Thread: Salmon to die for

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:43:50 GMT, notbob wrote:

> Tonight I had some AL salmon.

Alabama Salmon?

> We only have a
> small Kroger offshoot, City Market, but I've gotten to know the ppl
> who work there. Sure, they mostly give us vac-pak and frozen stuff,
> but the butchers have a certain amout of pride. Ask 'em true and
> they'll answer true.

Our City Markets are a dump. I totally forgot we have them in town.

> I'd rather eat this quality of REAL salmon, only once every 3 yrs, than
> ingest the farmed crap they're passing of as everyday salmon.

Ahh, don't be such a salmon whimp. You could always move to Alabama
and get all you want!

-sw

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:43:50 GMT, notbob <[email protected]> wrote:

>I bought it.
>
>I'd rather eat this quality of REAL salmon, only once every 3 yrs, than
>ingest the farmed crap they're passing of as everyday salmon.
>
>Tis the season. Spend the $$ and be happy.

So,have you cooked it yet? If so,how did you cook it?

Christine
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On 2010-09-05, Christine Dabney <[email protected]> wrote:

> So,have you cooked it yet? If so,how did you cook it?

Yes. Last night I cooked half simply fried in butter. Tonight I went
a bit larger with a wine reduction sauce. I gave some to mom and she
went nuts. I see more in our future while it's still on sale.

nb

On 9/4/2010 11:15 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2010-09-05, Christine Dabney<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So,have you cooked it yet? If so,how did you cook it?
>
> Yes. Last night I cooked half simply fried in butter. Tonight I went
> a bit larger with a wine reduction sauce. I gave some to mom and she
> went nuts. I see more in our future while it's still on sale.
>
> nb

May I ask what price you paid? I should look for the good AL (er,
Alaskan) stuff, too!!! ;D

Sky

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On 2010-09-05, Sky <[email protected]> wrote:

> May I ask what price you paid? I should look for the good AL (er,
> Alaskan) stuff, too!!! ;D

It was on sale for half off at $7 lb.

As for the AK abbreviation, I thought that was for Arkansas.

nb

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:44:46 GMT, notbob <[email protected]> wrote:


>As for the AK abbreviation, I thought that was for Arkansas.
>
>nb
Nope. AK is for Alaska. AR is Arkansas, I think.

Christine
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On 9/5/2010 4:44 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2010-09-05, Sky<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> May I ask what price you paid? I should look for the good AL (er,
>> Alaskan) stuff, too!!! ;D
>
> It was on sale for half off at $7 lb.

Thanks so much! I was curious. That's a good price (I think?)! I have
to look for some at a store, and now I know what a 'fair' price is!!
Thanks again.

Sky

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In article <qBCgo.55315$[email protected]>,
notbob <[email protected]> wrote:


> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. How
> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's actually
> salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.

The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the shrimp
comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29

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On Sep 4, 6:43*pm, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:
> Being a fish aware person, I don't usually eat salmon. *One, most of
> all cuz it sucks. *Two, cuz it sucks!
>
> Tonight I had some AL salmon. *Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. *How
> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. *Ummm... look at and it's actually
> salmon colored. *IOW, salmon red. *Ask your buthcher. *We only havea
> small Kroger offshoot, City Market, but I've gotten to know the ppl
> who work there. *Sure, they mostly give us vac-pak and frozen stuff,
> but the butchers have a certain amout of pride. *Ask 'em true and
> they'll answer true. *
>
> I didn't have any doubt when our butcher brought out the salmon. *The
> newspaper add said wild coho. *Our butcher was honest enough to tell
> me it wasn't coho, but AL sockeye. *Holy crap!! *I've not seen salmon
> this red in 30 yrs! *I asked him, eyeball to eyeball, about "farmed"
> and/or "color-added". *He swore it wasn't. *I bought it.
>
> I'd rather eat this quality of REAL salmon, only once every 3 yrs, than
> ingest the farmed crap they're passing of as everyday salmon.
>
> Tis the season. *Spend the $$ and be happy. *
>
> nb

I am lucky enough to live where our salmon is wild caught and fresh.
There is no comparison to 'farmed' fish.
The way I prefer it is simply sauteed in butter with fresh lemon
juice.
The price of $7 per pound is VERY good. You should buy as much as
you can at that price and put some
in the freezer so this Winter you can treat yourself. Good wild
salmon will freeze nicely.

