Oh, man…
Fresh Copper River red salmon fillet
(It’s grilling with smoke as I post.)
Healthy Red Meat
Category Archives: Alaska
Sweeping All Day Sure Makes Me Tired
Figuring out when to go to Chitina to dip net for red salmon is always difficult, but this year was particularly challenging. The king salmon run was poor again this year, and they stopped letting you keep them after 19 June. But on average the reds run later than kings, so going early means you might get a king (this year you could keep just one), but you aren’t likely to fill out your permit on reds. That likelihood increases after the 4th of July, and the reds are generally larger then, too. And because the goal is to fill the freezer with fish, we’ve tended to forego the chance to get a king and go later.
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Leucopaxillus Risotto
A new crop of Russula mushrooms
With all the rain we’ve been having, a new crop of these delicious, big, white Russula Leucopaxillus came in and Rose and I decided to make a mushroom risotto.
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Boreal Banquets
We love mushrooms, raw and cooked, but we’re usually restricted to what we can get at the store. This summer has been unusually wet, though, and there are a lot more mushrooms in the woods than usual.
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We Set a World Record!
For pollen. From the article:
“Allergy doctor Jeff Demain said Monday’s count shattered the old world record that was set in Sweden several years ago.
“A level of 175 is considered high,” Demain said. “Fairbanks had a birch pollen level of over 4000.””
It’s not just birch, either. Over the course of two days I saw clouds of pollen coming off the white spruce with every puff of a breeze. The deck was yellow with it. We finally got some rain overnight, so things are looking more normal today.
Record levels of tree pollen dust the truck.