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 […]
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White Chili. It’s the title of this dish but also the key ingredient. When I created this recipe I had two things in mind. Chili needs meat, (but I also like beans in mine), and chili should taste like chilies. Keeping things white, the protein of choice, chicken, was easy, but how to have a […]
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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. […]
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This is a spin off Tom Kha; Thai galangal soup with coconut. I would have named it Tom Kha Sauce, but it would have translated to galangal soup sauce, and that’s a little silly. And since I didn’t feel the need to include galangal in this recipe, (it isn’t exactly the easiest ingredient to come […]
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It starts, “Mom, you have to try what I made for you.” “I’m going to serve you a bunch of things. Like eight.” “Oh, that looks good. Are those cubes of beef?” I ask. “Yes. Beef. Eight kinds of beef.” And now it begins. *Que dramatic, suspenseful ,building, orchestral music, heavy with violins* …and a […]
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Sweet chili wings might be a little misleading as this is not intended to be a Thai sweet chili sauce. Nor is it intended to be some sort of Asian inspired sauce either. It came about as nothing more than me messing around in the kitchen and throwing a few ingredients together that I thought […]
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