Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[vehve]

@TeaChick Ok, it's actually super complicated and very, very expensive.

 

[TeaChick]

@TeaChick

No, do NOT smoke anything....find someone who smokes fish etc. and want to trade some smoked fish for eggs or chicks. It is called bartering.

My grandfather got free AC work in exchange for hunting rights. He also bartered for homemade venison and pork sausage, honey, and the best homemade venison jerky.

I wish! I've got find someone who wants what I've got.

 

[TeaChick]

@TeaChick Ok, it's actually super complicated and very, very expensive.

 

[TeaChick]

You're really funny!!!

 

[vehve]

I try. Sometimes I even succeed.

 

[perchie.girl]

@TeaChick

No, do NOT smoke anything....find someone who smokes fish etc. and want to trade some smoked fish for eggs or chicks. It is called bartering.

My grandfather got free AC work in exchange for hunting rights. He also bartered for homemade venison and pork sausage, honey, and the best homemade venison jerky.

Okay.... story time.... vBG

Here in Southern California there is a lake called the Salt N Sea. Incredibly salty you cant sink in the water.... Somehow it got populated with Tilapia. Who are incredibly adaptable. I had a coworker who fished that lake. She and her husband had an air boat. So they could fish places that were very shallow.

The fish are so hungry in that lake she said all they had to do is provide shade, the boat, and drop a hook in the water. They would always come home with fifty or sixty of the little buggers. About the size of your hand. They would gut and descale and rinse them. leaving the heads on.

Then they would pop them in their homemade smoker.... An old refrigerator conversion... Right on the wire racks. OH MY GAWD good. I think they salted them a bit too. Or maybe they were already pre-salted....

FWIW there is hot smoking and cold smoking.... Cold smoking is very good for fish.

deb

 

[Dizzywitch]

A rainy day to sit and do nothing but catch up on indoor stuff... Wow! You all have been chatty this week. It took a whole pot of coffee to read all of the posts. I love days like this!

 

[vehve]

I'm not a big fan of cold smoked fish, but many people like it. Personally I like the hot smoked fish straight out of the smoker, although you can let it cool too and eat it cold.

 

[Dizzywitch]

Deb- is that what those fish are? I made my daughter go to the date farm and then to the Salton Sea one summer . The banks were COVERED with dad fish and oh did it stink! She still tells me it was one of the worst vacations ever Palm Springs in July... probably not the smartest idea.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb- is that what those fish are? I made my daughter go to the date farm and then to the Salton Sea one summer . The banks were COVERED with dad fish and oh did it stink! She still tells me it was one of the worst vacations ever

Palm Springs in July... probably not the smartest idea.

yep.... There are die offs on the lake she must have been there during one.

Probably the best article I have read on the subject

http://www.greetingsfromsaltonsea.com/tilapia.html

deb