Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

Ben and I got married two years ago today, on a cool, overcast day on the North Shore of Long Island. It was perfect. Please indulge me as I share a few favorite pictures from the day: Next month it will be nine years since we got together (we just passed nine years since we [...]

Whee! August! -1 huge bunch cavolo nero -3 onions -1 head amazing juicy fresh garlic -2 green peppers -5 carrots, white, yellow and orange -1 ear corn -1 bunch fresh oregano -3 tomatoes -3 small hot peppers The very day I got this bag of treats, Germi commented about a long-cooked cavolo nero at Suzanne [...]

So with that lovely japanese eggplant lurking in the fridge, I picked up a pint of cherry tomatoes and put together a quick pasta sauce one night. Ingredients: 1 japanese eggplant, cut into chunks (quartered lengthwise and chopped) 1 pint cherry tomatoes 1 anchovy Copious garlic, minced Chopped basil Salt/Pepper Olive oil Penne Wheee, summer! [...]

(Missed week 7 since I got a double box for the lake…) -4 ears of sweet corn -1 bunch basil -1/2 pound assorted cherry tomatoes -1 pound beets -1 japanese eggplant -1 very small round watermelon, lots of seeds I don’t believe in messing around with freshly picked sweet corn and cherry tomatoes. There’s a [...]

Let’s wrap up this vacation before I leave on my next trip, shall we? Thursday was Ben’s Birthday!! And it was a big one, though he’s not happy about that. Happy birthday, honey–I love you times 30. (Not that Ben reads this blog. I can write anything I want about him and he’ll never know. [...]

Ok, vacation. Greta and I spent some time before the trip working on a google doc (brilliant) spreadsheet to plan the meals we’d each cook and what groceries we were each bringing. I hadn’t thought of using google docs and it was perfect–I highly recommend them if you’re working on anything like an address list [...]

Some nights I really don’t feel like cooking but I crave a real dinner. Before we left for vacation I was also overrun with cucumbers from the farm share, and while I was talking to my mom one evening she suggested using them in a sort of salsa to put with fish. I am nothing [...]

No Week 5 CSA box–since I was going to Oregon I had a friend from work pick it up. Before vacation I picked up two half shares (which is not equal to a whole share, since there are different veggies for each), because we were about to head off to the lake for the week [...]