Semiserious Chefs

This colorful blend offers many of the favorite seasoning flavors we all crave. Just the right amount of garlic, a splash of chive to go with onion flakes, plenty of green herbs, and one very special ingredient; dried tomato! Dried tomato flakes can be found at a lot of herb and spice shops, and on-line. […]

There was an initial question about how “P.C.” the title of this recipe is, but my concluding thought was that there isn’t anyone left from the area to be offended by it. The foundation of this blend came with an attempt at making a personalized Greek seasoning. At one point we discussed blackened chicken and […]

I call this AWESOME Blend for the very simple reason that it’s shorter than ‘Awesome on Everything Blend,’ which is exactly what it is! Our local spice shop in Anchorage, Summit Spice and Tea, used to have a green herb blend, called Chena, that I used for a multitude of different applications. When they stopped […]

This rice cake recipe was inspired by Chef Kirsten Dixon of Tutka Bay Lodge near Homer. She created a recipe that used kippered salmon and a spicy mayo. I decided to adapt it using my mom’s personally smoked salmon, and a recent addition to my cooking repertoire, garlic sesame soy dressing. I was a little […]

It’s interesting, around here, the many different ways in which we come up with a new recipe. Today’s inspiration was a package of moose bacon from the freezer. That’s right, moose bacon. I don’t know if it’s a ‘thing’ in other states (deer or elk bacon) but it seems to be a special new ‘invention’ […]

I was introduced to a recipe about 5 years ago that changed the way I view eating fish and using mayo. This only matters because I HATE mayo, and ate so much dry, boring, salmon growing up that I wouldn’t touch any fish for 7+ years. Seriously, mayo was used in and on everything in my […]

This, my rendition of tartar sauce, first made an appearance in Beef Served 8 Ways, but it was so successful that I decided it deserved it’s own notice. Similar to remoulade, tartare sauce is generally known as a French sauce, having shown up in their cookbooks dating back to the 1800’s. However, it is widely […]