The Winterlake Lodge Cookbook

Kirsten Dixon

Description

In this second edition of her acclaimed cookbook, Chef Kirsten Dixon has added new
recipes and revised some of her classics to reflect the changes in palate. She has also Ship Date : 09/15/2012
updated her commentary on the seasonal foods and events that have evolved over the
Pub Date : 10/15/2012
past few years. Nestled on a remote wilderness lake where the famous Iditarod Sled Dog
Trail passes nearby, the kitchen at The Winterlake Lodge provides elegant regional cuisine Price : $23.99 USD / $27.99 CAD
that continues to excite international clientele, as well as culinary fans around the world.
Co owner and Chef Kirsten Dixon has successfully built her reputation on the coupling of EAN: 978 0 88240 890 3
two themes: world class cuisine and America’s last wilderness frontier. Along with her Trim : 8.40 x 10.00
husband Carl, the couple welcomes visitors who arrive by small bush plane, dog team, or
snowmobile at their remote lodge in the roadless wilderness to enjoy her stylish fare and Format : Trade Paper
log cabin hospitality. Lavishly illustrated with professional photos that include some of her 224
100 sumptuously plated recipes, the majestic roaming wildlife out the door, and some of Pages :
the most impressive landscapes under the midnight sun, this cookbook is a cooking Carton Qty:
lesson, a memoir, and an invitation into this adventurous lifestyle.

Sujets

• American Cooking
• Ethnic Cooking
• Regional cooking
• América
• General officer
• Recipe
• Pacific Northwest
• Cooking
• General
• American
• Alaska

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780882409801
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

the
W INTERLAKE L ODGE
C OOKBOOK
Culinary Adventures in the Alaskan Wilderness
WITH KIRSTEN DIXON
FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY BY TYRONE POTGIETER
FOOD STYLING BY MANDY DIXON

S ECOND E DITION
Text 2012 by Kirsten Dixon Photography by Tyrone Potgieter except for the following: front cover, pages 10 (top and middle left), 12, 14 (left and right), and 173 by Jeff Schultz; pages 25 and 26 by Amy Shapira; and pages 28, 184, and 185 by Nate Mikle.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is the registered trademark of The Iditarod Trail Committee.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher.
First edition 2003
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Dixon, Kirsten.
The Winterlake Lodge cookbook : culinary adventures in the Alaskan wilderness / with Kirsten Dixon.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-88240-889-7 (hardbound) ISBN 978-0-88240-890-3 (softbound) ISBN 978-0-88240-980-1 (e-book)
I. Cookery, American. 2. Cookery-Alaska.
3. Winterlake Lodge. I. Title.
TX7I5.D5898 2003 641.5973-dc21
2003005417
Cartographer: Gray Mouse Graphics Designer: Sini Salminen
Alaska Northwest Books
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To my father, James Ove Schmidt, who has taught me the value of hard work and commitment to family.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In the first edition of this cookbook, our daughters, Carly and Amanda, were living in California attending school. I wrote, When they moved away, I realized how much I missed them. I want to thank my daughters for the many ways they contribute to and enhance our family We hope their travels bring them back to Alaska and to Winterlake. It s been ten years since I wrote those words and my daughters have indeed returned to Alaska.
After years of travel and fly-fishing around the world, Carly is now married and has a son of her own, Rohnen Zane Potgieter. Carly s South African husband, Tyrone, works at Winterlake Lodge as a guide manager. Ty s interest in photography has inspired me and he has taken most of the images in this new edition.
Mandy, a trained pastry chef, works closely with me on a wide variety of culinary projects. She helps to train new chefs in the kitchens of our lodges and she acts as a resource for our culinary team. She travels often with me when we teach cooking classes. And, Mandy s longtime boyfriend, Neil Lippincott, has worked for us as our Anchorage-based expeditor for the past six years since my father, Jim, retired from that very same position.
An old-fashioned family-based small business is what we have and we couldn t be happier about that.
My husband, Carl, is still the greatest inspiration for me personally and for our entire family. His love of the natural world and his desire to share the beauty of the backcountry of Alaska has led us all to Winterlake Lodge and to our remarkable lifestyle. I am incredibly thankful for Carl s creative vision to guide us down a path less traveled.
Contents
Map
Winterlake Lodge-Population 2
We Live at Mile 198 Along the Trail
A Place Called Winterlake
My Kitchen
Our Cuisine
About This Book
SUMMER
Summer Begins
My Summer Kitchen
Our Life with Bears
A One-Mile Walk
Blueberry Sour Cream Pound Cake
Buttermilk Banana Muffins
Fresh Raspberry Scones
Zucchini Bread
Miniature Frittatas
Homemade Ketchup
Alaska Summer Sausage
Sour Cream Cranberry Chocolate Cookies
Rose Petal Butter Cookies
Cherry Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Wild Blueberry and Raspberry Bars
Berry Lemonade
Alaska Berry Pie
Alaska Salmon Burgers
Alaska Salmon Curry
Dungeness Crab Chowder
Goug res
Blue Cheese and Pecan Crackers
Alaska Shrimp Cakes
Dipping Sauce for Alaska Shrimp Cakes
Crabmeat Egg Roll Appetizers
Spanish Shrimp Toast
Fried Oysters Two Ways
Apple Cherry Chutney
Apple Cider Barbecue Sauce
Wildflower Pasta
FALL
The Harvest Kitchen
Cooking Classes
The Colors of Fall
Farewells
Fall Breakfast Sausage
Fireweed Honey Oat Bread
Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls
Danish Cardamom Cookies
Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake
Blueberry Bars
Homemade Blueberry Jam
Winterlake Lodge Granola
Gingerbread with Ginger Cream
Root Cellar Chicken Stew
French Lentil Soup with Sausage
Halibut Soup with Garlic
Autumn Minestrone
Baked Halibut with Tomatoes and Onions
Lemon Cheese
Homemade Puff Pastry
Goat Cheese and Herb Mushroom Tart
Blue Cheese Mushroom Tart
Smoked Salmon Cardamom Spread
Green Tomato Salsa
Cranberry Chutney
Beets with Black Currants
Tenderloin Beef Stroganoff
Sourdough Bread Pudding with Yukon Jack Sauce
Baked Alaska
Black Currant Liqueur
Hot Cranberry Cider
Homemade Raspberry Marshmallows
WINTER
My Winter Kitchen
A Cabin Along the Trail
Our Family of Sled Dogs
Skiing Through the Woods
Brown Sugar Oatmeal Muffins
Orange Chocolate Muffins
Sweet Potato Pecan Bread
Apple Sourdough Starter
Sourdough Apple Bread
Sourdough Apple Pancakes
Mixed Berry Syrup
Hot Chocolate
Chocolate Cherry Biscotti
Winterlake Trail Mix
No Knead Bread
One-Hour Chicken Stock
Roasted Chicken Pot Pie
Russian Salmon Pie
Winter Kimchi
Red Kuri Squash Gnocchi
Savory Mushroom Pudding
Smoked Salmon Chowder
Wintry Baked Beet and Red Onion Soup
Warm Mushroom and Spinach Salad
Winter Squash and Halibut Panade
Pan-Seared Duck with Blueberry Sauce
Winterlake Lodge Beef Stew
Apple Cider Cheesecake
SPRING
A Luncheon on Mount McKinley
Birds Overhead
Another Season
bleskiver
Rhubarb Raspberry Muffins
Banana Lemon Bread
Cranberry Ricotta Pancakes
Corned Beef Hash
Pan-Seared Halibut
Veggie Burgers
Pacific Paella
Halibut with Sake Kasu
Blueberry Macaroons
Cheddar Sesame Crackers
Lemon Chutney
Rhubarb Chutney
Herbed Yogurt Cheese
Roasted Jalape o Salsa
Sesame Ginger Dressing
Winterlake Lodge House Dressing
Homemade Mayonnaise
Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
Ranch Dressing
Rhubarb Honey Cake
Cardamom Carrot Cake
Index
About the Author

