Semiserious Chefs

My parents treated us to a visit at The Reindeer Farm in Palmer. It was a beautiful short drive from Anchorage, about 30 minutes on the Glenn and Old Glenn Highways. I was really excited to find out that you get to go in with the herd to feed and pet them! Nathan had a […]

It’s a pretty well known fact that my go-to tea of choice is often a gentle but vibrant cup of Assam. This week I thought I would try another tea from ‘India,’ and picked out a single estate ceylon. Yes. Well I am an uninformed idiot who didn’t realize that the name Ceylon is an […]

Organic Warming Crimson Berry Herbal (Frontier Co-op) Perhaps is due to this seemingly unusually cool June, (it’s barely reaching the 60’s here in Anchorage and it’s almost July!), when I went looking for new teas to try recently I came back with the raspberry green tea of last week, and this unintentionally herbal berry tea. […]

Last week I began my journey to explore tapas. I started with a hilarious adventure in making chorizo al vino, then the much more successful recipe, Galician Scallops. This week I wanted to make boquerones but it requires fresh anchovies, and I just don’t have access to any at the moment. Instead I stumbled across […]

June 2017 started off with a bang for us. Typically, there really isn’t much going on for most Alaskans’ Summers until Memorial Day weekend. It really is true that summer doesn’t start around here until the last weekend of May. The regularly accepted gardening rule is to ‘never put anything in the ground until Memorial […]

  The first of many Tapas I plan to explore, chorizo al vino is a decidedly easy recipe. …. once you have the right kind of Chorizo!!!!!! Spanish chorizo is an aged pork sausage. It is usually cured in the traditional casing of intestines. It can be sliced and eaten raw, cooked, or added to […]

These tapas are beautiful and really quite easy to make. And they come out looking so fancy! If you don’t have the shells from your scallops, that is okay. You can always just bake them in a ramekin. You can also easily use any other large shells you may have around for decorative purposes, just […]

Organic Raspberry Flavored Tea with Fruit (Frontier Co-op) One of my favorite things about shopping for a new tea for our family is getting to sniff all the jars! This week, when we stopped in at the Natural Pantry in Anchorage, I was looking for something fresh and fruity, and of course the raspberries caught […]

I can’t say that I watch a ridiculous amount of TV, but of the TV that I watch for my sole enjoyment, a ridiculous amount of it is food related. Add to that near daily walks past a beautifully wooded block on our street I certainly cannot help but notice all the wonderful eatables we […]

We took a little bit of time this last Saturday to take Nathan to the skate park here in Anchorage. He’s just getting the hang of the scooter, so he doesn’t do any tricks, making this video an epic one to remember for sure! He’s quite agile on his bicycle, but unfortunately this ‘pool’ would […]