On Sep 4, 6:43*pm, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:
> Being a fish aware person, I don't usually eat salmon. *One, most of
> all cuz it sucks. *Two, cuz it sucks!
>
> Tonight I had some AL salmon. *Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. *How
> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. *Ummm... look at and it's actually
> salmon colored. *IOW, salmon red. *Ask your buthcher. *We only havea
> small Kroger offshoot, City Market, but I've gotten to know the ppl
> who work there. *Sure, they mostly give us vac-pak and frozen stuff,
> but the butchers have a certain amout of pride. *Ask 'em true and
> they'll answer true. *
>
> I didn't have any doubt when our butcher brought out the salmon. *The
> newspaper add said wild coho. *Our butcher was honest enough to tell
> me it wasn't coho, but AL sockeye. *Holy crap!! *I've not seen salmon
> this red in 30 yrs! *I asked him, eyeball to eyeball, about "farmed"
> and/or "color-added". *He swore it wasn't. *I bought it.
>
> I'd rather eat this quality of REAL salmon, only once every 3 yrs, than
> ingest the farmed crap they're passing of as everyday salmon.
>
> Tis the season. *Spend the $$ and be happy. *
>
> nb

We get it all the time here in the Pacific Northwest. Damn good
eating!!

Dan Abel wrote:

> notbob wrote:
>
>
>> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye.
>> How
>> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's
>> actually salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.
>
> The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the
> shrimp comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29

The best salmon I have ever eaten was given me (flash frozen) by a
neighbor in Maryland who had gone on an Alaskan fishing trip with
friends. It was wonderful and I doubt I'll ever be that lucky again.

Dora

On 9/13/2010 1:00 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
> In article<qBCgo.55315$[email protected]>,
> notbob<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. How
>> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's actually
>> salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.
>
> The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the shrimp
> comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29
>

That's why flamingos are pink, too.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On 9/13/2010 3:41 PM, Dora wrote:
> Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> notbob wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. How
>>> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's
>>> actually salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.
>>
>> The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the
>> shrimp comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29
>
> The best salmon I have ever eaten was given me (flash frozen) by a
> neighbor in Maryland who had gone on an Alaskan fishing trip with
> friends. It was wonderful and I doubt I'll ever be that lucky again.
>

The best salmon I have ever eaten, including what I had in Alaska, was
from the market under the bridge in Vancouver, BC. (I forget the name of
the market, but anyone who has been to Vancouver knows which one it is)
We were in our little truck camper on vacation and we took the tourist
trolley all over Vancouver. It stopped at the market. We bought a salmon
steak took it back to our camper, sprinkled it with a little bit of Old
Bay and stuck it on the little propane grill. I can still taste how
wonderful it was and that was in 1990!


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Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

Janet Wilder <[email protected]> wrote in news:4c8ec5e3$0$1670
$[email protected]:

> On 9/13/2010 1:00 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article<qBCgo.55315$[email protected]>,
>> notbob<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. How
>>> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's
actually
>>> salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.
>>
>> The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the
shrimp
>> comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29
>>
>
> That's why flamingos are pink, too.
>


Every day you learn something new, is a good day.

Today is a good day.

Thanks for that :-)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo#Description

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Hobart
Tasmania

The act of feeding someone is an act of beauty,
whether it's a full Sunday roast or a jam sandwich,
but only when done with love.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:00:11 -0700, Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <qBCgo.55315$[email protected]>,
> notbob <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> Tonight I had some AL salmon. Real wild caught Alaskan sockeye. How
>> do I know WTF it really is, you ask. Ummm... look at and it's actually
>> salmon colored. IOW, salmon red.
>
>The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the shrimp
>comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29

I have had good salmon too and it just is not even in the same near
category as frozen farmed salmon. The fresh frozen Alaskan was so
unbelievably tasty!!

I have a truly extraordinary customer- who happens to live in
Australia and last Christmas he generously sent us a package from <2
Sisters Alaska Seafood>- I kept the sticker for the icebox- and it was
the most extraordinarily delicious salmon I have ever had. (I can
still remember how wonderful it tasted and it is 9 months later!) I
forget the specific kind of salmon, but it came via FedEx and frozen
and it was other worldly- as is my extraordinary customer.

Get the real stuff even if it is occasional, because it will really
blow your mind.

Just my $.02.

aloha
Cea

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:46:30 -0500, Janet Wilder
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 9/13/2010 1:00 PM, Dan Abel wrote:
>>
>> The color comes from the shrimp the salmon eat. The color of the shrimp
>> comes from the little critters the shrimp eat.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_%28color%29
>>
>
>That's why flamingos are pink, too.

You reminded me of a post by the late lamented and much respected
a.s.d. poster on such subjects, Quentin Gradyin which he mentions
astaxanthin. Quentin was the author of "Nutrition for Blokes".

I hope the rec.food.cooking folks don't mind this cut-and-paste of one
of his relevant old posts here. It was intended for diabetics, but the
relevance is actually more general.

From "Bery, bery good for my eyes."
http://groups.google.com.au/group/al...2313bbe?hl=en&

'G'day G'day Fester, Annette et al,

Avoiding macular degeneration is multifactorial. It pays to tackle the
issue as many ways as possible. Not many team sports are won with a
single defender.

