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Salmon
Nov 15, 2018 21:51:36 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 15, 2018 21:51:36 GMT
Had a yummy salmon fillet with a bit of penne for dinner. I've lost nine lbs
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Salmon
Nov 16, 2018 7:20:00 GMT
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Post by Elis on Nov 16, 2018 7:20:00 GMT
Salmon is nice.
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Salmon
Nov 16, 2018 16:39:34 GMT
Post by JoeP on Nov 16, 2018 16:39:34 GMT
Indeed it is.
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Salmon
Nov 16, 2018 22:23:58 GMT
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Post by tangent on Nov 16, 2018 22:23:58 GMT
"Salmon is nice."
I'm not sure about Alex Salmon (former First Minister of Scotland... or is it Alex Salmond? Spellchecker thinks it's Alex Salmon.)
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Salmon
Nov 17, 2018 11:20:39 GMT
Post by JoeP on Nov 17, 2018 11:20:39 GMT
If you haven't tried Alex Salmond's fillet with a bit of penne for dinner, then you are quite sensible.
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Salmon
Nov 17, 2018 19:42:11 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Nov 17, 2018 19:42:11 GMT
All salmon are called Alex, in the same way all seagulls are called Steven.
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Salmon
Nov 17, 2018 20:25:53 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 17, 2018 20:25:53 GMT
Yuck. Salmon is trash food. Well, was trash food, before humans threatened their populations.
I am no real fan of salmon. I'll eat it on rare occasion, but I certainly won't hunt it out, nor debase myself to obtain a taste. My dear wife loved her lox, but I thought it vastly overrated.
If I'm eating salmon, I prefer the smoked. Raw, in sushi, it is a dreadful abomination in my view. And, dangerous, too.
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 0:56:26 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 18, 2018 0:56:26 GMT
I've never had it raw. I love it smoked. Right now I am on a baked salmon kick though.
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Post by ceptimus on Nov 18, 2018 2:15:41 GMT
A long time ago, a strike by New York fishermen caused a temporary shortage of lox (salmon). It's traditional in New York to eat lox with bagels, and because the bakers continued to work normally during the strike this led to a bagel glut.
Alistair Cooke, the English journalist, was working as the American correspondent for the British Manchester Guardian newspaper at the time, and wired to his editor that he planned to write an article describing the situation with the whimsical title, 'Lox lag brings bagel boom'.
Of course, in England, we don't know what lox is, and we don't have bagels. Cooke's boss wired back, "Sorry, your headline was scrambled during transmission - hopelessly garbled - it read, 'Lox lag brings bagel boom'."
Cooke decided not to proceed with the article.
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 19:34:12 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 18, 2018 19:34:12 GMT
lol
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 19:45:36 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 18, 2018 19:45:36 GMT
Heh...Yeah. I can see Alistair doing that. He was so Americanized.
Honestly, though. In my youth, salmon was so plentiful in this region that is was considered food of the poverty-striken, akin to offal.
Now, though, it is relatively rare and considered something of a delicacy. Now, it is 'planked salmon', cooked in the manner of the indigenous natives, that is considered best.
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 20:48:15 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 18, 2018 20:48:15 GMT
How do you plank salmon? It's expensive here
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 21:08:17 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 18, 2018 21:08:17 GMT
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 21:38:19 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 18, 2018 21:38:19 GMT
I like smoked salmon and raw salmon, but not so huge on cooked salmon - especially if it's overcooked.
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 21:48:06 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 18, 2018 21:48:06 GMT
Hmm interesting I dunno if we have those here
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 22:40:17 GMT
Post by tangent on Nov 18, 2018 22:40:17 GMT
Salmon's alright but I prefer other fish, such as rainbow trout.
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Salmon
Nov 18, 2018 23:49:30 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Nov 18, 2018 23:49:30 GMT
Salmon's alright but I prefer other fish, such as rainbow trout. Here, we have something of a hybrid. It's called a 'Steelhead' salmon. It's really a sea-going (anadromous) trout which grows to salmon size. It is considered the best game fish in this region and the most dedicated fishermen in the Pacific Northwest are steelhead fishermen...it's a cult.
