Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

In late January I suddenly decided I couldn’t live with the drab faux-oriental rugs we had in the bedroom and dining room. Couldn’t stand them for another minute. I picked up a striped rug for the bedroom from PB, and ordered the (back-ordered) zigzag rug from West Elm. At the same time, I finally found [...]

So here’s a problem I’ve never had before and doubt I’ll ever have again: We are the owners of too much steak. We received generous and delectable assortments of steak from two sources in the last six months, and our small freezer drawer was beginning to get a bit unruly. We gobbled down two of [...]

This doesn’t have much to do with food. I’m not one for resolutions; my attention span is far shorter than a year, and Back to School always feels more fresh-startish than January, to me. But I feel like I slipped into a bit of a funk as the year wrapped up, and I am at [...]

I hope everyone else had a Christmas as relaxing as mine. My dearest friend came to stay (before flying out this evening) and we got to visit with another good friend—complete with much-delayed arrival and impromptu sleepover—on Tuesday night. We ate a delicious dinner Christmas Eve (more on that later) and slept in late this [...]

I must be some kind of masochist; this afternoon as the snow barely started to fall I thought to myself “Kate, go run 90 errands. It is less than a week before Christmas and they’re saying to stay off the roads, but clearly you must acquire more Pine Mountain logs (like duraflame, but better, and [...]

So the end of October (for shame, Kate!) marked the end of the regular 20-week CSA season. I signed on for the winter share, as well, so I’m still getting vegetables bi-weekly until Christmas. -2 apples -1 kohlrabi -1 ear popcorn -Carrots (Mostly cropped out of the photo on the right by the stupid, stupid [...]

Now *this* was an exciting thing: Leah from More Ways to Waste Time asked me a while ago if I’d be willing to do one of her House Voyeur tours, and it went live earlier this week! So here you go–a fairly-complete look at our apartment (I didn’t include the guest room, a dull place [...]

Early in November I went out to Oregon for a short visit, to hang out with my family and help my mom with house stuff. Obviously, since what my family does is talk/think/obsess about and consume food, we….ate. The first night, Mom made pizza bianca (from the America’s Test Kitchen recipe, I think), and a [...]

Ok, so it’s happened again. I am weeks behind and I blame technology, even though I settled the root problem weeks ago. Ahem. Basically I hadn’t uploaded photos since I left my job at the end of October. …Happy December! Right. I am remedying that. Meanwhile, um… There was a lot of eating last week. [...]

Heeeeee hee hee hee hee. See anything interesting? Let’s zoom in: Carrot Pants! Hee!!! Ahem. The goods: -1 rutabaga -1 bunch beets, with lovely greens (purples!) -2 red onions -2 apples -Salad greens -Sweet potato fingerlings -Carrots, including Carrot Pants. I still had the kale from the week before, plus the lovely, lovely purple greens [...]