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

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When In Doubt…..TACO PARTY!!!!!

September 7, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Audrey and Dan came over to our place in West Seattle so I decided to cook a few things for them.  Audrey loves spicy food and so do I so it was me and her versus Dan and Mindy and the cook always wins so spicy was the theme! Adobo spiced cheddar cheese Fried Corn with a brown butter chipotle sauce……Trying to perfect my technique for work! Pique Coleslaw! U.S. Wild Caught Shrimp in a pickled red pepper sauce with […]

Categories: Sauce, Seafood, Vegetable • Tags: Blog, Cooking, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Ghost Chili, recipe, Rice, Sauce, Taco

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Blackened Mahi Mahi with Pan Sauce Rice Adobada

September 3, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Uh huh. Eric

Categories: Rice, Seafood • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food, Mahi Mahi, recipe, Rice, Sauce, Seafood

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Painted Hills Ribeye with Chanterelle Demi-Sauce, Fingerling Mash, and More!

September 2, 2010 by ericriveracooks

That is a sexy piece of meat. I purchased it at Rain Shadow Meats (click) which is in the Melrose Market on Capitol Hill in Seattle.   I have a friend that works there and he has been telling me to check it out for some time so I did! I’ll have a follow up post to it next week because I intend to go there again this weekend…..it’s an amazing place. This is my first attempt at sous vide […]

Categories: Beef, MindyRiveraFarms, Sauce, Steak • Tags: Blog, Chanterelle, Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, recipe, Salad, Sauce, Sous Vide, Steak

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Herbed Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossoms with Macerated Peach Sauce

August 25, 2010 by ericriveracooks

The squash blossoms, goat cheese, and peaches are from the West Seattle Farmers market. Peaches are macerated in PX S’orange then blended, strained, and made a little tighter with agar.  The squash blossoms are cleaned, blanched, shocked, drained, stuffed then warmed in the oven then topped with sel de mer.  The goat cheese is herbed with herbs from MindyRiveraFarms. Eric Thanks for the plates Bonnie and Bruce!!!

Categories: Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Blog, Cooking Blog, Food, Goat Cheese, Sauce, Sel de mer, Squash Blossom

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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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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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Black Pepper Cherry Sauce over Fromage Blanc

July 2, 2010 by ericriveracooks

I was at the Queen Anne Farmers Market yesterday scoping out the demo. tent for my August5th extravaganza and I stumbled upon these cherries.   With one more stop at the Mt. Townsend stand to pick up their Fromage Blanc I quickly went home to make the sauce.   It’s simple.   Pit the cherries, heat them up on low heat until they break down a little bit then add some sugar (optional, black pepper, and just a touch of salt then cool […]

Categories: Appetizer, Sauce • Tags: Cheese, Cherries, Fromage Blanc, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Sauce

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Seared Ahi with Plum/Soy Sauce Reduction

April 9, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Amazingly high quality ahi for this, I felt bad for searing it but I’m experimenting…. Black and white sesame seeds, seared in sesame oil, then that sauce….oh that sauce. Eric

Categories: Seafood • Tags: Ahi Tuna, Blog, Cooking Blog, Fish, Food, Sauce, Seafood, Seared

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Pizza with a Veal Demi Sauce, Country Ham, and Beecher’s Smoked Cheese

April 4, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Worked most of the day, wanted pizza, so I made some!  I looked for a nice dough recipe then proceeded to make an awesome pizza.  Listen, it’s all about the crust with me. You can put gold bars on a pizza but if the crust isn’t crunchy, a little caramelized underneath, and bubbly with great yeast development then Eric is not happy.  There are a lot of great pizza places in Seattle so normally I don’t have to make my […]

Categories: pizza, Pork, Sauce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Country Ham, Food, pizza, recipe, Sauce, Veal Demi

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Stir Fry Rice Noodles with a Coconut Milk/Peanut Sauce

March 23, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Late night menu action! I was hungry last night when I got home from Foodportunity. I didn’t get a chance to eat much since I kept forcing myself to network instead of just eating, taking pictures, and leaving as quickly as possible.  We’ll see if anything happens from all that networking.  I know one thing, Seattle is a great food city.  Thanks for another great event Keren.  Also, to all the other chefs, bloggers, and people excited about food I […]

Categories: Sauce, Starches, Vegetable • Tags: Coconut, Cooking Blog, Food, Peanut Sauce, recipe, Sauce, Stir Fry

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Braised Shallot, Ivernia Cheese, Focaccia, and Cab. Sauv. Demi

March 12, 2010 by ericriveracooks

This was part of a four course meal I cooked up for Mindy the other night. She was stressed out so I decided to put on a show…..it’s what I do. I took a large shallot and sauteed all sides then took some wine and braised it in the oven with a little pepper, salt, and minced parsley.   Once the shallot was soft I removed it from the pan then reduced the leftover wine mixture in the pan and worked […]

Categories: Appetizer, Sauce • Tags: Cooking Blog, Demi-Glace, Focaccia, Food, recipe, Sauce, Shallot

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Working on a sauce for gyoza

March 1, 2010 by ericriveracooks

It starts out by taking lemongrass then slowly reducing it in chicken stock over a few hours. Once the lemongrass has infused itself well enough then I work japones peppers into the mix, rice vinegar, sweet chili sauce, star anise, horseradish, ginger, fish sauce, kaffir lime leaves, and a little bit of soy sauce. I need one more go around with it before I get all “Andrea Nguyen” and start making my own gyoza. I work backwards, sauce first! Eric

Categories: Sauce • Tags: Andrea Nguyen, Cooking, Food, Gyoza, recipe, Sauce

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“Pork and Beans”. Fried Bone-in Pork Chop with Cannellini Beans in Sofrito Sauce with Sunchoke Puree

February 27, 2010 by ericriveracooks

(Take those 3 beans out of the front, buy a square plate) Just working on a few things here. Mostly different starch like products I can introduce into a meal without having to go there.  I picked up these sunchokes at the farmers market this past weekend and I wanted to put them to use along with the beans I picked up. It’s basically the root from a species of sunflower. It cooks like a potato and has a nice […]

Categories: Pork, Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Cooking Blog, Dinner, Food, Fried Pork Chop, Jerusalem Artichoke, Pique, Recao, recipe, Sauce, Sofrito, Sunchoke

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Sexy Food: Dry Aged Sirloin with Tarragon Butter Poached Fingerlings with Caramelized Pearl Onions over a Triple Stock Merlot-Demi Glace

February 13, 2010 by ericriveracooks

Sexy food? Yeah, sexy food. Listen up single people on Valentine’s day. You wanna know why you’re still single? It’s because you don’t know a thing about sexy food.  Let me help you. I’m a married dude, I’ve been married for 8 years and my wife and I understand what sexy food is. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, it doesn’t have to be expensive, all you have to do is put your passion, soul, and maybe a little bit […]

Categories: Beef, Duck, Potatoes, Sauce, Vegetable • Tags: Caramelized Onions, Cooking, Demi-Glace, Dinner, Epic Records, Food, Merlot, recipe, Sade, Sauce, Sexy Food, Soldier of Love, Steak, Triple Stock

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