As long as we're cooking seafood...

[bahiatrader]

There's a really good sauce I like to fix just for seafood, especially if I cook it in foil. It's a lime/garlic/ginger sauce. I heat about a pint of water and thicken it to a gravy-like consistency with corn starch. Then I add minced garlic and freshly ground ginger and heat it until it becomes bubbly. I used the powdered variety you can buy one time and it was OK. Then I squeeze one and a half to two limes or limons into it. Let it cool, and bottle it. For salmonoids like salmon, trout or steelhead I'll use dill weed instead of ginger.
My standard steelheading pack used to be a bag of kindling, aluminum foil, lime/dill sauce and a quarter of a pound of butter. I'd gut my first fish, put the butter and lime/dill sauce into the body cavity, wrap it in foil, throw it on the fire and keep fishing until it was done. The best steelhead I ever ate. I used the pack for a life float one time when my buddy fell off of a short cliff into the Sandy River in January. I was sure glad we had the bag of kindloing.

 

[bahiatrader]

Incidentally, a couple more fishermen came by when we were stripped down to our underwear tryng to dry our winter clothes off. They packed some wood to us for the fire. It was 10 degrees F.

 

[AZ ROB]

Bad visual Robert

 

[MIRAMAR]

Tmi!

 

[cholla]

There's a really good sauce I like to fix just for seafood, especially if I cook it in foil. It's a lime/garlic/ginger sauce. I heat about a pint of water and thicken it to a gravy-like consistency with corn starch. Then I add minced garlic and freshly ground ginger and heat it until it becomes bubbly. I used the powdered variety you can buy one time and it was OK. Then I squeeze one and a half to two limes or limons into it. Let it cool, and bottle it. For salmonoids like salmon, trout or steelhead I'll use dill weed instead of ginger.
My standard steelheading pack used to be a bag of kindling, aluminum foil, lime/dill sauce and a quarter of a pound of butter. I'd gut my first fish, put the butter and lime/dill sauce into the body cavity, wrap it in foil, throw it on the fire and keep fishing until it was done. The best steelhead I ever ate. I used the pack for a life float one time when my buddy fell off of a short cliff into the Sandy River in January. I was sure glad we had the bag of kindloing.

Thank you for all the fishing tidbits you have been posting. They are informative and interesting. Keep them coming.

John

 

[bahiatrader]

Thaqnks John,
I like to eat fish. I grew up in cattle country, so most of my protien diet consisted of beef, venison and elk. I was the only real avid angler in our family. We had a small creek that ran through our property where I caught native cutthtoat and once in a while a sea-run cutthroat that ran 18 or 19". We had salmon and steelhead fishing within bicycle range. When I was in the 9th grade the principle called my mom and complained that I came to school with the blood from a beautiful 42 lb. Chinook or King salmon on my jeans and smelled like fish. During the spring run, I left home before daylight every morning on my bicycle to get some salmon fishing in before school. When I was 17 I had a 14' swamp hog plywood boat I took over the Columbia Bar in search of salmon or halibut whenever I could afford it. I was once escorted in by a US Coast Guard cutter during small craft warnings. They told me I'd have to pay their fuel costs if they had to do it again. They never caught me again. The Pacific is a big ocean.
When I got out of the USMC I went to Alaska to fish until I ran out of money, which I did. 85% of my protien diet was fish and I never got tired of it. Beef was expensive as hell. I shot wa small black bear which I gave half of away and two caribou which I gave most of to the Boy Scout troop that invited me on the hunt. When I'm in Mexico I subsist mostly on fish. The reason we retired here is because of the proximity of the river, lakes, and the Sea of Cortez. I've tried a zillion recipes some of which I invented myself. I don't recommend salmon dumplings. I smoked it, dried it. candied it, and pickled it. I froze very little of it because it freezer burns so easily. It just doesn't seem righ even if you freeze it immersed in water. I like some kind of fish smoked and squaw candy. Dried fish is OK like jerky or if you hydrate it and cook it. Pickled fish is OK in small quantities, I now have a vacuum packer, and that's how I preserve most of my extra fish. I've opened packages of it a year old that still tasted as good as fresh.

 

[garyd]

Thaqnks John,
I like to eat fish. I grew up in cattle country, so most of my protien diet consisted of beef, venison and elk. I was the only real avid angler in our family. We had a small creek that ran through our property where I caught native cutthtoat and once in a while a sea-run cutthroat that ran 18 or 19". We had salmon and steelhead fishing within bicycle range. When I was in the 9th grade the principle called my mom and complained that I came to school with the blood from a beautiful 42 lb. Chinook or King salmon on my jeans and smelled like fish. During the spring run, I left home before daylight every morning on my bicycle to get some salmon fishing in before school. When I was 17 I had a 14' swamp hog plywood boat I took over the Columbia Bar in search of salmon or halibut whenever I could afford it. I was once escorted in by a US Coast Guard cutter during small craft warnings. They told me I'd have to pay their fuel costs if they had to do it again. They never caught me again. The Pacific is a big ocean.
When I got out of the USMC I went to Alaska to fish until I ran out of money, which I did. 85% of my protien diet was fish and I never got tired of it. Beef was expensive as hell. I shot wa small black bear which I gave half of away and two caribou which I gave most of to the Boy Scout troop that invited me on the hunt. When I'm in Mexico I subsist mostly on fish. I've tried a zillion recipes some of which I invented myself. I don't recommend salmon dumplings. I smoked it, dried it. candied it, and pickled it. I froze very little of it because it freezer burns so easily. It just doesn't seem righ even if you freeze it immersed in water. I like some kind of fish smoked and squaw candy. Dried fish is OK like jerky or if you hydrate it and cook it. Pickled fish is OK in small quantities, I now have a vacuum packer, and that's how I preserve most of my extra fish. I've opened packages of it a year old that still tasted as good as fresh.

Do you freeze it after it is vacum packed?

 

[bahiatrader]

Of course I freeze it. Incidentally, I've canned it too. Fresh or vacuum packed and frozen is always better.

 

[bahiatrader]

By the way; My wife Tammy becane minority female owner/operator of Bahia Traders Int. and put me in charge of Mexican acqisitions tyo finance my tax deductible Mexican fishing trips,

 

[bahiatrader]

By the way; My wife Tammy becane minority female owner/operator of Bahia Traders Int. and put me in charge of Mexican acqisitions tyo finance my tax deductible Mexican fishing trips,

This is some of the stuff we used to import. We shipped it to gift and novelty shops all over the US. Ironwood (Olnea tesota) is only found in Sonora and parts of Arizona on the Organ Pipes National Monument.