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- 2010“San Fran Thank You Man!”
- Feb2625242219Gastro Friday Photo: Screw you, Rain.1 comments171512100805Gastro Friday: Leena's Care Package from Oz1 comments0301
- Jan2927Leena Eats: Chaya Brasserie Photo Essay1 comments252220Canning: Not just for your Grandma anymore13 comments1815Leena Cooks: NYE 2008 (repost)3 commentsLeena Cooks NYE 2007 (repost)2 comments1311080504
- 2009“Chicago and beyond!”
- Dec28Leena Eats: Lula Cafe with my food twin1 comments23222116Leena Eats: JJC Culinary School3 comments1511100904030201Leena Eats: Hema's Kitchen with the Fam!2 comments
- Nov302725242320Gastro Friday Guest Post: Finding Your Roots: A Tale of Transforming Food Policy into Healthy Eating Practice“This week's Gastro Friday post is by an old college pal of mine, Marianne LeGreco, ...”
4 comments191817Leena Eats: Update1 comments16Leena Cooks: Culinary School Reunion2 comments1211Gastro Fridays: Food Photo1 comments0906050403Leena Eats: WTF is up?!4 comments - Oct
- Sep302825Gastro Fridays: Making the most of what you have“********************************************************************************** I'm at Blog Her Food '09 in San Francisco! So enjoy this post that ...”
1 comments2321161411Gastro Fridays: Food lover w/ digestive issues: My Life as an Oxymoron.“I am a food lover who also happens to have digestive issues. I am an ...”0902 - Aug3128Gastro Fridays: Finding My Culture1 comments26Leena Eats: Her Weight in Indian Food11 comments24Leena Cooks: the Perfect Poori w/ Khaki!4 comments212019Leena Eats: Naha2 comments141312070605Leena Eats: MK1 comments03
- Jul31292824222018Leena Cooks: Bad Ass Chocolate Mousse3 comments17Gastro Fridays: Food on a Stick9 comments16Leena Eats: A heap of veggies @ Handlebar2 comments1510Gastro Fridays: Misleading Corn1 comments0806Leena Cooks: Melted Caprese Salad6 comments04Leena Eats: An Ass-load of Chicago Cupcakes4 comments03Gastro Fridays: Urban Gardens1 comments
- Jun292624Leena Eats: Locally-made lollipops!1 comments2219Gastro Fridays: Meeting Celebrities1 comments15121008050301
- May292620181513Leena Eats: Otom1 comments1108Gastro Fridays: Appetizer party week1 comments07Look Ma, I'm on another blog!“That's right, my friend Michelle over at Thursday Night Smack Down blog needed some help ...”06Leena Eats: A big-ass appetizer party5 comments01
- Apr292724Gastro Fridays: My Dad Rocks5 comments23Leena Eats: Frontera Grill Brunch1 comments20Leena Cooks: A big-ass leg of lamb4 comments1715130805Leena Eats: Elotes2 comments03Gastro Fridays: Mac n Cheese3 comments01
- Mar31Gastro Fridays: Lovin on some nuts of dough8 commentsLeena Eats: Dinkel's Burglaur3 commentsGastro Fridays: The Ultimate PB & J8 commentsGastro Fridays: Restaurant Week“My apologies for missing gastro fridays last week. I came down with a most awful ...”
4 commentsLeena Eats: Chinese Dumplings! Finally!1 commentsGastro Fridays: Leena's Cheetos Poem5 commentsLeena Cooks: Motiben's Chai1 commentsThe Wide World of Food: Bourdain and Reichl“Hey guys! Just wanted to share a few updates in the world of food with ...”
1 commentsGastro Fridays: Teens and gastronomy7 commentsGastro Fridays: Birthday Traditions5 commentsLeena Eats: Change“This week, I turn 28, and I've already decided, this is going to be a ...”Best. Husband. Ever.3 commentsWhy People Don't Always Suck1 commentsGetting back to gastronomy3 commentsLamb, Bam, Thank you Ma'am: Leena Eats NYE3 commentsI heart Blackbird1 commentsLeena Eats Christmas Eve 20082 commentsHey, Snow? We need to talk...4 commentsFresh Voices for Fresh Choices Complete!1 commentsLeena Eats Healthy School Lunches...Again2 commentsLeena Eats Fresh Voices for Fresh Choices1 commentsLeena Eats with Playing in Peoria2 commentsCustom House: Leena Eats a Whole Cow3 commentsLeena needs a freaking dumpling3 commentsLeena Eats School Lunches5 commentsCooking up a fat batch of Fall3 commentsThe bacon cupcake Leena didn't eat.6 commentsMeet yer third guest host :Cari Sanchez!1 commentsFake tacos 'n beer: a gastronomical meal?5 commentsMeet yer first guest host, Mr. Bobby Lincoln2 commentsBread Porn: Alton Brown's Focaccia Bread3 commentsGetting chunky: Farm dinner at Lula Cafe3 comments - 2008“From Down Under back to the Second City!”
