CelinaBean

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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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Yum

  • Chez Pim
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Albany/Regional Interests

  • All Over Albany
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  • 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
mystery tomatoes

Ingredients

Mystery tomatoes

Authentic Japanese flavors at Sushi Tei, Guilderland, NY

Timberlane Blueberry Farm, Caroga Lake, NY

Questions? Looking for an ingredient in the Albany area? Ask Celinabean.

Fresh herbs: For the love of chives

Celebrate the sun: Watermelon, feta, and mint salad

It's chilly, but it ain't winter anymore: Local lettuce at Gade Farm, Guilderland, NY

Shiso plants on sale at Kim's Asian Market, Albany, NY

Broiled mahi mahi with baby arugula: A simple moment in a complicated day

The first handful of herbs

Rustic squash soup with smoked paprika at Carmen's in Troy

Kumquats

Whole belly clams and coffee milk: A taste of Rhode Island in Albany

Red grapefruit

Ten jars (and other jar-like containers) to stock: #1 Walkerswood Jamaican Jerk Seasoning

Roasted Fennel

Bibimbap

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Seaweed salad, affordable greens

Dines Farms' natural meat store in Albany = Really good hot dogs

Folk music squash

Ingredient answers: Chili paste and rice vinegar

Asian style beef with noodles

Freezer lamb

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

Pasta with roasted veggies and Swiss chard

Pumpkin recipes?

Black bean soup

Farewell to summer

Artichokes

Something easy tonight? Try roasted cauliflower

Via Fresca

Ten things to love: #1 Sweet Corn

A gift of tomatoes

Hot soup on a hot day?

These are a few of my favorite things

A veggie adventure

Recently

What would Martha say?

Al-Baraki II, Albany, NY

Mystery tomatoes

Authentic Japanese flavors at Sushi Tei, Guilderland, NY

Blueberry pancakes with whole wheat flour

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Questions? Looking for an ingredient in the Albany area? Ask Celinabean.

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What would Martha say?

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Authentic Japanese flavors at Sushi Tei, Guilderland, NY

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Al-Baraki II, Albany, NY

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The Warehouse, 20 Learned St., Albany, NY

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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