Savoring life in the Berkshires
Hello, friends! Thanks so much for all your feedback on last month’s popovers. They’ll be recurring in my house for sure…but now it’s on something completely different. I also received some feedback last month that summer is simply too hot to consider baking. I, however, find summer to be an excellent time for baking –…
This month, I learned that popovers are ridiculously simple to make and incredibly delicious. I was so pleased with the first recipe I tried that I intended to make several more, but it never quite worked out. I used the basic recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Bake Everything (also available here), but added 4…
If you think way back to January, you might remember that Rest and Community are my goal words for this year. Rest My plan for rest basically revolved around observing the Sabbath. I didn’t have any other concrete ideas of what rest would look like, but taking Sunday afternoons off from work seemed like a…
I spent the last 2 weeks on a (mostly) amazing family vacation. Brian and I traveled to my in-laws in North Carolina, dropped off our kiddo, then spent 3 nights in Asheville exploring and eating. Following our return to our child, we spent a full week at the beach with nearly all of Brian’s family….
Happy July! I hope your summer is off to a great start and — maybe — has some time available for baking! I’m excited to share with you this month’s Relishments Bakes challenge. If you need a reminder of how Relishments Bakes works, check out this page for all the details! Relishments Bakes – July This month,…
I cannot recall a baking project that has left me with as much of a sense of accomplishment as June’s cheesecake Relishments Bakes project. Though the challenge was totally open to simpler recipes featuring cheesecake, I wanted to be as traditional as possible. I opted to go with Smitten Kitchen’s New York Cheesecake, which looked…
Summer is finally here, both on the calendar and in practice. School ended last week, but the rest of the week was so busy it didn’t feel like a break at all. But as of today, I’ve begun to get some rest. In my case, that means getting to some of the tasks I’ve been…
Finally, it’s CSA pick up time again. This spring wasn’t as difficult as I sometimes find the “off-season”, but I’m still excited to be back in the swing of picking up produce and planning my menu around it. And, of course, eating more vegetables by necessity! The plan this week is pretty basic, a function…
