Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So once it’s been actual weeks between posts, it starts getting harder and harder to write. Especially because a lot has happened in real life lately, and I haven’t really been focused on food. But ONWARD. I will post some short little recap things to get back in the swing of things. Here’s what I [...]

So the other big house thing in the last couple weeks was something we’d talked about for a long time and finally decided to bite the bullet and do. We bought a piano. The background: Ben is quite the musician; he attended LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (what a mouthful) [...]

I am ashamed to think about, let alone admit, how little I’ve been cooking lately. I didn’t expect to experience the usual rush of activity come September, but we definitely have nevertheless. I hope in the next couple weeks that we can get back into a normal schedule and work our way through, say, the [...]

Oh, for shame, Kate! I swore to myself that I would do some posting while I was home in Oregon (for a very, very lovely wedding, in which I was participating and at which I gave a toast–eep–and ate wonderful food and danced a lot and my feet hurt), but I was too too busy [...]

There are three things left to do in the kitchen: -Install a hood -Replace the lighting over the sink and in the middle of the room -Hang art I find the first two things totally overwhelming, but the third I can handle. Looking at the kitchen photos with the new shelf really made me aware [...]

Hard work deserves a delicious lunch. In contrast to past periods of serious work around the house, when random leftovers were all that was on offer at lunchtime, I had actually laid in provisions this time: Mmmm, bacon, tomato and avocado sandwiches. I mashed up the avocado because I hate when the slices come shooting [...]