Alaska Cooks

A bottle of good wine goes so well with a nice piece of grilled beef that it seems only natural to include wine in the meal as well. One of my favorites is just a simple red wine reduction drizzled over seared beef serve rare. There are as many varieties of this type [...]

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There’s a bakery here in Anchorage that does a nice lunch trade with wood-fired pizzas, daily soups, a few sandwiches and wraps. I try to stay away, but they have this focaccia that I can’t stay away from. Slather it with garlic mayonnaise, spread on some sprouts, red onions, and smoked turkey sliced really thin, [...]

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Last month I signed up for the Blogging By Mail hosted by Stephanie from Dispensing Happiness. Some eighty-odd food bloggers from around the globe signed up to send out a package of goodies and in return, get one back from someone else on the list. I received an enormous box of Asian [...]

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The peak of fall is gone, the freezer is full of salmon. The tundra on the mountains has gone gold and red, and there’s the smell of gentle decay in the woods. It’s the very end of fall for us, and snow is in the air already. In a land with such sharp and [...]

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Recently I picked up a copy of Peter Reinhart’s “American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza,” and got struck with the idea, the mere chance that I could make real pizza at home. I’ve made lots of attempts over the years; those slightly scary boxed pizza kits, Boboli sponges, making our own dough, or [...]

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