WELCOME TO WINTERLAKE
WINTERLAKE LODGE - POPULATION 2
If you ever have a chance to travel to Alaska, we hope you ll visit Winterlake Lodge. From Lake Hood, the seaplane base in Anchorage near the Ted Stevens International Airport, take a floatplane northwest toward Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. Once you ve traveled for about an hour and gone past the Shell Hills, you ll see a picturesque little mountain below. And just south of the mountain is a log house on the bank of a beautiful horseshoe-shaped lake. That s Winterlake Lodge, where we live.
After your floatplane lands on our lake, step onto the dock and walk up a winding path lined with Alaska roses. Ahead of you is the lodge: come on in. Go toward the back and enter the kitchen. That s where I ll be, and that s where much of the story of this book takes place.
Winterlake Lodge is a small, intimate Alaska backcountry lodge where my husband, Carl, and I have lived since 1994. In the summertime, visitors come to the lodge to go hiking or canoeing, to helicopter to a glacier, raft a wild river, or just to enjoy the soothing quiet of the wilderness. In the winter, guests enjoy dog-mushing adventures, snowshoeing, or cross-country ski trips with Carl. And often, people come for the food.
Called Finger Lake, our lake isn t an officially named lake. In Alaska, there are so many lakes- thousands of them-and many carry hapless names, having been christened by some long-ago trapper or gold seeker. Carl and I call our home Winterlake Lodge on Finger Lake in Alaska.
Our lodge is the fourth checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail, named a National Historic Trail in 1976. The 1,000-plus-mile trail is, for the most part, a visible trail only in the winter and is the route used for the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The race, starting the first weekend in March, follows the historic trail from Willow, Alaska, to Nome in commemoration of an event that took place in 1925. That winter, citizens banded together to quickly bring medicine to the remote village of Nome on the northwest coast of Alaska, which was under siege from a diphtheria epidemic. Teams of mushers and sled dogs relayed the medicine along the trail, each musher handing off the life-saving serum to a fresh team at roughly 30-mile intervals. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is a celebration of cooperation and teamwork, a remembrance of a past way of life, and an opportunity for dog mushers to test their skills and endurance.
WE LIVE AT MILE 198 ALONG THE TRAIL
This fact becomes particularly significant for Carl and me in the winter after a path through the snow is established and travelers begin to explore and make their way to Nome by snowmachine or dog team. The months of February and March are a rush of Iditarod race activities at the lodge-from housing volunteer trailbreakers to accom