June | 2009 | Eric Rivera's Cooking Blog

How do you say I love you? With food of course. Chad’s first submission to ericriveracooks!

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHAD MARTIN, BEST BOYFRIEND EVER…..ACCORDING TO SHAUNA Shauna, a good friend of mine, started dating Chad a few months ago and she told me that he loved food, so obviously he was good in my book! I had no idea how excited he was about his culinary creations. There was one night where he emailed me about how to use some ingredients and I said, “don’t worry…..if you mess up then just add hot sauce to it”. […]

Categories: Dessert • Tags: angel food cake, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, puree, recipe, Strawberry

F.B.O.T.M- Breadplusbutter.blogspot.com= Baked Stuffed Chicken With POM Sauce

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

PHOTO COURTESY OF BREADPLUSBUTTER.BLOGSPOT.COM The month is almost over so I have to say bye to June’s Food Blogger of the Month. It was very fun looking at every recipe you have cranked out of the past month. Jenn’s blog is growing more and more each day and she has a ton of fans that are eagerly awaiting her next post. I will always be one of them and I thank her for inspiring me to keep this thing going! […]

Categories: Food Blogger of The Month • Tags: Breadplusbutter.blogspot.com

Daddy, where does hummus come from?!?!?!

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(I hope this works….by the way, I do work for Sound Bites so if this is a little biased then deal with it) Yesterday, Rich and Steve from Sound Bites, took us all to Eastern Washington to show us where our hummus comes from. It was an early departure because the farms that produce our beans, seeds, and oil are about 2 1/2 hours away from the store where all the hummus is made (Tacoma, WA). Before I go too […]

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Après Vin, Central Bean, Einkorn, Emmer, Grape Seed Oil, Grapes, Hummus, Lentz Spelt Farms, Sound Bites, Spelt, Vineheart, wine

Pork Slaw Sandwich

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

What to do with so much pork? Oh, I have some ideas! You take a little bit of this CLICK and a little bit of this CLICK Combine together on a hoagie then you get this…….

Categories: Pork, Sandwich • Tags: Cooking, Dinner, Food, Pig, Pork, Pork Sandwich, recipe, Sandwich, Slaw

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Pernil (Eric’s Way)

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) I’ve been receiving a few comments regarding the authenticity of my “Puerto Rican Recipes”. Let me just cut to the chase. I’m Puerto Rican…..these are my recipes……I don’t care if they’re traditional or not so stop bothering me about it. I cook things the way I want them to be and like I have said a thousand times, every Puerto Rican recipe is different from person to person. That’s one of the reasons […]

Categories: Pork, Puerto Rican Style, Sauce • Tags: Achiote, Annatto, Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Ham, Pernil, Pork, Pork Shoulder, recipe

Fava Bean Pasta

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Lots of layers, textures, and tastes to this. This is an instant hit. Ingredients: Sauce 3 carrots, peeled and sliced thin 4 celery stalks, sliced thin 1/2 sweet onion 2 fresh garlic cloves, sliced thin 3 tomatoes on the vine, keep the vine because you’re going to throw it into the sauce Fresh rosemary Fresh thyme Fresh oregano (Place rosemary, thyme, and oregano in a tea infuser) 1/2 tbsp. Urfa Biber (or black […]

Categories: Pasta • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Fava Bean, Fava Bean Pasta, Pasta, recipe, Sauce

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Sesame Slaw

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) I’m hooked on vinaigrettes lately if you couldn’t tell. I was growing tired of the old Ranch and Mayonnaise on everything attitude so I’m trying to develop a few new substitutes. This isn’t Eric going healthy because I always have a happy balance point. Also, you see the picture of that sandwich……I’ll post a little more information about that soon. Ingredients: 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup white distilled vinegar 5 drops sesame […]

Categories: Sauce • Tags: Coleslaw, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Sesame, Slaw

Chorizo Whiskey Burgers

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

You can’t go wrong with this burger. Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs. chorizo 2 lbs. ground beef 2 tbsp. molasses 2 eggs 2 tbsp. paprika 2 tbsp. salt 1/4 stick melted butter 1 tbsp. garlic salt 3 ounces whiskey Mix all ingredients together in a bowl then form into patties. Grill it to desired doneness. Serve. Enjoy, Eric

