Recipes By Coco Et Cocoa
10 recipes found
Stronger-Than-Tea Ice Cream
An ultra creamy and firm ice cream with intense orange pekoe flavour that you can smell even before it starts to melt on your tongue. Miles stronger than you cup of tea.
Slow Baked Salmon with Basil Pesto and a Sea of Herb Oil
This is my favourite thing to serve in the spring and summertime. The low temperature makes the salmon incredibly tender with an almost creamy texture. The low temperature also helps keep the oil bright and perky green - perfect for mopping up with bread, tossing with boiled fingerlings, or pasta. Unlike grilled or seared salmon leftovers which turn inedibly dry in the fridge, this one stays moist and tender for say, a sandwich with some pickled fennel and Boston lettuce the next day.
Anchovy Buttered Cabbage
A small plate of handmade northern Italian pasta, bigoli en salsa, that I had at North and Navy inspired this concoction. The salsa originally consists of stewing pounds of white onions with olive oil, anchovies, and white wine until creamy. While it's a no-brainer to sub butter for olive oil, I'm not sure how I ended up using cabbage in place of onions and garlic instead of white wine. Anyhow, it ended up being two of the best decisions I've made in the kitchen.
Nakedly Steak
If you have salt, a slab of beef, and 4 days, you're in for a meaty treat. This recipe yields the perfect Steak: intense flavor, caramelize crust.
Black and White Tofu
Caution: contains century egg, the source of umami so intense that most cannot handle. Proceed at your own discretion. Also, it's dangerously addictive.
Smashed Cucumber Salad in a Jar
This is one of the first things I make as soon as anything remotely resembling summer hits. It's a cross between a pickle and a salad really, since it only takes a couple of hours for the flavours to develop from start to finish. Have it with your favorite Asian saucy noodles, dumplings, even pork belly baos (I've shared a recipe for that too).
Scallion Dry Ramen
Practically bare naked, the scallions are completely transformed into sweet bits of caramelized umami by the frying, and believe me (for your own benefit) when I say that this is simplicity at its best.
Pig Pulled Over
This recipe serves 16, so living on my own it means two weeks of pulled pork sandwich for lunch. But when each subsequent sandwich surpasses the previous, that can hardly pose a problem.The choice of fruit juice is arbitrary, but I like mango because it reduces into the richest glaze. This method of making coleslaw is inspired by the Taiwanese pickling technique of first making a vinegar simple syrup, then pouring the hot syrup over the vegetables and letting it sit for three days. The result is something incredibly flavourful with a gutsy balance of acidity to cut through the pork’s fattiness.
Sweet Corn Panna Cotta with Chilled Pea Veloute
This Pea Veloute recipe is made by the lowliest of vegetables - canned corn and frozen peas. But it's become my favourite summertime soup. Serve with sourdough.
Strawberry Hard Ice Cream
The high sugar content of the condensed milk and the pectin in the strawberries is what keeps the ice cream smooth. Do add that extra splash of vanilla, which gives it that old-school ice cream parlour oomph. You don't need an ice cream machine, but you do need a powerful blender for this to work.