So, Hi everyone welcome to another episode of Do You Thanks Just Bought It,

the podcast where we talk about what we just bought and what you might need to buy next. I am here with cookbook author Julia Tertion. You already know her because I posted about her new cookbook, Simply Julia, which came out in March and like 9,000

people commented and they were like I've already made every single recipe 70

times and I've thrown out all of my other cookbooks and this is the only one

I cook from.

Thanks so much, like, welcome to the,

welcome on board the train, Caroline.

Julia, thanks so much for coming.

That was so kind.

Thank you so much for having me.

I am a fan of your show and I'm so excited to be here today.

This is great.

We are so excited to have you.

Right before we hopped on to record,

we were just talking about our pets. You have two dogs. I have a dog and two cats. We were just talking about their

It's kind of like dogs are and you and your wife don't have any children correct?

No just the dogs. We used to have a cat but you know he is he is not with us anymore

but he's you know in our hearts. He's crossed the rainbow bridge yes exactly do you feel like sometimes

children might be easier than dogs I I know that I often with friends of mine like close friends who have young kids I'm always like oh yeah same thing with our dog or like our dog did this just like your kid and I'm like are they offended because I wouldn't be offended but maybe hard for me to say I don't know I feel like this was like a slippery slope that I probably shouldn't like dip my toe in. I love my dogs kids are great. I don't want to offend anyone. I don't think you would offend anyone. I'm just thinking about because we're still in the puppy stages of Lottie and all of my friends, you know, and I was also afraid to to be like I have friends who have

toddlers and then a both also just gave birth to their second and I'm very like

it part of me wants to be like same.

But the friend who's puppy had the litter

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