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Life at 40,000 BTU: The Stations- Fry

October 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Back in June I started at working at Blueacre Seafood as a line cook.  I just moved up to a line cook position in my previous job from prep cook but I was working as a pantry cook and I really wanted to play with fire so Blueacre was looking for people so I applied and I got the job.  I was at school one day and someone asked me, “Eric, you work at Blueacre?”  Yes, I do.  ”What do […]

Categories: Life at 40000 BTU: Blueacre Seafood • Tags: Blog, Blueacre Seafood, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe

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Chef Chris Mills’ James Beard House Preview Dinner @ Joey Restaurant (Seattle)

October 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I received an email a few weeks ago with an invitation to check out a preview dinner for Chef Chris Mills who for the second time was going to be cooking at the James Beard House in New York.  Cooking at the James Beard House is a goal of mine and to have the opportunity to do it twice would be like winning the lottery….twice.  I had to check this out but honestly, I had never heard of Chris Mills […]

Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Chef Chris Mills, Chris Mills, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, James Beard House, Joey Restaurants, recipe

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Lobster Mushroom and Pancetta with Descending Romanesco Broccoli

October 25, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Pretty creative stuff at 2AM. I get off of work late….I cook things when I get home. The yellow dots are an emulsified butternut squash puree. The romanesco broccoli is cooked sous vide with salt, pepper, and a touch of contadina. The tower is composed of lobster mushrooms cooked in pancetta fat with pancetta lardons spread throughout. Saute of frisee with leeks, and gold beets.  It’s topped with a small salad of arugula and pickled shaved fennel. Eric

Categories: Pork, Produce, Sauce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Food, Gold Beet, Lobster Mushroom, Pancetta, recipe, Sauce

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Seatown Snacks (Seattle, WA)

October 20, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Tom Douglas’ newest restaurant in Seattle hits the spot. I’ve been there three times already and I’m hooked.  The restaurant reminds me of a restaurant that I want to go to/work at one day, Martin Picard’s Au Pied Du Cochon (click….interior shots of both restaurants are pretty close and concepts of the take-home items are the same….very cool stuff).  It’s snack time! The picture above is of their sticky ribs with mustard and plum.  I wanted to keep my hands […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Restaurant, Seatown Snacks

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Dinner, My Place: Baking, Science, and Killer Pasta

October 20, 2010 by ericriveracooks

  Aw yes, lobster mushrooms. They look like cooked lobsters on the outside and they have a nice meaty texture when cooked….. Put some salt and pepper on the ox tail and braise it with some veal stock and smoked ham hock…..yes, excellent.  It’s going to be a ragout for the pasta. Make some fresh rosemary pasta then cut it and work on something else.  (Duck eggs, rosemary, “00″, Semolina, Contadina, Water) Mushrooms, golden beets, and butternut squash go into […]

Categories: Baking & Pastry, Beef, Duck, Pasta • Tags: Agar, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Ox Tail, Pasta, Ragout, recipe, Terrine

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MindyRiveraFarms: Paprika and Competing Family Farms!

October 19, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Mindy grew some paprika for me and here it is! I’m going to dehydrate it, smoke it, and make it into a powder to be used for future projects…..I’m so excited! Mindy’s dad is in town and he brought up some peppers, tomatoes, and some squash from their garden.   GARDEN FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! Not really, this is just proof that I married well. Look at those peppers! WOW! Now what to do with them?!?!?  You’ll see Check out these tomatoes! Mindy’s […]

Categories: MindyRiveraFarms • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Farm, Food, Peppers, recipe, tomato

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Frittata with House Cured Pancetta, Tarragon, and Pickled Golden Beets

October 18, 2010 by ericriveracooks

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Categories: Eggs, Pork • Tags: Blog, Breakfast, Cooking Blog, Egg, Food, frittata, Pancetta, recipe

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Le Pichet (Seattle, WA)

October 18, 2010 by ericriveracooks

My “Happiest Hours” are on fire! A week or so ago I showed you Lecosho (click) which is within reach of my 3 hour walk around Seattle while I wait for my next class to start. Last week I chose Le Pichet as a place to have my Happiest Hours and it was a great choice.  I love French food and while I don’t think I would have said that before I started culinary school I can honestly say that […]

Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, France, French food, Le Pichet, recipe, Restaurant, Seattle, Washington

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Damiana’s Truck Special-Fundraiser November 7th!

