let it run for a while ... :D

(thx randy, someone had to follow that act)
Rhubarb and half strawberries from the garden.
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Montmorancy cherry(gasp about ~150 pitted per). Next up is Serviceberry.
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I'm up in Alaska for a weeks vacation visiting a brother in law, and after 2-3 hours of trolling in his aluminum skiff brought in 28 pounds of chrome bright Silver Salmon..............yum.

Firing up the smoker tomorrow, then canning them in Kerr jars ourselves.

double yum.


~6 pound silver fresh in the net.


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Our 5 fish / 28 pounds at the fillet table.


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And then next to our personal 16 foot aluminum skiff which cost about $4 in gas money, there was the $$$ professional charter boat with ~8 tourists on it, at $300 a head, that's ~$2500 for a 1/2 day fishing for them, there are 4-5 halibut hidden under this mound of salmon.


wow that's a LOT of filleting work to do!!!


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So, I need some suggestions for this.

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The flavours worked great together, but only if you got all three in the bite - sweet rice with vinegar-sugar-salt, lime-garlic-marinated-shrimp, sugared cherries. As served, that didn't always happen. And it was kind of fussy to eat. Plus making the crepe was an extra step and it added nothing to the flavour.

So, should I:
- make this into a sushi- style roll, rice around shrimp and cherry
- use bigger shrimp and stuff them with cherries (chopped) and rice
- other?
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Pesto rub salmon in phyllo pastry with light dill sauce...

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Dinner with jyl, Korean.

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No way! The two goodies met up! Awesome guys.

Could you imagine if we were in a big kitchen...think iron chef kitchen stadium big...what the outcome would be? Yum!

It was damn good. Galbi especially. The dive bar after was cool too.

Oh man, that looks good! Think I'll have to go to the Korean place this wekeend now.

You guys SUCK! and I mean that in the kindest way. That looks like a feast, I'm sure you guys enjoyed every bite. And you still Suck! (unless you name/ describe every dish) :)

dinner is all about company, it was great.

Chicken thighs in a hoisin base with Chinese eggplant and three peppers: dried Chinese, habanero, and long hot chili's. Rice with some sort of exotic plum and red peppers in a dark rum brown sugar syrup. Broccoli.

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file this under the FAIL category.

tried to make a siriacha style hot sauce. first my blender blows..i couldnt whip it into a homogenous mixture..and i used to much vinegar..and i used honey as a sweetener,,trying to be fancy..

bleech!! letting it sit in the fridge and mellow before i send it down the drain. next!!

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tonight, i am making fried chicken..maybe mix some sauce into ketchup for some fire-chup. hmmm.. brainstorming here!

Say what you want...I love living near a city that has so many diverse food opportunities ...

MY S/O is from Chengdu, China... so we spend a lot of time in Flushing Elmhurst, or the 8th ave Brooklyn Chinatowns..

This was a from a Chinese/Malay place..

Fried skate with pungent chili sweet sour sauce, wide rice noodles (in this dish they were rolled up....like logs?)

Satay... and some house freebies....

$30 with a soda

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Here's my version of fast food.

Cost about $4 (buying the ingredients at Whole Foods). Took 10 minutes to prepare and cook, one cast iron skillet to rinse out, then eat.

Steak seasoned with soy sauce, siriachi sauce, oil, salt and pepper. Red cabbage, a small tomato, a few cloves of garlic. Corn tortillas. Half a lime, flesh and juice.

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The sad thing about this thread for me is that I would have a very hard time finding any kind of restaurant within a reasonable distance that serves food half as good as most of this stuff looks. And if I did find a good eatery, the line would be out the door.

There are plenty of mediocre places to eat and they continue to stay in business.

You just about have to cook at home to eat well.

LA sux, eh?

popn here is 150k and we have NO problem finding great places to eat