Alaska Cooks

Are we even allowed to talk about eating surf an turf these days? Too 70’s? Something a bit retro about it, and maybe not in the groovy way that Target uses to make buying detergent more exciting. It isn’t hard to put together (I won’t even say ‘make’), the ingredients aren’t hard to [...]

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Early in January, the other Jared over at the Carnivore Project started the Adopt-a-Meat program, hoping to save all the tasty meats of the world from lives of poverty and despair. Something like that. We all signed on to champion our favorite meat dish by preparing it as best we can, and then [...]

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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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After a great holiday weekend we came back with some good leftovers, and some that were a little suspect after three days in a cooler. Tonight we decided to dispense with them all and fire the grill up. It’s that time of year, and having a new grill doesn’t hurt, either. Summer is [...]

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You were warned: spring is a busy time in Alaska, not to mention trying to eke out a living and remodel the house. So far suppers, our main meal of the day (and the ones I generally blather on about), this week have consisted of leftovers, a take-out pizza, meatloaf, and hamburgers. But they were [...]

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