An Alaska Life: Culture + Travel + Food + Home
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I offer you the main ingredient for many a Romano’s tribute pasta. Add shrimp, scallops, clams, smoked salmon (a little goes a long way), or top it with a sliced, breaded chicken cutlet. Turn the lights down and the Dean Martin up. The post Make any Alaska seafood pasta with this Romano’s Restaurant-style Alfredo recipe appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
I gave myself a challenge to make a complete summer meal with all Alaska-grown foods and settled on homemade ricotta, made from Alaska Range Dairy whole milk, homemade sourdough bread, and locally grown cherry tomatoes roasted with Cousin Emily’s honey from Twitter Creek Gardens in Homer. The post You too can make trad wife-style ricotta + honey-blistered tomatoes appeared first on Julia O'Malley…
This classic fragrant muffin rises high out of the cup and is chock full of blueberries, with copious streusel topping. The post Every Alaska kitchen needs a blueberry muffin recipe. This is mine. appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
This green sauce -- made with the secret ingredient of white miso -- is so rich and green, it feels medicinal. The post Green Queen spring lasagna is the medicine you need appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
I wrote and curated the Alaska section of this cookbook, which includes great recipes and thoughts on how Alaskans eat from some of my favorite food people. The post Find all your favorite Alaska food people in the “Eaterland” cookbook appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
In my ongoing quest to make food my children will eat, I stumbled on this very tasty Buffalo cauliflower. The post Welcome more vegetables onto picky plates with addictive Buffalo cauliflower appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
My new favorite pot roast: a warming, sweet recipe that makes use of gochujang, a bright red, not-all-that-spicy Korean fermented pepper paste that you can get at any grocery store in Anchorage. The post Trade Grandma’s pot roast recipe for a new version with warm, sweet gochujang appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
I’ve been testing sort of outrageous doctored cake mix recipes for an event coming up at the Anchorage Museum that looks at the evolution of cake recipes in Alaska. The “Better Than Tom Selleck” cake is my favorite. The post Get retro thrills from the ‘Better Than Tom Selleck’ cake appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
I wrote about an unprecedented, statewide effort in Alaska to help people displaced by a typhoon continue to eat Indigenous foods and how maintaining a traditional diet preserves an ancient language and culture. The post For NYT: Villages Destroyed and a Hunger for Home appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
I got to talk about Alaska's food culture on Christopher Kimball's Milk Street podcast! The post On Milk Street Radio: Me talking moose and cake mix appeared first on Julia O'Malley .
