Alaska Cooks

For the last couple of years I’ve been fortunate enough to spend Memorial Day weekend on a beach across Kachemak Bay from Homer, Alaska. Originally billed as a kayak trip, it’s evolved to become a four-day party with the option to kayak. Boats are chartered to drop us and enough gear to survive for months [...]

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The salmon are making their way back to us, but are thus far playing uncharacteristically hard to get. Low spring-time temperatures and lots of cloudy days have left the streams cooler than normal. Even though the highs this week have been well into the seventies, the inshore waters are still cold enough to keep [...]

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You were warned: spring is a busy time in Alaska, not to mention trying to eke out a living and remodel the house. So far suppers, our main meal of the day (and the ones I generally blather on about), this week have consisted of leftovers, a take-out pizza, meatloaf, and hamburgers. But they were [...]

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A long week at the office, at the clinic, in the garden (to be), and time spent remodeling the house haven’t left us with much freedom to play in the kitchen. Unfortunately for cooks, summer months in Alaska give short shrift to indoor sports, and frankly it’s time to enjoy it. The trees are finally [...]

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So birthday number 35 came and went, but the birthday fairy did leave leave behind a Cuisinart panini griddle. One of those things I have perhaps coveted, but never thought to buy for myself. Not only did I get a sandwich press, my partner Tricia (aka the Birthday Fairy) had prepped a great plate [...]

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