Alaska Cooks

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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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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The salmon are making their way back to us, but are thus far playing uncharacteristically hard to get. Low spring-time temperatures and lots of cloudy days have left the streams cooler than normal. Even though the highs this week have been well into the seventies, the inshore waters are still cold enough to keep [...]

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First, is it fettuccine or fettucini? I can find it both ways. It’s allegedly spring in Alaska, though we awoke to a dusting of snow on Monday morning, 4 inches in some parts of town. Even by Alaska standards this was late in the season and considered by most to be grossly unfair. The blustery [...]

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