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These pumpkin brioche rolls with coffee frosting are a worthy project

These babies feature a soft pumpkin brioche dough, pumpkin-y cinnamon filling and a maple frosting you tart up with some coffee powder.

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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.

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Cilantro-lime squash salad for your fall table

This bright salad is a perfect Thanksgiving contender.

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Make a sourdough loaf like an Alaskan with Beau Schooler’s recipe

Make sourdough like a real Alaskan with Beau Schooler’s sourdough bread.

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NEIGHBORS: Where have the workers gone?

October 04, 2022

I got curious about why there are still long drive-thru lines, long waits at restaurants and so many help-wanted signs in Anchorage.

Make these smoky salmon cakes to dunk Beau Schooler’s magic ranchovy sauce

September 30, 2022

Beau Schooler’s fish cake recipe that uses a combination of salmon trim or freezer fish and smoked fish. Plus his famous ‘ranchovy’ sauce

NEIGHBORS: Who helped you through?

September 15, 2022

In this story, I wrote about how micro-communities we formed during the pandemic have blossomed into deep friendships.

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Elders: Join me for a free pandemic writing reflection workshop

September 07, 2022

This free two-day writing workshop for people 55+ is meant to help writers craft and refine short pieces of nonfiction work.

Got Alaska wild berries? I got recipes!

September 01, 2022

Here are nine rad recipes for Alaska wild berries.

blueberry cookies on a pan

Everything you love in a blueberry muffin except it’s a sweet/tart blueberry streusel cookie

August 31, 2022

An off-the-beaten path recipe for Alaska blueberries—especially frozen ones. Refreshingly not pie, jam, muffins, pancakes, or bread

four flat chocolate-raspberry cookies

Throw backyard berries into these chewy, melty chocolate-raspberry pan-bangin’ cookies

August 12, 2022

Give me a thin, chewy cookie, a little under-baked, with melty pools of chocolate and tangy raspberry.

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NEIGHBORS: Alaska’s child care sector is in crisis, but market conditions are great for small entrepreneurs

August 10, 2022

It isn’t easy to gauge how many, but high demand has made conditions right for some longtime early childhood workers to quit their jobs and work on their own.

a sliced grilled chicken thigh and a scoop of rice

Grill Hawaiian-style chicken thighs for a quick dinner

July 23, 2022

Try these sweet and smoky chicken thighs made Hawaiian plate-lunch style.

NEIGHBORS: Chaos for homeless ripples into downtown Anchorage, where ambassadors guard a fragile recovery

July 12, 2022

For the NEIGHBORS project, I took a look at how the pandemic changed downtown through the eyes of two downtown ambassadors, charged with waking people sleeping on the street in the mornings.

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