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
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Sites Celina Reads

  • All Over Albany
  • Table Hopping
  • Albany Eats!
  • The Continuing Adventures of Alex and Cati
  • Troy Waterfront Farmers' Market
  • Cardona's
  • Fussy Little Blog
  • Orangette
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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

How not to cook a steak

Jacques Pepin's Beef Stew in Red Wine Sauce

Recipe: Linguine with orange and anchovy sauce

Real Ramen at Sushi Tei

Chiang Mai Grilled Chicken

People are talking about

Local Food Festival at Indian Ladder Farms

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How not to cook a steak

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Jacques Pepin's Beef Stew in Red Wine Sauce

...has 4 comments, most recently from Cathy

Timberlane Blueberry Farm, Caroga Lake, NY

...has 2 comments, most recently from Arnav

Goat's milk whipped cream, or, why I married a farm boy

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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