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Cornmeal Muffins with Blood Orange & Rosemary
Weather: 23 degrees, foggy What I’m listening to: What Can I Say, Brandi Carlile Cornmeal is a remarkable ingredient. It can be baked into savory applications, like my Cheddar Green Chile Cornbread....
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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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Chocolate Irish Cream Pie
Weather: 23 degrees, clear skies What I’m listening to: She Used to Be Mine, Sara Bareilles Over the years I’ve made my fair share of St. Patrick’s Day fare. I don’t shy away from a dinner of...
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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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Egg Salad Bagel Sandwiches with Smoked Salmon
Weather: 53 degrees, sunny What I’m listening to: Stanley Cup Hockey Playoffs On Easter, millions of eggs are hard boiled, rainbow dyed, hidden in all manner of places, and found again with great...
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Bananas Foster Pancakes
Weather: 47 degrees, sunny with gulls calling What I’m listening to: Despacito – Remix, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber Bananas Foster is said to have originated at Brennan’s in New Orleans...
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Toasted Coconut Iced Coffee
Weather: 53 degrees, windy and overcast What I’m listening to: Stronger, Kanye West There is one thing that has been with me throughout motherhood every step of the way, standing the test of time. It...
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Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce
Weather: 48 degrees, rain What I’m listening to: NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Ah, rhubarb. A true local ingredient, quintessentially Alaskan. We love it… or do we? Perhaps surprisingly, I’ve discovered...
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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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Gin & Tonic with Lilac Syrup
Weather: 51 degrees What I’m listening to: Thunder, Imagine Dragons For a brief time every June, Alaska residents can count on the lilacs to show up. Their perfume wafts through on the early summer...
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Fresh Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Weather: 64 degrees What I’m listening to: Trouble, Ray Lamontagne It’s hard to believe, but it’s been years since I posted a chocolate chip cookie recipe. Years. In 2013, I first wrote about my go-to...
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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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Blueberry Rhubarb Galette
Weather: 56 degrees, grey What I’m listening to: the quiet that descends on the Peninsula after the fishing rush is over One of the beautiful things about food and eating locally is that many seasonal...
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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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Blueberry Buttermilk Cornmeal Waffles
Weather: 49 degrees, the sun is about to rise What I’m listening to: Wrecking Ball, Scars on 45 It was my grandmother who taught me long ago that blueberries and cornmeal go together. One of the only...
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Egg Salad Bagel Sandwiches with Smoked Salmon
Weather: 53 degrees, sunny What I’m listening to: Stanley Cup Hockey Playoffs On Easter, millions of eggs are hard boiled, rainbow dyed, hidden in all manner of places, and found again with great...
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Bananas Foster Pancakes
Weather: 47 degrees, sunny with gulls calling What I’m listening to: Despacito – Remix, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber Bananas Foster is said to have originated at Brennan’s in New Orleans...
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Swedish Pancakes with Lemon
I can imagine no better Mother’s Day than waking to breakfast in bed prepared by my pajama-clad clan including handwritten notes, strong mugs of coffee, one of my most favorite recipes, big hugs and...
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