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Strawberry Sorbet with Reduced Balsamic Vinegar

April 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Buy some strawberries from West Seattle produce.  Make a puree, have your sister strain the puree. Combine it with a meyer lemon fructose base.  Put it in the ice cream maker then wait.  Drizzle glass with reduced balsamic then spoon some sorbet in, do back flips, be awesome, move onto the next dish. Eric

Categories: Dessert • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, Sorbet, Strawberry

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Jet City Gastrophysicists: Dry Ice Time!

April 6, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Those crazy faux food scientists (Scott, Jethro, and me) got together for another meeting to try and blow ourselves up in the kitchen by using SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our first was meeting was pretty much that.  We hadn’t really spent much time together talking about what we wanted to do or where we wanted to go in this world of food science.  The possibilities are endless.  Bringing the world of science into the galaxy of food is something that you will be […]

Categories: Molecular Gastronomy • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dry Ice, Food, Molecular Gastronomy, recipe, Sorbet

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Ice Cream, Sorbet, Flan, and other delights

March 16, 2010 by ericriveracooks

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

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Elderflower/Meyer Lemon/Vanilla Bean Sorbet

March 12, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Course #4.   Where do I get Elderflower from?  Don’t ask, let’s just say it’s from a place where you would least expect it.  Hilarious. I’m into this whole sorbet thing.   I have been going back and forth with flavor ideas. I stopped trying to conquer the world and just went simple.  This little sorbet is f’ing amazing. Eric You probably want a recipe for this…..  Not going to happen.

Categories: Dessert • Tags: Cooking Blog, Elderflower, Food, Sorbet

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