Kate Flaim (Girl Reporter)

(Missed week 7 since I got a double box for the lake…) -4 ears of sweet corn -1 bunch basil -1/2 pound assorted cherry tomatoes -1 pound beets -1 japanese eggplant -1 very small round watermelon, lots of seeds I don’t believe in messing around with freshly picked sweet corn and cherry tomatoes. There’s a [...]

Let’s wrap up this vacation before I leave on my next trip, shall we? Thursday was Ben’s Birthday!! And it was a big one, though he’s not happy about that. Happy birthday, honey–I love you times 30. (Not that Ben reads this blog. I can write anything I want about him and he’ll never know. [...]

Ok, vacation. Greta and I spent some time before the trip working on a google doc (brilliant) spreadsheet to plan the meals we’d each cook and what groceries we were each bringing. I hadn’t thought of using google docs and it was perfect–I highly recommend them if you’re working on anything like an address list [...]

Some nights I really don’t feel like cooking but I crave a real dinner. Before we left for vacation I was also overrun with cucumbers from the farm share, and while I was talking to my mom one evening she suggested using them in a sort of salsa to put with fish. I am nothing [...]

No Week 5 CSA box–since I was going to Oregon I had a friend from work pick it up. Before vacation I picked up two half shares (which is not equal to a whole share, since there are different veggies for each), because we were about to head off to the lake for the week [...]

Ugh. Ok, so I had pounds of zucchini to use up and I’d been planning on a very veg-heavy absorption pasta, but then I saw a variety of posts the web about boiled pasta with zucchini and I gave in to the always gorgeous photos at Smitten Kitten and went with a julienned zucchini spaghetti. [...]

When I picked up the CSA share last week I found myself facing a replay of the previous two weeks: -1 head lettuce -1 bunch beets -1.5 pounds summer squash/zucchini -1.5 pounds cucumbers -1 bunch chard -1 bunch sage Sadly I had fallen a bit behind and still had beets from two weeks before languishing [...]

The third week (two weeks ago, ahem) injected a trace of color in with the greens: -1 head romaine lettuce -1 bunch collard greens -4 small cucumbers -2 zucchini -2 summer squash -1 kohlrabi -1 bunch thyme -1 bunch scallions Have you guys cooked collard greens? I’m a Northern girl; I’d never encountered them before. [...]

Scape scape scape. It’s like a typo. I keep typing “ramps,” but that’s….not what these are. Scapes are the tops of young garlic plants. From what I’ve read, they are trimmed off to encourage the plant to put energy into the bulb, rather than the flower. They have a mild flavor, slightly garlicky but more [...]

Aaaand once again I’m a week late. Week two CSA contents: -1 bunch chard (green) -3 medium red beets -1 head lettuce -4 oz. garlic scapes -8 oz. summer squash/zucchini -1 bunch dill Tuesday night I stopped at Whole Foods after the CSA pick-up and grabbed the makings for a semi-homemade pizza. They sell bags [...]