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Hermit Hill Farm, Fairbanks Alaska
Share Written by Kate Powers Many Alaskans will head to the grocery store or unpack their freezers full of harvested summer goods to prepare the staples of their holiday meal: cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy and of course, turkey. Most of us will prepare our traditional family turkey recipes with turkeys that come from large scale [...]
Wild Low-Bush Cranberries, Village of Mentasta Lake, AK
Share Part 2: Adventures and Reflections: Wild Harvesting Alaskan Cranberries The humble wanna-be homesteaders, Jennifer and Tikaan. With a gift certificate in hand, I head out to peruse the designer racks at an Anchorage boutique. It’s the peak and prime of the fall season in the city. Taking a moment of time to stroll the [...]
Wild Low-Bush Cranberries, Village of Mentasta Lake, AK
SharePart 1: FUN with Cranberries Autumn Is The Time To Harvest & FALL Head Over Heels For Delicious Seasonal Foods! By Jennifer Kehoe, Wildharvesting & Subsistence Contributor When bright green Alaska foliage starts to turn yellow, the pumpkins orange and the rolling tundra a deep rosy pink, we know that summer has come to an [...]
Wild Meat Stew, Norway
Share Anna Barnwell and Øistein Berget are two Alaskans slash Norwegians that cannot get enough of either location. Anna – a born and raised Anchorageite – first lived in small town Norway as an exchange student, but has since returned multiple times both to visit her partner Øistein and most recently for grad school. Øistein [...]
Wild Edibles & Italy in Alaska
ShareWritten by Jennifer Kehoe, Subsistence & Wildharvesting Contributor Earlier this summer my wonderful boyfriend and I headed out to wildharvest delicious Alaskan greens for dinner; devil’s club from calm lake trails, fiddleheads from dense mossy soil and spruce tips from aromatic trees. Luck was with us and we walked home after a nice daylong hike [...]
Homegrown Veggies, Alaska
Share Stockwell Farm- Naturally-Grown Vegetables for Every Tastebud By Rachel Kenley, Local Food Contributor Vern Stockwell, of Stockwell Farm, lives on a beautiful, secluded piece of property out by the Butte. He settled in Alaska in 2001, after being raised on a farm in South Dakota and attending South Dakota State University. Although he majored [...]
Grandma’s Chicken Soup, Germany
Share Grandma’s Chicken Soup Recipe: -2 liters chicken broth (if canned, add water) -Meatballs: 1 lb hamburger meat, add pepper and salt to taste. Form little balls (1/2 inch). Bring water to boil, and add meatballs. Cook on low heat for 15 minutes. Take meatballs out. Pour water through strainer into chicken broth. -Cauliflower: cook [...]
Baba Ghannouj & Peasant Flatbread, Syria/Germany
ShareCamilla Hussein grew up between Germany and Syria; her Dad is from the Syrian Golan Heights and her mom is Bavarian. She is a German national, but has been in the United States for over 23 years. Camilla came to Alaska four years ago because her then husband opened a pathology lab and she wanted [...]
Bao, Vietnam
ShareBao (Steamed Bun) Recipe submitted by Nat Wilson. Nat grew up in Anchorage and has memories of this tasty snack. He says, “my mother used to make it occasionally to go along with dinner or as a snack, and I learned last year that my grandmother used to make it to. I hadn’t had it [...]
Chicken Adobo, Philippines
ShareSubmitted by Blessie Lochman, Filipino-American, Marketing Manager for the U.S. Postal Service Ingredients: Cut up chicken Fresh garlic 5 cloves (crushed) 3 Onions (sliced) Whole bay leaf (4) Black pepper Soy sauce ( half a cup) Water (half a cup) Olive oil Method: Sauté the garlic and onions add the chicken, and the rest of the [...]
Ghormeh Sabzi, Iran
Share Written by Kate Powers, Food Mosaic International Contributer. When Samuel Bayani Neek arrived to Alaska in November 2009, the Alaskan winter seemed tough “At first it was really cold, and I didn’t have any friends. I did not know anyone.” He left as a refugee from his native country of Iran. He lived in Turkey before [...]
Ugali, Kenya
ShareWritten by Max Treinen, Food Mosaic UAA Contributor. I meet Paul Rottich in the Student Union at UAA. He is hunched over one of the several monstrous textbooks lying open on his table, studying for his Statistics class. A native of Kenya, Paul was one of the first in the slew of the Kenyans recruited [...]
Caribou and Shrimp Shu Mai, China
ShareCaribou and Shrimp Shu Mai Recipe Submitted by Amy Lee Amy grew up in Minnesota working in her parents Chinese restaurant. She is a teacher at Pacific Northern Academy. Ingredients: 1/2 cup soy sauce 1 tablespoon rice wine 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger 1/2 tsp granulated sugar 1/2 pound shrimp, [...]
Recipes! Photos! We Want ‘Em!
ShareThe Anchorage Food Mosaic will contain recipes from all the amazing people that make up our community. Now more than ever we need to come together and celebrate our incredible diversity (there are 91 languages spoken in the Anchorage School District). And what better way to do that than food? Let us cook each others cultural [...]