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Sharpen Your Culinary Skills with Help from This Local Duo’s Online Cooking Show

Dak & Ju's easy-to-digest tutorials run around 10 minutes and will inspire you to attempt their signature creations

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This article originally appeared in the December 2019 issue of Seattle magazine.

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe.

Eating might be the least complicated part of the holidays, but cooking up feast-worthy fare at home can be a challenge. Fortunately, longtime friends and culinary enthusiasts Dakota Mackey and Julie Dahlen—better known as Dak & Ju on the web—are simplifying things for home chefs with an online cooking show they launched earlier this year. Their weekly episodes feature seasonal favorites with an original spin, focusing on recipes that are “equally pleasurable and accessible”; this time of year, they’re highlighting holiday side dishes, such as fluffy popovers and rich cornbread stuffing. These easy-to-digest tutorials run around 10 minutes and will inspire you to attempt those hearty mains—consider their spatchcocked turkey for the win—as well as the sweets. Don’t miss their lesson on traditional Norwegian holiday cookies, a cranberry-cheesecake recipe from Dahlen’s mom or a cinnamon roll bake-off between the two chefs.

Restaurant Roundup: Bomb Banh Mis and Oktoberfest on the Water

Restaurant Roundup: Bomb Banh Mis and Oktoberfest on the Water

Here’s what was served up recently in the Emerald City.

Knowing where to take out-of-town guests is an art form. You know the dance. How do you show Seattle off just enough that it still comes off classy? Give them a taste of what they’re missing and send them home with a pair of emerald-tinted glasses. “The Nosh with Rachel Belle” has some ideas, like…

Entertaining Like a Pro: Holiday Hosting Tips from Herban Feast's Culinary Director
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Entertaining Like a Pro: Holiday Hosting Tips from Herban Feast’s Culinary Director

Holiday season means one thing for hosts: pressure. Whether you’re planning a corporate client appreciation party or an intimate gathering at home, the goal is the same: you want people talking about it well into January. Herban Feast, the Seattle-based farm-to-table catering company and award-winning creative force behind some of the region’s most memorable events…

Mountain Bar Gets a Nutty Update

Mountain Bar Gets a Nutty Update

Brown & Haley introduces its first new Mountain Bar flavor in more than 50 years.

Tacoma confectioner Brown & Haley is raising the bar. Earlier this summer, the century-old candy maker rolled out a new Mountain Bar featuring rich milk chocolate and pieces of Oregon-grown hazelnuts. Developed in partnership with Oregon Hazelnut Growers, the release celebrates a crop with deep regional roots. Oregon produces 99% of the hazelnuts grown in…

Onigiri on the Rise

Onigiri on the Rise

Japan’s iconic snack is all the rage from baseball games to Seattle boardrooms, thanks to Onigiri Sen.

Anyone who’s been lucky enough to visit Japan has almost certainly made a pit stop at a 7-Eleven—and left with enough onigiri to feed a bus full of tourists. For the uninitiated, onigiri are rice balls stuffed with seafood or veggies and often wrapped in seaweed. It’s a culinary tradition that’s endured for centuries. Samurai…