Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

I’ve decided that anything I make — be it baked, sauteed, fried, roasted — that doesn’t come out looking like something out of a Williams-Sonoma cookbook will be dubbed “rustic.” Hence, rustic Napoleons. (I should probably go back through the archives and rename 95-percent of the recipes here.) Being rustic, these Napoleons were fairly easy […]

You can make baked chips with lots of kinds of potatoes, but aren’t Adirondack blue potato chips fun? The chips taste best, whether blue or of a”regular” hue, when hot from the oven. But you’ll still want to chow down on them when they cool down — if they last that long. Baked Potato Chips […]

Our DB hosts this month, Shel of Musings from the Fishbowl and Natalie of Gluten A Go Go, challenged us to make lavash, a type of flatbread, and a vegan dip of our choosing. Although we were given the option of baking the lavash without gluten, I went for gluten. The recipe came together fairly […]

It still may be too early for comfort food: the days are fairly sunny and warm, and it’s still light out at 7pm. But when those cooler, darker days roll around (or if you just want a preview) this quick and easy recipe fits the bill. My favorite part of this dish is the mouthfeel. […]

When September rolls around, I want apples. I want to go apple picking. I want to drink apple cider. I want to eat caramel apples. I want to bake with apples. I stumbled across this recipe, which combines apples with my favorite spice, cinnamon. It’s very simple to pull together; the most complicated thing about […]

Not that you’d know it by looking at my RSS feed, but I’ve done a lot of canning this summer. I started with blueberry jam, moved on to cherry jelly, and followed that up with salsa. But my favorite — by far — has been dill pickles. Crispy and tangy with a hint of garlic […]

Sometimes, I read things that make my head nearly explode. Things like this: “It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk.” –Rush Limbaugh, on the motivations behind John Edward’s extra-martial affair, during the August 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show. But […]

For my mom’s birthday (which is today) I offered to bake her anything she liked. Always a butter cookie lover, she requested: A butter cookie that is partially dipped in chocolate. You know, like the old fashioned delicious cookies that bakeries used to make themselves before they bought them wholesale from large commercial bakeries made […]

On Monday, we received a good portion of Swiss chard in our farm share, which I don’t have very much experience with. So I was happy to find this recipe on Epicurious, adding a bit of pasta to turn it into a main meal based on Epicurious user recommendations. I very much like how healthy […]

There are a lot of steps in making the Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream — the recipe is almost as long as the name — but it wasn’t an overly difficult cake to make. (Though getting a cake to look beautiful is difficult, and I need a lot more practice before one of my cakes […]