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Home | Adrienne Lee

Adrienne Lee

Adrienne Lee has been a Leite’s Culinaria tester since 2006. She graduated from MIT, worked as an electronic engineer for Xerox, and then received a doctorate in cognitive psychology/science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She worked as an assistant/associate professor at New Mexico State University. During the period starting in graduate school, she began taking courses in cooking and baking and finally received a pastry certificate from the Culinary School of the Rockies where she worked as a pastry instructor for several years. She has done stages at various businesses, and provided baked goods to be sold at a business for several years, a charity event, and a large food convention; at the same time, she was a recipe tester for Delicious Living Magazine until 2018.

Adrienne Lee
Classic shrimp scampi on a white plate with large pink shrimp in garlic butter sauce, garnished with parsley. A silver fork rests on the side, with a lemon half nearby and golden sauce pooling at the bottom for dipping.

Classic Shrimp Scampi

20 mins

A deep skillet filled with tortellini with peas and prosciutto with bowls of pepper and cheese on the side.

One-Pot Tortellini with Prosciutto and Peas

25 mins

A sugar cone of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream lying on a bed of chocolate chips.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

9 hrs 15 mins

An open-faced egg salad sandwich topped with minced chives on a white plate with a bowl of salad and a dish of salt and pepper nearby.

Egg Salad Without Mayo

45 mins

A jar of garlic confit with loose garlic cloves and husks nearby.

Garlic Confit

1 hr

A coconut cream pie with a meringue top and sprinkled with toasted shredded coconut.

Coconut Cream Pie

1 hr

A pot of spaghetti and meat sauce with tongs in it and two bowls of spaghetti and meat sauce with forks.

One-Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

30 mins

Glazed shrimp on top of rice and garnished with scallions, with a gold spoon scooping some from the bowl.

Sticky Honey Garlic Shrimp

25 mins

Two bowls of gnocchi soup, garnished with bacon and rosemary, with crusty bread on the side.

Gnocchi Soup with Bacon and Cheese

1 hr 15 mins

Three pieces of white cake topped with frosting and toasted coconut on individual blue glass plates with forks resting on the side.

Coconut Tres Leches Cake

1 hr 30 mins

A scoop of creamy baked mac and cheese with crunchy topping being lifted from a casserole dish.

Creamy Baked Mac and Cheese

1 hr 30 mins

A square of chocolate zucchini cake with buttercream frosting on a square of parchment with a fork standing up in the center of the cake.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Buttercream Frosting

2 hrs 15 mins

A slice of icebox cake with condensed milk whipped cream and sprinkles with the rest of the cake in the background.

Icebox Cake with Condensed Milk Whipped Cream

7 hrs 20 mins

Three pieces of Cheryl Day's s'mores bars on individual fluted plates

Cheryl Day’s S’mores Bars

3 hrs

A raspberry almond crumble cake, with a slice on its side on a circle of parchment paper

Raspberry Almond Crumble Cake

1 hr 20 mins

A pineapple upside-down cake on a white plate with a slice taken out

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

1 hr 15 mins

A dozen nutella truffles on a blue tabletop; a person's hand sifting cocoa over them

Nutella Truffles

1 hr 45 mins

Chocolate peanut butter cookies in a stack, the top one broken in half, on a worn white background.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

1 hr

Sablés Breton with crosshatched tops, in two rows, on a crinkled sheet of parchment paper.

Sablés Breton

40 mins

Tex-Mex migas topped with avocado in a white and blue bowl with a fork, beside a second bowl sitting on a tea towel.

Tex-Mex Migas

30 mins

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