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Roasted Chicken with a Mango/Togarashi Glaze with Ginger Rice and Yellow Bell/Carrot Topper

May 6, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I had some of that honey mango puree leftover from the scallop “carpaccio” so I decided to make it into a glaze to put on some chicken. ”Wow Eric, you’re like McGyver in the kitchen without things going all explody time. The glaze started off with a little chicken stock then I reduced it, added togarashi, added cornstarch then finally added the honey mango puree. I used the glaze on the chicken and to cook the carrots and yellow bell […]

Categories: Chicken, Rice, Vegetable • Tags: Blog, Chicken, Cooking Blog, Food, Ginger, Honey Mango, Mango, Rice, Roasting, Vegetable

Scallop “Carpaccio” with Honey Mango Puree and Pickled Mango Relish

May 5, 2010 by ericriveracooks

This is a good one!!!!!! I have been on a great ride over the last 24 hours. A lot of great things have happened and the best thing is that I don’t feel like it’s over or even close to accomplishing my goals. I’ll get into more details soon but for now just enjoy this little plate of awesome. I took some scallops and thinly sliced them then “cooked” them in an orange juice and lime mixture. The […]

Categories: Seafood • Tags: aji dulce, Cooking Blog, Food, Honey Mango, Mango, Onions, Pickled, Scallops

Fall Apart Pork Lettuce Wraps with Cilantro Lime Rice and Pickled Delights

April 25, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Read something, get inspired, make something your own. I am obsessed with David Chang’s Momofuku book. It’s given me a great jump start into the crazy world of pickling and he has taught me to never look back at the food I made a month ago, yesterday, or right now. He talks about how people question his motives for putting out his secrets in a cookbook and he simply responds by saying he’s going to move forward….good stuff. Well, he […]

Categories: Pork • Tags: Blog, Cilantro, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Lettuce Wrap, Lime, Mango, Pork, Pulled Pork, recipe, Rice

This week in……Will……It……..Pickle?!?!?!

April 25, 2010 by ericriveracooks

My assault on the world of pickling continues. The other day I was reading the ingredients to a Thai sweet chili sauce that I really like and I noticed something amazing…….. “pickled red chili”. TO THE PICKLING CAVE!!! I made a little base then pickled them there red chili’s. Day 2 and they are starting to get sweeter than the hot fire they were before….I spit hot fire. Anyway, so yes! It pickles! Such is mango. I was at Fresh […]

Categories: Technique, Vegetable • Tags: Carrot, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Mango, Pickling, recipe, Sweet Chili

That’s not a mango. This is a mango!

July 17, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) E-mail from my mom: “My cousin Annette and her husband Eli came over last Saturday to visit us and he made for breakfast a fruit salad with delicious fruits from here (Puerto Rico). Look at the size of the mango he brought. We made goulash soup with things he brought from Germany. He goes to Germany quite often and game me some of the tomato paste, mustard and mayonaise that comes in tubes. […]

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Cooking, Dinner, Huge Food, Mango, Puerto Rico, recipe

You know what I’ve been doing while I’m here??

May 19, 2009 by ericriveracooks

I’ve been making batches and batches of this mango-pineapple dressing. It’s mango and pineapple season here so my mom’s friend, Gloria, asked me to make her some. I’ve had a few people try it and they have been blown away. The fruit here is so good that it takes this dressing to a whole new level. My mom’s friend brought a bunch of mangoes and pineapples and I have created a factory inside my mom’s kitchen. 2 gallons later, mango-pineapple […]

Categories: Salad, Sauce • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Dressing, Mango, Pineapple, recipe, Salad

Panko Crusted Chicken Salad with a Mango Pineapple Dressing

May 11, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Lots of stuff going on here, I realize that. This is definitely one of those cases where I tried to do too much but it still tasted great. I think I was more worried about presentation, the taste was amazing. Ingredients: Chicken- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts Flour with tarragon, parsley, garlic salt, and ground yellow mustard seed 1 egg, whipped Panko Crust Place the chicken breast in the flour, then in the […]

Categories: Chicken, Salad, Sauce • Tags: Chicken, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Dressing, Heirloom, Mango, Panko Crusted, Pineapple, recipe, Salad, tomato

Mindy’s Papaya Mango Salsa

April 12, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Mindy is my wife and she made this fantastic salsa! Ingredients: 1/2 papaya, seeds thrown away and inside scooped out to make its own serving dish 2 large mangoes, peeled and diced 4 jalapenos with seeds removed (you can leave the seeds in for additional spice……this is Mindy making it, not me) 1/4 bunch of cilantro 1 white onion, diced 1 yellow bell pepper 1 red bell pepper 1 tomato, diced Diced all […]

Categories: Appetizer, Salsa • Tags: Mango, Papaya, recipe, Salsa

Mango Salsa

February 3, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Such is Mango. Ingredients: -1 green bell pepper -1 large mango -1/2 bunch cilantro -3 plum tomatoes -4 jalapenos (if you would like to take some of the heat off then remove the seeds and don’t add to mixture) -1 green olive -2 limes. Zest them then pour juice in mixture -Zest from a medium orange -1 tsp. cayenne pepper -1 tsp. salt -1 tsp. sugar Take about 1/4 of each ingredient and place in a blender, liquify. Dice the […]

Categories: Salsa, Vegetarian • Tags: Mango, Mango Salsa, recipe, Salsa, Vegetarian

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