Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

I’m trying to eat better: more whole grains, veggies, fruit, less sugar, fat, and non-lean meats. I like to eat (is there a food blogger who doesn’t?) so I’ll frequently eat too much — especially tasty, delicious stuff, like cookies, mashed potatoes, or anything covered in melted cheddar — and then feel stuffed and nasty. […]

Vanilla Garlic is hosting a Cupcake Round-up — such a good idea! Cupcakes are so lovely: petite and beautiful, who doesn’t love a little cake topped by a swath of rich frosting and a few sprinkes? But sometimes you’re not in the mood for something light and sweet, but something a bit denser and spicy. […]

This is my second submission to Weekend Breakfast Blogging and it’s another banana recipe. What can I say? I like bananas. And the name of the recipe — “sugar spot” in reference to the little brown dots bananas get when they’re sweet and ripe — I couldn’t resist. I was hoping for something reminiscent of […]

What better way to celebrate a new blog design than with a granola? Huh? Huh? How? OK. I know I’m reaching. Granola isn’t that exciting. But my house is packed up for the move and I was in the mood for granola. Not having much on hand, I looked for a very paired down recipe. […]

Photo courtesy of CookingLight.com. Our good friends Ken and Andrea invited us to dinner last night. We had grilled shrimp with a fruit salsa; Andrea had found the recipe in the June issue of Cooking Light. (Lis, I thought of you!) Andrea and I did the prep work — basically lots of chopping — and […]

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 […]

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 […]