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Goodbye Blueacre Seafood, and thanks for all the fish!

October 10, 2011 by ericriveracooks

It was an amazing ride. I’ve written a ton of posts about my time about Blueacre and since I’m not big on recycling posts I’ll just let you get acquainted with the search function on this here blog of mine. I started as a fry cook, worked my way to hot appetizers, got an opportunity on saute, and then got promoted to sous chef in a very short amount of time. Anything is possible, and I’ll take what I […]

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Oyster Trip!

July 13, 2011 by ericriveracooks

(Hama Hama’s Oyster Field) Chef Kevin asked me about a month ago if I wanted to visit a few famous oyster beds in Washington in order to learn more about oysters…..I said, “YEAH!!!!!”. We rounded up the rest of the crew at Blueacre Seafood and headed out to the lands of oysters. I’m in the process of writing a kitchen manual for the restaurant and we’re also working on an oyster guide for our customers so this trip was […]

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My Parents Were In Town……We Ate A Few Things.

January 5, 2011 by ericriveracooks

Hey look, it’s my parents. They were in town for about a month so things have been a little quiet here on the blog but that doesn’t mean we weren’t up to a bunch of cool things. In that picture we were eating brunch at Cafe Flora. I had originally intended us to eat brunch at Luc but I was off by a day….that happens a lot these days. It’s ok though because brunch was delicious and Mindy had this […]

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

Chef Brian’s Dinner

December 30, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Chef Brian cooked a dinner for the crew at chef Kevin’s other restaurant (Steelhead Diner). He asked us to help him out with it so I brought in my immersion circulator and special scallop pounding skills and proceeded to watch chef Brian have a kitchen throw down of epic proportions. He started them off with potato chips with a black truffle and Parmesan dip that was f’ing incredible. Next up was a scallop ravioli which I pounded out and stuffed […]

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Life at 40,000 BTU

December 10, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’ve been on a year long journey starting from the day that I bought a cookbook to where I am at today. I bought that cookbook and I found the only Seattle chef (Kevin Davis) in that book then worked my way back from losing pieces of my fingers from an accident at a previous employer (wait until you see the post I have for that one) to teaching myself how to use my fingers again then moving forward to […]

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Life at 40,000 BTU: Salmon in The Trees Event.

December 2, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Sometimes they let me out of the restaurant….. A few weeks ago chef Kevin asked me to work an event held at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus for a book release by Amy Gulick. Her book, “Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest”, showed her journey through Alaska while she snapped photos of wildlife in the Tongass Rain Forest. Buy her book here (click) I was asked to serve a geoduck ceviche which […]

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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 […]

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Life at 40,000 BTU: The Stations- Hot Apps.

November 5, 2010 by ericriveracooks

(I’ll have a picture here soon) I’m taking you on a tour of the stations that I rotate around to when I’m at work. Last time I talked about fry station (click). Well, this time it’s time for some hot apps. (appetizers) action. Check out the menu (click). It’s outdated but this will give you an idea of what I’m talking about. My first two days at Blueacre I worked saute then I was shifted over to hot apps, where […]

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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 […]

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Life at 40,000 BTU: Chef Kevin (Blueacre Seafood) sends me to Pacific Seafood

October 7, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I was talking with Chef Kevin one day about how I wanted to hone my skills in cutting fish. He didn’t hesitate and said he would send me to Pacific Seafood so I could learn from the best…..perks, I have them. Pacific Seafood is the largest distributor of seafood in the nation. I went to their distributing and processing plant in Mukilteo for a few days and while I don’t have any pictures of the inside of the plant I […]

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Life at 40,000 BTU: Hot Line Action at Blueacre Seafood

September 17, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I’m not going to be taking any cooking classes at school next quarter. Instead, I will be doing my externship out in the real world. The amusing thing is that I already work in the real world. I work full-time hours at Blueacre Seafood in Seattle. School is a little funny with this externship system……I get paid at Blueacre, I’m an employee there, not just a work-f0r-free bright and bubbly intern. I’m a paid bright and bubbly employee! The thing […]