Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

The disaster of the previous week’s corn was forgiven once we ate this duo. Oh man, was it good! The haul: -Beets! -Corn! -Kale! -Basil! -Beans! -Zucchini/summer squash. I wasn’t going to get to the basil before it turned black and sad, so I decided to make a compound butter that I could freeze. I [...]

We were at the lake for the first part of last week, thanks to many of you fabulous people. More on that after the vegetables. Ben went to pick up the share after we got home on Tuesday, while I lay flat in the air conditioned bedroom and bemoaned the lack of lake outside our [...]

Ok, I just looked at the 10-day forecast and there’s no break in sight. The heat, it is here to stay. The stove, it is staying off as much as possible. This week’s share: -Lettuce -Garlic -Peas -Summer squash -Cucumbers -2 cabbages (one was a swap for MORE cilantro) -Eggs We’ve been out of town [...]

(No CSA this week; we were out of town and a neighbor picked up my share.) As if pregnancy hadn’t already made me an incredibly lazy cook, summer really lowers my level of ambition in the kitchen. As I flipped through photos from the last couple months there were two things I kept falling back [...]

Summer! Forget Memorial Day. Despite the calendar and no matter how freakishly cold or hot it is, the first CSA pick-up of the season marks the beginning of summer for me. Last week in the first installment, I brought home a light and chlorophyll-packed bag of greens: -Kale (I scored an extra from the new [...]

Hi! We’re back. We got back a week ago, but you know how that always goes. If you want to take a look at where we were and what we were doing, from my perspective (which means with very few pictures of me!), check out this Flickr set. One lucky thing about this pregnancy is [...]

Noodle Quest got under my skin, and one night after deciding to try Smitten Kitchen’s adapted-from-GOOP ginger dressing, I thought I’d whip up some cold peanut noodles to round out the meal. My mom used to make something similar, and I’d eat as many as I could out of the bowl before getting my hand [...]

Our friends Megan and Dave live in an unbelievable (if slightly crumbling) townhouse, and a couple Saturdays ago they suggested bagging on restaurant plans in favor of an impromptu dinner party to take advantage of a nice night on the deck. A mere hour or two later, we showed up to find that they’d prepared [...]

I am so obsessed with noodles, you guys. I always have been; my known weak spots are generally fried dough (donuts, elephant ears, churros, etc.), assorted other fried foods (clam strips, sausage-stuffed olives, duck fat fries, etc.), flat breads, and noodles. Mmmm, carbs and fat. Also garlicky kale, thank god. A couple weeks ago I [...]

Sometimes all I really want is a giant bowl of greens. Garlicky kale is my favorite, or maybe chard, but spinach will do, too. (Not the baby stuff, that goes mushy too fast. Save it for salads.) But this dinner was really inspired by the divine confluence of the arrival of a care package from [...]