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Raspberry Mint Limeade
Weather: 54 degrees, rain off and on What I’m listening to: Don’t Mind, Kent Jones A few weekends ago, my girlfriend and I went to flip for Reds with friends along the banks of the Kenai River. It was...
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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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Sauteed Cider Apples
Weather: 50 degrees, rain. What I’m listening to: Heart & Mind, Kina Grannis I am finding in life that there is not always one precise moment when we become the things we are. When I started Alaska...
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Peanut Butter Blondies
Weather: 46 degrees, heavy rain What I’m listening to: Flow Like Wine, Gabe Dixon If I had to make a list of things I’d take to survive on a deserted island, I’d likely include a supply of peanut...
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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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Ricotta Toast with Pears, Almonds & Maple Syrup
Weather: 29 degrees, frosty What I’m listening to: Starboy, The Weekend featuring Daft Punk One of the most common misconceptions about chefs and those who work in restaurant kitchens is that we eat...
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The Best Chocolate Cake
Weather: 35 degrees, unusual rain What I’m listening to: Call You Home, Kelvin Jones Cake has a certain intimidation factor associated with it that many other baked goods do not. Some fear that their...
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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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Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Thyme Butter
Hello readers, I’ll admit it’s tremendously difficult to write about food when the world is so much different than it was just a week ago. It seems almost trite, possibly superficial to talk about...
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Moscow Mule with Pomegranate & Orange
Weather: 21 degrees, feels like 12. What I’m listening to: Holy War, Alicia Keys I know for me, it’s easy to get all wrapped up in the food on Thanksgiving. The menu, the timing of what to cook when,...
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Quick & Easy Chocolate Fudge
Weather: 20 degrees, fresh snow What I’m listening to: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Sam Smith Fudge is a holiday essential. As people gather around the array of cookies and confections,...
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Frosted Christmas Cookies
Weather: 12 degrees, blue skies after last night’s snow storm What I’m listening to: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Echosmith Every December, I turn on the holiday music, pull out this recipe, and...
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Kale Salad with Goat Cheese, Orange & Pomegranate
Weather: 0 degrees, clear What I’m listening to: if only the twinkling of Christmas lights had a sound The end of the year always brings with it bittersweet reflections – memories happy and painful...
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Golden Milk
Weather: 10 degrees, dense fog What I’m listening to: the sounds of an airport gate on New Years Day Often, there’s somewhat of a delay when it comes to food trends reaching Alaska. At the beginning of...
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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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Coconut Panna Cotta with Grapefruit Gelée
Weather: 25 degrees, snow What I’m listening to: the jingle of our puppy’s collar as she plays on the living room rug When I awoke last week to -23 degree temperatures here on the Kenai Peninsula, I...
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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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