Not sold on the shape of the base but the components are solid. Need to bring it home with the Puerto Rican guy that grew up in the Northwest. Hot and cold aspects to the dish. Needs to be me, organic and less structured with shapes. Terrine mold base??? No way. Or maybe it works, crazy culinary school thinking. Either way a good start. The voices in my head are high fiving each other. Eric
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Eric
Categories: Proteins • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Short Rib.
Needs more depth, needs to be brought in tighter, a plate, and those roasted brussels look awful. Meh. Eric
Categories: Produce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe
First, you take the skin off and make sure you scrape off any fat that’s on the skin otherwise you’ll end up with chewy chicharrones and nobody likes chewy chicharrones. Then I brine the skin, rinse off the brine, then pat it dry, dehydrate it at 135F for 2-3 hours. You want to make sure it’s not completely stiff or you will end up with sheet rock chicharrones, and nobody likes sheet rock chicharrones. At this point if you’re not […]
Categories: Turkey • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Turkey, Turkey Chicharrones
I’ve been doing a little research about places to eat in Chicago. When you work at a restaurant you get down to the nitty gritty of what’s good and what’s not quickly. After a few conversations with not just people from the restaurant and around town one of the restaurants that came up on the list the most was Belly Shack. “You’ll love this place it’s Puerto Rican/Korean food”. That was all I needed to hear. I’m from […]
Categories: Chicago • Tags: Belly Shack, Chicago, Dinner, Food, recipe, Restaurant
Good powders on their way. Eric
Categories: Chicago • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dehydrator, Dinner, Food, recipe
