Alaska Cooks

We’d sworn off pasta for awhile trying to get back into our bikinis for the summer season, but the stuff is like crack. Once you go back, it’s hard to get clean again. And who wants to, really? I passed a car on the highway this week with a bumper sticker that read “I Heart [...]

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First, is it fettuccine or fettucini? I can find it both ways. It’s allegedly spring in Alaska, though we awoke to a dusting of snow on Monday morning, 4 inches in some parts of town. Even by Alaska standards this was late in the season and considered by most to be grossly unfair. The blustery [...]

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Rumaki are appetizers of Japanese origin, usually chicken liver and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, seared, and served with a soy based brown sugar and/or ginger sauce. Although it does sound a bit like something from the 1952 Betty Crocker party cookbook, anything wrapped in bacon has just got to be good. Not so much [...]

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Partner Tricia and I spent the end of April playing on the East Coast, participating in a serious Southern wedding, visiting family, and checking my old stomping grounds. I had forgotten how much of a place’s identity can get wrapped up in what I’ve eaten while there. On those rate occasions when I [...]

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I’ll be on vacation through the end of April. Please check back in May for updates.
Thanks, Jared

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