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Make salmon skin sushi rolls with umami and crunch

Don’t throw away that salmon skin!

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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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Foolproof Alaska wild blueberry pie

Here’s the blueberry pie recipe you’ve been looking for.

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Man and daughter pulling nets over the side of a skiff

For ADN: Setting nets for 70 years in Anchorage’s shadow, a family witnessed major shifts in Cook Inlet salmon

August 14, 2024

Fred Thoerner’s grandparents David and Jean Ring started fishing before statehood. He hopes his daughters will continue the business. It all depends on the fish.

Your halibut needs this vintage Alaska recipe for lemon sauce with buttery cracker crumbs

July 24, 2024

It’s simple and addictively delicious — and you probably have everything you need to make it right now.

Salmon belly, slit open, full of worms

For ADN: Studies show there are likely more ‘sushi worms’ in Alaska salmon and other fish than there used to be

July 10, 2024

There’s little evidence more people are getting sick, but they are getting grossed out.

Conquer this Italian delight with a food processor and the right kind of spaghetti

June 27, 2024

Cacio e pepe — silky, peppery pasta made with sheep cheese — will make you appreciate the simple brilliance of Italian cooking.

Crumpets on a plate covered with jam

Make breakfast like an old sourdough, with these hyper easy sourdough crumpets

June 26, 2024

If there’s a more end-of-the-roady breakfast food in the Alaska recipe canon than these sourdough crumpets, I don’t know what it is

A slice of cake, with the top covered in sprinkles on a plate, with a large cake with candles in it sitting on a cake plate in the background

Try your hand at a homemade real/fake Funfetti cake

May 23, 2024

I’m way into making homemade Funfetti cakes with fluffy buttercream frosting. Blame my ‘80s childhood, but Funfetti says birthday to me.

For ADN Opinion: You can pass through Midtown Anchorage, but you can’t leave its complicated truths behind

May 09, 2024

Talking Alaska Sourdough on Alaska Public

April 30, 2024

UAA Class: Community-based reporting using Anchorage as a lab

April 20, 2024

Take some time to write with me on Yukon Island

April 11, 2024

The time has come for my annual writer’s retreat on Yukon Island in Homer.

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