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Salmon BLT Sandwiches with Spicy Garlic Mayo
Weather: 58, damp and gray What I’m listening to: Hold My Heart, Sara Bareilles Summer in Alaska always flies by. A flood of people come to visit, our home fills up with guests, our church doubles in...
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Sriracha Roasted Broccoli with Cheddar Cheese
Weather: 48 degrees, heavy rainfall What I’m listening to: My Beloved, Crowder The other day, friends of ours from church brought us a bag of broccoli from their garden. Fresh seasonal food gifts are...
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Quinoa Chili
Weather: 48 degrees, rain for days and fall colors everywhere What I’m listening to: You Are the Best Thing, Ray LaMontagne Although the calendar always disagrees with Alaska, autumn has been surging...
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Baked Pumpkin French Toast with Ginger Orange Cream Cheese
Weather: 43 degrees, mostly sunny What I’m listening to: Love, Matt White In preparation for making the very first pumpkin dish of the season, I took to my cupboards and pulled out my cinnamon, nutmeg,...
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Teriyaki Salmon Bowls with Snap Peas & Sriracha
Weather: 39 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: Vultures, John Mayer Last week marked the third anniversary of the day I first mustered the courage to hit the publish button and put this unexpected...
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Zuppa Toscana {Creamy Potato & Kale Soup with Italian Sausage}
Weather: 23 degrees, clear and dark What I’m listening to: To Build a Home, The Cinematic Orchestra The big news around here is that our family is moving into a new home just down the road a ways from...
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Spinach Salad with Pomegranate & Pear
Weather: 10 degrees, shimmery moon glow on the water What I’m listening to: Photograph, Ed Sheeran Just before Christmas, our middle-school-aged neighbor friend, Jace, walked up to me in church with a...
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Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Pasta
Weather: 32 degrees, unbelievably clear and snowless for January What I’m listening to: Soldier, Ingrid Michaelson There are those nights. You know the ones. The nights that come at the end of those...
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Lentil Soup with Italian Sausage & Chard
This recipe was first seen in my weekly food column in Alaska Dispatch News. Weather: 27 degrees, monochromatic and a little dreary. But still always beautiful. What I’m listening to: Cripple Me,...
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Pesto Pasta with Asparagus & Sun Dried Tomatoes
Weather: 45 degrees, sunshine What I’m listening to: Hold On, The Gospel Whiskey Runners It’s April, Easter is almost here, the snow has melted, and the sun is shining brightly outside until nearly 9...
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Honey Sriracha Salmon Lettuce Wraps
Weather: 36 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: See You Again, Wiz Khalifa A couple of weeks ago I got to spend four days up in Anchorage participating in a food styling photo shoot with Alaska...
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Pesto Chicken with Mozzarella & Tomato
Weather: 48 degrees, partly cloudy What I’m listening to: I Believe, Christina Perri Recently, I was asked if I like to host parties or if I enjoy having people over. My answer: you’ll find me in the...
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Smoked Salmon Pasta in Garlic Cream Sauce
Weather: 45 degrees What I’m listening to: birds chirping, waves lapping I’m sitting on a chair in the early morning by the picture windows in dining room, facing the back deck, taking in the views –...
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Lemon Chicken with Asparagus
Hello readers. I spent the first ten days of this month traveling from Alaska to the country of Haiti and back. Our group of 16 helped build a church in a remote village on the island of La Gonave and...
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Halibut Tacos with Mango Salsa & Lime Crema
Weather: 54 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: the way it sounds when cars drive by on the highway after it rains While here visiting this last week, a family member caught a halibut in Kachemak...
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Crab & Cream Cheese Wontons
Weather: 57 degrees, lots of rain What I’m listening to: the slosh of the washing machine A lot of times I get recipe inspiration while trying a dish at a restaurant or in someone’s home, because that...
