I love sardines How bout you?

[Zimobog]

Oh yes. Mine is kept outside and it doesn't run much in the winter. When I lived here from '79-'89, we just had an insulated wooden box out in the snow. It was ok, but stuff got "burned" a lot then cause the temp fluctuates too much. -20 becomes 0 and then 10 and then it's 28 and it snows, then back to -10 etc baack and forth for like 9 months a year. You might even get "two winters" where everything thaws out for a week and then winter starts all over (either that or turns everything into a frozen mud ball). So lots of ice crystals get in your stuff normally and damages it. Also we have lots of animals here that want to get at your meat. We don't have a large variety of insects here but the bottom of the food chain is carnivorous rodents of all types. Freezer keeps them out, too.

[Bigblue1]

You need a freezer for winter in Alaska????

Probably not but he's storing in the spring and summer for the winter.

[squeezyjohn]

Ladies and Germs I have posted some fish-getting photos over in the Photos of nature etc thread if you want to see how Alaskans stock the freezer for winter.

You need a freezer for winter in Alaska????

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Yeah they are good in salads. I've been just dipping them in mustard lately though. Or just cover them with hot sauce if I'm on the go. Note to self: put mustard in snack bag.

[Bigblue1]

So I found a great way to enjoy tinned fish without the crackers. Put them in a salad really good and really healthy.....

[Zimobog]

Ladies and Germs I have posted some fish-getting photos over in the Photos of nature etc thread if you want to see how Alaskans stock the freezer for winter.

[Bigblue1]

That salmon jerky is pretty close on the smoke flavor, but squaw candy is much oilier and has skin attached.
You really cant go wrong eating salmon in my book.

Sushi is great. I unfortunately came to it discover it late in life.

Hey check your Messages

[Zimobog]

My mom went to Alaska a few years ago and brought home Alaska's Best Salmon Jerky and Captain Jim's smoke salmon Both pretty Good in my book. Also Roo sent me some choice smoked Salmon he bought at some fish joint by his house in Seattle and it was the Bomb.

That salmon jerky is pretty close on the smoke flavor, but squaw candy is much oilier and has skin attached.
You really cant go wrong eating salmon in my book.

Sushi is great. I unfortunately came to it discover it late in life.

[Faylool]

Uni with quail egg yellow Yellowtail sashimi. Whaaaaaa!

[Crow]

I dropped £70 in Yo Shushi! last week by myself! Easy to get stuck on an eating loop in that place

Been there before... I love me some sushi!

Got tuna? Got salmon? I'll stack those plates sky high!



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Can't forget the Seattle Roll!

[Bigblue1]

My mom went to Alaska a few years ago and brought home Alaska's Best Salmon Jerky and Captain Jim's smoke salmon Both pretty Good in my book. Also Roo sent me some choice smoked Salmon he bought at some fish joint by his house in Seattle and it was the Bomb.

[Zimobog]

I love sardines, kippers, anything like that. I love smoked clams but dislike store-bought.

My favorite preserved fish is "squaw candy". Its the strip belly meat and fat dried at the bottem edge of a salmon fillet (the part you cut into when you clean fish). Dried and smoked with alder wood, the strips are stiff as a board and about the size of a liqorace stick. Silvery skin on one side and meat on the other. You gotta try it!

The closest thing you are gonna get commercially is a "salmon stick" from Alaska Wild Game Products.

Only thing I love more than canned sardines is canned anchovies

[Bigblue1]

I enjoy them once every blue moon... I prefer fresh seafood over canned.

Two totally different things. I love fresh fish as well. I've actually been known to eat tinned fish whilst trying to catch fresh fish for dinner. Really can't do it the other way around.

[Skell18]

I dropped £70 in Yo Shushi! last week by myself! Easy to get stuck on an eating loop in that place