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Salmon
Nov 19, 2018 3:36:15 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 19, 2018 3:36:15 GMT
They had something in the Netherlands which was a salmon/trout hybrid thing. Weird i thought. I looove trout. Cooked on a barbecue wrapped up in foil with onion, sausage and potaties. Yum!!
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Salmon
Nov 19, 2018 5:44:41 GMT
Post by tangent on Nov 19, 2018 5:44:41 GMT
Trout and sausage? Hm, not tried that.
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Salmon
Nov 19, 2018 11:20:24 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 19, 2018 11:20:24 GMT
Something like klobasa or chorizo - that sort of sausage is what you want. Gives a great flavour.
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Salmon
Nov 20, 2018 11:01:19 GMT
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Post by Elis on Nov 20, 2018 11:01:19 GMT
Fish and sausage somehow sounds wrong.
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Salmon
Nov 20, 2018 22:07:56 GMT
Post by Moose on Nov 20, 2018 22:07:56 GMT
surf and turf?
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Salmon
Nov 22, 2018 10:45:30 GMT
Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 22, 2018 10:45:30 GMT
Just a few slices for flavour. You could use bacon too I guess. Bit of smokey, flavour.
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Salmon
Dec 2, 2018 22:42:49 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 2, 2018 22:42:49 GMT
I am craving smoked salmon atm. No smoked salmon. Damn.
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Salmon
Dec 4, 2018 0:16:20 GMT
Post by ceptimus on Dec 4, 2018 0:16:20 GMT
Wild salmon is pink because the salmon is a strong endurance swimmer and so needs a good blood supply to its muscles. Many other fish only use their muscles for short spurts - to catch their prey or escape from predators - this is anaerobic exercise and not much blood flow is needed as the muscles have long periods to 'recharge' and disperse lactic acid between the short bursts of intense activity - and this results in their flesh being lighter coloured, almost white for some species.
You get the same lighter colour in meat from mammals and birds that only use their muscles for brief sprints - for example chickens - and you also see that even within the same animal, there can be muscles used for more endurance tasks that are darker than the other muscle. Next time you carve a chicken, note where the darker meat is located - that darker meat has the better blood supply and indicates which muscles the bird used most frequently.
Salmon raised in fish farms don't get much exercise and their flesh tends to be grey rather than pink. Farmed salmon are fed food laced with red dye to compensate for this and make their flesh look more appealing to people used to the appearance of wild salmon.
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Salmon
Dec 4, 2018 2:27:30 GMT
Post by tangent on Dec 4, 2018 2:27:30 GMT
Salmon raised in fish farms don't get much exercise and their flesh tends to be grey rather than pink. Farmed salmon are fed food laced with red dye to compensate for this and make their flesh look more appealing to people used to the appearance of wild salmon. Oh great
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Salmon
Dec 4, 2018 8:50:53 GMT
Post by JoeP on Dec 4, 2018 8:50:53 GMT
Haven't they thought of having strong currents in salmon farms to give them exercise?
Possibly circular currents ... a salmon wheel?
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Salmon
Dec 4, 2018 9:29:30 GMT
Post by ceptimus on Dec 4, 2018 9:29:30 GMT
I googled it and apparently what I wrote is partially a myth. Whilst it's true that farmed salmon are fed with dyed food, the reason that's necessary is not just down to them getting less exercise: wild salmon are pink for the same reason that flamingos are pink - they eat lots of shrimp.
Salmon in farms and flamingos in zoos that are fed on artificial diets, lose their normal pink colour and are therefore fed with dyed food to restore it. If consumers could get used to the idea of eating grey salmon then the farmers could save on the cost of adding the colouring to the feed.
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Salmon
Dec 5, 2018 12:52:01 GMT
Post by Mari on Dec 5, 2018 12:52:01 GMT
Farming fish is in most cases ridiculous anyway: the amount of food needed to farm 1 kg of fish is astonishing. Just like beef I should add.
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Salmon
Dec 6, 2018 1:21:42 GMT
Post by Moose on Dec 6, 2018 1:21:42 GMT
If I ate a lot of shrimp would *I* be pink? *genuinely wants to know*
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