Taken just before midnight 6/20/09
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Fresh Trout
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This weekend this nice fella was catching trout in his net.
Nice ones.
Ask and you shall receive. Thanks Ray.
This is a Dolly Varden trout. This time of year they return from the sea to spawn in the rivers.
And they are good eats.
I'll show you one of my favorite recipes for trout...but first we have to fillet the fish.
Put the whole thing in a foil lined pan for easy clean up.
Some Johnny's and Mrs. Dash.
Sprinkle the fish with some Johnny's and lots of Mrs Dash.
Then mix together one cup of mayo with 1/2 cup of grated cheese. I used a cheddar Monterrey jack combo.
Plop the mixture onto the fish....
...and spread it around like frosting a cake.
Top it with some onion slices, back at 350F degrees for about 30-35 minutes. It's delicious and this recipe works great for salmon too.
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This weekend this nice fella was catching trout in his net.
Nice ones.
Ask and you shall receive. Thanks Ray.
This is a Dolly Varden trout. This time of year they return from the sea to spawn in the rivers.
And they are good eats.
I'll show you one of my favorite recipes for trout...but first we have to fillet the fish.
Put the whole thing in a foil lined pan for easy clean up.
Some Johnny's and Mrs. Dash.
Sprinkle the fish with some Johnny's and lots of Mrs Dash.
Then mix together one cup of mayo with 1/2 cup of grated cheese. I used a cheddar Monterrey jack combo.
Plop the mixture onto the fish....
...and spread it around like frosting a cake.
Top it with some onion slices, back at 350F degrees for about 30-35 minutes. It's delicious and this recipe works great for salmon too.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Practice
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Last night was Uyaana's first day of softball practice.
It is a good mix of kids.
Some played last year but some have never even held a bat.
This is Uyaana's first year playing so he has a lot to learn. Here Coach Ernie is showing him how far he should stand from the plate.
How to hold the bat. The kids are using a tee for this first practice. During the actual games the kids will get 3 tries to hit a pitched ball. If they miss all three they are allowed to hit off the tee.
OK kid, hit it over there.
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Last night was Uyaana's first day of softball practice.
It is a good mix of kids.
Some played last year but some have never even held a bat.
This is Uyaana's first year playing so he has a lot to learn. Here Coach Ernie is showing him how far he should stand from the plate.
How to hold the bat. The kids are using a tee for this first practice. During the actual games the kids will get 3 tries to hit a pitched ball. If they miss all three they are allowed to hit off the tee.
OK kid, hit it over there.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Working on Ugruk, Part 2
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After yesterday's butchering, today it was time to kuvrak the blubber off the skin. The easiest way to do this (in my opinion) is to lay the whole skin over an a-frame, but everyone has their own favorite way to get it done.
It was nice to have lots of help. We are all wearing rubber gloves because working on Ugruk is a very oily, messy job. The advantage of wearing gloves is if you need clean hands in a hurry all you have to so it pull your gloves off.
We had plenty of ulus to go around. Even people who have no experience can cut blubber into strips to we put everyone to work.
Uyaana is learning. He has watched many times but this is his first time cutting blubber.
To make seal oil you need to take the blubber off the skin.
You do this by scraping slabs of blubber off with your ulu.
The goal is to leave no blubber on the skin, but that's much harder than it looks. If you slice to shallow you leave lots of blubber on the skin. If you slice too deeply then you will ulik (cut/tear)the skin.
Maija and I took turns kuvrak-ing. It's lots of hard work so it's nice to have a partner.
Maija has a nice big piece almost ready to be cut off.
Here is Maija with a big slab of blubber which she is going to put on the table behind her.
The folks at the table cut the blubber into smaller strips and throw them into a bucket.
Cutting it into strips helps speed up the process of rendering.
When you cut up the blubber and put it into the bucket it will self render without heat. You just stir the blubber a couple times every day. The oil just melts out of the fatty tissue and makes seal oil. How long it takes to render out depends on the size of your strips and how warm out it is.
Here Saima and Stacey are helping us Kuvrak. It was nice to let them take over so we could have a break.
Almost done.
I also finished cleaning out the ingaloks and hung them up to dry for a while.
So this concludes part 2 of working on Ugruk. We're not done yet. We still have lots of work to do to finish this one.
.
After yesterday's butchering, today it was time to kuvrak the blubber off the skin. The easiest way to do this (in my opinion) is to lay the whole skin over an a-frame, but everyone has their own favorite way to get it done.
It was nice to have lots of help. We are all wearing rubber gloves because working on Ugruk is a very oily, messy job. The advantage of wearing gloves is if you need clean hands in a hurry all you have to so it pull your gloves off.
We had plenty of ulus to go around. Even people who have no experience can cut blubber into strips to we put everyone to work.
Uyaana is learning. He has watched many times but this is his first time cutting blubber.
To make seal oil you need to take the blubber off the skin.
You do this by scraping slabs of blubber off with your ulu.
The goal is to leave no blubber on the skin, but that's much harder than it looks. If you slice to shallow you leave lots of blubber on the skin. If you slice too deeply then you will ulik (cut/tear)the skin.
Maija and I took turns kuvrak-ing. It's lots of hard work so it's nice to have a partner.
Maija has a nice big piece almost ready to be cut off.
Here is Maija with a big slab of blubber which she is going to put on the table behind her.
The folks at the table cut the blubber into smaller strips and throw them into a bucket.
Cutting it into strips helps speed up the process of rendering.
When you cut up the blubber and put it into the bucket it will self render without heat. You just stir the blubber a couple times every day. The oil just melts out of the fatty tissue and makes seal oil. How long it takes to render out depends on the size of your strips and how warm out it is.
Here Saima and Stacey are helping us Kuvrak. It was nice to let them take over so we could have a break.
Almost done.
I also finished cleaning out the ingaloks and hung them up to dry for a while.
So this concludes part 2 of working on Ugruk. We're not done yet. We still have lots of work to do to finish this one.
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