I love fish!!!!!!

I have noticed so far that my blog does not mention that I am a passionate, bordering on fanatical, fisherman. At the beginning of this month I had over 30 trout, about 20 crappies, and a couple of bass. I caught all of these over the summer and froze them for this time. I was also lucky enough to go salmon fishing in September with my friend Charlie.

This afternoon I smoked a trout in the back yard over a fire. I am still wondering what the new neighbors thought about this, me sitting by a small fire in the back yard, cooking a fish. While I was sitting there, my neighbor was bringing a barbecue into the back yard and I was thinking that the fire was my barbecue.

The fish turned out really, really good. It tasted very much like smoked salmon. I butterfly filleted the fish by removing the back bone. I skewered the fish horizontally with three small sticks, and then I split a longer stick lengthwise and inserted the part of the fish where I removed the backbone into the split stick and tied the end. The fish was vertical, spread out by the horizontal little sticks. Now I had a fish spread out on a stick that I could angle over the small fire. I smoked it like this for about an hour above the fire. It was a huge success and I think I will do a bunch more tomorrow. I will take a picture tomorrow so you can see how I did it.

I ate the smoked trout with a apple-huckleberry cobbler. I am really enjoying my new flour stash, I used it in the cobbler.

If anyone is wondering, I am definitely not getting skinny. I am eating three good meals a day that are satisfying and delicious. I am not hungry all day and I am not even craving regular food anymore.