I haven’t talked much about our trip to the Okanagan, so I thought I would share a short recap of our adventures. Really I just want to saturate this post in glorious pictures of my family. So there.
The trip started with a short ferry ride across the Straight of Georgia or if you like, the Salish Sea. After an eight hour trip. we were there. And what you see above is the first thing I did when we got there.
Although I do already live on a lake, the lakes in the Okanagan are 1) way warmer and 2) surrounded in sandy beaches instead of the rocky, tree and bush laden variety from which I hail from. To dig my feet into molten lava hot sand and watch as my son and husband frolicked in the water was a beautiful glimpse at what this short vacation would all be about.
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These two are partners in crime. They are inseparable when it comes to one activity….fishing.
On our way to a friend’s house (a three hour drive), we had to pull over and go fishing for an hour. Sadly we caught nothing and the fish just laughed at us as we cast lure after lure directly on top of their heads. I guess they weren’t buying our fake fishies…
What we didn’t catch that day though, we made up for in the grocery store. As I mentioned in my last post, there is a resurgence of my favourite salmon in our local rivers. What was once thought of as slowly dwindling, suddenly burst back on to the scene this year and everyone is going Sockeye crazy! It’s as inexpensive as ever, available at any store and even off the back of fishing boats as they come into dock.
Today’s post is a lesson on filleting a whole salmon as well as removing those troubling pin bones that everyone hates.
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Today is the first day of the Mushrooms Masters – A Tournament of Taste, a food blogging competition between the US, Canada and Australia. Bloggers from these countries have been recruited to create fantastic, mind blowing recipes to compete against the other nations in a side by side comparison, where you (the readers) get to vote for the winners!
Starting today and continuing until September 28th (September 27th is the last day to vote!), you can vote for your favourite recipe, your favourite country or even your favourite blogger! Just visit Tastespotting.com to vote for the winners or click the shortcut available in my left sidebar <——-
To see each of the recipes go to The Mushrooms Canada Blog.
We have some great Canadian Foodies on our team so far: Kevin from Closet Cooking, Angela from Oh She Glows, and Jeannette from Everybody Likes Sandwiches so I’m super excited to be a part of the whole thing. My recipe (featuring shiitake mushrooms) will be up for the week of September 14th, 2010.
So get out there and vote for your favourites!
**Disclaimer: I have received compensation from Mushrooms Canada for my recipe and photos.
I’m back, but only for a minute. Round here, we like to make vacations last as long as possible…so we stopped home for a brief minute before leaving again as soon as I finish this sentence.
Kidding, but not really…I’ll be back on the road again the minute the last sip of this morning’s coffee hits my lips. We’re heading up to the North of our Island to see some friends and we’re going to cook up a serious seafood extravaganza. The Fraser River Sockeye return this year was bigger than any return since 1913! That’s a long time to go without an abundance of your favourite salmon, but now it’s cheaper than chicken and we’re taking advantage. So I am bringing you this recipe to tide you over until I can tell you all about our lovely trip to the deserts of Canada.
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