Busy as bees!
We were planning to attend a wine-tasting event at a local deli, Vidas, but we were both running late and we decided to just go grab some prime-rib sliders and Caesar salad at The Islander. The Friday night band was warming up doing soundchecks in preparation for their 9pm show.
Don't know their name, but they were actually pretty good!
We then stopped at the grocery store and saw a couple of women across the street selling fresh pink salmon for $1.50/pound. They were just caught that day in reef nets and were all in a cooler in the back of her pick-up truck.
This is about the size of our fish, 4 lbs.
$6.00!
$6.00!
Reef nets are strung between two rafts with high viewing platforms.
Check out this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXL3jfsPWKk
Check out this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXL3jfsPWKk
Our new "Food Saver" that we'll use for the fish and also for the meals I will prepare/freeze for Paul's journey down to San Francisco.
"Off with your head..."
Removing the guts, while the salmon keeps an eye on Paul...
Hosing it all off...
Prepare to be filet'd!
And Voila'! Two nice pink steaks that we will both grill and smoke, the latter on our stove-top smoker. Oh, and nothing went to waste, I tossed the head and scraps into the bay for Mr. and Mrs. Harold, the harbor seals.
Chef Paul, with his salmon steak ready for the BBQ grill.
Our handy-dandy little stovetop smoker, complete with wood chips!
One-quarter of the other half of the salmon, smoked to perfection on the stove.
Chef Paul's other half of the salmon, also smoked to perfection on Jerry's "Man Grill."
The "Man Grill'd" salmon was darker, but they both tasted heavenly and smokey.
It's a KEEPER!
Oh man the salmon looks so Ono!,
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