Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

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 [...]

Still very green in CSA-land: -Lettuce -Kale (2 bunches; I traded my cilantro for kale in the swap box: BEST SWAP EVER) -1 turnip -1 kohlrabi -Zucchini -Peas -Eggs It was crazy hot earlier this week, and I wasn’t feeling particularly prone to extended cooking sessions. I still had a handful of cabbage from a [...]

(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 [...]

I’m in a major blogging rut, having lots of trouble writing anything up. But I have tons of photos from the trip that I always planned to share with you, so how about I just jump back in and share a few tasty experiences per post until I can bear to actually write about what [...]

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 [...]

A couple weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with fellow Boston-area blogger Katy Elliott, who is chronicling her unbelievable house restoration/renovation along with many, many pretty things on her blog. We had been wanting to try Sofra, the bakery/cafe from Oleana‘s Ana Sortun. I was basically speechless as I considered my [...]

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 [...]