October 14, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I love food trucks. I have spent countless hours visiting/stalking my next meal from these culinary crusaders on wheels.  Marination Mobile, Minimus Maximus, Skillet, Dante’s, Parfait, Where ya at, and more…(click).. …I love them all. There is a new truck coming to town and a good friend of mine, (CHEF BRIAN!!!) asked me to help him and his girlfriend, Damiana, cook for a fundraiser they are having for their new food truck.    The goal of the fundraiser is to […]

Categories: Street Food • Tags: Cooking Blog, Damiana's Blue Truck Special, Food, Mobile Food Truck, Pop up dinner, Restaurant, Seattle

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Dinner, my place. Seafood Extravaganza

October 14, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Practice makes perfect! Had some friends over the night for dinner and since I have one night a week to cook dinner at home I went all out. A couple dungeness crabs as you can see above. Some spot prawns. A collection of fun things from Mindy’s garden. and off to work I go. First up was Kumamoto Oysters with sauce Mignonette and a Japones Chili Oil Vinaigrette that was infused with green onions using Nitrogen Cavitation. Next up was […]

Categories: Sauce, Seafood • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Crab, Dinner, Food, Oysters, recipe, Seafood, Spot Prawns

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Wanna Play Chicken?

October 12, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I use chicken as a practice protein for ideas I have. It’s inexpensive because I buy a whole chicken then just break it down myself and then go from there….stocks are made, nice little airline breasts,  dark meat for braising and whatever else I can make into a meal. In the picture above I’m getting ready to work with duck in the near future but duck is expensive so for now I wanted to see how it would work with […]

Categories: Chicken, Sauce • Tags: Blog, Chicken, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe

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Lavender Preserved Lemons

October 9, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I liked how the preserved lemons turned out (click) so I decided to do them again but this time infuse them with lavender.  See you in a few weeks! Eric

Categories: Produce • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Lavender, Preserved Lemon, recipe

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Then and Now: Carrot Soup

October 9, 2010 by ericriveracooks

About a year ago I made a carrot soup on this site which is kind of amusing because I work up this morning and starting making a carrot soup then I went to post this picture above and I realized there was another post on here about carrot soup……This is the first time I’ve done that on this site. What the hell was I thinking about a year ago?  It looks awful! Original Soup (click) Garnish is sinking, cream should […]

Categories: Produce, Soup • Tags: Blog, Carrot, Carrot soup, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe

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House-Cured Pancetta, Egg Yolk, Avocado, Tomato, and Hearts of Palm

October 7, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Tomatoes from Mindy!  That’s the pancetta I’ve been working on for a month resting on top of a quick poached egg yolk….when the yolk is broken it flows over the other items on the plate.   The pancetta is rendered then I worked that fat into the avocado puree. There’s more to it but I won’t bore you with you details. Eric

Categories: Eggs, Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Avocado, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Hearts of Palm, Pancetta, recipe

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Cookbook: NOMA

October 7, 2010 by ericriveracooks

  I’ve been waiting for this book to come out for quite some time.  I first heard of Chef Rene Redzepi in the book COCO (click).  He’s one of the 10 master chefs that picked other chefs around the world to be in the book (I currently work for one of the chefs that was chosen…Kevin Davis!). Chef Redzepi has worked for Ferran Adria and Thomas Keller and at the age of 25 took the reigns of Noma in 2003 […]

Categories: Cookbooks, Restaurants • Tags: Blog, Cookbook, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, MistralKitchen, Noma, Phaidon Press, recipe, Rene Redzepi

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