Alaska Cooks

My dad’s parents were a large part of my life growing up in North Carolina. I remember them at holidays big and small, birthdays, tractor driving, Easter egg hunts, shooting, fishing trips. My mother’s parents did not live long enough for me to know them. My folks moved across the country to California [...]

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Ever notice that we eat the simplest stuff in the morning? A perfect breakfast takes five minutes to cook, and that’s moving groggily because you aren’t awake. If you have fresh fruit it takes even less time. Peel, slice and eat. When I was a kid at summer camp the counselor used to [...]

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One of the things that I like best about having a blog based about food is the sense of needing to keep experimenting and trying new things in order to keep it interesting. I’ve been branching out bit lately from my standard grilled beast and salad. This past week was kind of a wash as [...]

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One of my favorite dinners as a single guy (B.T. - before Tricia) was simple - just standing at the sink eating prosciutto and big chunks of fresh crusty bread, still warm from the oven. I’d dunk it in olive oil sprinkled with sea salt, chasing bread with wine and slivers of reggiano sliced fine [...]

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We’re at that in-between time in Alaska. The rest of the country is warm and soft, but spring is still a ways off for us. Today was spitting snow and windy, a cold proposition at 18 degrees. We want to be outside 24-7 after a long winter, but outside of skiing and snowshoeing, prudence advises [...]

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