Alaska Cooks

Say the title of this post aloud three times fast. Anyway. We live in the land of salmon, and there are lots of fish here for the taking, yet this is the time of year when it can be hard to get excited about salmon for dinner. Again. In the South of my youth, fish [...]

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Early in January, the other Jared over at the Carnivore Project started the Adopt-a-Meat program, and this was supposed to be a part of that. Life got in the way and this post is past it’s due date. Sorry, other Jared. I owe you one.
It’s the time of year when those [...]

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Even after sending lots of salmon and halibut south for the family to fight over, my freezer is still overflowing with tasty reminders of the summer sun and days on the water. It is never as good this time of year as it was when we caught, but the memories of the time catching it [...]

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Week before last we scored a free halibut charter with a group from the office and headed down to Seward, Alaska, a little fishing town on the Kenai Peninsula. Charter boats usually go out with 6 fisherman, a captain, and a mate. A place on the boat usually costs $150 to $300, and that [...]

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The red salmon are finally flooding back into the Kenai and Russian Rivers. I’m a fly fishing addict and partial to hunting rainbow trout, but June is the time of year for filling the freezer with fresh reds. We’ve taken the raft down the river a few times already and done well, but [...]

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