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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Been out of town a bit, chasing steelhead in the southeastern coastal rain forest on the “Lost Coast” of Alaska. Turned into an adventure, but what we’re about right now is the first real food that we ate when we got back. We all know I love me some steak: I even seared one over [...]

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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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I’ve never really liked the VD celebration, the ubiquitous pink and red, the fight for reservations at a place you might not normally go, the vicious markup on flowers the week prior, the nasty “sweetheart candies” - BE MINE, MARRY ME, etc. I do, however like a chance to do something special for the lovely [...]

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