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Hi everyone, I'm Celine. I am a grad student (studying Comp Lit) in Berkeley who probably cooks more than she reads. I have a food blog (like many of you, it seems!): http://purplesnack.blogspot.com. I, too, am sad when no one leaves comments. I read SE religiously, along with at least a dozen other food blogs. I love farmers markets and wish I could afford to shop at them exclusively. I like to make slow-cooked meats, poached eggs, middle eastern/Turkish dishes I grew up with, and basically anything else delicious. I love spicy foods and stinky cheeses. I do not bake.

I also (of course) like to eat, especially my mother's and grandmother's cooking. I love to sample the incredible array of restaurants-- from taco trucks to fine dining-- we have around here. There are a lot of foodies in the Bay Area. If you are one of them, I would love to eat with you :) Leave me a message on my blog if you'd like.

My aunt, who uses Paul Prudhomme's recipe.

Southeastern Asian--Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore: to eat the street food and take a cooking class
Japan: serious sushi
Turkey: the food I grew up that I've never eaten outside outside of my parents' home!

My favorite recipe of all time involves chicken, chicken broth, and a spoonful of flour. Seriously. All you do is flour skinless, bone-in chicken thighs, brown them well (this is key) and add some broth, cover, and simmer about 45 minutes. Try this. I promise. It'll blow your mind.

quinoa & whole wheat bread

Looks good to me... Roy thinks otherwise. :)

When my Grandmother used to roast a pig for Serbian Orthodox Christmas the tail, along with the ears, used to get done ahead of the rest, so we kids always got a "free sample".

It was the best part.

I'm Rosezilla (named for my three year old daughter and the giant lizard thing that stomped Tokyo...it's what I call her when she's being...how you say...willful). My real handle is Mandy. I live in Santa Barbara County again after growing up here, but lived for 11 years in western Sonoma County...home of fabulous food and wines. It spoiled me rotten, to become an adult surrounded by all of that luscious produce and foodie opportunity. I managed a microbrewery's kitchen for 6 years, and have SERIOUS opinions about ales, should anyone care for them. Now I'm a home cook primarily, although I do a little catering here and there. My daughter's favorite foods are salmon and broccoli, so I feel as though I've triumphed a bit over the three-year-old beige-food diet. We do, however, eat at McDonald's every Friday after school...it's our little Happy Meal indulgence...and those tiny cheeseburgers are SOOO good. I live with and cook for my mother, as well. I am dating a high school band director, who has actually LOST weight being with me, as he's eating more asparagus and less fast food. I think that size 14 should be the new size 6. I am curvy, healthy, happy and active...and think that excellent foods should be part of everyone's diet. I am active in the "S'Cool Food" movement here, which tries to bring local and sustainable healthy food into school cafeterias. And I love, love, love this website.

Bro recently made these avocado eggrolls for a party. They are wonderful. We didn't use a sauce - no one noticed :D.

Whip 'em up and bring 'em down to the party!!

Mrs. L, a, ahem, 40 something (at least for two more weeks) who is just learning to cook and dealing with the fact that I own over 500 cookbooks (over 400 that have never been cooked from!). I live in San Jose CA and I see dead people for a living (no really, I manage a cremation business). I love serious eats to help me find out what's going on in the food world and to make me feel even more behind cuz I cook recipes I see here rather than open up one of my many cookbooks!