Wild About Wild Mushrooms – Lentil and Wild Porcini Pâté
Wild Alaskan porcini mushrooms star in this pâté recipe – the perfect snack or appetizer served on rice crackers, summer squash or zucchini. Many years ago, Jack and I took a mushroom foraging class...
View ArticleHot off the Grill: Two-Cheese Alaska Salmon Burgers
Wild Alaska Salmon on pan toasted homemade English muffins, wild Alaska blueberries and a big mug of coffee – a wild way to start the weekend. This is easy. Take a wild salmon fillet, remove the skin,...
View ArticleSalmon (or any fish) in Saffron Broth with New Potatoes
Salmon worked wonderfully in this easy yet exotic meal, but halibut would also shine as would walleye, rockfish and most other fillets. Saffron, the dried stigmas of crocus flowers, imbues food with a...
View ArticleWonderfully Silky, Sumptuous Chanterelle Mushroom Soup
Forget everything you know about mushroom soup and slip a spoon into chanterelle magic. This past fall when Costco (which we can now have delivered to our home in the Alaska bush) offered fresh,...
View ArticleSalmon and Bleu Cheese Appetizers with Spicy Mayo
Served hot or cold, these appetizers will go fast at your next get together. Or reimagine them served in a toasted bun as a salmon meatball po’ boy! Looking forward to a recent Friday night...
View ArticleTwo-Cheese Stuffed Artichokes Appetizers – (Shhh! It’s really a meal)
Days on end with temperatures stuck below zero, occasionally warming into the single digits or teens to snow. Winter is here, a time when comfort food is never more comforting. For the first time in...
View ArticleAlaska Moose Wonton Soup
Hot, spicy, hearty – a perfect meal for this frigid Alaska weather. Nothing beats hot soup on a cold day. What about after a hike on a cold day? Yup. Hot, hearty soup. Jack upped the ante on this soup...
View ArticleAnd for Dessert… a Blueberry Cloud
“I feel pretty – Oh, so pretty – That the city should give me its key – A committee – Should be organized to honor me – la la la la.” What? You’ve never heard singing meringue? I have a board in my...
View ArticleThree Cheese Dungeness Crab Ravioli
Giant ravioli stuffed with creamy cheese and sweet Dungeness Crab. Happy 2021 from The Lake! “Jack?” It was Donny on the phone. “Come down to the beach and get some crab! Bring a tote. There’s lots!”...
View ArticleBreakfast Panna Cotta – Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary
A breakfast fit for a celebration – now where’s my champagne? As it happens sometimes, we received a random box of ingredients, this time thanks to the Farmers to Families program. The box included a...
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