Savoring life in the Berkshires
As promised, I made myself a birthday cake last month. I did choose a recipe from Cake Magic!: Mix & Match Your Way to 100 Amazing Combinations (affiliate link), which has never steered me wrong. Cake Magic follows a formula of cake + syrup which is brushed on the cake after baking + frosting. I opted…
Welcome to September…a week ago! Surprising no one, the start of school has me feeling like I’ve been running a daily marathon without any training. Slowly but surely, I’m getting to know my students and getting into a school routine (which has included forgetting my phone at home twice and my work keys once). And…
Last year, Mighty Food Farm switched to a pre-order system for CSA shares. Each Wednesday, I log onto a website, place my order for the week from the available produce, then pick up my share in Williamstown. I thought I wasn’t going to like preordering items, but it’s nice to know what I’m getting in…
This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for supporting Relishments! Note: this recipe should have gone up closer to the beginning of the week. My apologies for the closely spaced menu plans. The time is finally here. I go back to school this Thursday. As usual (and yet, it always surprises me!) summer went by very…
It seemed like an enough of an accomplishment this month to just get a Relishments Bakes challenge posted AND post a recipe, so I decided not to push it by thinking too hard about what to make. It’s August and the obvious choice was to make zucchini bread. I opted to try the Ultimate Zucchini…
In the last couple years, I have become a big fan of my slow cooker. It’s not fancy, just a basic round 6-quart manual Crock-Pot that we registered for when we got married 12 years ago. For most of its existence, it just sat in the bottom of my pantry. I didn’t grow up eating…
This is the part of the summer when I’m really trying to get my act together. I’m painfully aware of how my intentions for the summer didn’t line up with reality and now I’m working to determine what my priorities are. It will be okay, it always is, and in a week I’ll be more…
One of the things (besides lack of time) that kept from posting menu plans in the past year is that my plans sometimes seemed too simple to post. But in the interest of transparency and consistency, here’s what we ate last week. It’s a mix of cooking projects, reheating items from the fridge and take…
