Recipes
Leena Bakes
Breads
- Leena Bakes: Banana Bourbon Chocolate Muffins!
- Leena Bakes: Brioche Bread and a Damn Good Grilled Cheese
- Leena Cooks: the Perfect Poori w/ Khaki!
- Leena Bakes: My first monkey bread!
- Leena Cooks: The Bread That Ate Chicago...and her cat
- Leena Cooks: Gourmet's Parmesan Pull Apart Rolls
- Cooking up a fat batch of Fall
- Bread Porn: Alton Brown's Focaccia Bread
- more of my "I miss home" baking
- A nice addition to my thighs.
Cakes
- Leena Bakes: Mini Carrot Cupcakes with Pistachio and Cream Cheese Frosting for other people. As in NOT her.
- Leena Bakes: Dark chocolate pear cake with pistachio ice cream
- Leena Bakes: Ginger Cupcakes with Cranberry Cream Cheese frosting
- Leena Bakes: Thanksgiving pt.3 Dessert- Cranberry upside down cake
- Leena Bakes: A Giant Lamington Cake of Happiness
- Leena Bakes: Mini Pineapple Upside Down Cakes with Pickled Cherries for Fathers Day
- Leena Bakes: Carrot Cake stuffed with ice cream
- Adam Bakes, Leena Eats: Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake
- Leena Bakes: A Bitchin' Blueberry Buttermilk Cake (From Gourmet Mag)
Cookies
- Leena Bakes: GF World Peace Cookies!
- Leena Bakes: Cranberry Gingerbread Sorbet Sandwiches!
- Leena Bakes: Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies for her growing bellah!
- Leena Bakes- (Gluten-free) Peanut butter cookies--or the easiest recipe EVER
- Leena Bakes: Momofuku Compost Cookies!
- Leena Cooks for the Holidays: Butternut Squash Oatmeal Scotchies!
- Leena Cooks for the Holidays: C.I.'s Chocolate Chip Cookie, reinvented
- Leena Bakes: Cookies from Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook!
- Leena Bakes: Pistachio Cookies
- Leena Cooks Holiday Sweets: Cook's Illustrated's Chocolate Chip Cookies Reinvented
- Leena Cooks Holiday Sweets: Butternut Squash Oatmeal Scotchies
- Leena Cooks: C.I.'s Chocolate Chip Cookie Reinvented
Cupcakes
- Leena Bakes and Eats: Iron Cupcake SF October 2011- Candy
- Leena Bakes: Mini Carrot Cupcakes with Pistachio and Cream Cheese Frosting for other people. As in NOT her.
- Leena Bakes & Eats: Iron Cupcake SF- Bake Sale January 2011
- Leena Bakes: Ginger Cupcakes with Cranberry Cream Cheese frosting
- Leena Bakes: Vanilla Cupcakes with Fresh Strawberry Frosting for Memorial Day!
- Screw you, Autumn: Pepitas and Spiced Apple Cupcakes
- Setbacks and salted caramel
- Procrastination at its Finest: Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Wattle seed Icing
Desserts
- Leena Bakes: Banana Bourbon Chocolate Muffins!
- Leena Bakes: GF World Peace Cookies!
- Leena Bakes: Cranberry Gingerbread Sorbet Sandwiches!
- Leena Bakes and Eats: Iron Cupcake SF October 2011- Candy
- Leena Bakes: Mini Carrot Cupcakes with Pistachio and Cream Cheese Frosting for other people. As in NOT her.
- Leena Bakes: Ginger Cupcakes with Cranberry Cream Cheese frosting
- Leena Cooks the Holidays: Apple, Pear and Cranberry Five Spice Crisp
- Leena Cooks for the Holidays: Butternut Squash Oatmeal Scotchies!
- Leena Cooks for the Holidays: C.I.'s Chocolate Chip Cookie, reinvented
- Amuse bouche: Australian Desserts-Pumpkin Scones
- Amuse bouche: Australian Desserts- Anzac Cookies
- Amuse bouche: Desserts from Australia-Lamingtons
- Leena Bakes: A Giant Lamington Cake of Happiness
- Leena Bakes: Vanilla Cupcakes with Fresh Strawberry Frosting for Memorial Day!
- Leena Bakes: Carrot Cake stuffed with ice cream
- Details on Bobby and Leena's Chunkstravaganza Dinner
Fruit
- Leena Bakes: Banana Bourbon Chocolate Muffins!
- Leena Bakes: Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies for her growing bellah!
