Marcona Almond Butter & Chocolate
Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Blog, Chocolate, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Dinner, Food, Marcona Almond, recipe
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Dinner…..my place.
Mini-rainbow carrots with concasse of heirloom grape tomatoes with cilantro oil vinaigrette (also from the garden), cherry wood smoked tomato vinaigrette, and topped with frisee flowers and sel de mer. Ciabatta bread toasted in brown butter with cherry wood smoked Walla Walla onions with melted Beecher’s cheese and topped with a veal stock butter sauce…..heavy on the butter….oh yes. Scallops seared in Mangalitsa Leaf Lard with a ghost chili/molasses reduction sauce with smoked tomato vinaigrette. Braised Mangalitsa Neck Roll over […]
Categories: MindyRiveraFarms, Pork, Seafood, Starches • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dessert, Dinner, Food, Mangalitsa, recipe, Scallops
Deep Fried Banana Spring Roll with Pineapple Coconut Warm Icing
Yes, I make desserts sometimes. Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Banana, Blog, Coconut, Cooking Blog, Deep Fried, Dessert, Food, Icing, recipe, Spring Roll, Sugar
It’s almost lunch time, it’s nice outside, you work in Seattle……GO TO SIP!
“Oh wow, this is nice.” It’s pretty awesome! Order a glass of rose and let’s just relax in the Seattle sun for the next few days….Ikea has sales more often than we get sun in Seattle. “What’s good on here?” Well, I’ve been here a few times and the menu doesn’t disappoint so let’s just pick random things. Vietnamese Caramel Beef sounds great! “I can’t believe this place is in downtown Seattle”. I know, but enough with the talking there […]
Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dessert, ericriveracooks, Food, Sip Seattle, wine
Blackberry Terrine
Had some blackberries lying around the house. He told me that he was going to go to the unemployment office today to see what job prospects were looking like. I told him that maybe he should consider going back to school, a B.A. in theater doesn’t really translate into the real world and Cats isn’t coming back no matter how many letters he writes to Andrew Lloyd Webber. Eric
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Blackberry, Blackberry Terrine, Blog, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, recipe, Terrine
Triple Chocolate Brownie with French Vanilla Ice Cream
I have a fascination with hot and cold food items together. When I was a little kid I used to love hot fudge sundaes, I still do but I don’t eat sweets as much as I did when I was a little kid. Sometimes I channel my inner childhood Eric and I want to try something like what you see above. It’s a triple chocolate brownie that I cooked in a muffin tin. Served hot for a reason. See that […]
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Brownie, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, French Vanilla Ice Cream, Ice Cream
Charlotte, I made you this Charlotte. Who is Charlotte? I don’t know! Stop yelling..
I had to do a little begging and pleading to attend Foodportunity the other night. It’s finals week so I asked my chef at school about a month ago if I could attend. She asked me to write a paper and make a Charlotte and I would be fine so that’s what I did. Charlotte’s are a classic dessert similar to a Tiramisu. It uses ladyfingers and Bavarian cream to get it’s point across along with some chantilly cream and […]
Categories: Baking & Pastry, Dessert • Tags: Bavarian Cream, Charlotte, Cooking, Dessert, Food, Ladyfinger, recipe, Strawberry
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
Ice Cream, Sorbet, Flan, and other delights
Here is a little picture dump of a few things I have been working on at school. Above is a mango/papaya/black pepper sorbet with a raspberry sauce on tuile. This is a coffee liqueur ice cream….again with raspberry sauce on tuile. This is a candy apple sorbet. I caramelized the sugar in the base then took a green apple puree. The next time I make this it will have a caramel sauce over the top and I will set the […]
Categories: Baking & Pastry, Dessert • Tags: Baking, Brittle, Cooking, Dessert, Flan, Food, Ice Cream, Pastry, Sorbet, Tuile
Dark Chocolate Powder
The mad scientist is working on a few things. Hi, my name is Eric and I’m going to be working on a few experiments in the kitchen. My first experiment is from the book “Modern Cafe”. It requires a little bit of equipment, precision, and general excitement on your part. “Eric, why the hell would I want to do this with food?” Shut up Mr. No Fun. This is awesome and I am going to add this to my arsenal […]
Categories: Dessert, Molecular Gastronomy • Tags: Canola, Dark Chocolate, Dessert, Food, Food Science, recipe, Tapioca Maltodextrine
Merlot Black Pepper Chocolate Truffle
How do you plate up chocolate? I don’t know! hahahahahaha This little bite of amazing has been brought to you by my entry into the world of chocolate making. I’ve made chocolate before on here but I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I know a little more but I still don’t know what the hell I’m doing. Knowing what the hell I’m doing….probably about 65%. Anyway, this little bite of amazing is great and I highly suggest […]
Categories: Dessert • Tags: Black Pepper, Chocolate Truffle, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, Merlot, recipe
More work with Puff Pastry and Phyllo Dough
Recipes were handed out in class. I have no idea where they came from. Chocolate Napoleon Ingredients: AP flour, for dusting 1 lb. puff pastry 1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar 1 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled 1 tsp. light corn syrup 1 to 2 tbsp. milk 2 tsp. Dutch-Process cocoa powder Chocolate pastry cream Procedure: On a lightly floured piece of parchment paper, roll out puff pastry to a 12 inch square, about 1/8 inch thick. Using a pastry cutter […]
Categories: Baking & Pastry • Tags: Baking, Baklava, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, Neopolitan, Pastry, Pastry Cream, Phyllo, Puff Pastry, recipe
I Phyllo so good….so good….I eat you! Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!
I should be running at full speed tomorrow. The modem should be here and I will be blogging faster than ever before. I have 5 posts just hanging out on the non-interwebs (what a very lonely and sad place). Until then, here is a picture of a Puff Pastry Napoleon, Phyllo Napoleon, and Apple Strusel Turnover. I have tons of recipes from this past week in class so stay tuned! Eric I feel nice…..like sugar and spice
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Baking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Filo, Food, Napoleon, Pastry, Phyllo, Puff Pastry, recipe, Turnover
Petit Fours Week
Pictured from left to right….Almond Cherry Florentine Dipped in Chocolate, Madeleine’s, Gerbet Macaroons. There are more recipes on the way so stay tuned while I get caught up with recipes throughout the day. This is going to be a great month! Almond Macaroons Ingredients: 2 ounces powdered almonds 4 ounces confectioner’s sugar 2 ounces, egg whites 5 1/2 tsp. fine granulated sugar 2 drops vanilla extract Procedure: Process the almonds and confectioner’s sugar in a food processor (FU FOOD PROCESSOR) […]
Categories: Baking & Pastry • Tags: Baking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Eclair, Florentine, Food, Individual Gateau S. Honore, Langue Du Chat, Macaroons, Madeleine's, Pastry, Pastry Cream, recipe
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
