Buy some strawberries from West Seattle produce. Make a puree, have your sister strain the puree. Combine it with a meyer lemon fructose base. Put it in the ice cream maker then wait. Drizzle glass with reduced balsamic then spoon some sorbet in, do back flips, be awesome, move onto the next dish. Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, Sorbet, Strawberry
Hmmmm, I work on Sundays. I love going to the farmers market but by the time I get there it’s closed. Mindy goes sometimes for me but it’s just not the same. I love being able to walk around and pick my own items that I am going to cook. Solution? WEST SEATTLE PRODUCE!!! The people at Corner Produce at Pike Place Market have opened a new produce stand in West Seattle. When did it open? Today! My sister gave […]
Categories: Recommended Places to Shop, Uncategorized • Tags: Cooking, Food, Produce, Seattle, West Seattle, West Seattle Produce
Welcome to flavor country. If I opened a restaurant this would be a “special” item. Something for those rainy, gloomy, and cold days. Seattle, this dish is for you! I took some of that pulled pork that I made the other day that was already cooked in veal stock then added more and proceeded to reduce it slowly. I added some tomatoes and then added the orzo and cooked it like a risotto. Stirring, stirring, stirring, then a ton of […]
Categories: Beef, Starches • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Meat, Pork, Pulled Pork, recipe, Veal Demi, Veal Stock
Remember my last episode of “Will…..it…pickle?!!?!?!”???? Well, I decided to make a little relish to serve along with some seared scallops. The relish is then topped with a saffron buerre blanc just to make the dish even more over the top. Keep it simple Eric, not today! Eric
Crazy looking right? I needed a break from being so symmetrical with my plating so I just went a little overboard with the balsamic. Every once in a while it’s good to just say, “F it, let’s see what this will look like”. Acid trip salad….. Eric
Categories: Salad
Hallie the co-founder of this TEDxCLE talk sent me over this video to share with you. Michael Ruhlman, in my opinion, is one of the best if not the best food writers out there. He has written some of my favorite cookbooks (Ad Hoc, A Return to Cooking, French Laundry, The Soul of a Chef, and the amazing list goes on) and books having to deal with the world of cooking (you have seen a few on here and there […]
Categories: Events, Random Rants • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Eric Kogelschatz, Food, Hallie F. Bram, Michael Ruhlman, recipe, Ted talks, TEDxCLE
Made a whole bunch of salads and sandwiches this week in class. I found a square molding in the plate room so I ran back to my table and used it on this Cobb salad with a honey creole mustard vinaigrette. Cobb salads are pretty awesome but I get tired with classic presentations so this square molding was pretty bad ass to work with. Here is one of my favorite sandwiches out there, The Muffuletta. I used to eat […]
Categories: Garde Manger, Uncategorized • Tags: Cobb Salad, Cooking, Food, recipe, Reuben, Salad, Sandwich
Week 4 of my wine class took me to discovering the world of fuller-bodied white wines. So far I have experienced three different types of white wines and I can distinguish a difference between the three types…..wine, you’re so……interesting. These fuller-bodied whites have thick bodies and lots of finish. The first one I tried is a 2007 JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett from Germany. Long name? Not really when you can break it down. Wehlener Sonnenuhr is the name of […]
Categories: wine • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, wine, Wine Pairing
Mindy went to a plant sale this weekend and purchased a few more things for me to cook with. Butterhead lettuce, rosemary, endive, a jalapeno plant, and one of these: Hungarian paprika! I love paprika! Hungarian isn’t sweet like the Spanish version but it’s still a favorite of mine. Oh, she also bought a more functional bay leaf tree for me since Bailey is going to take a while….. Crazy Mindy, always thinking logically….. BONUS PLANT BONUS PLANT BONUS PLANT!!!!! […]
Categories: Gardening, MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Gardening, Growing Vegetables, paprika
Grow micro greens…….use them on everything! I’m experimenting with making my own pasta noodles. I’ve done it before but I’m using different flours in order to achieve different pastas that will work with specific types of sauces. I know, that’s a little particular but that’s what this is all about. First up was this tempranillo puttanesca sauce with a thicker noodle to soak up a medium-thick sauce…..not a cream sauce but something that has a nice texture by itself. This […]
Categories: Pasta, Pork, Sauce • Tags: Anchovy, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, kalamata olive, Pasta, Puttanesca, recipe
Wait a second. Is that a nicely plated salad by Mr. Self-Conscious Salad Plater? You bet your ass it is. I even have a secret vinaigrette on the thing and it makes the entire thing dazzle and shine. Avocados, purple lettuce (I have the name written down with a “buy again” written next to it), micro greens, grape tomato, pickled mango, secret vinaigrette! Eric
Categories: Salad • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Lettuce, Micro Green, recipe, Salad, Vinaigrette
Read something, get inspired, make something your own. I am obsessed with David Chang’s Momofuku book. It’s given me a great jump start into the crazy world of pickling and he has taught me to never look back at the food I made a month ago, yesterday, or right now. He talks about how people question his motives for putting out his secrets in a cookbook and he simply responds by saying he’s going to move forward….good stuff. Well, he […]
Categories: Pork • Tags: Blog, Cilantro, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Lettuce Wrap, Lime, Mango, Pork, Pulled Pork, recipe, Rice
My assault on the world of pickling continues. The other day I was reading the ingredients to a Thai sweet chili sauce that I really like and I noticed something amazing…….. “pickled red chili”. TO THE PICKLING CAVE!!! I made a little base then pickled them there red chili’s. Day 2 and they are starting to get sweeter than the hot fire they were before….I spit hot fire. Anyway, so yes! It pickles! Such is mango. I was at Fresh […]
Categories: Technique, Vegetable • Tags: Carrot, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Mango, Pickling, recipe, Sweet Chili
It’s a combination of this (click) and this (click) but taken to the next level. I refined the broth to be a little more clear. I’m not done with this dish yet. You can see a little about what I’m talking about in the top right of the picture. It’s part of my never ending fascination with hot & cold dishes. Next! Eric
Categories: Seafood • Tags: Broth, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Hamachi, Miso, Mussels, recipe, Scallop, Seafood, shrimp
Small bites…..this time featuring smoked oysters. I’ll be doing a lot of stuff like this over the next quarter so I needed to get a jump on it at home. Next step, invite sister and her husband over and find out what they think…. The small bite above is a water cracker with gournay cheese, diced cerignola, smoked oyster, sherry pickled shallot, and mini-sprout. Good….next! Same cracker, different story. Pesto, oyster, caramelized onion, shredded Beecher’s smoked then torched…… This one […]
Categories: Appetizer, Seafood • Tags: Appetizer, Canape, Caramelized Onion, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, Smoked Oyster
