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Thanksgiving: Warm Family Traditions Thanksgiving to me means love, family, food and wonderful memories. Over the years as myself, sister Karen, and brothers Russell and Dennis, have moved away from home and raised our own families, there is one thing we can count on every other year when it is my family’s turn to get together…
Happy Halloween from the Last Frontier! ‘If you go out in the woods today, you’re in for a hairy surprise…If you go out in the woods today, you’ll likely meet a bear’s eyes…It’s Halloween and pumpkins abound, where bears and moose are all around…Today is the day the animals have their picnic!’ By eating the pumpkins on my…
Fall is all about comfort food. Temperatures dipping, termination dust creeping down the mountains, football, a warm blanket with a cozy fire…and my absolute favorite dish of pasta: It doesn’t get much better than that. Fall means warm comfort foods with a serious rustic flair. Good pasta fits that bill perfectly! Especially when it includes ingredients…
The salmon are running, and so are we. To the rivers that is with poles and nets to catch what we need to stock the freezer. It is a summer right of passage here in AK. And although I don’t like combat fishing, I’ll get out there with the masses to enjoy salmon through the…
This summer, I’ve shared two of the easiest Dutch oven recipes we love: Perfect Pineapple Upside Down Cake, and Dutch Oven Potatoes to get anyone unfamiliar with dutch oven cooking off on the right foot. This recipe for Dutch Oven Blueberry Cobbler is the third in the “easy” series before diving into scratch cooking. It works…
When I was younger, I spent 3 whole summers during college living in the wilderness or on a river. The primary method of cooking was by Dutch Oven. Just the thought of it evokes memories of campfire smells, laughter, good friends and fabulous dutch oven cookin’. As we’ve raised our family, dutch oven cooking is…
This is the easiest Dutch Oven recipe that we do and a great place to start if you are a little nervous to dive into dutch oven cooking. Dutch oven potatoes are a family and crowd favorite that we have made plenty of times over the years for groups large and small. I like it because…
One of the best things about rustic cooking in the summer is grilling on the BBQ. Basically, all of our foods we normally cook indoors, we just throw it on the grill. (I have to say though, we BBQ all winter too no matter the weather!) I love that smokey, outdoor flavor that permeates whatever…
I want to be a “Sourdough”. Not a “Cheechacko”…That’s Alaska lingo for a newcomer to Alaska, which is similar to the old west term of “Greenhorn”. I’m not sure I like being called Cheechacko. It sounds like a bad Mexican dish or that you have something stuck in your throat. My goal is to become a…