Alaska Cooks

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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One of our favorite meats is pork. It’s kind of hard to find the good types up here - most pork has water or citric acid added, or other flavoring agents that make it taste mushy and a bit unnatural. Thankfully they are labeled as such, so the most minimally processed stuff is [...]

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One of the food sites I keep coming back to, Chubby Hubby, had a great simple dinner menu recommended for Valentine’s Day, and I sort of took his advice on a pre-dinner nibble to tide us over till the main meal was done, which took awhile. Between the prep for Beef Wellington and a bottle [...]

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