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Some Pictures From Chicago

June 5, 2012 by ericriveracooks

Categories: Chicago • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Dinner, Food, recipe

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Explore Taste: Episode #2

March 13, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Explore Taste • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, San Juan Islands

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Explore Taste: Episode 1

March 12, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Explore Taste • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, San Juan Islands

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Ocean Floor version 1

February 27, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food

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Skirt Steak

February 22, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Beef, Steak • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Food, Skirt Steak, Steak

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Whitefish, Udon, and Smoked Pork Donabe

February 14, 2012 by ericriveracooks

  Prior to cooking. My first attempt and I’m a huge fan now.  You’ll be seeing lots more of this. Eric

Categories: Seafood • Tags: Donabe, Food, Pork, Udon, Whitefish

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Extracts

January 17, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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

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Sardines

January 16, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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

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Fermented Red Chili, Chicken, and Kimchi

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Chicken • Tags: Blog, Chicken, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Sriracha

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Fried Skate Wing, Preserved Lemon, Fermented Chili Flake

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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

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Fermentation Projects: Red Chili Flake

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

Ferment the chili flake first then I worked it into a simple syrup.  Hot, sour, and sweet….perfect. Eric

Categories: Fermentation • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Fermentation, Food, recipe

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Fermentation Projects: Rice Wine

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

I was at a store one day and I noticed those packages of dry yeast.  I had no idea what to do with them and bought them anyway because they were cheap.  When I got home I did a little research and now I’m in the rice wine making business, well nobody is buying and I’m not selling so I’ll just continue my private label activities. Eric

Categories: Fermentation • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Rice, wine

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Fermentation Projects: Dough

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

Dough + Water + leaving the dough out for a week and feeding it some flour and a little water every once in a while = awesome dough.  Make a pizza, make bread, or just stare at the bubbles in amazement. Eric

Categories: Fermentation • Tags: Cooking Blog, dough, Fermentation, Food

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Fermentation Projects: Kimchi

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

You don’t need to ferment kimchi but when you do it tastes so much more amazing (shrimp paste FTW!) Want a deeper flavor? Cavitate the liquid. Eric

Categories: Fermentation • Tags: Cooking Blog, Fermentation, Food, Kimchi, recipe

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Smoked Gouda Potato Gratin

January 3, 2012 by ericriveracooks

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

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