Make friends with everything-spice pretzel knots and smoked salmon schmear
This town a bagel desert. Might I suggest a soft, bagel-adjacent everything-spice pretzel knot?
Breakfast
Bake the biggest white cheddar, sausage breakfast focaccia
Mine is no artisanal Fire Island focaccia, but when I sent a few friends pictures of it after I pulled it out of the oven the last time I made it, they found reasons to drop by. So I figure that’s enough.
Lean into autumn with spiced apple crisp granola — then invent your own recipe
This particular version is inspired by apple crisp with dried apples and cranberries, but please, once you get the hang of it, riff hard.
I (heart) Spam musubi (and the musubi ‘McMuffin’)
Spam musubi Anchorage’s favorite portable, affordable snack is easy to make. (It’s also gluten-free!)
Easy, pectin-free raspberry jam
I’ve been working this week on the easiest possible raspberry jam recipe and, to fuel my experiments, have been picking raspberries from a bush that grows from a neighbor’s yard over the fence into my alley.
These Alaska sourdough pancakes keep it real
Make these Alaska-style sourdough pancakes!
Quick Rhubarb Pastry
Maybe you want to make a dessert with all that rhubarb that is just as easy as the traditional crisp, goes great with ice cream, but breaks the routine (and isn’t too sweet, either).
Sometimes a person needs (yogurt) pancakes (GF version included!)
These pancakes use the interaction of yogurt and baking soda to achieve their tender loft.
