CelinaBean

What is CelinaBean?

Hi. I write, cook for six, and spend way too much time roaming around grocery stores. I've found that wherever there's food, there's a story.

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Archive

  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • March 2011
  • earlier

Sites Celina Reads

Yum

  • Chez Pim
  • The Amateur Gourmet
  • Chocolate and Zucchini
  • Orangette

Albany/Regional Interests

  • All Over Albany
  • Table Hopping
  • Dowd on Drinks
  • Recipe Box
  • TU Eat Local
  • Albany Eats!
  • Almost Foodies
  • The Continuing Adventures of Alex and Cati
  • Albany Food Freak
  • Green Lemonade
  • On Tapas and More
  • Dish and Dirt from Troy, NY
  • Troy Waterfront Farmers' Market
  • Indian Ladder Farms
  • Honest Weight Food Coop
  • Regional Farm and Food Project
  • Troy Food Coop
  • Saratoga Garlic
  • Cardona's
  • Eats Gourmet Marketplace
  • Buddhapesto
  • The 100 Mile Diet Challenge for the Capital District
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Essays

Pesto in your 40s

Cute versus brave: Strawberry-basil and raspberry-mint lemonade

Essay and recipe: Grilled Radicchio and goat cheese salad

The Epicurean: What makes a pair?

A grownup night out: 677 Prime, Albany NY

The hour before a party

Intensity: Lychee nut sorbet at SoCo Creamery, Great Barrington, MA

A Perfect Mother's Day: The first salad from the garden

California-style egg sandwich

QE2, Albany, NY

Heat: Africa Kine Restaurant, Harlem, NY

Cardona's pomegranate martini cake: Bringing back the martini lunch

Nodding

A last supper

Ten things to love # 8: Bacchus, Troy NY

Love that lasts: Quickie greens and beans recipe

I'll have what she's having: Uncommon Grounds, Albany, NY

Kitchen sisters: Friendship and falafel

Ma Ottaway's BBQ chicken wings

Sukiyaki

The Tao of Pot Roast

Braised chicken with tomatoes and cherry peppers

Rolled biscuits -- a division of labor

Fried chickpeas, or, The heat of the moment --- A hot chick, an errant chick pea, and a sizzle that wouldn't stop

Freezer lamb

A horrible meal for a terrible day

Reconsidering pasta primavera

Food and affection: Part 1

A promise in Florida

Hot soup on a hot day?

Welcome to Celinabean

Recently

Recipe: Linguine with orange and anchovy sauce

Real Ramen at Sushi Tei

Chiang Mai Grilled Chicken

Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries -- A red lentil dal to start

A twist on Thomas Keller: Roasted chicken with ginger-scallion sauce

People are talking about

Ma Ottaway's BBQ chicken wings

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Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries -- A red lentil dal to start

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Recipe: Linguine with orange and anchovy sauce

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Chiang Mai Grilled Chicken

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Real Ramen at Sushi Tei

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Celina Elsewhere

Beyond Willpower

Body+Soul

My piece about going to the Kripalu Center Integrative Weight Loss program. (It's a pdf file.)

Use Your Words, CAREFULLY!

How's the Family? (MPR)

What Things Last

Gangrey

Celina's Bookshelf

United States of Arugula bookcoverThe United States of Arugula
by David Kamp

2007 All Rights Reserved, Celina Ottaway