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Braised Mangalitsa Neck Roll Open Faced Sandwich with Mt. Townsend Creamery Fromage Blanc and Grand Central Bakery Ciabatta Bread

July 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I saw a local magazine that had the 48 best sandwiches in Seattle on it. This sandwich was not on their list…..their list is invalid. This is the best sandwich in Seattle. The Mangalitsa neck roll is braised for 12 hours with my special touches and additions. The bread is toasted in brown butter then the meat is lightly fried in the remaining brown butter then the braising liquid is added on top of the sandwich. The cheese is added […]

Categories: Pork, Sandwich • Tags: Blog, Braise, Brown Butter, Cooking Blog, Food, Grand Central Bakery, Mangalitsa, Mt. Townsend Creamery

Dinner…..my place.

July 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Mini-rainbow carrots with concasse of heirloom grape tomatoes with cilantro oil vinaigrette (also from the garden), cherry wood smoked tomato vinaigrette, and topped with frisee flowers and sel de mer. Ciabatta bread toasted in brown butter with cherry wood smoked Walla Walla onions with melted Beecher’s cheese and topped with a veal stock butter sauce…..heavy on the butter….oh yes. Scallops seared in Mangalitsa Leaf Lard with a ghost chili/molasses reduction sauce with smoked tomato vinaigrette. Braised Mangalitsa Neck Roll over […]

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms, Pork, Seafood, Starches • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dessert, Dinner, Food, Mangalitsa, recipe, Scallops

MindyRiveraFarms: Red Onion, Cilantro, Rainbow Carrots

July 28, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Mindy’s garden/farm is thriving right now. She definitely has a golden/green touch for this whole food growing thing. Can’t wait to have a lot more room to expand this operation one day. My favorite……….cilantro! Mini rainbow carrots….. Eric, be patient!!! No, I need these now! Eric

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Blog, Cilantro, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Rainbow Carrots, recipe, Red Onion

Mangalitsa Neck Roll……Oh my…..

July 28, 2010 by ericriveracooks

What will I do with it? Coming soon….. Woolypigs.com (click) Eric

Categories: Pork • Tags: Heath Putnam, Mangalitsa, Mangalitsa Neck Roll, Woolypigs.com

Sauces, Spreads, and More Projects

July 26, 2010 by ericriveracooks

This is a cherry wood smoked tomato base sauce. This is my pique sauce before straining. This is a Rainier Cherry syrup. I have a special dessert planned…..when I get around to it. These are diced cherry wood smoked Walla Walla onions. I’m going to make a relish from this that will go on a fish dish. This is a molasses ghost chili sauce. Sweet and f’ing hot…..just like me…. not really Took some pickled mustard seeds (brown and yellow) […]

Categories: Sauce • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Next time you have a sauce and spread company let me worry about making the sauces.....not about selling the product, recipe, Sauce, Spread

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Mangalitsa Lardo New Potato Rustic Frittata

July 26, 2010 by ericriveracooks

It’s not a frittata in the traditional sense but I couldn’t come up with a better name so I just called it “rustic”….I see that a lot on menus. I think it means “we just want to throw a bunch of things in a pan and not worry about it looking fancy”. Well, I took all the components of a frittata and just cooked it differently……I’m confused now…..oh well. Take some lardo. Render it then cook then quarter some new […]

Categories: Breakfast, Pork • Tags: Breakfast, Brunch, Cooking Blog, Food, Mangalitsa, Pig, Pork, recipe, Wooly Pigs

Mangalitsa Speck Penne and Cheese

July 26, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Base sauce is a heavy cream bechamel with a ton of Beecher’s cheese and some rendered fat from the speck. Seasonings are in play here but nothing more than salt, black pepper, and crushed red pepper. Penne is cooked al dente then stirred in the sauce to finish….more speck is added to the mix. Contents are removed from pan then placed in ramekin then more speck and cheese is placed on top. Placed under broiler then brought out and torched […]

Categories: Pasta, Pork • Tags: Beecher's Cheese, Blog, Cheese, Cooking Blog, Food, Mangalitsa, Pig, Pork, recipe

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IxaRiveraCooks: Barceloneta, Camuy, and Hatillo in Puerto Rico.

