Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Looking at the back of a Lyle’s Golden syrup* bottle and improvising a bit, I came up with the following sauce. Brush it on your meat of choice (best with chicken or pork, I think) just before it’s finished cooking. Reserve leftover sauce for serving alongside the grilled meat. Sweet N Spicy BBQ Sauce 2 […]

I had seen a recipe for Skillet Lasagna in one of the food magazines (Everyday Food?) but I couldn’t find it either in hard copy or online. I did find this recipe, and using ingredients I had lying around, adapted it. It’s actually pretty good. The consistency of the noodles are a bit different than […]

Martha’s recipe for baked eggplant parm is delicious, and easy to make to boot. We paired the dish with a bottle of Candoni Wines’ Candoni D.O.C.G., and a good hunk of bakery fresh bread. After the wine was finished, we wrapped the meal up with a fresh salad tossed with extra virgin olive oil and […]

Boil, boil, toil, and trouble. Gas burner burn, and fry pan bubble. When I was a kid, my dad used to make chicken cutlets all the time. Not chicken parmesan (though I’d have happily eaten it) – just chicken, breaded with breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, some herbs, salt and pepper. He’d fry them in some olive […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]