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Restauranteers.com (Sponsored Post)

November 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I hope this won’t come off as sounding like a sales pitch because I genuinely am excited about what the people over at Restauranteers.com are about to bring to Seattle. I’m in super secret mode with them and they have told me exactly where they want to take this idea of theirs but they asked me not to tell you yet but they wanted me to write a post about it anyway…..soooo what do I write about? I mean….how?? Restauranteers.com […]

Categories: Sponsors • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Reservation, Restaurant, Restauranteers.com, Seattle

Life at 40,000 BTU: The Stations- Saute

November 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’ve taken you through the stations I have worked so far at Blueacre Seafood with Fry (click) and Hot Appetizers (click) being the two stations that I have become proficient at. One of the goals I had for working at Blueacre was to make my way up to working the saute station. That day is here! In 5 months I have worked my way to the top spot on the line…..it feels pretty good to say that so I’ll say […]

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

Farm Boat (Puget Sound, WA)

November 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

About a month ago I checked out Farm Boat (forgot I was writing this post then I had to run out the door….one month later, here we are!). Farm Boat is a farmer’s market on a boat that travels up and down the Puget Sound (rhyming) and drops off lovely produce and culinary delights to the new South Lake Union Park. At the time of checking it out I was on my way to work and didn’t have time to […]

Categories: Recommended Places to Shop, Restaurants • Tags: Cooking Blog, Farm Boat, Farmers Market, Food, Seattle

Built Burger (Seattle, WA)

November 29, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Pioneer Square is under a culinary revival right now. The last few restaurants that have opened their doors have been great, Delicatus and Tat’s Deli. Pioneer Square is such a beautiful part of Seattle…..I realize not a lot of people think that way that live here but I have always been drawn to it. My mom used to work in that area back in the 90′s and my dad would usually park in the middle of nowhere so we could […]

Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Blog, Built Burger, Burger, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Pioneer Square, recipe

I’M IN 425 MAGAZINE!!

November 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

See! Chef Eric Rivera….I like the sound of that. One day……. Eric

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: 425 Magazine, Bellevue, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Mud Bay, recipe

59.5C Rib Eye with Cranberry Demi-Glace and Winter Ratatouille

November 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Oh yes…..Oh yes……. Perfect on the inside. Eric

Categories: Beef, Vegetable • Tags: Beef, Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Rib Eye, Steak

Gobble Day 2010

November 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Well, it was more like gobble days. I prepped for this year’s gobble day for 4 days….in between work, snow, school, and all that crazyness I got the job done. I’m not a big fan of the yearly buffet style eating frenzy that has become Thanksgiving so I decided to course it out for my parents, Mindy, and my friend Sean. One reason I don’t like the normal buffet style Thanksgiving thing is that most of the food ends up […]

Categories: Duck, Pork, Turkey, Vegetable • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Thanksgiving, Turkey

Gobble Quest 2010

November 26, 2010 by ericriveracooks

The plan was to pick up the turkey from Don and Joe’s meats after class on Tuesday, I would do a bit of grocery shopping then head over to my house and start prepping because I had the next two days off. Well, plans changed quickly when on Monday morning we woke up and there was snow and ice all over the place. We live on a hill in West Seattle so getting down it is nearly impossible when […]

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, SnOMG, Thanksgiving, Turkey

Truffle…Chocolate Powder…..Maltodextrin FTW!!!

November 18, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Categories: Molecular Gastronomy • Tags: Cooking Blog, Food, maltodextrin, Powder

Will You Find The Golden Ticket? #willbakeforfood

November 18, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’m am forming a bunch of chocolate right now. There is a gigantic bake sale happening on Saturday in Seattle and I volunteered some of my time/ingredients to this event. It’s to benefit Northwest Harvest and is run by the two Jenny’s (click). I am going to drop off 20 chocolate bars and one of them will include a golden ticket that will make you a winner…..if you find that ticket, of course. “What do I get if I […]

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Northwest Harvest, recipe, Will bake for food

Sitka & Spruce (Seattle, WA)

November 16, 2010 by ericriveracooks

A dream kitchen, a dream restaurant, a dream is reality at Sitka & Spruce. This is what I want the kitchen in my home to look like one day…it might even be the same set up I would like in my restaurant but I’m nowhere near having a custom home kitchen or a restaurant of my own so I will be adopting a spot at the communal table at Sitka & Spruce so I can dream about those days in […]

Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Blog, Brunch, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Restaurant, Seattle, Sitka & Spruce

Dehydrated Peppers and Other Projects

November 13, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I dehydrated these peppers (click) in the oven. It took about 16 hours at 170F. I have some chocolate bars, bon bons, and truffles coming down the pipeline. I should have the rest of the equipment by next Wednesday so look out for crazy flavor combinations and lots o’ chocolatey goodness. Eric

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Chocolate, Cooking Blog, Dehydrating, Dinner, Food, Peppers, recipe

Going Mobile…..

November 11, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’m going mobile!! I got a new phone courtesy of my brother-in-law working for the best cell phone hardware company out there. This G2 phone is incredible and now I can post on the go. The pictures are decent enough that I am ready to post those as well. The picture above is of some peppers being dehydrated…..sooooooooo fun! Here is a picture of chicken I was fabricating about 10 minutes ago……….close to instant posting people…..this….is……awesome!!! Eric

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: Blog, Chicken, Cooking Blog, Food

Cookbook: Williams- Sonoma Cooking At Home

November 10, 2010 by ericriveracooks

This might be one of the best if not the best home cookbooks I’ve ever seen. Joy of Cooking? Those red and white checkered Betty Crocker books? They’re nice but nothing like this. I have a ton of cookbooks and what I always wanted was a reference guide that could bridge the gap between my highly technical books but something I could show to people as a reference for themselves that wasn’t complicated. This book has done it. This […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Blog, Chuck Williams, Cookbook, Cooking At Home, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Williams-Sonoma

Roasted Spaghetti and Butternut Squash Soup

November 10, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I start by rendering some bacon then I sliced a bunch of white onions then caramelize them for 4-5 hours in the bacon fat. At the same time I cut up the two squash then roast them. Then I toast some pumpkin seeds with cardamom, _ _ _ _ _ bean, and sea salt. Then I make a muscat vinaigrette, julienne an apple, _ _ _ _ _ bean, toss in a brunoise of celery and carrot which […]

Categories: Soup • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Muscat, recipe, Soup, Squash, Squash Soup

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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Restauranteers.com (Sponsored Post)

Life at 40,000 BTU: The Stations- Saute

Farm Boat (Puget Sound, WA)

Built Burger (Seattle, WA)

I’M IN 425 MAGAZINE!!

59.5C Rib Eye with Cranberry Demi-Glace and Winter Ratatouille

Gobble Day 2010

Gobble Quest 2010

Truffle…Chocolate Powder…..Maltodextrin FTW!!!

Will You Find The Golden Ticket? #willbakeforfood

Sitka & Spruce (Seattle, WA)

Dehydrated Peppers and Other Projects

Going Mobile…..

Cookbook: Williams- Sonoma Cooking At Home

Roasted Spaghetti and Butternut Squash Soup

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