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Explore Taste: Episode #2
Eric
Categories: Explore Taste • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, San Juan Islands
Explore Taste: Episode 1
Eric
Categories: Explore Taste • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, San Juan Islands
Ocean Floor version 1
Eric
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food
Extracts
What do you need to do this? Use vodka or better yet, everclear. Depending on what you choose you can simply weigh it all out, can it cold, and place in the refrigerator for a few days then strain and you got yourself a nice bit of extract for sauces, marinating, baking, or whatever. Some lend themselves better to going sous vide for about three to four hours. So get to work, there are tons of crazy extracts […]
Categories: Alcohol • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe
Sardines
Then pack them lightly in salt, reserve them in an airtight container, rinse, and make something fun. Take the heads and spines and make a stock with them then add a great tomato sauce and fold into rice. Pretty damn good, I grew up on that. Eric
Categories: Seafood • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Sardine
Fried Skate Wing, Preserved Lemon, Fermented Chili Flake
Needs a lot of refining in the presentation department but all of the flavors are there. Hope to do this a few more times this month and have it look up to snuff. Eric
Categories: Seafood • Tags: Blog, Chili Flake, Cooking Blog, Food, Preserved Lemon, Skate Wing
Smoked Gouda Potato Gratin
Saw these little containers from Le Creuset and they were $20 a pop…..found something like them at World Market for $4, just like that, gratin time! Eric
Categories: Potatoes, Starches • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food, Potato, recipe, Smoked Gouda
Fermentation Projects: Orange/Cream Liqueur
Saw it on Gizmodo, thought I would give it a try. It’s equal parts sugar, vodka, and whole milk. It’s flavored with two oranges and a meyer lemon. Takes a couple of weeks to be amazing. Eric
Categories: Fermentation • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Fermentation, Food, recipe
Short Rib, Squash, Celeriac, Onion
Eric
Categories: Proteins • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Short Rib.