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Category Archives: Random Rants
S to the C O Double T to Join MC. An OG From JCG! Respect!
Congratulations Scott! You’re gonna kick ass for Modernist Cuisine. I still think you should get this tattooed on your knuckles. Congrats!!!! Click Eric
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Modernist Cuisine, Scott Heimendinger
Roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad Trip, Yeah.
It’s green. Now it’s not. The sun sets. Emo forest. I showed up and it turned into a party rock! “Go east my Washington Son”. Huh. 30 more random signs later. Probably 75 more signs, all random. OK, I’LL STOP!!!! On the road again Not a turn in sight. Windows background Sunset Spamcation My kind of town. My parents are going to love this. SQUIRREL!!! Just waiting on Mindy and Blue to get here so we can go on our […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Chicago, Dinner, Food, Photos, recipe, Restaurant, Road Trip
Happy 10 Year Anniversary Mindy!!!
Thanks for being my best friend, wife, and for being the person that supports me the most with all the crazy things I want to do. Thanks for being the ultimate taste tester and for being the person that pushed me to pursue this whole cooking thing. Thanks for being my experimental gardener and for helping me find “new” ingredients to work with. Thanks for understanding all the crazy hours that I work and for being my biggest fan when […]
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Check me out on nwxposure.com
The crew at nwxposure.com came over to my house and did an interview about me. Pictured above is one of the dishes I did, they have the pictures of other dishes I cooked up for them so go check it out! nwxposure.com (click) Thanks again nwxposure!
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, nwxposure.com, recipe, website
Testing
Need my blog to be more “on the go”. Posting from my phone…… Eric
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: testing
DList Magazine “Chef of the Future”
Dlist Magazine here in Seattle did a Q&A with me and it ran in their 51st issue called, “The Future Issue”. In it they called me “chef of the future” which is a tremendous honor. Also in the magazine is one of my favorite restaurants, Spur, and a very cool information about canning from Kathy Casey. Also, the best ever, Seattle Food Geek! Lots of good stuff so check it out for yourself online (click here for link then click […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, DList Magazine, ericriveracooks, Food, recipe
More Projects……
That’s a nettle gelee using agar and gelatine…noma style. They use a parsely gelee using the same method then roll it around a razor clam. I rolled it around a pear emulsion. Did a bit of pickling. Purple asparagus/sea bean, sweet peppers, pickles, and broccoli rabe Been practicing plating with play dough. Smoked some salt Dehydrated some scallops and halibut so I can make an XO sauce. Dehydrated soy sauce Working on my pasta. There are lots of […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe
Recent Projects…..
Things have been pretty crazy lately but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t stopped cooking or anything. If anything, this blog thing is a way for me to slow down a little bit and catch my breath. So here’s a little update of what I’ve been up to lately. (happy onion) I’ve been working on a pho broth lately and I have it nailed now. It started with using the Modernist Cuisine book for a little inspiration. They used a […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Restaurant
A few projects…..
I’ve been working on a few things lately. Above is a picture of a marudaizu glazed pork belly spring roll with pickled vegetables and fried wonton wrapper for crunch. This is an unfiltered chili oil made from japones chillies. I like how cloudy it is and it will be a nice thing to plate with and will give a dish an extra little kick. That’s a naga viper harissa. The hottest harissa in the world. :) These are […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, recipe, Restaurant
Working on some things.
I have a couple things I’m working on right now that won’t see the light of day for a while but I want to give you a little peak inside the madness. The picture above is of a sand idea I’m working on. The picture is a tribute piece to where I’ll be working at in less than two months and the recipe for the sand itself is pretty close to theirs. The idea that I’m working on is an […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, recipe, Restaurant
The Sriracha Projects
My lemongrass crystal turned out to be amazing so I decided to step up my “crystal” game a little more by this time doing a sriracha crystal which will be ready in about 3 weeks. Here is a picture of the lemongrass crystal. I wanted to do something else with sriracha so I am infusing a salt that will be ready in about a week. Instead of just squeezing from the bottle you can just season your food with sriracha […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Hot Sauce, recipe, Sriracha
Naga Viper
I like playing with fire. Spicy food is something that I really love and there aren’t many people out there that share that same passion for spicy food as I do. Sure, there are people that say, “I like spicy food”, and then I cook them something and they can’t handle it because it’s “TOOOOOOOO SPICY”. I back down from the level of spicy kick now when I cook for people who want spicy food then they say, “Well, […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Ghost Chili, Naga Viper, recipe
Two Years Later…………
The second anniversary of this blog was a few days ago and if this was a year ago I would have been all over that but I have a few things going on. That feels really great to say that because when I started this blog I was trying to find a way out of my previous business and I used to use this blog as a place to release my ideas and show my exciting new food discoveries. There […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Restaurant
