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Marcona Almond Butter & Chocolate
Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Blog, Chocolate, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Dinner, Food, Marcona Almond, recipe
Dehydrated Peppers and Other Projects
I dehydrated these peppers (click) in the oven. It took about 16 hours at 170F. I have some chocolate bars, bon bons, and truffles coming down the pipeline. I should have the rest of the equipment by next Wednesday so look out for crazy flavor combinations and lots o’ chocolatey goodness. Eric
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking Blog, Dehydrating, Dinner, Food, Peppers, recipe
Ballard Seafood Fest, Chocolate, West Seattle Rocks!
Had a chance to run around to a few different places over the weekend. We don’t get too many sunny days in Seattle so when we have a chance to exploit those days we go for broke. The weekend started off with going over to Ballard for their annual seafood festival. I work at a seafood restaurant right now so whatever techniques, tips, or just anything I can pick up from someone slinging some seafood then I’m in. The place […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Ballard Seafood Festival, California Avenue, Chocolate, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Seattle, West Seattle
Chocolate Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dark chocolate outside with a dark chocolate ganache on the inside Dark chocolate shell with a white chocolate and raspberry liqueur Spiked Dark Chocolate Truffle with Hazelnut and Brandy Ganache Dark Chocolate with White Chocolate Raspberry Ganache Dark Chocolate with White Chocolate Raspberry Liqueur. Dark Chocolate with powdered green food coloring. All version 1.0. Eric
Categories: Baking & Pastry, Dessert • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking, Dark Chocolate, Dessert, Food, Ganache, recipe, Truffle
Hot Chocolate Version 2.0
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 […]
Categories: Dessert, Drinks • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking Blog, Food, Hot Chocolate, recipe, Sugar, Threaded Sugar
Poached Pear Covered with White Chocolate and Shredded Semi-Sweet Chocolate
Poach it, cover it in chocolate, shock it, eat it. That’s all I’m saying. Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, Pear, Poached Pear, recipe
Monday Night Dinner
I need to buy a presentation pan for fish…..yikes! Anyway, cooked some dinner up last night while I’m on my little break between quarters. I just need to keep up the practice so it doesn’t really matter who is there to eat it or not. The good thing is that there were people there to eat the food I made so that’s a plus! They left full and happy…..actually, they didn’t leave because it was for my wife and roommates…haha. […]
Categories: Becoming A Chef: Blogging about Culinary School, Dinner, Random Rants • Tags: Chocolate, Dinner, Pasta, Salmon, Soup
Chocolopolis: Seattle, WA
Chocolopolis, in Queen Anne, has been open for a little over year. It’s a chocolate boutique style store that Mindy and I stopped at after dinner at the 5 Spot’s Puerto Rican pig roast (more on that in a minute). What kind of chocolate do they have? Pretty much everything and anything you can think of. There are lots of great flavor combinations and each little variation of chocolate has its own design…..it’s amazing! Check out this video of their […]
Categories: Recommended Places to Shop • Tags: Chocolate, Chocolopolis, Cooking Blog, Food, Food Blog, recipe, Seattle
Who wants more on their smores?
A nice mix of raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries should do the trick! Enjoy, Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking, Cooking Blog, gingerbread cookie, marshmallow, recipe, Smore
