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Leena Cooks: Gluten-Free Turkey Gravy

Leena Cooks: Gluten Free Turkey Gravy

She asked and I created! A gluten-free recipe for my sister in law.

A few years back, my sister in law started getting really sick. Everything she ate seemed to go right through her, and she lost a lot of weight for an already skinny person. After a lot of testing, they discovered she was a celiac who was allergic to gluten. Gluten is a protein that is commonly found in wheat and other cereals made into flour. It is what helps give bread it’s structure, and apparently, what makes celiacs sick. And after reading my food blog, she realized that a lot of foods she loves have gluten in them. Boo.

So in honor of her, and the upcoming holiday dinner we are going to make together, I am on a mission to research and find delicious and uncomplicated gluten-free recipes. Today’s recipe: gluten-free turkey gravy made with pureed roasted vegetables.Recipe and photos after the jump.

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Leena Cooks: The Best Damn Turkey Recipe EVER

Leena Cooks: The Best Damn Turkey Recipe EVER

Turkey + salt = Goodness.

Please enjoy this week o holiday cooking to get you in the mood for the holidays!

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Year after year, bird after bird, I have attempted to get the perfect Norman Rockwell turkey. You know what I’m talking about–that perfectly brown, perfectly crisp, perfectly juicy turkey that only seems to appear in paintings? Despite my brining, buttering and basting, I could never get more than a few brown spots.

Well, allow me to introduce you to my new favorite method of poultry roasting: salting. To check out the recipe, step by step photo guide and just a little bit of food porn, click on.

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Leena Cooks: Spicy Chicken Tikka Masala

Leena Cooks: Spicy Chicken Tikka Masala

Cook's Illustrated's spicy chicken tikka masala recipe with my fake garlic naan (pita bread brushed with garlic butter and lighly toasted in the oven). So good.

If you’ve ever eaten Indian food in a country outside of India, odds are you’ve tried chicken tikka masala. It’s a slightly spicy, slightly sweet and creamy tomato curry with chunks of yogurt-marinated chicken, and if legend is correct, it is about as authentically Indian as 7-11.

Britain has claimed it as it’s true national dish, Glasglow thinks it comes from a tried and true Scottish recipe, and a few believe it originated in Punjab in the 1950s.  Authenticity aside, CTM is a delicious dish I couldn’t wait to tackle.

The recipe and food porn a-plenty after the jump.

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Leena Smokes: a Delicious Dry-rubbed Chicken

Leena Smokes: a Delicious Dry rubbed Chicken

My bad-ass smoked dry-rubbed chicken half.

I love smoking meat so much. So little work (especially since 1. I own an electric smoker and 2. my husband LIKES to do it), so much delicious, smoky meat for the effort. Thus far on this blog, you’ve witness me smoke pork shoulder, pork ribs and drums of heaven, all with relative success and deliciousness. Oh, and let’s not forget my epic charcoal-smoked leg of lamb.

So on a recent Sunday, while on the hunt for something to cook for dinner that would provide us with food for a few days, I thought of the humble chicken. I could cut it into halves and slather them in delicious dry rub, then smoke them for three hours or so (for a 3.5 pound chicken). The results would equal some delicious dry-rubbed smoked chicken pieces for dinner, and another half of smoked chicken for us to shred and make into bbq sandwiches, quesadillas, enchildas…mmmm. Done and done.

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