Monday, December 19, 2011

Maximize your harvest & bake the skeleton!

After filleting our fish (Coho above), we bake the skeleton for a hearty feast!
After a hard days working, that is catching our limit in hatchery salmon and steelhead, we look least forward to filleting the fish, until recently.  Specifically, we botched the fillet job and decided we should bake the sketelon. So I slathered butter on the top with fresh cracked peppercorn and sea salt for seasoning, viola!  It tasted wonderful, we even leave the head on and eat the cheeks, thank you to my Montana friends for that tip! 

 Waste not, want not - 18th century English Proverb

How is it that we had been missing this?  Now we look forward to our baked reward, and eagerly fillet the harvest of hatchery fish, and feast on the remains, smiling to our selves since we waste less when we bake the fish skeleton.  

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