- Leena Bakes: Dark chocolate pear cake with pistachio ice cream
- Leena Bakes: Ginger Cupcakes with Cranberry Cream Cheese frosting
- Leena Bakes: the Best Damn Apple Pie EVER
- Leena Cooks the Holidays: Apple, Pear and Cranberry Five Spice Crisp
- Leena Bakes: Thanksgiving pt.3 Dessert- Cranberry upside down cake
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Chinese five spice pickled cherries for Tigress Can Jam June
- Leena Bakes: Vanilla Cupcakes with Fresh Strawberry Frosting for Memorial Day!
- Drowning in Stone Fruit with my mouth wide open: Baked Peaches
- you know you want my crisp
Muffins
- Leena Bakes: Banana Bourbon Chocolate Muffins!
- Leena Bakes: Healthy Pumpkin Muffins with Dark Chocolate and Pistachio!
- Leena Bakes: Coconut Chocolate Banana Muffins/Leena Loves Muffin Tops!
- Leena Cooks: Chocolate Muffins with Passionfruit Caramel
- Corn Muffin Madness!
Pastries
- Leena Cooks Holiday Sweets: Red Wine Caramel Apple Tarte Tatin
- Leena Cooks: Strawberry Brown Butter Tart (with a side of bitterness)
- Peach and Blueberry Crostata (with a side of Stud)
- Someone please stop me (Pear and Pistachio Tart)
- I wasn't lying, I have a problem...
Pie
- Leena Bakes: her first post-baby project- homemade cherry pie
- Leena Bakes: the Best Damn Apple Pie EVER
- Leena Cooks and Bakes: Coconut Cream Pie Tart
- Leena Cooks n Bakes: WWE's Killer Peanut Butter Mousse Brownie Pie
Pizza
Tarts
Cobblers
- Amuse bouche: Cobblers and Early Settlers
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect Barbecue Dessert- Bourbon Peach and Blueberry Cobbler
Bars
Bread Pudding
Leena Cooks
Holidays
- Leena Cooks: Gluten-Free Turkey Gravy
- Leena Cooks NYE 2007 (repost)
- Amuse bouche: First Christmas Cookie Swap?
- Leena Bakes: the Best Damn Apple Pie EVER
- Amuse bouche: Chef Tips for Turkey Day
- Leena Cooks: Thanksgiving starter- Curried Sweet Potato and Apple Soup with Curry-fried Shallots
- Leena Cooks: NYE 2008 (repost)
- Leena's Holiday Recipe Roundup!!!
- NYE
- Holiday Cooking Review
Vegetables
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Leena Cooks: Ruth Reichl's Mushroom Soup
- Leena Cooks: Andra's Killer Veggie Chili
- Leena Cooks: Baby Veggie Curry!
- Leena Cooks: Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook's Chorizo Bistro Salad!
- Leena Cooks (repeat) Jackie's Thai Shrimp Curry with CSA Produce!
- Leena Eats: Gather in Berkeley
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Spicy Dill Pickled Asparagus
- Leena Cooks: Vegetarian! Potato Curry with Yogurt Gravy and 3 chutneys
- Leena Cooks: Crispy Garlic Kale and Roasted Bacon-Brussels Sprouts
- Tomato Confit: Leena rocks the shit out of a bag of tomatoes
- Buttery Zucchini Goodness
Breakfast
- Leena Cooks: Mothers Day Brunch!
- Leena Cooks: Elia's Top Chef Waffle of Awesomeness...with a twist.
- Brekky for Bobby
- i heart baked eggs
- Look what I just made...
Appetizers
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Leena Cooks Thanksgiving pt. 2 Sides- deviled eggs with chives and bacon
- Leena Cooks: Thanksgiving starter- Curried Sweet Potato and Apple Soup with Curry-fried Shallots
- Leena Cooks n Cans: The Perfect BBQ Appetizer- Tomato Basil Jam
- Gastro Friday: Trip to Turkey and Food Travel Tips with Claire!
- Acquiring Taste, a Perspective on Food & Advertising from Chris Montwill
- Leena Cooks ( n Cans): Gajar ki Chutney with caramelized shallot (carrot chutney) for Tigress' Can Jam
- Leena cooks: C.I.'s Creamless Creamy Tomato Soup
- Leena Cooks: Dark Chocolate Pudding with Candied Pistachios
- Leena Eats: Pizza in the Hospital Waiting Room
- Leena Cooks: Appetizer Party week! Asian pan-fried pork dumplings
Mains
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Leena Cooks: Gluten-Free Turkey Gravy
- Leena Cooks and Eats: Scenes from a Chili Cookoff
- Leena Cooks: Meatballs and Sauce for a Post-Baby Meal
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Pork tacos with salsa verde and pickled onions
- Leena Cooks: Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook's Chorizo Bistro Salad!
