Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Do you like my Truman Capote snowman? Looking for a tasty alternative to sugar cookies? Give these lovely cookies a try. I love their warm orangey flavor; it’s such a nice, spiced departure from the traditional cut-out cookie. You don’t have to frost them, but the citrus icing really pulls everything together.Orange Cardamom Cookies (source) […]

Another recipe from blog favorite, Mark Pescatore: This is an OLD recipe, one my family has been since before I was born, a gem from a cookbook from yesteryear. Understand that this is a cookie that tastes better a day after you make it. When you pop one in your mouth fresh out of the […]

When I asked the kids last week what kind of cookie they’d want for Christmas if they could have only one kind, Sadie said, “Lace cookies.” Kian said, “Snickerdoodles.” My goal was to find out what cookies they really, really loved, so that we could all make, and enjoy, those cookies together. Lace cookies are […]

Almost a year ago, I came upon this recipe for Chocolate Bread. Why did it take me so long to bake it? God only knows. But I finally did, and it was worth the wait. While the final product is supposed to be have a “feathery yet rich texture,” mine was denser, with a tighter […]

My new favorite vegetable to play with is Spaghetti Squash. Slice it open, cook it, shred it with a fork and poof! — strands of squash that look like spaghetti. It’s dead simple to prepare: just slice it in half length-wise, scoop out the seeds, loosely cover each open half with plastic wrap and microwave […]

Our host for this month’s challenge is Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yums. In honor of Sher, who was to be her co-host for this month, Rosa went with Sher’s challenge idea: Peter Reinhart’s basic pizza dough. I had a lot of fun with this challenge. Shane, my friend Nancy and I gathered in the kitchen […]

I’m a leeeetle behind on posting this recipe. You see, Chris and Shelly, our next-door neighbors, invited Shane and I for a backyard celebration. Excellent cooks in their own right, they had a full menu planned for their event, so I needed to find something I could bring that wouldn’t interfere with thier impressive spread. […]

I can’t believe that the tastiest banana bread I’ve had in a long, long time — possibly ever — is low in fat. But it is. It’s moist, it’s sweet, it’s packed with banana flavor. It’s wonderful! Low-Fat Banana Bread (adapted) 2 large eggs3/4 cup sugar1 cup smashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium)1/3 cup fat […]

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 […]