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- Aug15Sydney Trip, Day Two1 comments
- Jul29A girl and her cheese (and a meme)4 comments25Crispy Bacon and Jellied Fish Eye6 comments2216Avec2 comments14Ribfest Lincoln Square (Vegans beware!)6 comments08Spoon Thai2 comments070603Once upon a coconut s'mores bar4 commentsThings you never really wanted to know10 commentsThe Adventures of Nanners7 commentsNYE4 commentsCorn Muffin Madness!9 commentsDragon fruit7 commentsA Chunky's Guide to McLaren Vale3 commentsHappy Easter, Aussie Style!8 commentsMy chutney brings all the boys to the yard7 commentsCurry at the Exeter Hotel (a photo essay)1 commentsSetbacks and salted caramel1 commentsEating South Australia5 commentsFood Nerd Central6 comments100 best eats in chicago“The latest issue of time out Chicago magazine has a big fat BEAUTIFUL picture of ...”
1 commentsI cook chunky“I?m a good home cook. Sometimes I?m a great home cook. But one thing always ...”
2 commentsEthiopians must have fat babies“I love Ethiopian food. And please, do not even start with the starving kids-Sally Struthers ...”
4 commentsMeh meh and meatballs“Merry Chrismahannakwanakuh! The holidays are one of the most kick ass times of year. Nothing ...”The tao of chunkdom“I believe in a chunky state of mind. Before you get offended (as if I ...”
1 comments01The Hopleaf Bar5 comments - Jun3024U.S. Food Blog Survey9 comments23Chicago + family = chili2 comments20U.S. Food Blog Survey Results!“A few months ago, I put up a survey about US food blog users as ...”
18 commentsMy International Goodbye to Australia4 comments181713Hundred Eaves, take three1 comments1110Melbourne: The Sequel2 comments - May
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- Jan14Holiday Cooking Review2 comments11Class parties, or Leena's Blog Squishie #11 commentsBrekky for Bobby5 commentsWad of meat +cheese = mouth-gasm4 commentsmore of my "I miss home" baking2 commentsTo one year of wedded bliss...8 commentsBeer Tasting2 commentsYo Quiero Taco Bell...or Taco anything...5 commentsI wasn't lying, I have a problem...3 commentsi heart baked eggs4 commentsButtery Zucchini Goodness3 commentsMcLamb burger king3 commentsLeena Eats This Blog Makeover“If you haven't figured it out by now, my blog done got a makeover. Think ...”
7 commentsSorbet Crazed Maniac6 commentsMy Degree/McLaren Vale Cheese and Wine Trail8 commentsEvery chef has on off day...1 commentsSalopian Inn Dessert3 commentsCalling All Aussie Food Lovers--help me eat Australia!“I will be making my first trip out of South Australia EVER next week!! I ...”
2 commentsPairing Food with Potter3 commentsYeah, Nah.2 commentsThe Tiramisu Test2 commentsEros4 commentsPark Avenue Summer“The Park Avenue Hotel on 63rd ST in NYC has just opened a new restaurant ...”Burger It3 commentsAn Aussie Winter3 commentsNugget of the Week!1 commentsThe Salopian Inn2 commentsSuck it, Pizza Hut.4 commentsThis is how we Gastronomes Roll.3 commentsThe man can cook!3 commentsA little Nugget of love2 commentsI love me some pizza.2 commentsThe beer of roots, nay, gods.3 commentsCrazy Aussie Food Customs“Australia is a fairly westernized country, but there are plenty of differences between their food ...”
1 commentsWhat is authentic, anyways?“In class the other day, we were discussing fusion cuisine and what makes it fusion-y. ...”Barbie love2 commentsMy sad looking fridge.1 commentsRe: The Amateur Gourmet's American Food Manifesto“Recently, one of the food bloggers I happen to dig wrote a long essay bashing ...”Adam's Accident10 commentsLeena Trivedi-Grenier: Sandwich Artist Extraordinaire“I have a job! I have no clue why I am ecstatic about that, considering ...”Seriously, Adelaide?“I?ve been on the hunt for a part time job, and let me tell you, ...”
