I saw Jose Andres do this and I have been wanting to try it for a while. Good thing it’s Meyer Lemon Weeks (Got a little busy and didn’t have a chance to crank all this stuff out).
Combine Meyer Lemon juice with ground soy lecithin then hit it with an immersion blender until the foam appears.
In a martini glass mix some Valencia orange juice and Champagne together then spoon foam over the top. Garnish with candied Meyer Lemon.
Pretty cool stuff!!!!!!
Eric
I’m on the right path with this one it just needs something. Mindy said, “this is the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had” which is great to hear but I’m not happy with it yet. It needs something else. Oh right, I know… onto version 3.0.
I had a little schooling (reading those crazy molecular gastronomy books) on the proper way to heat up chocolate……I’ve been doing it wrong for sooooooooooooo many years and now I’m unstoppable. It’s not just tempering over a double boiler….it’s more than that…..and a lot easier.
The threaded sugar was another experiment that turned out to be better than I expected. I’m going to work on shapes for 3.0 and then use it as a topper because right now it looks like hair….yummy sugary hair….mmmmmmmmmm mmmm!
So I’ll get back to you on this one ok? No recipe yet just know that I’m working on it.
Eric
Give them a gift that shows you love them……give them Puerto Rican Rum! I felt signing the containers would be a little pretentious so I went for it!!! There is no egg in this….just lots and lots of coconut!
Ingredients
Procedure:
Eric
Meh, it was ok. I’ll post a recipe for this soon. I have a few ideas in mind.
(Click each picture to make it larger, the clear bottle with the floating stuff in it is the devil, moonshine)
RUM:
You’ve heard it a thousand times by the various marketing agencies that tell you that the best rums come from Puerto Rico, they’re right. You believe that Bacardi is the best and Captain Morgan is another great rum brought to you by the great rum distributors or Puerto Rico. You are wrong. The best and most consumed rum in Puerto Rico is Don Q, by the Serralles Family in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
This was my first time visiting Puerto Rico being a legal drinker (legal age is 18, by the way), and I made a tourist mistake my first night out with my parents. “Oh, I’ll have the captain and coke please”. Immediately, the waiter looked at me like a Gringo and treated me a little different. It’s not a rude thing, it’s more of something like, “damn, we thought you were one of us”.
What to order? Don Q on the rocks or with a coke. They’ll ask you, “white or gold”? I’m allergic to white rum and coke so I always stick to gold and coke. You can’t really taste a difference unless you’re going to drink them straight then at that point you’re just getting snobby if you can tell a difference so just stop treating it like a wine tasting and just drink and relax.
My new favorite? Fresh cut coconut with a little Don Q gold poured in.
SANGRIA:
Go to the local bakeries, Panaderias, and you will find a few different styles of Sangria, bottled and ready to be consumed immediately. This system works like the pique (hot sauce) because from town to town or bakery to bakery you will find a different vendor pushing their product. It’s pretty good stuff but I’d suggest keeping it to the basics of rum and beer. This is another way of me saying, my recipe is better (click).
BEER:
Yes, Puerto Rico makes fantastic beer. Say it with me now, Me-DA-YA or Medalla for you spanish speakers. What makes this beer good? It’s local, inexpensive, and will make you look like “one of them” when you ask for it. You’ll get the instant nod of approval from the locals when you order one. Go ahead, be the dumb ass Tommy Bahama shirt, sandals with socks, red burned faced tourist that orders a Corona just because you think Puerto Rico is Mexico and see how things will shut down around you. When you’re visiting somewhere, do as the locals do. I’m helping you out here! Medalla all the way, it’s a damn good beer and it won’t hurt your pocket like one of those fine microbrews that will be there when you get back from vacation (mmmmm Mac and Jack).
NON-ALCOHOLIC (If you must):
Malta India. This is a malt drink made by the people who make Medalla. When they’re not busy cranking out their beer they use the same center to make this malt drink. I’m not a big fan of this stuff because it’s really syrupy tasting and non-carbonated. It’s a sensation on the island though, lots of people who grew up drinking this stuff as little kids love this and don’t get the wrong impression here, I’m just a carbonated beverage freak.
Don’t drink water. Not because the water quality is bad for you, just because there is a bottled water called, Cristal, that is so good and made by the same people that make Don Q Rum. Just be sure to drink lots of water, becoming dehydrated is something that can happen very easily because the temperature is so humid and you’ll be sweating constantly. DRINK MORE, even if it isn’t water 
DON’T:
Think that Puerto Rico is all about Pina Coladas. Yes, it was invented there and you can find a few places that will make a fine Pina Colada for you, but don’t be fooled, this drink is a tourist trap. It’s meant to make you pay $7-10 per drink in order for you to feel like you’re doing as the locals do. Leave the fancy umbrellas and huge serving glasses for your next cruise vacation.
Want to do as the locals do? Find some Pitorro a.k.a. Moonshine. Buried in the ground and made a billion different ways, this stuff will send you into a coma if you’re not too careful. I placed this in the don’t section because this is something the locals will offer you the first day you come to visit, they’ll even flavor it with coconut to take the edge off (oh, how nice of them) but this will sneak up on you faster than a camouflaged ninja cheetah. Drink a cap full of this stuff and you’ll be good to go. Get into a macho cool guy tournament then you’ll end up like a certain person I need not mention (who could that be????).
As always please be careful while you drink.
(Click here for more of my Puerto Rico Travel Guide)
Enjoy,
Eric
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Spanish Wine, Vodka, and Fruit. This is the clear version of my red sangria (Click) but with different fruit.
Ingredients:
1 bottle Naia Wine
4 ounces Pearl Vodka
1 kiwi, peeled and diced
1 large Mango, peeled and diced
1/2 large orange, sliced thin
Mix them all together, place in fridge for a few hours, then serve.
Enjoy,
Eric
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Pillow case backdrop…..oh, you betcha.
Ingredients:
1 shot captain morgan
1 shot lime sparkling water
1 lime
crushed ice
4 mint leaves
1/2 lime sliced thin
1 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. chili powder
Pour all ingredients except for the sparkling water in a glass then crush with a wooden mojito crusher (is there a such thing as a mojito crusher?!!?!? I have one). Once you have crushed all the ingredients together, stir the sparkling water into the mixture. Serve.
Enjoy,
Eric
This might be my new wallpaper picture.
Now would be a good time to try this. You like wine? You like fruit? You like awesome? YOU TRY NOW!!!!
Ingredients:
2 bottles of red wine I used a cabernet sauvignon.
6 ounces vodka I used Pearl Vodka
8 ounces cherry limeade
8 ounces pomegranate juice
1/4 cup sugar
1 Kiwi, peeled and diced
2 Oranges, cut into large pieces with rind
1 lime, sliced into thick pieces with rind
10 strawberries, quartered
2 pears, peeled and sliced very thin
1 mango, peeled and cut into smaller pieces without seed
Mix all the ingredients together in a large container that you can place in the refrigerator overnight. When you are ready to serve spoon out some of the fruit into a glass then pour in the liquid. Serve, but not too much, the fruit will take a lot of the alcohol taste away so this drink will sneak up on you if you’re not careful. If you have too much then let someone else drive, call a cab, or just stay the night where you are enjoying this drink.
Enjoy,
Eric
Looks like Sangria is popular…..….this one’s for my wife
