Alaska Cooks

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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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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