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Glazed Maple Scones with Oats
The word on the street is that, when it comes to fall flavors, pumpkin spice is out and maple is in. The masses have grown weary of pumpkin spice everything, a phenomenon that’s grown since Starbucks...
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Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon & Goat Cheese
I’m not gonna lie. Working with large winter squash can be a real pain. When I worked in the restaurant kitchen, I had a beautiful roasted beet appetizer that I always made on my station. Many times a...
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Pull Apart Dinner Rolls
When I was growing up, there was one item that always made an appearance at Wilson holiday gatherings: Carol’s Rolls. While the turkey and the stuffing, the gravy and the sweet potatoes may have been...
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Smoked Salmon Frittata with Potatoes & Goat Cheese
I developed this recipe for salmonlife.org. * * * Our family often receives packages of homemade smoked salmon as gifts from neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Every pouch of smoky...
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White Christmas Cocktail
Thanksgiving is over and I know you may have gobs of leftovers in your refrigerator. I’m not going to help you remedy that in the ways you might expect. This year, rather than writing the obligatory...
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies with Peppermint
When I asked readers on social media to name the holiday cookie they absolutely have to have every year, I received dozens of responses. As I expected, there were the classic favorites: spiced...
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Swedish Meatballs
The flu is going around something fierce. Two members of our family were really sick last week, which amounted to school absences, missed play rehearsals, and skipped hockey practices. To my complete...
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Spicy Halibut & Cream Cheese Wontons
For this post, I’m partnering with Catch 49, an exciting new Alaska seafood company. What I love about Catch 49 is that I know all about where my seafood was caught, who caught it, and even the name of...
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Overnight Baked French Toast with Cinnamon Crumble
I received a text message from my wife asking if I would be willing to help her cook breakfast for her staff for their early morning staff meeting. “Of course,” I quickly replied. “What do you have in...
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Ginger Pork Lettuce Wraps
December can often be a decadent month, filled with candy, cookies, eggnog, and rich, filling plates of food. It tends to be a time of excess and splurging when it comes to our social calendar, our...
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Chocolate Pudding Cake
You know those recipes that you forget you like, those dishes that go unmade for months and even years without a thought as if hibernating somewhere in a cozy den of lost recipes? Suddenly you’ll visit...
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Baked Chicken Wings with Bourbon Birch Syrup Glaze
Just in time for Super Bowl, I bring you an irresistible plate of chicken wings. This dish is a sneak peek recipe from my forthcoming book, The Alaska from Scratch Cookbook, which will be hitting the...
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Honey Sriracha Shrimp
Weather: 55 degrees, pouring rain What I’m listening to: Sunday Morning, Maroon 5 The life of a food writer is often a funny thing. On this particular day, with a deadline looming, I found myself...
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Ginger Molasses Cookies
Weather: 70 degrees What I’m listening to: wind chimes Those who know me well are aware that I have a strong affinity for crystallized ginger. I can snack on it all hours of the day. I’ve eaten it...
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Salmon Taco Salad
Weather: 54 degrees, pouring rain What I’m listening to: Fire and the Flood, Vance Joy When good friends from San Diego arrived for vacation, we made the drive from Anchorage to Kenai, making a few...
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Coffee Cake with Blueberries & Nectarines
It was a warm summer morning. Two of the kids were outside picking wildflowers with one of our California visitors. I was in the kitchen slicing ripe nectarines while the stand mixer worked creaming...
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Grilled Chicken Salad with Sun Dried Tomatoes & Pesto Dressing
Weather: not grill weather, ironically enough What I’m listening to: playful puppy sounds If you’ve been firing up your grill this summer, it’s likely you may have some leftover grilled proteins on...
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
Weather: 63 degrees, mostly sunny What I’m listening to: There Will Be Time, Mumford & Sons I’m in the process of moving out of the adorable log cabin in the woods with the green metal roof and...
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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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