Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

The chicken in this Cooking Light recipe is quite good, but it’s the tzatziki that makes everything delicious. Trust me and double the amount of tzatziki you make so you can drizzle it all over your chicken and some pitas toasted on the grill, too. It’s so freakin’ good. All hail the mighty Tzatziki! Mother’s […]

Shane spent a number of years in Germany as a kid, where he acquired a taste for schnitzel. Kian and Sadie also picked up on his love of schnitzel and, to be honest, so did I. Veal or pork pounded thin, dredged in a seasoned flour, fried and served with lemon wedges? Nothing wrong with […]

Mmm, mmm! Steamy chicken goodness. The original recipe is called Caramelized Onion Chicken but, frankly, this recipe doesn’t have enough onions in it to justify that name. I doubled the amount of onions called for, and it still was pretty skimpy. So if you like onions (and I do), throw in two to three medium […]

Of all cookbooks I have, a plain, black binder from Peter Kump’s Cooking School is my favorite. It’s stuffed with class recipes, and its pages retain scribbled notes, oil splashes, and traces of ancient flour. Though it’s an amazing book, it usually lies untouched on the bookshelf. When I think of its recipes, I remember […]

This is an adapted Everyday Food recipe and, I must say, it’s a very nice winter meal that comes together fairly quickly. (It’s also the first recipe I cooked using my new toy — a non-enameled Chefmate Dutch Oven. Only $25!) The recipe calls for lima beans (yeeccch) and Worcestershire sauce (none in the house) […]

No picture because, no matter what I do, I can’t make this dish look like anything other than cat sick. Mmmm, mmm, nummy! Last month, I had some tikka masala for the first time at Thali of India . It was eye-poppingly delicious. Tender tandoori chicken is simmered in a flavorful tomato cream – a […]

Oooh, baby. Let’s eat like we’ve never heard of heart disease. When I pulled this out of the oven, Shane was looking over my shoulder. “Is that a retro recipe?” he asked. Well no, not technically. But definitely in spirit. The recipe is adapted from one in Rotisserie Chickens to the Rescue! published in 2003, […]

With fall comes the first cold. Stuffy head, scratchy throat, and a desire to lay low. And a desire for chicken soup. Easy to make, tasty … and restorative. Sickie’s Chicken Noodle Soup 1 cup rotini (or other bite-sized pasta)49 oz. low-sodium, low-fat chicken broth1 medium onion, diced3 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch rounds3 […]

Taken at Baker Park, Canandaigua, NY following the soccer game.(Photo Credit: Shane) Last Friday was Kian’s first game in his traveling soccer league -– a lovely league, as the traveling is, at most, 25 miles. (That, and I avoid all the parents at the game who can’t open their mouths but to brag about their […]

This recipe comes from the back of a package of Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns. It’s listed on the site and yet, when you click on the link, it just takes you to an all-purpose recipe page. Very wonky. I’m posting it here (slightly adapted) because it’s very easy to make and very tasty to […]