- Leena Cooks (repeat) Jackie's Thai Shrimp Curry with CSA Produce!
- Leena Cooks: The Best Damn Turkey Recipe EVER
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Chicken Tikka Masala
- Leena Cooks: Beef and Pork Bulgogi
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect BBQ Main: Charcoal Smoked Pork Chops with homemade bbq sauce
- Leena (Teaches Someone Else to) Cook: Nick's First Lesson
- Leena Smokes: a Delicious Dry-rubbed Chicken
- Leena Cooks: Artichoke Risotto with Goat Cheese
- Leena (butchers n) Cooks: Drums of Heaven (Andouille-stuffed smoked chicken wings)
- Leena Cooks: How to make a kick-ass rack of ribs w/ an electric smoker
- Leena Cooks: Dark Chocolate Pudding with Candied Pistachios
- Leena Cooks: Thomas Keller's Fried Chicken at Thursday Night Smackdown!
- Leena Cooks: Beef n Lamb Chipotle Chili & Leena's Chili Method
- Leena Cooks: Ghetto McGuyver Cooking cuz Bekins Screwed Me
- Leena Cooks: Thai Shrimp Curry w/ CSA produce!
- Leena Cooks Holiday Sweets: Salted Caramels
- Leena Cooks Thanksgiving Week: Cranberry Upside Down Cake
- Leena Cooks Thanksgiving Week: Cranberry, Apple n Pear Five Spice Crisp
- Leena Cooks Thanksgiving Week: Cranberry Sorbet with Ginger and Orange
- Leena Cooks n Bakes: WWE's Killer Peanut Butter Mousse Brownie Pie
- Leena Cooks n Eats: More Dinner Parties than You Could Shake A Stick At, pt.2
- Leena Cooks n Eats: More Dinner Parties than You Could Shake A Stick At, pt.1
- Leena Eats: Her Weight in Indian Food
- Leena Cooks: Gourmet Magazine's Kiwi Sorbet
- Leena Cooks: Bad Ass Chocolate Mousse
- Leena Cooks: Artichoke, Goat Cheese & Thyme Pizza
- Leena Cooks: A big-ass leg of lamb
- Leena Cooks: Marshmallows...pretty damn well, too.
- Leena Cooks: Salted Chewy Caramels
- Leena Cooks: Chicken and Cheese Enchiladas
- Details on Bobby and Leena's Chunkstravaganza Dinner
- Leena needs a freaking dumpling
- Once upon a coconut s'mores bar
- Chicago + family = chili
- Lamb Curry
- Wad of meat +cheese = mouth-gasm
- more of my "I miss home" baking
- McLamb burger king
- Sorbet Crazed Maniac
- Every chef has on off day...
- Salopian Inn Dessert
- The Tiramisu Test
- Mac n Cheese Man
- Leftover Sandwiches rock: Meatloaf a la Kick Ass
- Chicken Parmesan Polenta
- Warning: This meatloaf could change your life.
- I love me some pizza.
- Feed me feta.
- Cupboard fishing for Jesus and the Easter bunny
- Eating for Love, Part Two
- Have you met my friend Lamby Mc Lamberton?
- Leena's Cotton Candy Experience
- Chili dog night!
- Chicken Salad a la Alton
Soup/Salad
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Leena Cooks: Ruth Reichl's Mushroom Soup
- Leena Cooks: Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook's Chorizo Bistro Salad!
- Leena Cooks: Thanksgiving starter- Curried Sweet Potato and Apple Soup with Curry-fried Shallots
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect BBQ side dish- Swiss Chard salad with pickled cherries
- Leena Cooks: Baked Potato Soup
- Leena cooks: C.I.'s Creamless Creamy Tomato Soup
- Leena Cooks: A killer butternut squash soup w/ rye crumbs
- Leena Cooks: Melted Caprese Salad
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Broccoli Soup with Bacon
Drinks
- Gastro Friday: Pissky-Diabetic Urine Turned into Fine, Single Malt Whisky
- Leena Cooks: Motiben's Chai
Condiments
- Leena Cooks and Cans: Caramelized Onion Jam...with a no-napping 2 month old
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Mango Chutney for Tigress Can Jam December
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Spicy Sweet Chile Jam for Tigress Can Jam October
- Leena Cooks n Cans: The Perfect BBQ Appetizer- Tomato Basil Jam
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Cucumber and Zucchini Pickles/Relishes for July's Tigress Can Jam!