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Chicken Sausages, Sweet Potatoes & Balsamic
Weather: 19 degrees, brisk What I’m listening to: the jingle of the bell on the door of the shop in which I’m sitting, the clanks of tools, the whoosh of cars rushing past outside My sister and I were...
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Curried Chicken & Rice Soup with Apples
Weather: 21 degrees, frosty What I’m listening to: the rumble of a diesel engine Recently, an email popped up in my inbox from a reader who was raving about an old recipe from my first six weeks of...
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Black Bean Enchilada Skillet with Butternut Squash
An awesome email showed up in my inbox a few weeks back after I wrote a newspaper column featuring this Butternut Squash & Black Bean Enchilada Skillet. It made my day and I wanted to share it with...
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Chickpea Curry with Kale
Weather: 39 degrees (why is it raining at the end of December in Alaska?) What I’m listening to: the whir of a fan This recipe was inspired by the leftover kale I had on hand from last week’s breakfast...
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Barbecue Chicken Quesadilla
My eleven year old son is obsessed with football. Tossing the football outside in the snow, playing football video games inside, watching all the classic football movies in search of his favorite,...
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Homemade Sloppy Joes with Ground Turkey
When the 7.1 earthquake rocked the southcentral part of our state early this week, Alaskans picked up their phones and laptops, taking to social media in droves. Everyone from the Kenai Peninsula to...
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Cilantro Lime Salmon Baked in Foil
Weather: 45 degrees, slightly overcast What I’m listening to: Birds calling over the rush of the Kenai River During breakup season, we Alaskans break up with a lot of things. We break up with slushy...
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Strawberry Spinach Salad with Blueberry & Feta
Weather: 57 degrees, bright blue skies What I’m listening to: Show Me Love, Hundred Waters Memorial Day weekend in Alaska marks schools out for summer, RV’s hitting the roadways, and fishermen filling...
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Honey Sriracha Shrimp
Weather: 55 degrees, pouring rain What I’m listening to: Sunday Morning, Maroon 5 The life of a food writer is often a funny thing. On this particular day, with a deadline looming, I found myself...
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Salmon Taco Salad
Weather: 54 degrees, pouring rain What I’m listening to: Fire and the Flood, Vance Joy When good friends from San Diego arrived for vacation, we made the drive from Anchorage to Kenai, making a few...
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Grilled Chicken Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes & Pesto Dressing
Weather: not grill weather, ironically enough What I’m listening to: playful puppy sounds If you’ve been firing up your grill this summer, it’s likely you may have some leftover grilled proteins on...
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Weather: 63 degrees, mostly sunny What I’m listening to: There Will Be Time, Mumford & Sons I’m in the process of moving out of the adorable log cabin in the woods with the green metal roof and...
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Turkey Bacon Bagel Melts
As we came to the end of summer, I was running out of creative ideas for what to feed the kids for lunch every day. We are all growing tired of the standard kid fare, which often includes yogurt, a...
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Red Curry Lentil & Sweet Potato Soup
Weather: 35 degrees, clear with stars twinkling What I’m listening to: wind gusting As we experienced our first light snowfall of the year this week, I find myself not even remotely prepared to let go...
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Sticky Chicken Rice Bowls
Weather: 35 degrees, drizzly What I’m listening to: Light Me Up, Ingrid Michaelson The carved pumpkins are gone, the Halloween costumes are put away, the candy is stashed for mom-supervised rationing....
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Spiced Roasted Acorn Squash + A Huge Announcement
I’d like to hope that we enter into each new year with a sense of optimism and possibility. We get a clean slate, a fresh start, a blank page on which to leave our mark. Now that it’s 2017, I am...
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Pasta with Mushrooms, Bacon, Spinach & Goat Cheese
Weather: 4 degrees What I’m listening to: Shape of You, Ed Sheeran It’s amazing how the food preferences or dietary needs of those around us can shift the way we cook, sometimes without our even...
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Tequila Lime Chicken Wings
Weather: 29 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: Gimme, Night Lights The first time I ever sipped a jalapeño margarita was in Balboa Park in San Diego. It was dark, the twinkle lights were casting a...
