Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

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. [...]

Week 3: -Lettuce -Mesclun -Strawberries -Beets -Scallions -Dill -Summer squash -Weekly eggs I still had the garlic scapes from the previous week hanging around in the crisper, and the greens from this week’s beets were so lovely that I wanted to use them before they wilted. And here, for your eye-rolling pleasure, is where my [...]

If anyone reading is also a CSA-subscriber, you know how much salad needs to be consumed this month to avoid a total fridge-takeover. I thought I’d post two versions of steak salad that I’ve made in the last month or so, as possible alternatives if you’re not feeling the burgers for Saturday. Option One: Asian [...]

Oh, what a couple of weeks it has been. I will try to post several times in quick succession to get caught up… Meanwhile, let us travel back in time to mid-June, when the second CSA pickup of the season graced us with: -1 bunch rainbow chard -Parsley -Garlic scapes -Kohlrabi -Lettuce -Mesclun -Strawberries -Weekly [...]

I was in Oregon for a week to visit my parents and go to my cousin’s high school graduation (yay!), and I was going to be in the air en route from Salt Lake to Boston when the hour of the first CSA pickup rolled around. So Ben went. He also took lots and lots [...]

Here’s what I’m actually cooking tonight, despite incredibly chilly weather that makes it a bit inappropriate. It’s also what I made the night we got back from Italy, which is why I haven’t yet found a homemade creamy dressing recipe I like, and am instead trying to use up a bottle of creamy parmesan dressing [...]

I am unnaturally obsessed with vegetables, but even I know that most people don’t get too wound up about the root vegetables that locavores in northern climes are working their way through this time of year. I also think we should all give up on the word Rutabaga altogether, and follow the Euro lead in [...]

You know, if I were to write a parody of Real Simple and other magazines aimed at over-scheduled upper-middle-class suburban moms (and those of us who will no doubt be OSUMCSMs (catchy) in a few more years, heh) I would probably focus the food section on how rotisserie chickens are The Answer! To Everything! And [...]

I’m obsessed with Jamie Oliver‘s show Jamie at Home, and have saved nearly every episode on my DVR (messy!). This might sound ridiculous, but this is the only modern cooking show I’ve seen that captures a bit of Julia Child’s spirit: Jamie is having so much *fun* and is so relaxed and human on camera [...]