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Home | Linda McElroy

Linda McElroy

Linda McElroy has been a tester with the LC gang since 2015. Credits include a 40-year stint in the restaurant industry. Starting as a prep cook cleaning 50 pounds of calamari every night and carving buckets of “lemon crowns” to garnish seafood platters–to establishing an Italian restaurant in Seattle with her husband, he in the front of the house, and Linda in the kitchen.

Other culinary interests have included her own catering business, recipe editing, recipe development, recipe curator of International recipes for Dining for Women, and of course, recipe testing for Leite’s! Linda may well be one of the “testier” recipe testers for Leites. If it doesn’t work for her, it definitely won’t work for you, and she will let you know it! Anything awarded a TC from Linda is most definitely high praise.

Linda McElroy
A cast-iron skillet filled with sweet potato and chicken sausage hash, topped with three fried eggs.

Sweet Potato and Chicken Sausage Hash

Two grilled zucchini halves on a white plate, topped with mint salsa.

Grilled Zucchini with Mint Salsa

A crispy chicken schnitzel cutlet on a plate with sweet potato wedges and a herb vinaigrette

Crispy Chicken Schnitzel with Panko

a woman's hands lifting ginger-scallion fish fillets from a baking sheet

Ginger-Scallion Fish Fillets

A bowl of creamy pork and egg noodles

Creamy Pork and Egg Noodles

Black-eyed pea salad in a large oval bowl, on a blue and white checked tablecloth, beside a wooden spoon.

Black-Eyed Pea Salad

Baked cheesy pasta with broccoli in a large metal casserole dish, with a serving spoon and napkin.

Baked Cheesy Pasta with Broccoli

Two pieces of grilled lemongrass chicken on top of rice with scallion garnish on a blue plate.

Grilled Lemongrass Chicken

A strainer filled with homemade yogurt with cheesecloth on top.

How To Make Homemade Yogurt

A patty melt sandwich filled with ground beef, caramelized onions and cheese.

Classic Patty Melt

Seven sourdough bagels topped with poppy seeds.

Sourdough Bagels

Two jars of pickled shrimp on a wooden cutting board.

Pickled Shrimp

A cook demonstrating how to grill asparagus with several rafts of asparagus spears connected with wooden skewers.

How to Grill Asparagus

A rhubarb brown sugar pie cut into 7 wedges with one slice missing.

Rhubarb Brown Sugar Pie

A whole roasted leg of lamb on a baking sheet with a garlic rub.

Red Wine Garlic Roasted Leg of Lamb

A white bowl filled with Tennessee shrimp and grits, topped with a sprig of parsley.

Tennessee Shrimp and Grits

Two pieces of Korean style steak on a cutting board with a knife.

Korean Style Steak

A fried mortadella sandwich cut in half on a piece of parchment paper.

Fried Mortadella Sandwich

A bowl of pork tinga--pork stewed with tomatoes and chipotle peppers, along with bowls of lemon, sour cream, cilantro, cheese on a table.

Pork Tinga

A small reck crock of easy chicken liver pate, nearby a baguette and and a hunk of bread smeared with pate

Easy Chicken Liver Pâté

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