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Claire in Turkey, surrounded by food, just as she should be.
Last Christmas, a lackadaisical Jew (Dan) and a lapsed Catholic (myself) spent 13 days eating their way through 6 cities of a secular Muslim country (Turkey). After we got home, Leena so very kindly offered up the use of her blog for me to poop on. I mean, post on. Sorry. I found out the hard way that a diet of nothing but Turkish food really tests the sturdiest of GI tracts.
We started and ...
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Hey guys. Today's guest poster is my long-time friend and advertising guru, Chris Montwill. He has studied advertising at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and Chicago Portfolio School (where he now teaches art direction), worked at several large ad agencies including BBDO & Hoffman York, and currently owns his own creative boutique agency based out of Chicago, Moniker Creative. If you dig his writing like I do, check out his advertising-based blog here.
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How many times have sipped cold Pabst Blue Ribbon and claimed it was the best tasting thing ...
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Hazelnut brown butter cake, made by Adam.
Hey guys. Leena Eats is going under another makeover, which we hope to have live by March 1st. In the mean time, you get to enjoy several guest posts while Leena works hard at her new website. And lucky for you, Leena has some interesting friends to keep you busy, including a husband, the owner of a creative ad agency, and a scholar who just happens to love food enough to travel for it.
And can I just say how appropriate ...
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My kick-ass gajar ki chutney with caramelized shallots.
Wow. This month's ingredient for Tigress' Can Jam, carrots, was around 1,000 times more difficult to work with than I had anticipated. For one, carrots need a ton of acid to preserve them without creating that lovely little bacteria botulism, so this month's recipe had to be a derivative of a PUBLISHED carrot canning recipe. Guess how many published carrot canning recipes there are in the world? Oh, about six. And I could only find two.
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Can't use an electric smoker in the rain MY ASS!
~LTG!Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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My homemade brioche and kick-ass grilled cheese sandwich.
Hi. If you remember from Monday's post, this week is dedicated to a solid soup and sandwich combo: tomato soup and grilled cheese. Monday's recipe featured my version of Cook's Illustrated's Creamless Creamy Tomato Soup. Today's recipe? Homemade brioche bread from one of my favorite food bloggers, La Tartine Gourmande, to be made into a most kick-ass grilled cheese sandwich.
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You know how Campbell's tomato soup comes out of the can in one fell slump sort of like cranberry sauce? This soup isn't NEARLY as fun, but about 712 million times more delicious.
My first Californian winter has been a lot like my first South Australian winter: a bit rainy, leaves changing colors and falling, and slightly chilly weather. And by slightly, I mean 47 F at the lowest :) Which is awesome. But I'm such a weather wimp, that is actually a bit nippy for me.
But as the ...
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My dark chocolate pudding with candied pistachios. Make someone love you by making them this for Valentine's Day!
Chocolate pudding does NOT photograph well. I had two different set ups, a layered pudding dish with the pistachios and the spoon you see above, and took around 100 photos, only to have two come out not looking like dog doo on a spoon, to put a finer point on it. But I suffer for you, dear reader. Because I know whether you have a special someone in your life or you're rocking ...
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This WAS going to be a delicious healthy dinner made of butternut squash and parmesan pasta sauce topped with bacon and chives. WAS.
In this episode of Leena Eats, I tell you exactly how to have a pretty bad kitchen accident.
Step one: Work really hard on a new recipe and delicious dinner for your family.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Let me introduce to you the best darn cookie I have baked in a year. A YEAR! The pistachio cookie.
My latest food obsession is a flavor I never really frequented as a kid: pistachio. It's the flavor the kid world loves to ignore, because it doesn't look nearly as exciting as a giant candy bar or a bag full of sugar. Makes sense. Pistachio is like the quiet kid in school--dull on the surface, but if you take the time to get to know him, he turns out to be ...
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A care package from Oz that is almost entirely edible. My friends know me too well!
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might remember that I had the pleasure of living in Australia for a year and a half while earning my Masters in gastronomy. I made a few mates while living down under, and every now and then, they spoil me with bits of Australia.
Case in point: the package sent by Andrew and Mel, some of our favorite people living in Australia. Come peep my Aussie ...
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Welcome to Berkeley's Farmers Market, where locally grown produce and banjo-playing former hippies abound.
You can't live near Berkeley, love food, and NOT visit their farmers market. It's not quite illegal (yet), but I've heard a band of local yippies will bombard your house with useless pamphlets about water conservation (don't flush the toilet after each use? YEAH, THAT IS NOT GROSS AT ALL) at all hours of the day.
Consequently, the homeless will also ring your doorbell, minus the water conservation pamphlets and add a little "Need Money" sign. But unless you ...
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My chicken turned out a bit more brown than Keller's, but perhaps good old TK just doesn't like that much brown. Perhaps he is a food racist. Or perhaps a certain bitch that wrote this sucks at deep frying. The world may never know.
Check out this week's Leena Cooks over at my gal Michelle's blog, Thursday Night Smackdown. Fried chicken and house fires ensue. Get excited!
~LTG!
***UPDATE***It's up! Go forth and enjoy my crunchy fried chickenness!Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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My mini pumpkin pies in tart form with shortcrust pastry. I am lucky enough to be friends with some folks from the land down under, Australia, and a few visited me not too long ago in my new SF home. I am even luckier that one of these Aussies was able to smuggle over not one but TWO bottles of Stone's, my favorite alcoholic ginger beer. I rewarded the Aussie with a treat rare to an Australian: root beer. Me with the smuggled ginger ...
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Chaya Brasserie: where French meets Japanese meets Bay Area.
More food porn after the jump!
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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My beef and lamb chipotle chili
I love making chili. It was the first recipe I really conquored, really understood inside and out. This meant I could experiment with the ingredients and cooking methods without messing up the final result. This meant I was a culinary goddess. A HOT culinary goddess.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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My jewel-toned blood orange port marmalade. The light near the bottom of the cans are the canning fairies shining their kick-ass light on my goodies...or, you know, sun. For the next 12 months, I have the best excuse EVER to can. That's right. Even better than "I like it", "it completes me" and "I can eat it". Tigress over at Tigress in a Jam is hosting a good old-fashioned can jam! Each month, a different blogger will announce ...
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Hi, I'm Leena, and I like long walks that end at pizza parlors, bacon and canning. Welcome to my canning guide! In case you have noticed this post, this post, or this one, this one, or this one, I like to can a bit. So I figured it might be time to show you folks at home exactly how I can. So sit back, relax, push all thoughts of botulism and killing your loved ones with canning out of your head! Really. I'm like, 90% sure most ...
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Welcome to Monterey Market, home of a crap ton of produce! When I moved into the East Bay, there were food markets people constantly told me I needed to check out: The Berkeley Bowl, which you might remember from this post, and Monterey Market. Here is what you need to know about Monterey Market--if you are looking for a wide variety of produce (I'm talking eight kinds of potato and ten kinds of oranges) or something exotic or locally grown, this is your place. It was opened in 1961 just down ...
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My potato, carrot and kohlrabi curry with yogurt gravy. 100% vegetarian! If you are familiar with me, you know I loves me some bacon. Which is why it comes as just as much of a surprise to me as it is to you that my husband and I decided to eat vegetarian once a week for the entire year in an effort to get healthy. I literally don't know how to make food taste delicious without bacon fat, so this will be a challenge, but hopefully a fun one. Recently, one of ...
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