Subsistence thread

[Burnham]

Thanks, Austin.

 

[stikine]

Dungeness crab tonight. Pulled the pots because commercial season starts tomorrow. 10 legal crabs and tossed back some undersized and the females.

 

[stikine]

Let's eat!

 

[Mrs.B]

Do you cook your crab in ocean water? It used to be a common practice around here. Not so much anymore. When Dad would bring home crab off the boat he'd bring a bucket of water to cook it in. Always cooked on a burner outside.

 

[stikine]

If there is a clean source I do. Around Wrangell this time of year it's really silty from the river runoff.

 

[SeanKroll]

What about letting the silt settle out?

20 years ago, we were hiking up the Paria river canyon, as up-watershed there was rain.

Paria River - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The Paria Narrows are 10' wide, 800' deep, IIRC, so we couldn't descend the canyon.

The river water looked like chocolate milk. A water bottle, left to sit, would have 1/4 silt/ sediment and 3/4 clean, clear water, which we poured off to treat and drink.

 

[stikine]

Probably could do that but would have to wait overnight. I just add a good dose of sea salt and some Old Bay seasoning most of the time.

 

[SeanKroll]

It settles faster than overnight.

I'm no chef, just an idea.

 

[lxskllr]

I wonder what's in sea water? It would be fun to use while camping or something, but I think I'd want to test it before I made regular use a habit.

 

[Tree09]

Everything is in seawater.

 

[stikine]

Yeah, the bottom line is that I'll only use sea water for steaming crab when it's a long way from any domestic area. There are too many pollutent sources near towns... even around here.

 

[stikine]

Spent the weekend gillnetting for sockeye salmon and we did quite well. I think our count is somewhere between 80-90 fish for the two nets we fished. Overall very nice weather and we tent camped near the nets. A few pics:

 

[stikine]

Finished sorting and counting. We ended up with 93 fish split between 3 households. Lots of work cutting tomorrow.

 

[stikine]

Work, sigh...

 

[stikine]

Finished up the last of the sockeye today... smoked bellies and collars. Quite tasty. The one whole fillet that I sectioned up I'm going to enter in the smoked salmon contest for our Bearfest that starts this week.

 

[Bermy]

It's morning here, between your salmon and Brian's sammich, reading posts before breakfast I'm starving!!!

 

[SeanKroll]

My gf and I went for Birthday Blueberry Picking at the end of my road.

There is an Eberhardt variety that started up here and ended up moving to CA. The old Blueberry farm is about 800' down the road from my house.

A short time picking and pruning out overgrown rows yielded over 6 quarts.

 

[Burnham]

Great picture, Sean.

 

[SeanKroll]

Thanks!

We got about 6 more quarts, tonight.

Dinner time, coming.

 

[stikine]

Blueberry pie in your future Sean?

 

[SeanKroll]

Sharing, mixing into breakfast smoothie, salad topping, on their own,...


Blackberries are starting to come in.

 

[stig]

Harvested some 4 pds of Basil today.
Plus another 2 pds that I gave the neighbour.
Making pesto for winter.

 

[Bermy]

Mmmm, I like pesto!

 

[stig]

So do my bonus grandkids.
Most of what I make gets exported to Schweiz.

 

[SeanKroll]

The neighbor asked for wood chips for mulch. I got a bag of onion, carrots, chard, beets, and zucchini from their garden.