July 23, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Hello kids! Yesterday we went with our good friends to the factory outlets in Barceloneta which is located in the north part of the island. We had a great time eventhough it was pouring down rain. A small storm is hanging over the island, but that didn’t stop the four of us for having a great time. We stayed overnight in Hatillo which is a small and cute town on the north side of the island. Hatillo is the town […]

Categories: IxaRiveraCooks • Tags: Barceloneta, Blog, Camuy, Cooking Blog, Empanadas, Food, Hatillo, Puerto Rico, recipe

Pan Fried Smelt with Garbanzo Smoked Tomato Sauce served on White Rice

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Bought some fresh smelt at the store. Cleaned them. Dredged them. Then pan fried them then made them look all pretty on a plate. Awwwww. Eric

Categories: Seafood • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Garbanzo, recipe, Sauce, Smelt

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Mangalitsa Lard Seared Scallops with Speck Lardons with a Smoked Tomato and Fresh Corn Sauce

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Eric

Categories: Pork, Sauce • Tags: Appetizer, Cooking Blog, Corn, Dinner, Food, Mangalitsa, recipe, Smoked Tomato, tomato

Tapas Time!

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Tapas at school…..huh, I think I know the right person to direct these small plates in the right direction (click) Orange, Clam, and Ham Tomato Toast and Garum Toast Idiazabal Cheese Sauce with Rendered Serrano Ham Squid with Caramelized Onion on Toast Potato Omelet with Annatto Oil Bacalao Hash with Annatto Oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Marinated Olives Marinated Cheese with Herbs Sizzling Garlic Shrimp Serrano Ham Fritters Need some tapas….let me know. Eric

Categories: Tapas, World Cuisine • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, ericriveracooks, Food, recipe, Tapas

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Mangalitsa Pernil Style Pulled Sandwich with Spring Greens and Pique Mayo

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I took a quarter of a Mangalitsa neck roll and did this to it. That’s why it’s awesome being Puerto Rican. Give me pork and it’s an instinctual thing I have to make it into something amazing. I would love to tell you what I did to it but I’ll save that for my restaurant. Then I took the meat and seared each side. Braised it in chicken stock, coriander, and annatto seeds for 8 hours. Removed the meat, shredded […]

Categories: Pork • Tags: Mangalita Pork, Mangalitsa, Pique, Pork, Sandwich

Mangalitsa Leaf Lard

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

(Sponsored Post) Oh my. Wooly Pigs (click) Eric

Categories: Meat, Pork • Tags: Leaf Lard, Mangalitsa, Pig, Pork, Wooly Pigs

Bite of Seattle 2010

July 22, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Mindy and I made our way through the Bite of Seattle this past weekend in search of food and for me, a cooking demonstration by Chef Ethan Stowell and Chef Thierry Rautureau. First we stopped at the Alley which had a few different restaurants offering a bite or two of some of their best dishes in order to benefit Food Lifeline (click) Lots of great stuff to get the stomach rolling in the right direction. We walked around some more […]

Categories: Events • Tags: Bite of Seattle, Blog, Cooking Blog, Ethan Stowell, Food, Halibut, recipe, Restaurant, Thierry Rautureau

Angry Breaded Prawns with Jalapeno/Lime Buerre Blanc and Fried Beecher’s Cheese Crumbles

July 19, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I work with a bunch of people at Blueacre that inspire me. Eric

Categories: Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Blog, Buerre Blanc, Cooking Blog, Food, Jalapeno, Lime, recipe, shrimp

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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Braised Mangalitsa Neck Roll Open Faced Sandwich with Mt. Townsend Creamery Fromage Blanc and Grand Central Bakery Ciabatta Bread

Dinner…..my place.

MindyRiveraFarms: Red Onion, Cilantro, Rainbow Carrots

Mangalitsa Neck Roll……Oh my…..

Sauces, Spreads, and More Projects

Mangalitsa Lardo New Potato Rustic Frittata

Mangalitsa Speck Penne and Cheese

IxaRiveraCooks: Barceloneta, Camuy, and Hatillo in Puerto Rico.

Pan Fried Smelt with Garbanzo Smoked Tomato Sauce served on White Rice

Mangalitsa Lard Seared Scallops with Speck Lardons with a Smoked Tomato and Fresh Corn Sauce

Tapas Time!

Mangalitsa Pernil Style Pulled Sandwich with Spring Greens and Pique Mayo

Mangalitsa Leaf Lard

Bite of Seattle 2010

Angry Breaded Prawns with Jalapeno/Lime Buerre Blanc and Fried Beecher’s Cheese Crumbles

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