Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

I picked up a copy of Joan Donogh’s recipe for rhubarb muffins with a bunch of rhubarb at the Canandaigua Farmers’ Market. I’d also picked up some strawberries so, with a couple of minor changes (can you guess the biggest one?) these became strawberry rhubarb muffins. Extremely moist and flavorful, these muffins have a sweet […]

I love these cookies. They look so happy! And why wouldn’t a chewy cookie with a deep chocolate flavor and bright spots of color make people happy? A couple of notes:1) these cookies taste best the day they’re made.2) to get a very round final product, after dropping the cookie dough on the sheet, place […]

Saturday was the first day of the Canandaigua Farmers’ Market season. (yay!) There was only a smattering of booths but among them was Honeyhill Farms from Livonia, NY selling pickled garlic scapes (delicious!) and fresh green garlic. Green garlic. Green garlic are the fresh shoots of the immature garlic plant (source). The woman I spoke […]

About a week ago, Lis posted a gorgeous recipe on her blog for Pasta Shells with Italian Tuna, Grape Tomatoes & Baby Spinach. After wiping the drool from my lips, I knew I had to make it. The only thing was that when I entered it into the WW points calculator, it said one serving […]

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 […]

We had marshmallows. We had graham crackers. We had a campfire and long, lean sticks. But no chocolate. Nutella was an excellent stand-in. In fact, I think I prefer it… Nutella S’mores 1 graham cracker, broken in half1 well toasted marshmallow (lightly browned on the outside, flowing and hot on the inside)about two teaspoons of […]

Shane has spent some time in Chicago recently for job training. While there, he fell in love with deep dish pizza. It wasn’t enough for him to enjoy his culinary discovery, he had to call me and taunt me with it. Repeatedly. Look, I’m a New Yorker. I was born in Beth Israel, grew up […]

In a word: yum. In more than one word: I can’t stop eating Shuna Fish Lydon’s Cardamom Chocolate Chunk cookies. I snitch them from the kitchen, brush crumbs off my shirt, dunk them in milk. Just — yum. To be honest, I was a tiny bit disappointed at first. The recipe calls for both ground […]

Image Source. If you’re looking for a lighter version of the cheese laden and bacon studded potato skins served at American pubs everywhere, his WW recipe isn’t going to sate that craving. But if you’re looking for good side dish, one that help reaches your veggie quotient for the day, give these a try. I […]

I love egg salad but I never make it because A) I always think hard boiling eggs is a pain in the ass (even though it really isn’t) and B) I’m kind of staying away from copious amounts of mayonnaise these days. But the fridge was stocked with 10 hard boiled Easter eggs and, since […]