Today’s Kitchen: Chip Bunburgers

Today’s Kitchen: Chip Bunburgers

Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950′s-era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Chip Bunburgers. Isn’t that just the best name ever?? I mean, it conjures up all kinds of images...

Recipe: Laughing Lemon Sponge Pie

Recipe: Laughing Lemon Sponge Pie

The name of this website, Laughing Lemon Pie, comes from a cooking mishap that has become the stuff of legend in my family. Many years ago, my grandmother made a lemon pie for the family, but something must have gone slightly awry in the kitchen, because as the pie was served, everyone noticed immediately...

Today’s Kitchen: Omelette Puffs

Today’s Kitchen: Omelette Puffs

We really didn’t know what to expect with this recipe.  I mean, the ingredients are innocuous enough, but with a name like “omelette puff…” Turns out, these are pretty tasty, if a little unusual.  They have a nice, fluffy, slightly spongey texture.  The other nice thing is that they lend themselves almost infinitely to different toppings; pretty much...

Today’s Kitchen

Today’s Kitchen

When I was home over the Christmas holidays, I had a chance to chat with my grandmother about a certain recipe collection she had been holding on to for quite some time. You see, I come by my foodie tendencies honestly, and perhaps even genetically; my grandmother, Joan Carter Archambault, worked for the television...