Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska

Spanish Recipes

Cold Soup for Hot Summer Days: Green Gazpacho

Baby Moose Frolicking in Pond. Photograph by Laurie Constantino

 

When days are long and the sun shining, there’s no better place than Alaska. We left a dinner at 10 tonight and drove to another, surrounded by brilliantly blue skies, balding mountains, and balmy 74° temperatures. Arriving home, a baby moose was happily frolicking in the pond. Hard to believe ...

Continue reading > >

The Moosewood Cookbook: A Cookbook, An Obsession, A Soup

Gypsy Soup

In 1977, while a student, I lived in a Quonset hut in Portland, Oregon. My bedroom was painted white; the bed a mattress on the floor topped with a quilt made by my grandmother. On sunny mornings, rainbows danced on the curved white walls, refracting off crystals hanging in the ...

Continue reading > >

Pork Stuffed with Pork, Wrapped with Pork, and Sitting on Pork

Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Chorizo, Lemon and Spinach

I hit the Taste and Create mother lode this month.Taste and Create is an event organized by For the Love of Food. In this event, food writers are paired with a randomly assigned partner, and asked to cook and review one recipe from their partner’s blog.

Taking part in Taste and ...

Continue reading > >