Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Sometimes, it’s amazing how easy it is to turn out delicious food. All you need to do here is grill up a ham steak and top it with a chutney that comes together in 15 minutes. The combination of salty, smoky ham with the tart but sweet rhubarb cherry concoction is phenomenal. For summer, pair […]

A caraway and sea salt bagel with a wild garlic cream cheese schmear. There are three types of food I’m very particular (if not snobby) about:1) Pizza (NY style Neapolitan)2) Lasagna (mine)3) Bagels I’m not sure many people have had genuine bagels. (Mmm… genuine bagels.) They’re not perfectly round, their consistency is not like other […]

The one and only Nick Tahou Garbage plate. (Source) Garbage Plates A few days ago, Edward Schneider, a contributor to Mark Bittman’s blog, Bitten, posted on garbage plates. Living in a suburb of Rochester, NY, where the garbage plate was invented, I was excited to see what Schneider had to say. He writes: The scholar […]

Last week’s CSA share contained four large stalks of rhubarb. I wanted to use them, but not in a pie, crumble or bar. So I adapted a recipe for moist scone, mixing the rhubarb with orange and cherries. The main flavor in the resulting scone is orange, but the rhubarb gives each bite a little […]

It’s CSA season again! This is our first year with the UUCC CSA, supplied by the Fellenz Family Farm but in the past, we’ve been a part of the Fellenz CSA distributed from Geneva, as well as Peacework Farm’s CSA based in Newark . Monday was the first distribution day, delayed from May 19th due […]

A short post this go-round: Check out Ganda’s thoughts on the Rachel Ray fracas entitled “Yum-O” is Arabic for “There is no God but Allah”. Her post is funny, smart, and worth your time to read. Hey, more ridiculous photoshopping! This time, Lancome Men airbrushes all of the sexy crags out of Clive Owen’s face, […]

When Lis, Ivonne, Fran and Shea announced this month’s Daring Baker Challenge — an opera cake sans the traditional coffee and dark chocolate flavors — I was apprehensive. What flavors should I use to make this my own? How many steps in this recipe? How many ingredients? How much will they cost? How much time […]

Shane, the kids and I are in Florida visiting my parents, so there won’t be much action here until late next week. (I think everyone is waiting on me so we can head to Sanibel Island…) Have a terrific Memorial Day weekend.

You know what’s irresistible? Homemade bread fresh from the oven, and stuffed with ooey-gooey melted cheese. How do I know this? Because the Cheesy Bread Bakers — Helen, Ivonne, Kelly, Lisa, Mary, Sara, Stephanie and me — gave the French Pastry School’s Gruyère-Stuffed Crusty Loaves recipe (found by Mary on the King Arthur Flour blog) […]

These are I-can’t-believe-how-moist-these-scones-are scones. They’ve got a good coffee flavor, but as someone who likes sweets, I’d probably add an additional 1/3 cup of sugar. Three tablespoons of nuts doesn’t do too much either. Still, this would be an easy recipe to adapt: take out the coffee granules, cinnamon and nuts, and toss in orange […]