1. Control blood glucose tightly. The eyes don't have insulin
receptors so don't require insulin to transfer glucose into the eyes
in the way muscles do. What this means if blood glucose is high then
glucose rushes into the eye just as the sea rushes into inlets when
the tide is high.

2. Glucose in the eye can be converted to sorbitol by an enzyme
called aldose reductase. Picture sorbitol like the bloke with a black
hat in a Western. When the bloke on the horse with a black hat rides
into town something bad is going to happen. The sombre music tells
you so. You can't be sure of which plot the Western will follow ...
there are only a few but something real bad is going to happen when
the black hatted guy rides in to the theme of "Sorbitol, Sorbitol,
Sorbitol who you gunna bowl?"

Fortunately in Westerns worthy of the name there are blokes who wear
white hats, aldose reductase inhibitors, Ari for short. All good
Westerns have a bit of tear jerking but it better be brief so we can
get on an enjoy the action. In the shoot out between Sorbitol and
Ari, the tear jerking element is onion. Onion is an excellent source
of biologically available Quercetin. (Any resemblance to my own name
is entirely coincidental.) Quercetin is an excellent antioxidant
great for curing hay fever ... told you this was a tear jerker. It
doesn't matter if you fry up the onion in a pan on a camp fire,
Quercetin can take it just don't pour it down the drain. Whatever,
Quercetin saves the day and stops aldose reductase from converting
glucose to Sorbitol and your eyes are saved from numerous fates worse
than death.

3. If you can't stop Sorbitol from riding around shooting up things
the next best thing is having him corralled in a box canyon. Enter
stage left to great applause ... Taurine. Taurine keeps sorbitol boxed
up with osmotic pressure. Taurine is an amino acid found in fish
especially shellfish and fish hearts etc, meat that hasn't been over
cooked. Eat some green lipped mussels or sardines. Steak that
gallops onto your plate has more taurine than one grilled to death.

4. OK, Westerns were black and white but the audience demanded more.
They wanted colour. Now at first the colours weren't very good.
People got a bit confused with their colours and thought beta carotene
from carrots were good for eyes. Bugs Bunny got a lot of good press
when the real hero was Olive Oil who no doubt nagged Popeye just a
little bit to eat his spinach. Spinach looks green but it hides some
good yellow stuff called lutein (yellow) that protects the peripheral
regions of the eye from the ravages of blue and ultraviolet light.
Lutein does a wonderful job in providing sunglasses INSIDE the eye.
Young people need the sunglasses effect of lutein because their eyes
are clear. Older people need the antioxidant effects of lutein because
.... they are old. The clock of ages gallops for T2 diabetics who
don't take care. Wait don't send money. There is more. Spinach has
a special bonus offer ... orange centres. The central foveal regions
of the eyes NEED ORANGE ... a very special orange. Nah, not beta
carotene. Beta carotene is a wannabe. THE orange is zeaxanthin. Now
it is kind of special. While lutein is in most things green or yellow
zeaxanthin is less widely distributed. Spinach is often a good source
though it varies. So is open leaf cabbage ie collards.

Orange capsicums are the ultimate source. Persimmons are excellent.
In some countries the likely sources are going to be the green
culinary herbs eg dill, coriander, parsley. The Mexicans have it
nailed with marigold petals.

4. Some general antioxidants help; bilberries, blue berries, Vit E,
astaxanthin (the pink stuff in salmon and prawns.) Lowering oxidative
stress is smart thinking.

BUT remember there are no substitutes for lutein and zeaxanthin for
the sunscreen effects. Other bioflavanoids will not do.

>Do things like carrots and stuff carry them, or do you need stronger
>colourings such as beetroot?

Carrots are great for lungs, its mostly the alpha carotene.
Beetroot has its benefits elsewhere but the post is already long.

Adios Amigo.'

Yes, adios amigo. Sorely missed.

Cheers, Alan, Australia.
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Alan,

I wasn't aware that Quentin had passed away. How terribly sad. I almost
had a visit with him in 2007 but the ship I was on broke a propeller and
we had to bypass Napier, NZ. We corresponded for a while, but I quit ASD
a few years ago because of the noise and I lost track.

His passing is a loss to the world whom he helped with his wisdom and
his wit.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:30:11 -0500, Janet Wilder
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Alan,
>
>I wasn't aware that Quentin had passed away. How terribly sad. I almost
>had a visit with him in 2007 but the ship I was on broke a propeller and
>we had to bypass Napier, NZ. We corresponded for a while, but I quit ASD
>a few years ago because of the noise and I lost track.
>
>His passing is a loss to the world whom he helped with his wisdom and
>his wit.

Very true.

Cheers, Alan, Australia.
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> Every day you learn something new, is a good day.
>
> Today is a good day.

The latest catch-phrase from your councilling sessions peter?

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