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 🙂
Alaskan Seafood Chowder
Every summer brings a bounty of Alaska seafood to our kitchen, and while we have a lot of beautiful sunny days, the rainy days always show up too and when they do we whip up [...]
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 [...]
Kenai River Smoked Salmon Souffle
Our daughter Jillian, who isn't a big egg fan, would eat these Kenai River Souffle`s everyday if I made them, and she loves to throw in a wide variety of fillings for fun and great flavor. [...]
Seaweed Salmon Omelette
Infused with soy sauce and wrapped in seaweed, this Japanese version of a western omelette just seems to fit with our environment here on the Kenai River. Here's how to make it. Ingredients: 2 Eggs, [...]
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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