HeyJaredRel's Recs
An opinionated newsletter of unsolicited (but very good) recommendations.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 19, 2026
Latest issues
18 weeknight dinner ideas (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you follow Rel’s Recs on the Substack app, you’ll see my “Dinner in my lap” Notes: a photo of my meal (in a bowl on my lap) with a quick description of how I put it together. These meals are never glamorous. In fact, the photo is usually taken in mediocre lighting and the food itself isn’t staged or crafted with any kind of Instagram beauty. But it’s always deeply delicious. My goal with these Notes is to present tasty flavor combinations and fun quick tips—and to remind you that meals don’t
How to “back to school” your wardrobe as an adult (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I am an adult. I don’t have kids. And yet, this time of year still has me yearning for a back-to-school refresh. I want to clean out my pantry, organize my office, wax my mustache, bulldoze my house to get rid of the clutter, and buy a new notebook. I recognize some of this is more practical than the rest. The whispering winds of back to school also have me looking at my wardrobe. I imagine you may be doing the same. But since you’re not actually going back to school and you’ve likely stopped gr
How to let go of a weird shame (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Eleven years ago, I traveled solo to Italy for two weeks. I was single, had enough money to afford the $67-per-night shared apartment Airbnb in Rome (and similar spots in Florence and Cinque Terre), and was much more brave than I am now. I printed out my itinerary and various maps because that’s what you did back then, and took off. I remember going to the Uffizi and sweating. Not because it was hot but because I was anxious. I was anxious and jealous. Jealous of the slow gait of people walking
91 joyful things (opens the original)
Lately (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Lately my migraines have been so constant and so painful that I can’t remember what it feels like to have days in a row where I just feel normal. I promise myself that if it happens again, I’ll be so grateful. I’ll get up earlier, I’ll smile at landscapers wielding leaf blowers and I’ll mean it. I’ll go to the grocery store and walk up and down every ai… Read more
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.