Alaska Cooks

Everyone has those days when work hasn’t gone great, you get home late, the dog is mad at you for being left alone, the fridge is empty, and you just want to sink into the couch. This is for those days. One of my favorite kitchen-sink dinners, sauteed shrimp with crusty bread and wine, is [...]

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Gyoza are Japanese dumplings often called potstickers in the US. A sushi place I frequent has really good ones, but they never seem to put enough of them in the order, so I was thinking about giving them a go when this month’s Cook’s Illustrated came. I like this magazine because it is more than [...]

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The other day I had a hankering for ribs - they just sounded good, never mind the fact that I’ve never cooked them myself, I don’t really ever eat them, and it’s gonna be hard to keep a grill going for 3 hours tonight after work. After a quick perusal of the options available I [...]

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One of our favorite meats is pork. It’s kind of hard to find the good types up here - most pork has water or citric acid added, or other flavoring agents that make it taste mushy and a bit unnatural. Thankfully they are labeled as such, so the most minimally processed stuff is [...]

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Being sick with the flu for the last couple of days has definitely taken my mind off of food to the point where I haven’t wanted to eat. Time to go old school. I was a chicken noodle (Campbell’s) kid, and still turn to soup when I’m sick or down or just outright lazy. [...]

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