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.

Upgrades and Breakfast Recipe

Many of our Anchorage Bed and Breakfast Club members have sent the past two weeks working on improvements to their B&Bs. Carol at Big Bear is having new carpet laid in the living room of the bed and breakfast while Marge and Ed at Teddy Bear Bed and Breakfast have upgraded the Teddy Roosevelt’s private bath as well as painted walls and shampooed carpets throughout the B&B. Caroline and Craig at Camai B&B are putting the finishing touches on their entirely new kitchen as well as replacing/upgrading light fixtures in the rooms. Sam at Calla House is working on revising her website and will has new pictures of her improvements. Rita at Alaskan Frontier Gardens is renovating her already exquisite Ivory Suite.

In all of this flurry of activity Kim at Summerset B&B has a delicious recipe to share.
Sausage Vegetable Frittata

5 eggs
1/4 c milk
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 (10 ounce) package skinless link sausage
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 small zucchini, sliced (about 1 cup)
1/2 c of shredded carrots
1/3 c sliced green onions with tops
3/4 c (6 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese
carrot curls (optional)

Whisk eggs in medium bowl; stir in milk, Parmesan cheese, oregano, and pepper. Set
aside. Cook sausage in large skillet over medium heat until browned, turning
occasionally. Drain off any drippings. Remove sausage from skillet and cut into
1/2 inch lengths. Melt butter in same skillet. Add zucchini, shredded carrots and
onions;cook and stir over medium heat until tender. Top with sausage, then Swiss
cheese. Pour egg mixture over vegetable mixture. Stir gently to combine. Cook,
without stirring, over low heat 8 to 10 minutes or until center is almost set.
Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting into wedges;serve hot.
Garnish with carrot curls, if desired. Refrigerate leftovers. Makes 4 to 6
servings

We are ready to greet you and make your visit to Anchorage the best possible!

Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra’s 2009-2010 season is over. Last Saturday Sam (Calla House) attended the last of the season's performances of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra (ASO) at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. The concert featured the Harlem String Quartet who performed "Concerto for String Quartet and String Orchestra" (The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow). The piece was engaging with many surprise treatments of the Sleepy Hollow legend. It was a concert to be remembered.

Season Tickets are now on sale for the 2010-2011 Anchorage Symphony’s concerts. The Classic Concert Series opens on September 25 and features University of Alaska’s well-respected Timothy Smith, piano. The April 16 concert will include the Alaska Chamber Singers in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. On line there is a full listing of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-2011 Classic Concert Series.

Several of our Anchorage Bed and Breakfast Club members are offering discounts for people who wish attend a concert and have a wonderful night’s stay at a bed and breakfast followed by a luscious breakfast the next morning. We suggest you make plans now by becoming a season subscriber to ASO’s series. To purchase season tickets by phone, call the Anchorage Symphony at (907) 274-8668.

Anchorage Alaska Trip Planning Tips

On the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau web site you can find a list of FREE activities to do in Anchorage, Alaska.

Click on local events, then you will find current events, by the month (for a year), and on-going events. Two of the listings for free events in April 2010 are a lecture at the Alaska Zoo on walrus and the Alaska Women’s Show.

On this site you can also request a free Anchorage Visitors Guide. This site can be very helpful in planning your visit to Anchorage. Other sites to help you plan your Alaska vacation include both the Anchorage Alaska Bed and Breakfast Association and the Bed and Breakfast Association of Alaska web sites.

The Anchorage Bed and Breakfast Clubbers hope to see you this summer. Let any one of us know how we may help in your Alaska trip planning.