Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Since there’s about an hour and a half left to Tuesday in the Eastern Standard Time zone, let’s get this show on the road: Roasting garlic is one of the easiest things that can be done in the kitchen. Slice the tip off a head of garlic, drizzle with olive oil, pop in the oven, […]

Welcome to Simply Summer Week! All week long, I’ll be featuring very simple recipes taking advantage of summer’s bounty. ( God, is that marketing schmaltz, or what? Sorry.) And since it’s summer, I’ll be taking Friday off. On to the first recipe! A few years ago (actually, now that I think about it, five or […]

For those interested, here’s a brief run-down of what’s been going on: We were supposed to close on the house we’re selling and the house we’re buying yesterday. On Monday, three days before this was scheduled to occur, we were told that wasn’t going to happen. Everyone — the lawyers, the realtors, the mortgage company– […]

“In My Bar” is a feature on The Webtender. You select the ingredients on hand in your bar and Webtender spits out all the drinks you can make. One of the drinks it suggested was the Dr. Kevorkian — probably because you could be dead before you realize you’re drunk. According to the description, the […]

Shane and I packed up most of our stuff this past weekend with the assumption that we would close -– and therefore move -– on Thursday. Eating take-out on paper plates for a handful of days, we reasoned, would leave us no worse for the wear. Goodbye Mikasa plates, Wustof knives, OXO spatula; I’ll catch […]

What better way to celebrate a new blog design than with a granola? Huh? Huh? How? OK. I know I’m reaching. Granola isn’t that exciting. But my house is packed up for the move and I was in the mood for granola. Not having much on hand, I looked for a very paired down recipe. […]

Perhaps I hadn’t been paying attention. But it suddenly seems that — all at once — every foodie magazine and television show has a Basil Lemonade recipe. It seems like an odd combination. While I like both, this isn’t a “you got chocolate in my peanut butter” home-run fusion. But the hype got to me. […]

From the Calgary Sun: July 29, 2006Small beef over cow delay –Minimal impact expected after U.S. postpones lifting ban on older cattle By TODD SAELHOF The latest U.S. beef over mad cow disease in Canada has delayed the border reopening but only temporarily, say cattle experts. National agencies, including the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA), insisted […]

Map courtesy of The Atlas of Popular Culture in the Northeastern United States. My day job (one of them) is teaching Media and Communications at two colleges; this fall, I’ll be teaching Business Communications, Journalism I, and Introduction to Mass Communications. I have a B.A. in Communication Arts and an M.A. in Media Ecology; on […]

“If you let me back in the house, I promise I won’t bite the neighbor that’s helping you move. Well … not hard, anyway.” Thanks to Cate at Sweetnicks for hosting.