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Make salmon skin sushi rolls with umami and crunch

Don’t throw away that salmon skin!

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Make salty, crispy skin the star of your salmon dinner

What if instead of being something we leave on the grill, the crispy charred skin becomes the showpiece?

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These scratch sourdough brownies bring the tang

A number of recipes for chocolate baked goods in Alaska’s historic cookbooks use sourdough discard. That sour tang seems to give sweet chocolate the perfect bite.

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Always wanted to learn to smoke salmon? Start here.

The recipe I settled on is solid and simple. YOU CAN DO IT.

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A hand cuts into a lattice-topped strawberry rhubarb pie with pink filling

The best rhubarb-strawberry pie, ever

June 02, 2025

Here are some Alaskan hacks to make the best rhubarb-strawberry pie, ever.

Pile of greens on a plate, sprinkled with peanuts and garnished with a lemon

This is the crispy, spicy, salty cabbage-apple-celery salad of summer

May 24, 2025

This crunchy, salty, spicy salad is grilled salmon’s best friend.

Make another peanut butter/jelly, but make it cake

May 12, 2025

Peanut butter jelly time. 🎂

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Cake shaped like an Easter bunny's head, with licorice whiskers and a candy-covered tie

Make a bunny cake, but swap box mix for a vintage carrot cake

April 29, 2025

A classic 1970s bunny cake that kids love to decorate, except it tastes delicious.

WORKSHOP: Write with me on Yukon Island this summer

April 28, 2025

Want to write this summer with a friendly, no-pressure group on a beautiful Alaska island? 

I got to talk about Alaska food on “Pati Jinich Explores PanAmerica”

Here’s me eating a messy halibut sandwich with Pati on the bank of Ship Creek talking Alaska history and culture.

Lasagna on a sheet pan pictured with a basket of garlic bread and salad

This sheet pan lasagna delivers double the crispy-edged lasagna goodness in record time

A novel thin lasagna that requires no noodle-boiling, it can be made with store-bought ingredients or homemade. And, most important, it delivers a little bit fewer carbs, a little more protein and a double dose of crispy-edged, toasted cheesy lasagna goodness versus a traditional lasagna.

Salmon loaf on a plate with potatoes and broccolini

The oldest canned salmon recipe – for salmon loaf – is actually delicious

March 18, 2025

This recipe from a 1904 cookbook is actually kind of great.

Bowl of squash yellow curry over rice

Thai-style butternut squash curry for when you’re having real Tuesday kind of day

February 19, 2025

Thai-style squash curry is meatless, easy, fast, warm, spicy and satisfying.

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