Holiday Broccoli Bake
This classic broccoli casserole, baked in the oven with a crunchy, buttery topping of crushed ritz crackers, is a mainstay at our Thanksgiving table. Our kids were raised on it. Our daughter Alli has made [...]
Super Crisp Sweet Pickles
These pickles are known far and wide as some of the best sweet pickles ever tasted. They won first place in the Minnesota State Fair sometime in the '70s by Grandma Mulbey, and we use [...]
Sweet Texas Cornbread
Our Sweet Texas Corn bread is light and fluffy and goes perfectly with Grandpa Nelson's Chili. We all love to top it with some butter and a little honey to complete the taste. Representing the [...]
Klondike Chili
When you travel this far north, especially in the cold of winter, nothing hits the spot like our Klondike Chili. We prefer to use ground Moose or Venison (the Kodiak variety of course), but in a [...]
Maui Luau Ribs
Okay, so we live in Alaska, and love it, but we all need a tropical escape once in a while, don't we!? When we can't get to Maui, these Maui Luau Ribs, which we've been [...]
Alaska Aloha Pineapple Paradise
Okay, so this dish sounded a little weird the first time we saw it, crafted right in our kitchen by our friend Linda visiting from Oregon, but it was love at first bite and now [...]
Sweet & Spicy Spareribs
Grandpa Nelson certainly knew what he was doing when he created this fantastic spareribs recipe. They are so simply out of this world delicious, that you can count on licking ever finger! Ingredients: Ribs: 1 [...]
Alaskan Frontier Pizza
At least once a week our family, like most, enjoys a good pizza or two or three. Our long standing family favorite has been 1/2 Hawaiian and 1/2 Pepperoni with Black Olive. My personal favorite [...]
Pasties
Although there is more than one story about the origin of the pasty, the credit for this all-in-one complete meal and lifetime family favorite goes to Jim's Gram Emery, who lived well into her 90's enjoying Pasties [...]