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Lemon Chicken & Rice Soup
Weather: 18 degrees, chilly and frosty What I’m listening to: You In the End, Matt Hires This year’s cold and flu season has been brutal, one of the worst I remember in years. I feel like one of more...
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Goat Cheese Burger with Fig Jam & Arugula
Weather: -13 degrees, windchill of -27 What I’m listening to: my daughter clanking her spoon on the side of her cereal bowl There are many ways to my heart where food is concerned come Valentine’s Day....
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Chipotle Chicken Tacos with Garlic Lime Crema
Weather: -6 degrees, sunshine and spots of fog What I’m listening to: Ten Goodbyes, Tim Atlas I’m a big fan of Taco Tuesday. And Taco Thursday. And tacos any day. Heck, I’m even a fan of breakfast...
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Soft Boiled Egg with Asparagus on Toast
Weather: 12 degrees, sunny What I’m listening to: birds chirping outside, signaling spring is near Soft-boiled eggs will forever remind me of my grandma Susan, who often served them for breakfast. She...
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Baby Red Potatoes with Garlic Butter & Green Beans
Weather: 43 degrees, a bit of hail earlier What I’m listening to: Troubles Will Be Gone, The Tallest Man on Earth Easter is just over a week away and many folks are deciding on their dinner menus....
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Spinach-Artichoke Stuffed Shells
Weather: 35 degrees, partly cloudy, chance of rain later What I’m listening to: birds chirping Sometimes in the process of writing a column and a cookbook and a food blog, my mind gets so jumbled with...
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Smoked Sausage & Vegetable Foil Packet
Weather: 67 degrees, puffy white clouds against blue sky What I’m listening to: a weed whacker, a wind chime, a motorcycle rumbling by Foil packet meals are awesome for summer, whether you’re around...
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Broiled Salmon with Birch Syrup Glaze
Weather: 55 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: Crosby, Stills, & Nash On our way home from our honeymoon in Talkeetna a few weeks ago, my wife and I stopped at Kahiltna Birchworks. I made sure...
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Halibut Piccata over Angel Hair Pasta
Weather: 60 degrees, steady rain What I’m listening to: Disney Channel During fishing season, I get a lot of requests for salmon and halibut recipes. I think back to all the summers past, scanning...
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Creamy Mushroom Pasta with Lemon & Herbs
A few weeks back I had the privilege of being one of the keynote speakers for the Kenai Peninsula’s 5th annual Harvest Moon Local Food Festival, a week full of events highlighting and celebrating local...
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Thai Curry Noodle Soup with Halibut
With all of the vibrant fall colors and chilly autumn rain we’ve been having, I was more than ready this week to cozy up to a steaming, spicy bowl of soup. When I posted a photo of this dish to...
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Creamy Spinach & Garlic Spaghetti Squash
As we rode our bicycles down the bike path on Kenai Spur Highway, with our yellow lab, Rosie, running beside us, my wife turned to me and said, “I really love fall. I don’t think I ever realized how...
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Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon & Goat Cheese
I’m not gonna lie. Working with large winter squash can be a real pain. When I worked in the restaurant kitchen, I had a beautiful roasted beet appetizer that I always made on my station. Many times a...
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Swedish Meatballs
The flu is going around something fierce. Two members of our family were really sick last week, which amounted to school absences, missed play rehearsals, and skipped hockey practices. To my complete...
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Ginger Pork Lettuce Wraps
December can often be a decadent month, filled with candy, cookies, eggnog, and rich, filling plates of food. It tends to be a time of excess and splurging when it comes to our social calendar, our...
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Baked Chicken Wings with Bourbon Birch Syrup Glaze
Just in time for Super Bowl, I bring you an irresistible plate of chicken wings. This dish is a sneak peek recipe from my forthcoming book, The Alaska from Scratch Cookbook, which will be hitting the...
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