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Maple Cheesecake with Spiced Pecan Graham Cracker Crust
Weather: 24 degrees, clear skies, wind blowing snow off the trees What I’m listening to: Lego.com games being played Cheesecake has been battling its way up the Thanksgiving dessert food chain for many...
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Baked Brie with Cranberry Chutney
Weather: 0 degrees (!) and windy What I’m listening to: Touch the Sky, Julie Fowlis Brie is my absolute favorite cheese. I only indulge in it a couple times a year, usually around the holidays. Brie...
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Holiday Couscous
Weather: -8 degrees, the full moon is about to set over Cook Inlet What I’m listening to: On This Winter’s Night, Lady Antebellum Pomegranates have a special place in my memories of childhood in...
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Tomato Basil Spaghetti Squash Bake
Weather: 25 degrees, getting darker every day What I’m listening to: Song for a Winter’s Night, Sarah McLachlan Ok folks, I have a problem. I have what I’m calling the Food Blogger Cookbook Curse. You...
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Slow-Cooker Chickpea Stew with Apricots
See this recipe featured on SkinnyMs.com. Weather: 16 degrees, clear What I’m listening to: American Idol auditions I’m pretty stinking excited to report that I already fulfilled one of my New Year’s...
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Grilled Brie with Figs & Thyme Honey
Food bloggers are notorious for their prop collections. We use props of all kinds for food styling and photography, for serving and entertaining. I find props at the farmer’s market, Alaska antique or...
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Apple, Pecan & Feta Green Salad
Weather: 61 degrees, sunny with tiny little clouds dotting the sky What I’m listening to: Free Fallin’, John Mayer I fell in love with a salad like this one years ago when we lived in beautiful...
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Pumpkin Chai Tea Latte
Weather: 48 degrees, high winds and blowing rain What I’m listening to: Boat Song, JJ Heller This recipe has a little story. Last fall, I made this lovely cup of pumpkin chai amazingness on a whim and...
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Acorn Squash Stuffed with Southwestern Quinoa
Weather: a crisp 39 degrees and lovely What I’m listening to: Resta Con Me, Ludovico Einaudi Now that zucchini is on its way out of season, being replaced by it’s larger, heftier, fall-colored...
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Roasted Tomato Soup
Weather: 27 degrees, blue skies and frost What I’m listening to: a small plane overhead and the laundry tossing in the dryer Last spring, I was poring over the cookbook section of the Anchorage Barnes...
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Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Green Apples & Bacon
Last week, due to the the pressures of parenting, puppy-raising, and work, I had made a deliberate decision that I would try to make my life easier by taking some shortcuts in the kitchen. I entered...
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Cast Iron Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Drop Biscuits
Weather: 45 degrees, sunshine and glorious fall colors What I’m listening to: Autumn, George Winston She was a beauty, this pot pie. Oh yes. Delightful. That creamy chicken and vegetable filling and...
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Pumpkin French Toast Stuffed with Orange Cream Cheese
Weather: 46 degrees, dark and clear What I’m listening to: my daughter humming This Old Man while coloring at the table in her pajamas Last fall, I did a guest post for Lil Blue Boo where I made some...
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Apple Butterscotch Blondies
Today, Alaska from Scratch turned 2 years old! We’ve come quite a long way in the last year since our first blogiversary. I couldn’t have done any of this without my amazing readers and fans. So, thank...
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White Bean Soup with Spinach, Sweet Potatoes & Turkey Sausage
Weather: 43 degrees, thousands of golden leaves on the ground What I’m listening to: puppy paws clicking on laminate floors We had the kind of rain yesterday where the skies remain a deep, dark grey...
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Spiced Maple Pumpkin Breakfast Quinoa
Sometimes recipes are like relationships, at least for me. For example, when a recipe goes wrong or needs tweaking, some food bloggers will remake the recipe over and over again the same day or the...
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic & Orange
Weather: 43 degrees, very wet and gray What I’m listening to: falling rain, one of my favorite sounds Did you know that roasted brussels sprouts are simply dreamy? They glisten and shine and have...
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Spicy Sweet Potato Cheese Fries
I have a beautiful adoptive sister named Gwen who, years ago, began putting cheese on wedges of roasted, seasoned sweet potato to get her boys to eat sweet potatoes. At first, I thought this idea was...
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Butterscotch Bread Pudding
Comfort food. We love it. It’s inviting, it’s familiar, it’s warm – like the texture of a favorite, soft blanket or that feeling that washes over you when you hear an old, nostalgic song playing on the...
