This may be an odd subject for a fishing blog, but there is a method to my madness. This post is a preamble to a braised rabbit recipe I’ll be posting shortly. Granted, rabbit doesn’t have much to do with fishing either, but at least it has to do with the outdoors.
My wife [...]
The results are in. And nobody was voted off!
After letting our Northern simmer and stew in pickling brine for the minimum 8 days (we were impatient), we finally got to try some. They turned out great! The taste and texture was just like pickled herring.
The difference was that our pickled Northern, especially [...]
I know you’re as anxious to hear how our pickled Northern turned out as I am to try them. I’ve got a few more days to wait, but in the meantime, here’s the Pickled Northern recipe all in one place (click on the step link to see my result):
Pickled Northern
Step 1:
Cut 60 to 75 [...]
After soaking our Northern Pike for 24 hours, we were now ready to finish the recipe. My wife did step 3 without me:
Boil together for 5 minutes the following ingredients:
1 1/2 cup of sugar
3 cups of white vinegar
4 bay leafs
1 tsp whole all spice
3 tsp mustard seed
1 1/2 tsp whole black pepper
6 to 7 [...]
Forty-eight hours after step 1 of our Pickled Northern Pike recipe, we moved on to step 2:
Pour off salt water, rinse
Soak fish in white vinegar for 24 hours
Drain vinegar off – discard
The fish had changed color due to the brine soak. It was a little more translucent.
Rinsed and ready for vinegar.
Extreme close-up!
Fish chunks in [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of Northern Pike. I’m not really a catch-and-release fisherman (except when it comes to muskie), so I like to eat what I catch. But Northern aren’t what I would call a delicacy. Their many, many tiny bones and fishy smell make them one of the less [...]
So my Wild Game Feast story was a stretch to post for a fishing blog, but at least it had walleye on the menu. This time, I don’t even have that as a topical link. But read on, you won’t be sorry.
On the first weekend after the start of school, our neighborhood gets [...]
A pudgy pie is a “pie” made in a campfire. The recipe is simple:
Ingredients:
Two slices of bread
Filling of your choice
Pudgy pie iron
Non-stick spray
Spray both sides of the pudgy pie iron with non-stick spray. Put one slice of bread on once side of the pudgy pie iron. Add filling. Put other slice [...]
