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Delicious Food in Alaska!

File this under "what I ate on my summer vacation!" Had two very notable meals in Alaska this past summer; here's one you won't want to miss if you're traveling to Alaska! More information and photos to share...

A local favorite in Homer, Alaska with an emphasis on local seafood with a fusion flair and an extensive wine list......

The Homestead Restaurant, owned by Sharlene and Rick Cline is indeed "worth walking to if necessary" according to National Geographic Traveler Magazine. The menu changes weekly and they locally source their ingredients as much as possible.

The restaurant has received both the Wine Spectator Restaurant Award and the Wine Enthusiast Award of Unique Distinction.

How can anyone resist a bouillabaisse this scrumptious! (Photo by John R. Shaffer ~ Copyright 2007)

Mile 8.2 East End Road in Homer, Alaska....make reservations on-line before you go at www.homesteadrestaurant.net!

 

Ingredients...ingredients...ingredients

Ingredients... I talk about them constantly in my books, columns and when I teach cooking classes and demos. ...so if you want to love your food, follow me on my adventure, my quest for great ingredients!

Flours are one of the keys to the ultimate baked goods, and one of my favorite brands is
Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Inc.. Stone Ground Whole Grain Products "The Old Fashioned Way"
A little info about the company...Bob's Red Mill represents one of the most unusual segments of American history, dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way.

Here's some info from their website:

"With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times.

Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills or pulverizers ever built!

These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food.

We stone grind all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on our over one-hundred-year-old mills.

We mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten free mixes, and specialty grain products. We add to this list continually, making our product line of natural whole grain foods the most complete in the industry. We market these fine products in several small prepackaged sizes as well as in 25 and 50-pound bulk sizes."

Any way you spin it, I think their flours are the best anywhere! I especially love their unbleached white, their whole wheat and their white whole wheat. For more information visit them at www.bobsredmill.com.

View, download and bake one of my recipes from their website: my Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownie Bars can be viewed at Bob's Red Mill Yum!