- Leena Cooks (n Cans): Strawberry Rhubarb Rosemary Jam
- Leena Cooks: n Cans Onion Apple Ale Relish
- Leena Cooks ( n Cans): Gajar ki Chutney with caramelized shallot (carrot chutney) for Tigress' Can Jam
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Kick-Ass Five Spice Ketchup
- My chutney brings all the boys to the yard
- I am the best chef EVER
- Chutneys R Us
Parties
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Amuse bouche: Chef Tips for Turkey Day
- Leena Cooks (n Cans): Blood Orange Port Marmalade for Tigress Can Jam!
- Leena Cooks: Culinary School Reunion
- Leena Cooks: Homemade Ricotta Cheese and a Kick-Ass Fritttata
- Leena Eats: A big-ass appetizer party
- Mike's Night: One dinner party in anticipation of another
- A lazy gal's guide to baking away winter: Chex Mix
- Leena 4th Annual Feed Me Your Chili Extravagaza: The highlights
- Leena cooks with kids, or where did you stick that carrot?
- I cook chunky
- Chili, anyone?
- You are cordially invited to a kick ass dinner party
- Barbie love
- I Challenge You to a Chili Cookoff.
- Party prep bonanza
- Attack of the Midget Oven
Flatbread
Meat
- Leena Eats: Just kidding...NOW I'm back! And with dinner party photos!
- Leena Cooks: Pot Roast for Baby!
- Leena Cooks: Gluten-Free Turkey Gravy
- Leena Cooks: Three Meat Chipotle Chili
- Leena Cooks and Eats: Scenes from a Chili Cookoff
- Leena Cooks: Meatballs and Sauce for a Post-Baby Meal
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Pork tacos with salsa verde and pickled onions
- Leena Cooks: Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook's Chorizo Bistro Salad!
- Leena Cooks: The Best Damn Turkey Recipe EVER
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Chicken Tikka Masala
- Leena Cooks: Beef and Pork Bulgogi
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect BBQ Main: Charcoal Smoked Pork Chops with homemade bbq sauce
- Leena Smokes: a Delicious Dry-rubbed Chicken
- Leena (butchers n) Cooks: Drums of Heaven (Andouille-stuffed smoked chicken wings)
- Leena Cooks: How to make a kick-ass rack of ribs w/ an electric smoker
Risotto
Smoking
- Leena Smokes: a Delicious Dry-rubbed Chicken
- Leena (butchers n) Cooks: Drums of Heaven (Andouille-stuffed smoked chicken wings)
- Leena Cooks: How to make a kick-ass rack of ribs w/ an electric smoker
- Leena Eats: The Holidays 2009
BBQ
- Leena Cooks: Gluten-Free Turkey Gravy
- Leena Cooks: Three Meat Chipotle Chili
- Leena Cooks: Food Porn Daily: The Cookbook's Chorizo Bistro Salad!
- Leena Cooks: Spicy Chicken Tikka Masala
- Amuse bouche: East Carolina Mop Sauce
- Amuse bouche: South Carolina Mustard Sauce
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect BBQ Main: Charcoal Smoked Pork Chops with homemade bbq sauce
- Leena Cooks n Cans: The Perfect BBQ Appetizer- Tomato Basil Jam
- Leena Cooks: The Perfect BBQ side dish- Swiss Chard salad with pickled cherries
Leena Cans and Preserves
Pickles
- Leena Cans: Giardiniera for Ella's Birthday!
- Leena Cooks: Pickled Onions for tacos and other goodies
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Spicy Bourbon White Peach Pickles
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Cucumber and Zucchini Pickles/Relishes for July's Tigress Can Jam!
Relishes
Jam
- Leena Cooks and Cans: Caramelized Onion Jam...with a no-napping 2 month old
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Spicy Sweet Chile Jam for Tigress Can Jam October
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Raspberry Jam
- Leena Cooks n Cans: The Perfect BBQ Appetizer- Tomato Basil Jam
Fruit Butter
- Leena Bakes: Banana Bourbon Chocolate Muffins!
- Leena Bakes: Soft Lemon Sugar Cookies for her growing bellah!
- Leena Bakes: Dark chocolate pear cake with pistachio ice cream
- Leena Bakes: Ginger Cupcakes with Cranberry Cream Cheese frosting
- Leena Bakes: the Best Damn Apple Pie EVER
- Leena Cooks the Holidays: Apple, Pear and Cranberry Five Spice Crisp
- Leena Bakes: Thanksgiving pt.3 Dessert- Cranberry upside down cake
- Leena Cooks n Cans: Chinese five spice pickled cherries for Tigress Can Jam June
- Leena Bakes: Vanilla Cupcakes with Fresh Strawberry Frosting for Memorial Day!
- Drowning in Stone Fruit with my mouth wide open: Baked Peaches
- you know you want my crisp
Chutney


