Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Sometimes you have such high hopes for a meal. You go to the store, carefully select your ingredients, get home, set up your mise en place, and cook. And then, when everything is in front of you, and you take your first bite – well sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s not, and some it’s […]

By itself, ginger is not one of my favorites. I like ginger snaps, gingerbread, spice cakes, etc. but I always leave pickled ginger on my sushi board and can’t fathom why anyone would want to eat crystallized ginger. There’s something about its pungent scent that hits my nose the wrong way. It’s like those old […]

I’ve been getting a fair amount of hits, but no comments, and I couldn’t help but wonder why.It’s because I’m an idiot. I enabled the “moderate comments” feature on blogger, which I thought would just allow me to delete “phising” comments. I was wrong. The feature requires bloggers to review every comment BEFORE posting and […]

For Passover, the local Wegmans stocked up on Doc Brown’s Root beer, macaroons, and Black and White Cookies from Wein’s bakery. I grew up downstate, where — I guess — there are more Jewish people. So these “specialty items” that flooded Wegmans are just regular things I grew up eating — especially Black and White […]

There is always stale bread in my house. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) My husband, Shane, will buy a loaf of bread after work, eat half of it, and then leave it to harden on the counter. Until recently, I just chucked it. But this month’s Is My Blog Burning? is all about reusing stale bread, so […]