1 commentsI didn't come to food school to do math“I don?t do math. Seriously. My brain refuses to absorb any information it deems unnecessary, ...”Ann Oliver rocks“A couple of weeks ago, I went to a local fig farm for a tour, ...”The Hahndorf Hussy1 commentsThank you, Hugh Grant“I just heard a report on the evening news seconds ago that actor Hugh Grant ...”Day and donuts“I love me some food porn. I have only visited NYC once in my entire ...”
1 commentsBrunch at The Store1 commentsFeed me feta.2 commentsWhy I am not gay (not that there is anything wrong with that).“This is post is mainly for Stud, but also for those other Yanks who do ...”
2 commentsI put some hurting on those grapes.2 commentsBarossa Valley Trip4 commentsProps to my blogging peeps.“My partner is in the process of updating the old website, which will include links ...”
2 commentsYum cha!4 commentsWhat am I eating?1 commentsEaster Aussie Style2 commentsFiggin fantastic1 commentsWhy I have been sucking lately.“If my posting seems sporadic, that?s because I am drowning in a sea of tandoori ...”Are you gonna eat that?“The first week of classes was very interesting, and some really intriguing questions came up. ...”
1 commentsFairy Bread!“Remember the pink rice krispy treat? Well, the class liked the idea of everyone bringing ...”Adidas Ababa Rocks1 comments10Brekky at Urban4 comments04That Wascally Wabbit4 comments - 2007“Welcome to Australia!”
- Dec25Happy Chrissy from Down Under!2 comments171510Sneak Attack2 comments09Have you met my friend Lamby Mc Lamberton?4 commentsOnline Gastronomy Student Dinner1 comments08Tasting Australia: Guess who ate a lot?2 comments07My Words in Print6 comments
- Nov27I'm paying it forward!12 comments15I Challenge You to a Chili Cookoff.10 comments14What could possibly be better than food?8 comments08Red Ochre2 commentsHello, Melbourne!3 comments05
- Oct31how first anniversaries can rock.3 comments23On food blogs and controversy“This past Sunday marked the end of Tasting Australia, a two week event held here ...”
10 comments1702Stickin it to "The Man"1 commentsTrips a plenty!1 commentsPerfection, thy name is smoked meat“I was running some errands last night, and one of them required me to stop ...”Gluten free means tact free too...“I hate celiacs. Specifically, the celiac in my office. Celiac's disease is when you are ...”
1 commentsWhy do I even try?“So I was running errands downtown on my lunch break the other day, and was ...”Party prep bonanza“We are having a giant going away party on Jan. 27th. Rumor has it ain't ...”Not free food and top 25 race“I hate not free food. even more, I hate when you go into a restaurant ...”
1 commentsi hate this war.“I have been extremely lucky to have the two people I knew in the war ...” - Sep2821Copycat (5 things I am embarrassed I like to eat)“Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a total wannabe. I am that girl you knew in ...”
9 comments0603The Dumplings of Destiny2 commentsLeena's Cotton Candy Experience6 comments - Aug2722you know you want my crisp2 comments18Nugget of the Week!4 commentsNugget of the Week!7 comments
- Jul28I am THAT girl.5 comments
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- Apr21Attack of the Midget Oven3 comments0601Chutneys R Us“I know chutneys are an Indian thing, but much like slurpees and curry, I?ve avoided ...”
- Mar2928And on the third day, there was Dill Pickle3 comments13Stuff it up your pizza, bitch.3 commentsPlease don't let me kill again1 comments05
- Feb27Crazy Fruit2 commentsThe way you make me pho!1 comments181311You know you wanna be us.“I?m working on a post for Central Markets and our first Australia grocery shopping experience, ...”10We're Here!1 comments09
- Jan30The sandwich that Leena didn't eat.“It?s pretty rare that I don?t eat something. Even if it tastes bad, I usually ...”And the list goes on.“7 days till we move to Australia, and I am starting to realize that we ...”
3 commentsStop or I'll shoot teriyaki!“www.seasonshot.com Wow. Just...wow. I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted by biodegradable bullets ...”23Gaining weight before going down under“As of today, I leave for Australia in exactly two weeks. Crazy, huh? My apartment ...”
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