Monthly Archives: March 2010

Kasu Marinated Sockeye Salmon

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Tracked down some kasu paste and proceeded to marinate some sockeye. I got this idea from the Coco book and after trying the dish with black cod st the Steelhead Diner I did a little more fact finding and found out that any type of fatty fish would work. The piece of fish you see above was marinated for 6 hours but I have 3 more pieces that will go to 24-36 hours in the marinade. I just want to […]

Categories: Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Ginger Oil, Kasu Paste, Seafood, Sockeye Salmon

Triple Chocolate Brownie with French Vanilla Ice Cream

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I have a fascination with hot and cold food items together. When I was a little kid I used to love hot fudge sundaes, I still do but I don’t eat sweets as much as I did when I was a little kid. Sometimes I channel my inner childhood Eric and I want to try something like what you see above. It’s a triple chocolate brownie that I cooked in a muffin tin. Served hot for a reason. See that […]

Categories: Dessert • Tags: Brownie, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dessert, Food, French Vanilla Ice Cream, Ice Cream

Ginger Oil

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Peel some ginger, slice it thin, place it in a glass container, pour some oil over it, use it on stuff. What stuff will I be using it on? You’ll see! Eric

Categories: Technique • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Ginger, Ginger Oil, Infused Oil, recipe

IxaRiveraCooks: Less words, more eating

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I would eat all of the food on the palm tree plate by myself. Mom, where did you get a palm tree plate? Pier Juan? hahahahahahahahahaahaahah Take it away mom! Hello my boy! Here is the little plate I made of appetizers we had the other day. The cheese is Manchego cheese. All of it goes well with Medalla beer, wine or whatever you feel like drinking. I don’t feel like writing any more. Just enjoy the view. LYA, Mom

Categories: IxaRiveraCooks • Tags: Cooking Blog, Empanada, Food, IxaRiveraCooks, Manchego, Serrano Ham

Chateaubriand with a Clarified Colbert Sauce, Lobster Mashed Potatoes, Sauteed Eggplant and Asparagus.

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Chateaubriand in the same style as this (click) but the sauce is clarified, I didn’t like the color the first time around so I fixed it. I seasoned the steak this time with Himalayan pink salt. The sauce was finished with a white truffle oil. The lobster mashed potatoes are a monster. Potatoes mashed, then a lobster stock is folded in with butter and heavy cream with a touch of Himalayan pink salt…..hit it with an immersion blender, wanted them […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Asparagus, Chateaubriand, Eggplant, Food, Lobster Mashed Potatoes, recipe, Truffle Oil

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Seared Scallops with a Pickled Mustard Seed Butter Sauce

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

In the middle of cooking dinner, friends are looking like the oysters weren’t enough, WHAT DO YOU DO?!?!?!?? I sear some scallops in bacon fat, make a sauce, garnish it with bacon, parsley, sel de mer, and keep it moving. NEXT COURSE!!! If you haven’t tried pickling mustard seeds yet then you really should start…..it’s f’ing amazing. Eric “Plating Snob” Rivera 2 of 3 Bob and Bonnie Dinner 3/30

Categories: Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Bacon Fat, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Pickled Mustard Seeds, recipe, Scallops

Fennel Salad with a Tarragon Vinaigrette. Again? Yes, again. Finally plated it how I wanted it to look

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Third time’s a charm or something like that. I went from high and tight to flat to high and tight with the plating on this one. This is the one that sticks for me. I quick pickled the shallots, used the same tarragon infused white wine vinegar, added some avocado for flavor and color, more radish, finished with Himalayan pink salt. Everything else is the same. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Eric 1 of 3 Bob and Bonnie Dinner 3/30

Categories: Salad, Vegetarian • Tags: Almonds, Avocado, Cooking Blog, Fennel, Food, Heirloom Tomato, recipe, Salad, Vinaigrette

Scrambled Egg, Chorizo Sauce, Breakfast Burrito…..YES PLEASE!!!!f

March 31, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Had a little chorizo left over from the other day so I decided to put it to good use. I don’t think there is a bad use for chorizo. Chorizo lip balm, chorizo pants, chorizo light-rail system, chorizo large hadron collider, chorizo long division, chorizo chorizo (a new boy band)……. Yeah, chorizo works with everything, especially breakfast burritos! Saute up yellow and red bell peppers with a bit of onion and clarified butter. Season with smoked paprika, salt, and pepper […]

Categories: Breakfast, Eggs, Pork, Sauce • Tags: Breakfast Burrito, Burrito, Chorizo, Chorizo Everything!!!!, Cooking Blog, Food

MindyRiveraFarms: Planting Day

March 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

How do you convert a small apartment into a full-scale farm for Eric? Mindy has you covered! Lay down some plastic on the table, put some dirt on it, plant things, then patiently wait. Mindy is in full farmer mode right now. She’s planting away and doing crazy things in order for me to have some things to cook. We make a great team! She grows, I cook, you eat/pay. If this ends up working out the way we want […]

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Farming, Food, Growing, Growing Food, Growing Vegetables, recipe, Vegetables

The Salad Plating Saga Continues…..

