Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

Regular readers are well aware of my adoration for Stone Soup Farm, the source of my wonderful CSA farm share for the last two years. The farm has kept us well fed with the most gorgeous vegetables (and eggs, this year!), continually reminding me of the value of eating local and supporting area farms. Stone [...]

To be perfectly honest, I haven’t cooked a real meal in two weeks. We were out of town for Brooke’s amazing wedding, and Ben has been on the road for work or out at meetings, so I’ve been eating by myself a lot. I very occasionally go all out for myself, but generally I confine [...]

-New potatoes -Carrots -Beets -Edamame -Zucchini/summer squash -Kale -Hot pepper -Heirloom tomatoes from the garden of the woman, Judy, who runs my pick-up location! -Eggs -…..baby lemongrass? Let’s address the last item first. I’m 99% sure this is young lemongrass. It sure smelled lemony. And grassy. I chopped up the whole thing and made simple [...]

Week 12 CSA: -Lettuce -Tatsoi -Corn -Odd long green eggplant -Tomato -Onions -Oregano -Green bell peppers -Green hot peppers -Wax beans -Pattypan (?) squash -Cucumbers -Eggs Let’s power through some neglected dinners, shall we? First of all, in case we get a last burst of warm weather or you live somewhere that is still getting [...]

In honor of Labor Day weekend, here are some recipes to thrill your barbecue-mates. I think my biggest regret for this summer is that we didn’t have nearly enough casual dinner parties out on the deck. The dismal weather in the first half, combined with near-constant travel in the second half, meant we just weren’t [...]

I’m posting out of order because Ben said I should get this recipe up for you guys. He rarely makes blog requests, so I’m listening! The week’s veg: -The prettiest eggplant in the world -Corn -Tomatoes -Beans -Cucumber -Parsley -Garlic -Mesclun -1 pepper -eggs I had a sudden vision one day of chinese noodles with [...]

-Gorgeous fresh onions -Basil -Mesclun -Corn -Zucchini -Arugula -Beets -Eggs Ben and I almost share a birthday (he’s 7/31, I’m 8/1), which means it’s more like Christmas or an anniversary in terms of joint celebrations, but since they fell on a weekend this year it felt quite festive. I cooked dinner on Friday for his [...]

-Chard -Summer squash -Fennel -Cucumbers -Basil -Beans -Weekly eggs Small share that week–but those little cucumbers, in addition to the pile of them I’d gotten the week before, prodded me into trying a recipe I’d seen on the farm’s recipe page, for refrigerator pickles. Fridge Pickles Adapted from Stone Soup Farm Brine (amounts are for [...]

The 5th CSA share of the season: -Peas (Ben’s new favorite thing) -Carrots -Chard -Summer squash and zucchini -Cucumbers -Garlic -Weekly eggs And the following week’s purple-hued haul: -Purple cabbage -Cavalo Nero -Red lettuce -Purple (thai) basil) -Cucumbers -Zucchini -Carrots -Peas -Eggs Twice in two weeks I made basically the same dinner–first because I hadn’t [...]

Let’s move past that sad pesto, shall we? The goods: -Kale -Mesclun -Iceberg lettuce -Sage -Sugar snap peas -Cucumbers -Zucchini -Weekly eggs My favorite restaurant in the neighborhood is Rendezvous in Central Square. It’s in a converted Burger King, but it’s just the perfect New American/seasonal kind of place, with great food and fantastic servers. [...]