Welcome to our Alaska Cooking Blog, featuring recipes from Kenai Riverfront Resort loaded with the best fresh Alaska seafood, wild game, and local flavors found in Alaska, married with unique international cuisines from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand and Japan! We’re always expanding and improving our blog to share more of our favorite recipes and cooking techniques with our Kenai Riverfront Resort guests and friends. Count yourself among them, whether you’ve stayed with us for years or are a first time virtual visitor! And, please be sure to check back often to enjoy the new recipes (and cooking stories) we’ve added.
Our recipes are more like stories, telling you a little bit about their origins as well as our life here on the beautiful Kenai River in Alaska. We’ve organized them into categories that make sense to us and relate to our guest’s experience with us. To help you quickly find what you’re looking for, click on any of the categories : Aurora Borealis Brunch, Frontier Family Favorites, Wild Alaska Game, Amazing Alaska Seafood, and Baked Alaska & Beyond Desserts or simply jump to a specific recipe and get cookin’!! You’ll find fundamental recipes like our tried and true Beer Batter that we use for many of our fresh fish favorites, as well as the best Alaska Blueberry Pie we’ve ever tasted, with fresh wild Alaska Blueberries that we pick ourselves every fall for their high antioxidant properties. For those special events we’ve included more complex recipes like our flaming Baked Alaska and even our step-by-step instructions to make our famous Sweet Smoked Salmon.
We’ll offer tips on where to buy special seasonings and cooking aids that we use in our recipes as well, from ShoreLunch Brand Coating to Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Redfish Magic Seasoning throughout our recipe pages to help make it easier to achieve the same results that we do, while also introducing you to some of our favorite cooking products.
Our recipes are designed for cooking with innovation and improvisation, so let your cooking be art! Who needs precise measurements and explicit instructions anyway, right? These recipes are great for people that don’t like being told what to do! Enjoy 🙂
Baked Alaska
Wow whatta surprise!! I first made this for my husband for Father's Day, served it outside with all his favorite ice creams hidden inside. It was easy to see the kid inside when his eyes [...]
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 [...]
Baked Alaska Sizzles with Sparklers on 4th of July
We occassionally offer a Fish Fry @ Kenai Riverfront Resort featuring resort specialities like:
Coconut Salmon, Halibut Jalapeño Poppers, Cedar Planked Salmon, Beer Battered Halibut, Smoked Salmon Caesar Salad, Alaska Seafood Fettuccini, and Halibut Katsu and Schnitzel are just some of the camp favorites shown here! (Not pictured: Sweet & Sour Halibut, Alaska Seafood Chowder, Salmon Schnitzel, Butterflied Shore Lunch Trout, Cajun King Salmon, Halibut Encroute with Brie, and Salmon Spring Rolls!)
Boat Breakfast on the Kenai River: Panfried Rainbow Trout, Grilled Moose Country Sausage, Smoked Sockeye Scrambled Eggs
Cajun Planked Alaska Halibut
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