Category Archives: Sauce
Saute of Brussels Sprouts Tossed in Rosemary Cream Sauce with Crushed Almonds
Eric
Categories: Produce, Sauce • Tags: Blog, Brussels sprout, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe
Lobster Mushroom and Pancetta with Descending Romanesco Broccoli
Pretty creative stuff at 2AM. I get off of work late….I cook things when I get home. The yellow dots are an emulsified butternut squash puree. The romanesco broccoli is cooked sous vide with salt, pepper, and a touch of contadina. The tower is composed of lobster mushrooms cooked in pancetta fat with pancetta lardons spread throughout. Saute of frisee with leeks, and gold beets. It’s topped with a small salad of arugula and pickled shaved fennel. Eric
Categories: Pork, Produce, Sauce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Food, Gold Beet, Lobster Mushroom, Pancetta, recipe, Sauce
Dinner, my place. Seafood Extravaganza
Practice makes perfect! Had some friends over the night for dinner and since I have one night a week to cook dinner at home I went all out. A couple dungeness crabs as you can see above. Some spot prawns. A collection of fun things from Mindy’s garden. and off to work I go. First up was Kumamoto Oysters with sauce Mignonette and a Japones Chili Oil Vinaigrette that was infused with green onions using Nitrogen Cavitation. Next up was […]
Categories: Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Crab, Dinner, Food, Oysters, recipe, Seafood, Spot Prawns
Wanna Play Chicken?
I use chicken as a practice protein for ideas I have. It’s inexpensive because I buy a whole chicken then just break it down myself and then go from there….stocks are made, nice little airline breasts, dark meat for braising and whatever else I can make into a meal. In the picture above I’m getting ready to work with duck in the near future but duck is expensive so for now I wanted to see how it would work with […]
Categories: Chicken, Sauce • Tags: Blog, Chicken, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe
House-Cured Pancetta, Egg Yolk, Avocado, Tomato, and Hearts of Palm
Tomatoes from Mindy! That’s the pancetta I’ve been working on for a month resting on top of a quick poached egg yolk….when the yolk is broken it flows over the other items on the plate. The pancetta is rendered then I worked that fat into the avocado puree. There’s more to it but I won’t bore you with you details. Eric
Categories: Eggs, Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Avocado, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Hearts of Palm, Pancetta, recipe
Ossobuco
I don’t care if this is the traditional way to do this or what not. This is the Eric way. I took some veal shanks and then tied them, seared them in bacon fat, braised them in veal stock (not worth trying unless you make your own….) with carrots, onions, leeks, shallots, pickled brown and pickled yellow mustard seeds, cloves, and cinnamon. I used tarragon, rosemary, candied meyer lemon peel, green peppercorns, and thyme as additional herbs and spices. When […]
Categories: Beef, Sauce, Starches • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Couscous, Dinner, Food, Ossobuco, recipe, Veal, Veal Shank, Veal Stock
Pickled Red Chili Pepper/Honey Glazed Chicken and more…..
Here’s a little of what’s going on here. I did a soy/ginger/shallot/sesame seed sous vide of some of Mindy’s carrots and some green beans. I brined the chicken in rice vinegar, sugar, and ginger. I removed the chicken from the brine then did a hard sear of the skin then through it in the oven and basted it with a pickled red chili pepper and honey glaze that I made. When then chicken was about to be finished I through […]
Categories: Chicken, Rice, Sauce • Tags: Chicken, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Rice
When In Doubt…..TACO PARTY!!!!!
Audrey and Dan came over to our place in West Seattle so I decided to cook a few things for them. Audrey loves spicy food and so do I so it was me and her versus Dan and Mindy and the cook always wins so spicy was the theme! Adobo spiced cheddar cheese Fried Corn with a brown butter chipotle sauce……Trying to perfect my technique for work! Pique Coleslaw! U.S. Wild Caught Shrimp in a pickled red pepper sauce with […]
Categories: Sauce, Seafood, Vegetable • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Ghost Chili, recipe, Rice, Sauce, Taco
Painted Hills Ribeye with Chanterelle Demi-Sauce, Fingerling Mash, and More!
That is a sexy piece of meat. I purchased it at Rain Shadow Meats (click) which is in the Melrose Market on Capitol Hill in Seattle. I have a friend that works there and he has been telling me to check it out for some time so I did! I’ll have a follow up post to it next week because I intend to go there again this weekend…..it’s an amazing place. This is my first attempt at sous vide […]
Categories: Beef, MindyRiveraFarms, Sauce, Steak • Tags: Blog, Chanterelle, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Salad, Sauce, Sous Vide, Steak
Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon with Opal Basil/Kalamata Olive Puree, Beans!, and Salmon Chicharron
Sockeye salmon skin is taken off the fish then deep fried and topped with salt and pepper when it comes out. Salmon is sauted skin side down (skin was removed at this point, just giving you detailes) then placed in the oven to finish. The opal basil and kalamata olive puree has a little bit of white wine vinegar, olive oil, and herbs. The beans are three different colors…..yellow, green, and purple (purple lost its color but I intend to […]
Categories: Beans, Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Green Beans, Kalamata, Oh my!, Opal Basil, Purple Beans, recipe, Sockeye Salmon, Yellow Beans
Herbed Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossoms with Macerated Peach Sauce
The squash blossoms, goat cheese, and peaches are from the West Seattle Farmers market. Peaches are macerated in PX S’orange then blended, strained, and made a little tighter with agar. The squash blossoms are cleaned, blanched, shocked, drained, stuffed then warmed in the oven then topped with sel de mer. The goat cheese is herbed with herbs from MindyRiveraFarms. Eric Thanks for the plates Bonnie and Bruce!!!
Categories: Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food, Goat Cheese, Sauce, Sel de mer, Squash Blossom
Donutpalooza
I am not a baker but I like donuts and I had a few ideas for glazes and sauces to put on them so I called in my future pastry chef to help me out with this whole donut problem I was having (long sentence!). Ellen Benezra is pretty damn good at what she does. She’s crazy like me when it comes to cooking stuff so it was only natural that we worked together on this donutpalooza thing. She is […]
Categories: Baking & Pastry, Sauce • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Donut, Donutpalooza, Food, Glaze, recipe
Sauces, Spreads, and More Projects
This is a cherry wood smoked tomato base sauce. This is my pique sauce before straining. This is a Rainier Cherry syrup. I have a special dessert planned…..when I get around to it. These are diced cherry wood smoked Walla Walla onions. I’m going to make a relish from this that will go on a fish dish. This is a molasses ghost chili sauce. Sweet and f’ing hot…..just like me…. not really Took some pickled mustard seeds (brown and yellow) […]
Categories: Sauce • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Next time you have a sauce and spread company let me worry about making the sauces.....not about selling the product, recipe, Sauce, Spread
