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Kenkamtek! Make me cry when I left! You fill my heart

Visiting relatives in Hilo, Hawaii. A little house tour of their property. First time ate Rambutan, a furry sweet fruit right off the tree at aunt Alice and her hubby Randy. It’s very humid here and you hear the tiny frogs that start their nightlong chirping at end of video… sounds like birds, but in the dark…

It’s fun to recruit the younger generation, and Destiny did the job awesome…my niece Marcy’s daughter. This dish reminds me of lasagna, but much healthier when you do it from scratch. The string cheese is cut in 1/2 lengthwise, then topped with sour cream & sprinkle of parsley flakes before getting stuffed into the pasta tubes. Bake at 350° F about 35 minutes, uncover and sprinkle the cheese, t...

Here is one way urine was used medicinally to treat hypothermia, told by Yup'ik storyteller Tommy Phillip Sr. of Kongiganak, Alaska. Other notes worth mentioning in the story are how traditional knowledge helped those lost in the blizzard survive the flooding on the delta during the winter, by use of the middle ridge of ice in a river. There are other traditional uses of urine besides this and ...

Sometimes we call these Tear Drop Mouse Food due to their shape. Collected by mice on the delta flats of the tundra in late fall before everything freezes over inside dug-out caches. Utngungsaraat are one of three types of roots that mice collect which we also consider edible. They are cleaned and cooked. This adds a sweet nutty flavor to ethnic soups especially seal or walrus soup. They are al...

This is a traditional "Inerquun" or cautionary tale used by our forefathers and blended with current events of hypothermia to validate the urgency. Tommy Phillip is a Yup'ik Eskimo elder in the village of Kongiganak. He was born in the mid-1930s and still remembers life before western civilization started impacting the way of life of the Yupiit. We share this with gratitude for his immense know...

We took the ferry from Whittier to Valdez, Alaska in about 6 hours in August of 2021. Here are some highlights. Carl booked our ferry trip, so he drove his car into the boat and off we went. From Valdez, we drove back to Anchorage on the Richardson highway. These ferries were launched back in the early 1970's and are getting pretty old with occasional mechanical problems; we are fortunate to ha...

My niece Kayla from Kipnuk came for a visit and cooked this up for us. She learned it by watching her younger brother Boidi make it. It is so easy and delicious I just had to share...YUM, thanks for introducing me to new food! The sauce uses just three ingredients: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup soy sauce, and 1 tablespoon sesame oil...and of course, my older sis Maureen singing the tunes.

I was so grateful for the smoked salmon delivered TODAY to my father, that I had to include some part of that in this quick video. Crazy coincidence was that I was thinking about using Esther Mute in this CZcams creation, and then her daughter popped in to deliver the smoked salmon as I was stitching the video together, and we immediately commenced to dinner. Katie mentioned that these are the ...

Quyana Pauline Igkurak for this recipe! It is so easy and gets done in a hurry, like 2 cups this and 1 cup that...just simple, but yet so delicious. Please share me more recipes. I like it just plain with butter on it and coffee or tea. I used last year's frozen cranberries picked by mother Julia. I had to run off to school before the cranberries ripened, but hope to do the picking myself, will...

I got the idea to make this after making Andrew Zimmern's key lime pie. It is much the same way, except I use salmonberry juice. When mother thaws out salmonberries to make akutaq, there's always that excess juice, and I saved about a cup to make this. Instead of just the yolk, I used a whole egg and it makes for less fuss! For garnish, I would recommend using more tundra berries to give it tha...

These are early springtime favorites in our parts. It is like they cannot wait for the ice to be gone, so they just bust right through it. We gather them up just as they pop out from under. Pick them early before they get too peppery, they say, and cook them plain and dip in seal oil with dried seal or fish. Oftentimes they are added to bird soup at the end of cooking. Mild earthly flavor and s...

One of my favorite springtime activities is Kayangussuq, to go find wild tundra eggs. Birds converge in Alaska from all over the globe - some fly here as far away as Antarctica or the southern China seas. Provides us with fresh subsistence foods after a long cold winter.

Always feel like a little kid no matter what your age when opening presents, right? So true! Had to wait until noon time, when Dad is ready to open presents, patiently, NOT! Lol...

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