Subsistence thread

[treebogan]

Cleaning some mushrooms for a mate. You never tell anyone else your mushroom spots.

 

[stikine]

Is that white one a hedge hog?

 

[treebogan]

Is that white one a hedge hog?

Piggsopp : Spike Mushroom.

(Hydnum repandum)

 

[treebogan]

There are many edible mushrooms here, I only know a few of them. It seems like every time I go out this time of year I see a type I have never seen before.

 

[stikine]

Same thing around here. Lot's of different species and I only know a handful.

 

[Dave Shepard]

All mushrooms are edible, some only once.

 

[cory]

Sounds exactly like smelt. The runs here on the Columbia River and major tribs were legendary. No more, they basically are next to extinct.

Why is that?

 

[Burnham]

Over-fishing and habitat loss. Or habitat loss and over-fishing. People have differing opinions on which is more to blame.

Over-fishing is easy to understand...habitat loss is more complicated. Dams and culverts; river, creek, stream, and wetland degradation from development, pollution, and resource extraction (logging, gravel harvest, mining) all get into the picture.

 

[cory]

Yup. From my armchair I'd guess dams would be numero uno.

 

[FireFighterZero]

There we go! Where's @FireFighterZero with some butcher pics or other?

I cant even figure out how to AI my pigs.

 

[stikine]

Made a batch of Jalapeno Lime Jerky today (moose). Turned out pretty good.

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

Btw seems like this cool thread should be in the The Tree House Kitchen, seems like it'd be easier to find.

 

[stikine]

Here's some sockeye lox I finished up today from the summer fish. I'm giving one of the fillets to some friends who give me homemade sausage... this is what subsistence is about up here.

 

[Burnham]

Lovely.

 

[stikine]

Delivered the lox to my friend and came back with some caribou summer sausage. He's Polish and from Wisconsin originally, so the sausage thing is big with him. Bout ready to break some out for dinner tonight!

 

[treebogan]

That looks nice.

 

[sotc]

Sweet thread, beef crop this past fall

 

[Bermy]

We had an instant gas water heater we weren't using. Traded it to a friend for a big crayfish and lamb hindquarter. Crayfish is history, lamb is in the freezer.

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

Venison. It was a "roast" cut which I sliced into thin steaks for speed n ease of cooking. Delish!

 

[stikine]

Yum Cory!

 

[gf beranek]

Oh, poor Bambi!

Yeah, looks yummy.

 

[treebogan]

I put the net out, set it from my kayak .
Ended up with about #25 of fillet.

 

[lxskllr]

How do you filet a crab? :^P

Dumb question, but what kind of fish?