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System

Anyone know how to gut a salmon? I aint joking either!! Its huge, must have cost 'he who works' a fortune, and i dont know how to chop its head off and cook it!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Magentasue

Wow, this is still running! When I started here I dipped into a few forums. Now that I am truly addicted, I am in and out of this site all the time and click on New Posts and follow the ones I'm interested in but somehow end up here more often than not.

Like Ticklemouse, I feel I'm more likely to be encouraged to save than spend here. As for old style, I work with teenagers and they think a meal without chips or not having a mobile phone is Old Style. My nan was an Old Style money saver with different purses, three meals out of every leg of lamb and an enamel saucepan always on either boiling stock or nappies (different pans I hope). But it's different now - she didn't have the temptations of supermarkets and a barrage of advertising to encourage her to throw her cash away. For me this board is about saving by living better on less on a domestic level.

System

Magentasue wrote:

living better on less

Great name for a new board.

tiff

Judi wrote:

Anyone know how to gut a salmon? I aint joking either!! Its huge, must have cost 'he who works' a fortune, and i dont know how to chop its head off and cook it!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, cant help Judi - dont envy you though :eek:

moggins

Judi wrote:

Anyone know how to gut a salmon? I aint joking either!! Its huge, must have cost 'he who works' a fortune, and i dont know how to chop its head off and cook it!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To gut it, take a sharp knife just behind the fin under the belly and cut through the flesh until you reach the body cavity, cut down to the point just before the tail. Remove all the contents in the body cavity and wash thoroughly. To remove the head place the knife just below the gills and cut through, turn it over and repeat on the other side. Then shove the fish in the freezer for two months because that's how long it will be before you can face looking at a fish again.

foreverskint

i love this board, although i have lurked and posted on others. But it's here I feel safe and warm and fuzzy, ( or is that the sherry)? lol:rotfl:
Thanks to this board, I have money in the bank, food in the cupboards and am now starting to live a little, and plan for the future. Yes I agree that other boards are friendly, although I've never felt as welcome as here, and as I don't get out much the jokes in the arms tend to part the top of my head. The humour on here is as much as I can cope with, it's homely, comforting and uplifting.
Thasnks to the support of people on here I'm coming out of the depression I've been in for too long now.
So long live the ol' stylers. :j May your vinegar and bicarb forever fizz

moggins

Judi, did you want to skin it too?

System

moggins wrote:

Judi, did you want to skin it too?

Only if i have to? Cant i cook it with the skin, i just cant face it.

Lillibet_2

Judi wrote:

Anyone know how to gut a salmon? I aint joking either!! Its huge, must have cost 'he who works' a fortune, and i dont know how to chop its head off and cook it!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In brief : Use the sharpest knife you own! Chop head off just to the body side of the gills, so they go with the head if you see what I mean? Chop tail off about 1 cm clear of where the tail joins the body. Chop fins off by slicing just under them, they should come off quite cleanly & you'll be able to feel the spines of the fin as you cut. Slice longways (in line with the fins) down the centre of the stomach from the head end to the tail. Either scrape the guts out or hold under cold running water & wash out (over a sieve to catch them, easier than cleaning fish guts out of the drain!). The easiest way to deal with the internal bones is to cut the fish into steaks, from topside to stomach side so they come out horseshoe shaped, then using a small sharp knife run it around the inside of the horseshoe to remove bones. Wrap indvudually in cling film if freezing.

HTH?

Edit : Cross posted with Moggins!

System

I would have prefered a bunch of flowers