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Puerto Rican Cuisine: Plan B

February 24, 2011 by ericriveracooks

I was supposed to teach a Puerto Rican cooking class last night but the weather decided it wanted to take control of the fun and excitement so the people that run the shop where I was going to cook decided to reschedule because of the threat of snow.   The forecasters said anywhere between 1-8″ of snow would fall so this freaked the hell out of everyone and well……SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING.   There was one problem with this, I was […]

Categories: Beef, Duck, Pork, Puerto Rican Style, Seafood • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Puerto Rican Cuisine, Puerto Rico, recipe, Restaurant

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Red Wine Gastrique Glazed Pork Belly with Marudaizu Soil

February 16, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Pork • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Gastrique, Pork Belly, recipe

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Soy Brined Navel Orange

February 16, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Produce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food Blog, Orange, recipe, Soy

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A few projects…..

February 16, 2011 by ericriveracooks

    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

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Happy Valentine’s Day.

February 14, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Micro Greens, recipe, Valentine's Day

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5 Spice Pancetta…..in three weeks.

February 11, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Charcuterie • Tags: 5 spice, Blog, Cooking Blog, Food, Food Blog, Pancetta, recipe

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Dehydration Station:

February 11, 2011 by ericriveracooks

I got a screaming deal on a brand new Excalibur 4 tray dehydrator on eBay and over the past few days I’ve been dehydrating everything in site.   The bottom tray has black trumpet mushrooms and the top tray has orange slices (I want to see how long the quartered slices take rather than the round slices…..I have a ton of oranges at the house so why not try it all). I pickled some ginger the other day….then I dehydrated […]

Categories: Technique • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dehydration, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, recipe

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Grow!!!! Grow!!!!!!! GROW!!!!!!!!!

February 9, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking Blog, Food, Food Blog, Gardening

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Working on some things.

February 8, 2011 by ericriveracooks

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

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Turnip and Beet Soup with Fried Parsley Oil

February 7, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Produce • Tags: Beet, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Fried, Fried Parsley Oil, Oil, Parsley, recipe, Turnip

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Beet, Carrot, Turnip

February 7, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Turnip puree, frozen beet green, butter poached carrot, butter poached beet discs, fried beet stalk, julienne of espresso pear crisp, fried parsley oil. Eric

Categories: Produce • Tags: Beet, Carrot, Cooking Blog, Food, Food Blog, Poaching, recipe

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MindyRiveraFarms: Season 3- 24/7

February 6, 2011 by ericriveracooks

It’s around 12:30AM right now. I just got home and the fun is not going to stop any time soon.   Mindy just planted her third season of plants for me and this year is going to be very special.  I would like to use micro greens in my dishes a lot more but we ran into some problems….I was using them faster than we could grow them and I didn’t have time to use them.   After brainstorming a […]

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Gardening, Micro Greens, recipe, Urban Gardening

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Lechon Kawali

February 3, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Brined, then braised, then pressed, then deep-fried and served with pickled japones chayote, banana sauce, sweet chili sauce, and black lava salt. Eric

Categories: Pork • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Lechon Kawali, recipe

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Micro Green Convenience Store

February 2, 2011 by ericriveracooks

This is the super ghetto version of what it will end up being one day but as long as the plants are happy then that’s all I care about. Happy plants!!!! Eric

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, Gardening, Plants, recipe

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Sriracha Salt

February 2, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Sauce • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Food Blog, recipe, Salt

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