Laurie's Little Kitchen

  It's been a long time since I have added a recipe to my blog. I love this cold cucumber soup, it's so refreshing and versatile. Th...

 While I love my original tomato chutney recipe last year I came up with a spin on it I liked even better. I dubbed it Moroccan Tomato Chut...

I made these vegan muffins recently because my hens have stopped laying and I was too lazy to get eggs at the store. They turned out so well...

 I love to make my own nut butter using my Champion juicer, I usually use a combination of almond, cashews and peanuts. Awhile back, a frie...

 These bar cookies were one of my mother's favorites when I was a teenager. She would make them for bridge parties and other "ladie...

I had a good laugh as making bread became such a new passion during Shelter in Place. Stores ran out of flour, yeast was scarce and people w...

There are chocolate chip cookies and then there are chocolate chip cookies. It took me a while to find a recipe I really liked, when I did,...

It has been eons since I have posted on my blog, not because I haven't been cooking, more a question of time and inspiration. I use m...

I want to get this posted before the summer is over. I made this potato salad for a 4th of July party and it got rave reviews. It's a gr...

There is so much amazing fruit in the summer here on the central California coast. I am lucky enough to have a sister who is a master garde...

My last post about High Tea and The Royal Wedding, inspired Gina and I to want to have High Tea at our family gathering this past weekend. ...

For Mother's Day and a belated birthday treat, a friend took me to the Buttercup Bakery in downtown Santa Cruz for high tea. I love...

I had completely forgotten about this little gems. They are soooo easy to make unlike the chocolate chip cookies I prefer...which are fabul...

Quick post before too many weeks go by without an entry! How did three weeks slip by ?? I can tell you how...two weeks ago I went to Baton ...

I guess March is a soupy month, I noticed my last post was a soup recipe. I do love soup, I make is weekly, pretty much all year around. It...

I have a wonderful trade worked out with a friend. She comes to help me do several hours of serious yard work, we have lunch and then I give...

Hey all you hippies out there, here's a granola recipe I tried recently. My friend gave me some she had made with this recipe for Chris...

Let's admit it, for some of us, Valentine's Day is just an excuse to indulge in as much chocolate as we can. With that in mind I wan...

It's certainly citrus season around here. I have lots of my Satsuma mandarins and limes, friends and family are sharing their navel oran...

I was given a huge supply of Fuyu persimmons a few weeks ago. I have been eating them daily but couldn't quite keep up. I do love them ...

Happy 2018 ! One of my New Year's resolutions was to get back to doing a bit more food blogging. It's been six months and you don...

Just barely in time for your freedom celebrations. Fun to say, fun to eat, this dessert is so simple to make it will free you up to have mo...