Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Strawberry Freezer Jam (left) and Traditional Strawberry jam. I’ve shied away from making jams. Buying the jars, lids, and the special pots, measuring out the fruit, working with the pectin, sterilizing everything, timing the whole process — yikes. It just seems like a whole lot of trouble for something to smear on toast. But yesterday […]

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 […]

A petite Peeps serving. A plethora of Peeps. WARNING: If you don’t like your sweets super-sweet and neon-colored, don’t make this. Instead, have some melba toast and a cup of sugarless tea while looking at some other recipes. Doug over at Cooking With Peeps suggested his Peeps on the Lawn dessert salad to use up […]

Apparently, all that fur makes him look slimmer. Maybe I should try that. My husband and I just came back from taking Flurry, our American Eskimo dog, to the vet. I was quite worried about him as in the past month, he’s had two can’t-stop-running-seizure-like episodes, the second of which happened yesterday morning. They weren’t […]