and I had to find different ways to pose in it and Katie was all the way here for it. This was my first time meeting her in person and she is EVERYTHING!
Please also enjoy the third photo which captures THE GOLD OF THE INTERNET! THESE HUMANS! 🌈 @whatkatefinds @jamiebgolden @themattiejames @thelazygenius and @erinhmoon (not captured @emilypfreeman and @thenester).
In case you missed it, this past Tuesday, so many amazing humans gathered together to celebrate @thelazygenius and the launch of The Lazy Genius Kitchen 🔪🧂 Kendra invited us to the most extra book launch party and it really was a whole lot of magic! 🎈 Lots of people throw book launch parties but in true Kendra fashion, at her own party, she made everyone else feel seen and known. And fed🥹
This is all to say that THE LAZY GENIUS KITCHEN IS OUT!!!!!!!! I will be talking about this book lots as I continue to share recipes and teach how to cook in this space, in fact, it is the June book club pick for The Cook’s Club 👩‍🍳 So make sure you grab a copy. Today.

Very causally signing a salt cellar 🧂 Last wee

Very causally signing a salt cellar 🧂
Last week at the D.C. Pub(lication) Crawl for @thelazygenius event, @chrissyjhopes brought me a salt cellar to sign and you all that is when I knew I’ve made it 😅 (Very truly trying not to let this go to my head 🥹 I’m doing great about it.)
Of course I had to also add a Bri McKoy signature drawing especially for Chrissy who always wins Pictionary when we play during my Live events. (By the way, this title is hard won because my drawings are ROUGH.)
Peep that little lemon I added …and I do not care what you say that is a lemon. Also, please see how Chrissy collaborated with me on the drawing to make it better 😅🍋
I am headed to Greensboro tomorrow for @thelazygenius book launch and I am so excited about it all! The Lazy Genius Kitchen being in the world 🥳 Seeing you all 👯‍♂️Wearing a new jumper that was made for “post exercise” but I am going to wear it just for existing🥲 Mmk?! Let’s go!

Here in this photo you see me absolutely overwhelm

Here in this photo you see me absolutely overwhelmed by connection because this evening was the first book club discussion for The Cook’s Club. TBH, I was so nervous. I don’t know why. I wasn’t sure anyone would show up, or share, or that I picked a book that was too sad, or that people would feel uncomfortable. I was very wrong. The hour flew by. We drank Chardonnay (in honor of the author’s mom) and ate Mochi ice cream (a favorite of the author’s). We cried. You all I cried. We also laughed and we raised a glass to everyone who shared a tender story. And in the end one of the women said, “You have made food fun for me again.” (That’s one of the times where the tears came.)
The internet can feel like a v big and scary place sometimes. We’re not always getting the full truth. But also we’re not always sharing the full truth. And that’s ok, it’s the internet, not your neighbor’s kitchen. But sometimes you stumble into a community and someone says, “Welcome home” and that is what The Cook’s Club has been for me💛

Bri & Kendra Eat Sauces!! Enjoy as we eat signatu

Bri & Kendra Eat Sauces!!
Enjoy as we eat signature fast food sauces and determine which are worthy of being signature! We try:
🫙McDonald’s Sweet n Sour
🫙Popeyes Mardi Gras Mustard and Blackened
🫙Ranch
🫙Arby’s sauce and Horsey sauce
🫙Chick Fil A sauce
🫙Zaxby’s sauce
🫙Wendy’s Hot Honey and Ghost Pepper Ranch
We name the sauce that is truly the most flavorful and can stand on its own! What is your favorite fast food sauce?!

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