March 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’m taking a class next quarter that involves making salads. I want to get a leg up on the competition. Actually, I just want to make the best damn looking salads anyone has ever seen but I’m not there yet. This class will help me a lot but Mindy is helping me with all this by planting a bunch of vegetables that will part of my private reserve. You’ll see them on here soon, I’m making sure I can highlight […]

Categories: Salad, Vegetarian • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Cucumber, Food, recipe, Salad, tomato, Vinaigrette

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Random items

March 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

My sister and her husband invited me and Mindy over the other night. They were hungry, I cooked something. I wasn’t going over there to cook in the first place but that’s what I do when people are hungry, I cook. The difficulty with cooking at someone else’s house is that you don’t know what they do or don’t have. The difficulty with cooking at your sister’s house is that she is the opposite of me. She doesn’t cook at all […]

Categories: Chicken, Sauce • Tags: Chicken, Cooking Blog, Food, Noodles, recipe, Staff Meal, Stir Fry

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Pan Seared Albacore with Bell Pepper and Eggplant Cous Cous

March 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Fish was my first word in English. I’m obsessed with fish. I really can’t get enough of it and everytime I eat it it always feels like a new experience. Cooking fish is hard to do so I have been working my butt off to try and get it right. I have been reading a lot of Eric Ripert books (Return to Cooking, On the Line) lately to try and master cooking fish the right way along with the James […]

Categories: Fish, Seafood, Starches, Vegetable • Tags: Albacore, Bell Pepper, Cooking Blog, Cous Cous, Dinner, Eggplant, Food, recipe, Seafood, White Truffle Oil

Fennel Salad with Tarragon Vinaigrette

March 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’ve been drawing things again. I have been trying to make an effort to better plate salads. I like them to look light instead of a wild attack of lettuce coming for your first born…..what? Hold on real quick, I’m starving right now……yikes, I need to go grocery shopping…….out of eggs?!?!?!?…..finish the post!! Back on track… The tarragon vinaigrette was made by using the tarragon I infused into white wine vinegar then I emulsified it into some extra virgin olive […]

Categories: Salad, Vegetarian • Tags: Arugula, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Fennel, Food, Salad, so healthy I'm going to eat a pound of bacon to balance my day out, Vinaigrette

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Fried Egg, Chorizo Sauce, Rice…..Yes please!!

March 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

My friend Sean came over last night after class. I talked with him because I was out of class early because I had just finished my last final for the quarter. I had thoughts of going around West Seattle and getting into trouble but I forgot how tired I was. “Dude, come over, I have rum and I’ll cook”. Sean replied with an awesome response and he was over quickly……HE LIVES IN WEST SEATTLE TOO!!! MUAH HAHAHAHA. I had this […]

Categories: Chicken, Pork, Rice, Sauce • Tags: Avocado, Chorizo, Cooking Blog, Food, Fried Egg, recipe, saffron

Roasted Eggplant or Tilapia with Cucumber Muscat Sweet Chili Salsa

March 25, 2010 by ericriveracooks

You have two choices this evening. Eggplant or Tilapia. I cut this salsa pretty much everyday at work so it haunts me enough to make it at home. I did a variation of it by adding the muscat grapes and reducing it over heat to make it thicker then serving it warm. The cucumbers are quick pickled Momofuku style. I seared the eggplant then through it in the oven to finish. Crispy edges on top, nice and soft on the […]

Categories: Salsa, Seafood, Vegetable • Tags: Cilantro, Cooking, Cucumber, Eggplant, Fish, Food, Macadamia Nut, Muscat Grape, recipe

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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Kasu Marinated Sockeye Salmon

Triple Chocolate Brownie with French Vanilla Ice Cream

Ginger Oil

IxaRiveraCooks: Less words, more eating

Chateaubriand with a Clarified Colbert Sauce, Lobster Mashed Potatoes, Sauteed Eggplant and Asparagus.

Seared Scallops with a Pickled Mustard Seed Butter Sauce

Fennel Salad with a Tarragon Vinaigrette. Again? Yes, again. Finally plated it how I wanted it to look

Scrambled Egg, Chorizo Sauce, Breakfast Burrito…..YES PLEASE!!!!f

MindyRiveraFarms: Planting Day

The Salad Plating Saga Continues…..

Random items

Pan Seared Albacore with Bell Pepper and Eggplant Cous Cous

Fennel Salad with Tarragon Vinaigrette

Fried Egg, Chorizo Sauce, Rice…..Yes please!!

Roasted Eggplant or Tilapia with Cucumber Muscat Sweet Chili Salsa

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