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Brickyard Bar-B-Q (West Seattle, WA)

March 9, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Will work for food. Yes, I’ll even do yard work. I can’t afford to eat at all of these places without a little help here and there. My sister and her husband Dave were clearing out a little patch in their backyard for a “dog park”. Mindy and I showed up and helped them out then they suggested lunch……I love that system. Originally they suggested Duke’s but it was a nice day and it’s on Alki so it would have […]

Categories: Restaurants • Tags: Bar-b-q, BBQ, Brickyard Bar-b-q, Cooking, Food, Seattle, West Seattle

Traeger Grill

August 16, 2009 by ericriveracooks

The house where we cooked the pig had this interesting tractor looking Traeger Grill. I thought it looked pretty cool so I took a picture, click. I want a Traeger Grill one day but I can do without the tractor theme. Traeger grills are pellet powered and they can smoke and do regular grilling….cool stuff. Eric

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: BBQ, Cooking Blog, Food Blog, Grill, Traeger Grill

North Carolina Style Pig: Episode 2

August 15, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) This is my second invitation to join Richard and Fuzzy on one of their North Carolina Style Pig Cook Outs. This is the last one of the year for them so they asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted to come and of course I said yes! You say pig, I say where let’s cook it! Things were a lot less intense than last time. Instead of doing 175 lbs. of […]

Categories: Pork • Tags: BBQ, Cooking Blog, Food Blog, Grill, North Carolina Style BBQ, Pig, Pork, recipe, Vinegar

If you ever want to get me something…….

July 18, 2009 by ericriveracooks

I’ll take one of these please. The meat and the grill. I was visiting the Federal Way Farmers Market and the guys from Los Agaves custom built this magnificent piece of grilling perfection. I want one really bad. Eric

Categories: Random Rants • Tags: BBQ, Beef, Cooking, Dinner, Food, Grill, Meat, recipe

Cheese Stuffed Peppers

July 15, 2009 by ericriveracooks

I’ll grill just about anything but one of my favorite things to grill is peppers, especially stuffed with cheese! I stuffed the jalapenos with a fromage blanc (unpasteurized cow milk cheese). The fromage blanc is the perfect balance for spicy kick in the mouth jalapeno. I stuffed the red peppers (they are sweet and not too spicy) with my marinated mozzarella balls. The marinated mozzarella adds texture to the sweet peppers. Slice them, stuff them, grill them and eat them! […]

Categories: Appetizer • Tags: BBQ, Cheese, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Food, Grilled, Jalapeno, recipe, Stuffed Peppers

Sooooooooooooie Caroline!!

June 27, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger…….This is with my new fancy camera…….funny note: I found my camera that I lost…..ta-da) North Carolina-Style Pig My friends, Fuzzy and Richard, told me they were going to be cooking a whole pig for a friend’s 50th wedding anniversary. I think before Richard finished saying, “we’re going to cook a whole pig”, I jumped in and asked if I could help. I was anxiously waiting for 3 weeks for this to happen and […]

Categories: Dinner, Dinner for two, Pork • Tags: Apple Cider Vinegar, BBQ, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Grill, North Carolina, Pig, Pork, recipe, Vinegar, Whole Pig

Pork and Chicken Pinchos (Kabobs)

May 22, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Pinchos, Kabobs, meat on a stick or whatever you want to call it, it’s all great! In Puerto Rico you will find a version of pinchos no matter where you go and they can be purchased 24 hours a day, usually it’s bar food or street food. This is collaboration of pinchos. My mom marinaded the chicken and I marinaded the pork. Mom’s Chicken Pincho 2 lbs. chicken thigh with almost all the […]

Categories: Chicken, Pork, Puerto Rican Style • Tags: BBQ, Chicken, Cooking, Dinner, Kabobs, Kebobs, Pincho, Pork, recipe

Churrasco

May 22, 2009 by ericriveracooks

(Click each picture to make it larger) Barbecued flank steak! This is perfect for the weekend BBQ you’re about to have! This was something I made on our second day in Puerto Rico at my parents home in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Ingredients: 4 1/2 lbs. flank steak thinly cut 1 cup grape seed oil 4 cloves garlic, mashed 1 tbsp. kosher salt 1 tbsp. pepper 6 aji dulce pods, mashed (you can use 1 red bell pepper instead) 1/4 […]

Categories: Puerto Rican Style, Sauce, Steak • Tags: Annatto, BBQ, Churrasco, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Puerto Rico, recipe, Steak

BBQ Dinner (WHAT IS THAT GREEN STUFF!?!?!!?)

February 22, 2009 by ericriveracooks

Food induced coma. Ingredients: -Salad (the green stuff) with a few blackberries thrown in (my sister brought this over) -Ribs Click for recipe -Chicken Click for recipe -BBQ Sauce Click for recipe -Baked Beans -Corn Bread It started raining outside so I wasn’t able to make the BBQ thing work. I think this will be good enough. Eric

Categories: Chicken, Pork, Salad, Sauce • Tags: BBQ, BBQ Chicken, BBQ Ribs, BBQ Sauce, Dinner, recipe

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