Anchorage B&B Breakfast recipe

Anchorage Bed and Breakfast Club member, Summerset B&B's recipe for a sweet breakfast delight! Summerset B&B is located near the airport on the south side of Anchorage. The picture is of Camai Bed and Breakfast's Rhubarb Coffee Cake whose recipe is found on Camai's blog.

Streusel Blueberry Buckle

A homespun dessert that's so good, you'll bake it for breakfast, brunch, or picnics.
This recipe makes 9 servings and takes approximately 45 minutes.

Blueberry Buckle

2 cups of all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Streusel Topping

1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cup butter or margarine softened


Heat oven to 375 degrees. In large mixer bowl combine all blueberry buckle
ingredients except the blueberries. Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often, until
well mixed (1 to 2 minutes). By hand, fold blueberries into batter. Spread into
greased and floured 9 inch square baking pan. In small bowl stir together all
streusel ingredients except butter. Cut in butter until crumbly; sprinkle over
batter. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes
out clean.

Rhubarb recipes

Here in Anchorage Alaska on the summer solstice rhubarb is growing like crazy. Many of the Anchorage Breakfast Club members have rhubarb and serve it to their guests.

The garden at Big Bear Bed and Breakfast is looking real nice with flowers in bloom; the Himalayan Blue Poppy is beautiful; and the blossoms for our fruit trees & berries are in abundance. We have blue, purple, yellow and pink flowers blooming all over in our front, side & back yards. Here are a couple rhubarb recipes Big Bear B&B would like to share.

RHUBARB DREAM BARS

1 1/4 c. flour, divided
1/3 c. confectioners sugar
1/2 c. butter or margarine
1 1/4 - 1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 cups finely chopped rhubarb
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
1/2 c. flaked coconut

In a bowl, combine 1 c. flour and confectioners sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Pat into lightly greased 13x9x2 baking dish. Bake 13 - 15 minutes at 350 degrees or until edges are lightly browned.

In a bowl combine the sugar and remaining 1/4 c. flour. Add eggs and mix well. Stir in rhubarb, walnuts and coconut; pour over crust. Bake 30 - 35 minutes or until set. Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars.


RHUBARB SAUCE

1 quart chopped rhubarb
1-1/4 cups water (amount needed varies w/ watering & spring or fall)
1-1/4 cups sugar (amount varies with type of rhubarb -red or green-& personal taste)
1/2 tsp. to 1 tsp. red food coloring (amount varies with red or green type rhubarb)

In stainless steel, enamel or teflon lined saucepan, combine rhubarb and water. Bring to boil; immediately reduce heat to simmer until tender, about 5 minutes. Add sugar and red food coloring into hot sauce stirring very gently until sugar dissolved. Try to keep some of the pieces from breaking up. Cool several hours or overnight so color and sugar is absorbed into rhubarb pieces.

Optional additions:
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup crushed pineapple
reduced sugar by 1/2 cup and add 1- 3 oz. package sugar free strawberry gelatin.

Caroline at Camai Bed and Breakfast also has posted a rhubarb recipe for Camai B&B Rhubarb Coffee Cake on her blog.

Gardens and Anchorage Tour

WOW!! What beautiful weather in Anchorage, Alaska! Three weeks without rain, unusually warm weather,(up to 75 degrees F.) and daylight, 18 plus hours a day.... it must be spring/summer!! Last weekend was the BIG weekend to plant our annuals. The city of Anchorage is referred to as the City of flowers, or hanging baskets and the downtown area flowers are beautiful! We at the Teddy Bear Bed and Breakfast have just finished planting about 30 planters and baskets. Our "new" lawn, of two weeks, is coming up...just a green haze across the yard now, but promises to be beautiful. With all this sunshine and watering three times a day it won't take long.

With tourist season now in full swing we played tourist ourselves this past week. We took the Anchorage City Trolley Tours and found it a bargain at $15 dollars a person. The tour lasts about one hour and gives a lot of history of Anchorage as well.

Anchorage Bed and Breakfast Club members are eager to help you enjoy the wonderful Anchorage gardens and all that Anchorage has to offer on your visit to Alaska!

Hanging Baskets

All over Anchorage we have beautiful baskets of flowers Something unique we have here is our greenhouses babysit our flower baskets for the winter. Every color and type of flowers.
WOW! What a display.

At Alaskan Frontier Gardens Bed and Breakfast every 3rd week in May Rita renst a U-haul and drives to Bell’s Nursery to pick up her forty baskets. Rope is strung across back and forth in the van to hang the five foot long baskets of flowers. This takes all afternoon since you have to place them on hooks around the outside of the B&B and several trips with the U-haul. All summer long it takes two hours a day to water the baskets and more time to water all the flower beds in the yard and the lawn.

Sounds like another part time job, but lots of enjoyment if you love flowers and the peacefulness of watering them.