Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Boil, boil, toil, and trouble. Gas burner burn, and fry pan bubble. When I was a kid, my dad used to make chicken cutlets all the time. Not chicken parmesan (though I’d have happily eaten it) – just chicken, breaded with breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, some herbs, salt and pepper. He’d fry them in some olive […]

From NPR.com: Pre-Teens Win James Beard Web AwardMichele Norris talks with Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Chicago sisters who won a James Beard Foundation Award for their Web site, spatulatta.com. At ages 10 and 8, the sisters are the youngest people to win the prestigious award. Their site is geared toward teaching kids how to cook. […]

Summer is almost here so, yesterday, I tried on a pair of shorts. They were … tighter than I remember them to be. So either clothes are now shrinking during winter storage (which I’m not ready to rule out) or writing a food blog causes one’s ass diameter to increase. (Damn you food blog! DAMN […]

Photo Source. Shane & I are headed to Toronto in about two weeks. I’m really excited — I’ve never been there before, even though it’s only 4 hours away. So, if you’ve got any recommendations — restaurants (of course), museums, music venues, shops, etc. — please let me know!

(Check out Retro Recipe Challenge #1!) Another ginger recipe, adapted from our foodie lord and savior’s website: Martha Stewart.com There, MS has a recipe for Nectarine Ginger Buttermilk Ice Cream but since nectarines aren’t in season, I substituted mangoes. This was a very easy recipe to make — made all the more easy with assistance […]

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 […]