Alaska Cooks

It was 45 degrees and raining in Anchorage, and didn’t feel much like summer was almost here. We had left work early on Friday afternoon, trying to sneak out of town ahead of the Memorial Day weekend traffic. So had everyone else, and it was a long, slow ride down the Kenai Peninsula [...]

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Our other main meal on the beach over the holiday weekend (besides gigantic platters of French toast, eggs, sausages, pancakes, and hash browns), was a serious BBQ session. The Katie and Tyler part of the team had wisely pre-made a vat of homemade beans, home brewed cornbread, and prepped the ingredients for a great Asian [...]

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The other day I had a hankering for ribs - they just sounded good, never mind the fact that I’ve never cooked them myself, I don’t really ever eat them, and it’s gonna be hard to keep a grill going for 3 hours tonight after work. After a quick perusal of the options available I [...]

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I think growing up in the South instilled in me the belief that a meal needs meat of some sort to be complete (hell, they serve “sidemeats” down there), and so I guess I eat it often compared to some folks, vegetarian, vegan (shudder) or otherwise. I got a laugh out of the whole Adkins [...]

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