How Alaska eats: Yes, you can make an Alaska beer can chicken
Plus grilled corn, no-bake granola bars and pound cake with rhubarb compote.
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Give rhubarb, get Wild Scoops ice cream. Also, where to get the season’s first strawberries.
The markets are also featuring fresh greens, tomato plants, and whole halibut and king salmon.
Use a local brew to infuse a juicy Alaska beer can chicken
Beer can chicken is totally delicious, worth the trouble and, if you go in prepared, pretty dang easy.
How Alaska eats: Tons of local seafood pasta-bilities
Plus smoky corn salad, a food truck roundup and a lilac gin and tonic.
Take an urban food tour, get your rhubarb fix, plus fresh greens and radishes
Early lettuces, pea tendrils, arugula and aquaponic bok choy are on offer at local markets.
Use leftover salmon for this fresh pasta with currants and fried capers
You can dress it up or down, depending on the seasons and your cravings.
Add these new(ish) Anchorage food trucks to your rotation this summer
Summer is takeout season in Alaska. Why sit in a restaurant or café when you can chow down under a tree, atop a mountain or at a scenic pullout?
How Alaska eats: I like big (blueberry) Bundts
Plus birch syrup-glazed salmon, farmers’ planting advice and rhubarb barbecue sauce.
Swirl your frozen blueberries into this cream cheese Bundt cake
Drizzle it with glaze and watch this delectable cake disappear.
These are Alaska farmers’ favorite vegetable starts. Plant them this week.
Plus, the Airport Heights farmers market has returned, among other market news.
As the craft beer market grows across the country, so do wild flavors
Competition for attention among breweries has intensified, and that has a lot of brewers looking for ways to differentiate themselves by introducing strange new flavors.
How Alaska eats: If bringing dip is wrong, I don’t want to be right
Plus: Campfire cookery, fried chicken and a new pop-up restaurant in Spenard.
It’s Memorial Day weekend, the fish are in and market season is upon us
Find fresh salmon, starts for the garden and greenhouse greens and herbs
Take a dip into barbecue season with this grilled eggplant spread
his could be the star of a first course, along with some fresh raw vegetables, olives, grilled bread and fresh feta or chunks of Parmesan cheese.
How Alaska eats: Berry special
So many strawberry recipes, plus birthday cakes and halibut.
Take advantage of affordable grocery store strawberries with berry slab pie
This little number is kind of perfect for your end-of-school parties and first-of-the-season barbecues. (Double it for a casserole pan).
How Alaska eats: This is very shrimportant
Plus: Anchorage’s new Ethiopian restaurant and what to make for Mother’s Day.
Try this season’s Alaska spot prawns toasty with Cajun brown butter
Cook unsalted butter until it’s toasty, then add black pepper and hot sauce. It’s the perfect complement to sweet prawns.
Gather around the injera for a taste of Ethiopia at Queen of Sheba
People kept asking the couple who opened it where to eat Ethiopian food in Anchorage. They decided to answer the question themselves