Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

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 […]

The top tortilla gets nice and crisp, while the other ones absorb the flavors of the filling. Cinco de Mayo is a “national celebration in Mexico [commemorating] the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Saragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.” (Source: Wikipedia.) While most […]

It sounds terrible, doesn’t it? Crockpot lasagna? Who would eat that? Maybe someone who thinks Chef Boyardee is a culinary genius, but not someone who has functioning tastebuds. And if there’s anybody in your family from Italy, you’re probably planning to put a hit on me right now.* But please trust me: this is a […]