{memes} Gratitude Project :: Day 42
Today I am grateful for spawning salmon and generous fish hatcheries.
Long story short [I'll probably ramble about the actual event tomorrow, after I've had some sleep], we got 6 salmon with a combined weight of 32 pounds for $6. That's right, $1 per salmon. And we got them FRESH. As in, netted in the pond/creek at the fish hatchery, stunned, milked [since we had all boys, they were sperm-milked, not egg-harvested], part of the head cut off for tracking purposes [and to help bleed them?], and paid for right there.
Once they got processed down [took all 3 of us, tho admittedly
shatterpath and amyrayh did most of the work], it ended up being 22 pounds of usable food. 13 steaks, 3 frozen back halves for fillets down the line, 2 whole fish that became dinner tonight, 1 whole fish frozen for later, and a few tidbits of "cheek"/collar meat that we nibbled on tonight while waiting for the fish to cook. The rest of it basically is going to get boiled down for broth and some meat to be added to the wet food that
shatterpath makes for the cats. And I'm going to see how the bones look when all is said and done. Maybe I'll be able to salvage them for crafts and/or juju purposes. I definitely am hoping to keep the teeth from the lower jaw [head including upper jaw was kept by the hatchery] to put into a little glass juju jar.
I'll talk more tomorrow about the fucking faboo dinner I made tonight of the 2 whole salmon that we cooked. Right now, I'm exhausted after helping with the fish and doing 30 tarot readings today [36 total in a 28 hour period]. My hands hurt from all the shuffling, longhand writing, and typing that goes into each reading. So I'm off to bed now...
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Long story short [I'll probably ramble about the actual event tomorrow, after I've had some sleep], we got 6 salmon with a combined weight of 32 pounds for $6. That's right, $1 per salmon. And we got them FRESH. As in, netted in the pond/creek at the fish hatchery, stunned, milked [since we had all boys, they were sperm-milked, not egg-harvested], part of the head cut off for tracking purposes [and to help bleed them?], and paid for right there.
Once they got processed down [took all 3 of us, tho admittedly
shatterpath and amyrayh did most of the work], it ended up being 22 pounds of usable food. 13 steaks, 3 frozen back halves for fillets down the line, 2 whole fish that became dinner tonight, 1 whole fish frozen for later, and a few tidbits of "cheek"/collar meat that we nibbled on tonight while waiting for the fish to cook. The rest of it basically is going to get boiled down for broth and some meat to be added to the wet food that
shatterpath makes for the cats. And I'm going to see how the bones look when all is said and done. Maybe I'll be able to salvage them for crafts and/or juju purposes. I definitely am hoping to keep the teeth from the lower jaw [head including upper jaw was kept by the hatchery] to put into a little glass juju jar.
I'll talk more tomorrow about the fucking faboo dinner I made tonight of the 2 whole salmon that we cooked. Right now, I'm exhausted after helping with the fish and doing 30 tarot readings today [36 total in a 28 hour period]. My hands hurt from all the shuffling, longhand writing, and typing that goes into each reading. So I'm off to bed now...
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