My parents are living the life. My dad, a command sergeant major in the Army for 30 years. My mom, a mom, a jewel, a police officer, perfection, a teacher, something to strive for, amazing…..yes, my mom. They smile, have fun, and still to this day have a great and amazing time after dealing with me and my sister. My parents, amazing. Hello kids! Here are some pics. that we took yesterday in our daughter’s friend wedding. It was a […]
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Add Mindy in the picture then everything is golden, she was taking the pic. Ken, Catherine Reynolds (Sommelier), Keren Brown (Queen of Seattle), Me (Chef pants!), Ken’s mom, Heather, Yashar (Sommelier), Adam (my neighbor on the line). All awesome, more coming soon from all of them. I’m going to open an amazing restaurant one day…..even if it’s people coming over, as long as they’re happy and smiling then I succeeded. Eric
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Catherine Reynolds, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Keren Brown, recipe, Yashar
If I owned a restaurant then this would definitely go on my menu for lunch. It might even be one of those things that I just have for a late-night menu that only a few chosen people know about (I like secrets). It’s a f’ing amazing sandwich and ridiculously easy to make but the ingredients are what make it amazing. It’s not just a b.l.t. The bacon is from Wooly Pigs. Heath breeds mangalitsa pigs that currently have the highest […]
Categories: Pork, Sandwich • Tags: Avocado, B.L.T., bacon, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Jowl Bacon, Mangalitsa, Pig, Pork, recipe
Had a little dinner party on Saturday. I’m still waiting on a few pictures to roll in but this pictures was taken towards the end of it. I didn’t get a chance to take any pictures because I was a little busy so that’s why I’m waiting for a few to roll in still from friends. If you ever get an invitation from me for a dinner party then I would recommend being there. :) Eric
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Drinks: 1. Red Sangria 2. White Sangria 3. El Perro Verde 4. Sangria Granita…….what, I like Sangria. Isernio’s 5. Fried Plantain Cups with Chorizo 6. Pork Albondigas (meatballs) with Veal-Demi Sofrito Sauce 7. Bacon Wrapped Chorizo Pinchos 8. Stewed Pork Belly with Chorizo Pinchos 9. Pork Belly Pincho 10. Grilled Vegetable Pincho 11. Jowl Bacon & Shrimp 12. Green Bell & Manchego Cold 13. Shrimp Ceviche 14. Clam Ceviche 15. Bacalao Salad 16. Gazpacho Shooter w/ Truffle Oil All up […]
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A couple weeks ago I had dinner at Fresh Bistro and Chef Chea told us that he would be doing a weekly themed pig roast on Tuesday’s for $12. Without hesitation I said, “F Yes, that sounds awesome, we’ll be there!!”. Things have worked out beautifully since then and I even recruited a few abandoned Lost viewers that have nothing to do on Tuesday nights since their favorite show is gone (Watch Treme on HBO…..amazing). What’s going on Lost […]
Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Cooking Blog, Food, Fresh Bistro, Pig, Pig Roast, Pork, Restaurant, West Seattle
My search for great deli’s in Seattle continues. So far I have been to a few that I will recap when I finish my list but it has been a great journey so far. In between the time of making my list and running around Seattle with school, working, and doing this blog thing a new deli has opened up in the heart of Pioneer Square. I have been waiting to go for a few weeks now and I finally […]
Categories: Deli • Tags: Cooking Blog, corned beef, Deli, Delicatus, Food, Pastrami, Pioneer Square, recipe, Sandwich, Seattle
I have no idea why these pictures are so dark….weird. Anyway, we made a whole bunch of pates, terrines, sauces, and spreads in class yesterday so I thought I would share them with you. I could see myself making a lot of these again but in different forms. I would like to make a few terrines in cake molds like a unicorn or something awesome like that (not really). I do think these would be great to […]
Categories: Garde Manger • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Force Meat, Pate, recipe, Terrine
Wait, you’re telling me that you combined two of my favorite foods….banh mi and pho??!?!??!?! Mindy and I were out and about on Sunday and we decided to hit up the White Center area of Seattle, it’s about 10 minutes from our house and I drove over there about a month ago and noticed a bunch of vietnamese restaurants so I thought this might be a good place to get a good bowl of pho. I was right (I […]
Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Pho, Pho Tai, Restaurant, Seattle, White Center
Kenny is back again this week with another really interesting piece of fruit, ambarella. Take it away Kenny! Eric, Here’s some photos of Ambarella. It’s a strange fruit that you eat when it is still very firm and crunchy. It has a very light sweet flavor and you eat it with some chili salt. The interesting thing about this fruit is that you don’t really cut it, you kind of break it. What I mean is that after you wash it […]
Categories: KennyBenchTravels • Tags: Ambarella, Blog, Cooking, Dinner, Food, recipe, Travel, Vietnam
Aw yes, my sometimes least favorite friend, dairy. I’m lactose intolerant but that won’t stop me from eating/drinking dairy products….I just eat/drink small amounts. When I was presented 30 cups I was a little scared but I fought through it and ended up finding a couple favorites! There were people in the class that didn’t even try one thing because of their issues, me, I’m up for it and I’ll pay for the consequences later…. again, I found some […]
Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cheese, Cooking Blog, Cow, Culinary School, Dairy, Dairy Tasting, Food, Milk, recipe, Sheep
Those little tomatoes are starting to grow up. They shared rooms for a little while and now they are moving into their own rooms. Mindy said she ordered a bunch of tacks because some of the tomatoes wanted to put up some Justin Bieber posters and others wanted to put up some Megan Fox posters….crazy heirloom hormones! Eric
Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Gardening, Heirloom Tomatoes, recipe, Tomatoes
The title pretty much tells you everything you need to know. Next, Eric
Categories: Rice, Seafood • Tags: Baby bok choy, Blog, Brown Sugar, Cooking Blog, Curry, Dinner, Food, recipe, Red Thai Curry, shrimp
This is the second installment of my Eat The Street feature on this blog. I will be taking you on an eating tour through the streets of Seattle and hopefully other cities in the future. Last week I took you to my most traveled street in Seattle, Western Avenue. This week I will take you on Seattle’s most visited street, Pike Street! It’s the home of Pike Place Market and various other shops that I support and love from […]
Categories: Eat The Street • Tags: Cooking, Eat the Street, Farmers Market, Food, Market, Pike Place Market, Seattle, Travel, Travel Guide, Washington
We were given a couple recipes in class that we had to follow but the rest of what happened was up to us. The theme was to be a NW Seafood Buffet but I hate the word buffet so we made the decision to make our plates look like smaller appetizer plates. We went to the library and did a little research then I drew up the ideas for what was going to go with what then went off the […]
Categories: Seafood • Tags: Ceviche, Clam, Cooking Blog, Food, recipe, Salmon, Seafood, shrimp
