Alaska Cooks

The longer days and sunshine have pushed winter out, and we’ve all got a healthy dose of spring fever. There is still plenty of snow in the mountains above the city, and lots of cleanup left to do here in town. It’s that time of year again, when for good or ill, Anchorage has [...]

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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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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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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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We are equal-opportunity meat eaters and seafood falls into the “yes, please” category. We are fortunate to both live in Alaska where seafood is usually available for the plundering, and also to be serious about harvesting it with fly rods. Sadly though, it is that time of year when the preserved stocks left from last [...]

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