Categories: Beef • Tags: Burger, Chorizo, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Whiskey

Salad with a Grapefruit Chardonnay Vinaigrette

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Thanks to the folks over at Apres Vin for the bottle of Grapefruit Chardonnay Grape Seed Oil Ingredients: Vinaigrette Grapefruit Chardonnay Grape Seed Oil (Apres Vin) Distilled White Vinegar Fresh Thyme Fresh Rosemary Garlic Salt 1 tsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. salt Salad Red Leaf Lettuce Butterhead Lettuce Sugar Snap Peas 2 strips bacon cooked Shredded Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese (tillamook) Black Pepper You know how to make a salad…………… Eric

Categories: Salad, Sauce • Tags: Après Vin, Cooking, Dinner, Dressing, Food, Grape Seed Oil, recipe, Salad

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Mindy’s Tomatillo Salsa

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

My wife makes a pretty damn good salsa Ingredients: 1 roasted red bell pepper 1 lb. stewed tomatillos 1/3 sweet onion 1 red bell pepper, not roasted 4 jalapenos 1 Anaheim Chili Dice all ingredients In blender: 1/3 sweet onion 2 tomatoes 3 garlic cloves salt vinegar Blend all these ingredients together then pour over diced ingredients. Eric

Categories: Salsa, Sauce • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Pepper, recipe, Salsa, Tomatillo, Tomatillo Salsa

Tapechurri Sauce

June 30, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) It’s a mixture between a tapenade and a chimichurri. I couldn’t think of a better name so this is what you get for now! Ingredients: Fresh Parsley Fresh Oregano Fresh Aji Dulce (sweet pepper) Sweet Onion Fresh Garlic Black Olives Capers Chives Olive Oil White Balsamic Vinegar Mix all ingredients together then serve over bread. I used an herb foccacia. Eric

Categories: Sauce • Tags: Chimichurri, Cooking, recipe, Sauce, Spread, Tapenade

Cooking is dangerous!!!

June 28, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Chicks dig scars!!!! AMIRITE?!?!?! I’ve had a pretty bloody, bruisy, and burny weekend. Lots of cooking and a little damage to the left arm. No problem though, it never stopped me from doing my thing. Picture #1 happened while I was chopping down the 175 lbs. of pork. Richard and I were sharing a cutting board and we were in cutting frenzy. My dumb ass reached over to get some pork on his […]

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Soon, my friend, soon……………

June 28, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Maximus/Minimus!!!!!

Categories: Street Food

Smoked Chicken Thigh

June 27, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Richard got a smoker for his birthday so we tested it out a couple weeks ago. This was also the same day I lost my camera so I finally found it and now am able to post these pictures! This was my first time smoking chicken thigh so I wasn’t sure how long I needed to cook it. It came out great and could have been cooked another 2 or 3 hours and […]

Categories: Chicken • Tags: Blog, Chicken Thigh, Cooking, Cooking Blog, recipe, Smoked Chicken, Smoker

Seattle Street Food: Marination!

June 27, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) I’m addicted to street food!!! I was meeting up with my wife to help her out before her promo in Seattle and on the way there I spotted was has become my new obsession, a street food truck!!! i was thinking in my head, “ok, drop this stuff off for Mindy then I have about 10 minutes to eat and head over to Bellevue to meet a friend for dinner”. Ruin dinner? Oh […]

Categories: Street Food • Tags: Cooking, Hawaii, Korea, Marination, Musubi, POG, Seattle, Slider, Spam, Street Food

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Monthly Archives: June 2009

How do you say I love you? With food of course. Chad’s first submission to ericriveracooks!

F.B.O.T.M- Breadplusbutter.blogspot.com= Baked Stuffed Chicken With POM Sauce

Daddy, where does hummus come from?!?!?!

Pork Slaw Sandwich

Pernil (Eric’s Way)

Fava Bean Pasta

Sesame Slaw

Chorizo Whiskey Burgers

Salad with a Grapefruit Chardonnay Vinaigrette

Mindy’s Tomatillo Salsa

Tapechurri Sauce

Cooking is dangerous!!!

Soon, my friend, soon……………

Smoked Chicken Thigh

Seattle Street Food: Marination!

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