Alaska Cooks

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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For the last couple of years I’ve been fortunate enough to spend Memorial Day weekend on a beach across Kachemak Bay from Homer, Alaska. Originally billed as a kayak trip, it’s evolved to become a four-day party with the option to kayak. Boats are chartered to drop us and enough gear to survive for months [...]

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A long week at the office, at the clinic, in the garden (to be), and time spent remodeling the house haven’t left us with much freedom to play in the kitchen. Unfortunately for cooks, summer months in Alaska give short shrift to indoor sports, and frankly it’s time to enjoy it. The trees are finally [...]

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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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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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