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Ginger Pumpkin Tart
Weather: 39 degrees What I’m listening to: Oceans (Where Feet May Fail), Hillsong I’ve been thinking a lot lately about influence. We all have it. We each leverage it in different ways, whether it’s...
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Roasted Chicken with Garlic Sage Butter & Pomegranate Glaze
I had been dreaming about a stunning roasted chicken with pomegranate and black pepper glaze since I was inspired by my blogging pal, Meredith, from In Sock Monkey Slippers over year ago. When I was...
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Spinach with Feta & Lemon
Weather: 10 degrees, clouds and wind, snow expected later today What I’m listening to: Despicable Me on the television My go-to ways to eat spinach are raw in salads, blended into smoothies, and cooked...
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Pear & Cranberry Crisp
Weather: 25 degrees, partly cloudy over fresh snow What I’m listening to: Thanksgiving, George Winston I’m thankful for my dishwasher. It’s been broken for a couple of weeks and I miss it, the way it...
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Kitchen Tip: How to Roast a Whole Pumpkin & Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree
I have found that home cooks, like me, are most likely to want to cook as much as they possibly can from scratch during the holidays. We want to make those special, heirloom recipes we set aside to...
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Gingerbread Waffles
Weather: 27 degrees, cloudy What I’m listening to: Love Came Down at Christmas, High Street Hymns Remember when we were kids and the holidays were the longest, most agonizing wait? When the excitement...
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Easy Chicken Chile Verde & White Bean Soup
Weather: -15, dark (blizzard warning for later tonight) What I’m listening to: The Christmas Box, Paul Cardall The day after Thanksgiving, I wanted to make a brothy, soul-warming soup with the turkey...
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Quinoa Chili
Weather: 48 degrees, rain for days and fall colors everywhere What I’m listening to: You Are the Best Thing, Ray LaMontagne Although the calendar always disagrees with Alaska, autumn has been surging...
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Baked Pumpkin French Toast with Ginger Orange Cream Cheese
Weather: 43 degrees, mostly sunny What I’m listening to: Love, Matt White In preparation for making the very first pumpkin dish of the season, I took to my cupboards and pulled out my cinnamon, nutmeg,...
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Zuppa Toscana {Creamy Potato & Kale Soup with Italian Sausage}
Weather: 23 degrees, clear and dark What I’m listening to: To Build a Home, The Cinematic Orchestra The big news around here is that our family is moving into a new home just down the road a ways from...
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Lentil Soup with Italian Sausage & Chard
This recipe was first seen in my weekly food column in Alaska Dispatch News. Weather: 27 degrees, monochromatic and a little dreary. But still always beautiful. What I’m listening to: Cripple Me,...
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Chicken Sausages, Sweet Potatoes & Balsamic
Weather: 19 degrees, brisk What I’m listening to: the jingle of the bell on the door of the shop in which I’m sitting, the clanks of tools, the whoosh of cars rushing past outside My sister and I were...
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Pumpkin Coffee Cake with Pecan Crumble
Weather: 10 degrees, glad it’s above zero What I’m listening to: Leave A Light On, Jenny & Tyler Amidst the gobs of turkey and fixins, the mountains of mashed potatoes, the rivers of gravy, and the...
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Curried Chicken & Rice Soup with Apples
Weather: 21 degrees, frosty What I’m listening to: the rumble of a diesel engine Recently, an email popped up in my inbox from a reader who was raving about an old recipe from my first six weeks of...
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Smoked Salmon Bagel with Green Onions
Weather: 21 degrees, stars twinkling What I’m listening to: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Sam Smith One of the cruel realities of food blogging is that, when you begin blogging, you often...
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Black Bean Enchilada Skillet with Butternut Squash
An awesome email showed up in my inbox a few weeks back after I wrote a newspaper column featuring this Butternut Squash & Black Bean Enchilada Skillet. It made my day and I wanted to share it with...
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Chickpea Curry with Kale
Weather: 39 degrees (why is it raining at the end of December in Alaska?) What I’m listening to: the whir of a fan This recipe was inspired by the leftover kale I had on hand from last week’s breakfast...
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Baked Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Weather: 32 degrees, stars twinkling before sunrise What I’m listening to: Homebird, Foy Vance I’m all about starting this new year off right beginning with breakfast each morning. There was a brief...
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Homemade Sloppy Joes with Ground Turkey
When the 7.1 earthquake rocked the southcentral part of our state early this week, Alaskans picked up their phones and laptops, taking to social media in droves. Everyone from the Kenai Peninsula to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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