Alaska Cooks

The wonderfully talented Melissa at Traveler’s Lunchbox started a great meme, asking other bloggers to help her create a list of food bloggers’ top picks for things they’ve eaten and think that everyone should eat at least once before they die. It’s grown around the web, and Sam over at the lovely re-designed [...]

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When I was little and my mother baked cookies, my brother and I used to squabble over who got to lick the bowl and who had dibs on the mixer paddles. I forget now which was better, but I do remember who got what was quite important to two small sugar-deprived boys. [...]

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Week before last we scored a free halibut charter with a group from the office and headed down to Seward, Alaska, a little fishing town on the Kenai Peninsula. Charter boats usually go out with 6 fisherman, a captain, and a mate. A place on the boat usually costs $150 to $300, and that [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posting this past month. It may seem like I’m trying to commit blogicide, but that’s really not the case. Summer here in Alaska is busy enough with all of us trying to cram in a year’s worth of sunshine into three months. Add in a house remodel [...]

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