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 🙂
Halibut Switzerland Encroute
Using a variety of cheeses, and fresh halibut, we've learned to create a delightful Alaska Halibut Swiss Style, baked in a delicate puff pastry. Whether you choose Emmentaler, Gruyere or my personal favorite, Raclette cheese from [...]
Salmon or Halibut Schnitzel
...with noodles! Just like the song. Or, server it with french fries like they do 99% of the time in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, OR, serve it with German Potato Salad, my personal favorite. Ingredients: [...]
Alaskan Seafood Fettucini
Whether you whip up a homemade Alfredo sauce, or use one of the many packaged sauces you find at the store (we prefer Knorr from Germany), this simple seafood preparation is always a hit with [...]
Garlic Grilled Salmon
Ingredients: Skinless Salmon (I prefer King Salmon medallions or thin fillets. Belly meat, back meat & tail meat also work great (or as my friends know I call it Rib Eye, Filet Mignon, or Top Sirloin--watch me break down [...]
Halibut Parmigiana
This Italian twist was brought about one day when we were in the mood for pasta with our fish instead of our many other favorites: Grill Roasted Home Frys, Risotto, Beer Batter Frys, Garlic Grilled [...]
Sweet & Sour Halibut
Since its' introduction in the summer of 2005, Sweet & Sour Halibut has become a camp favorite, not far behind the Jalapeno Halibut Poppers and Coconut Salmon. It's really just a variation on our perennial [...]
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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