Semiserious Chefs

You can serve this as a main dish, a side dish, taco or in a pita pocket as a sandwich-on-the-go. It’s very versatile! This is fish and chips, coleslaw addition. Though coleslaw probably dates back to the Dutch, the most common form seen now, using mayo, can be found throughout Great Britain and the US. […]

I love the summers in Alaska. I really do. I don’t know anyone in their right mind who could say otherwise. The thing is, I’ve gone through my share of winters here in Anchorage. Granted they’re not terrible winters like those you get farther north, but they last long enough that I’m just getting downright […]

Having worked on 6 furikake recipes before this one, I am surely getting the hang of flavors and styles by now. As great as it is to replicate existing ideas, it’s also nice to come up with something your own, as it pertains to your personal preferences and region. That being said, there isn’t much […]

This did not start as a vegan recipe. Well it wasn’t intended to be a vegan recipe. … at least at the start. I was simply trying to make a fried cake of some sort using shredded taro, and I happened to have carrots and some unfortunately frozen radishes on hand. I don’t know if […]

‘Ground Provisions’ was a rather obscure sounding dish when I first came across it. Interestingly it’s a pretty straight forward idea. They are simply ground-based vegetables, AKA roots, tubers, corms, and rhizomes, that are providing the carbohydrates for the meal. These are most often potatoes, sweet potatoes, African/Asian yams, taro, cassava, squash, or plantains, even […]

As the name implies, this recipe has been inspired by the cuisines of Ghana, Nigeria and other West African countries. It’s important to note the use of true yam for this dish. In the US we often times have two sweet potato varieties that are marketed as sweet potato, the pale colored sweet flavored potato, […]

This recipe was inspired by two things. One, the desire to cook something Peruvian with my new found favorite chili, aji amarillo, and two, the wild caught Kodiak scallops I bought at our local farmers market. True to Peruvian style, this recipe uses potatoes and ground aji amarillo. Next, I topped this creamy chowder-like dish […]

Having lived in Alaska for most of my life, I hadn’t truly realized just how big and beautiful this place can be. Being around it all the time, dampens one’s senses and lessons the grandeur of what others would be nothing short of amazed by. It finally kind of hit me this last trip that […]

I’ve spent plenty of time camping and fishing in Alaska, but by no means was I any sort of diehard outdoorsman. In fact, I was and still am far from it. It was mostly in my late teens and early twenties that I spent any time camping and fishing. For sure it was fun and […]

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 […]