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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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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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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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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
It all started with an Instagram photo. It was a slow weekend morning. My wife glanced up from her phone and said, “Man, whatever they’re serving at South for brunch today looks incredible.” “The...
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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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Hard Apple Cider Old Fashioned
It’s October and it’s Alaska PFD time, which are both are ample reasons to be clinking glasses to a fall forward cocktail. Lately, I’ve often been keeping it simple but seasonal by enjoying a nice...
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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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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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