The things you find, & then turn them into Dinner

[maverick]

A bit cryptic, yes. Most days I walk the dogs along the foreshore anywhere from Fishies Beach Mornington to Mt Martha. Was out yesterday morning when I spotted one of the floats from the mussel farm washed up on the rocks. With 3 - 4 days of strong onshore winds, this was not a surprise. Given that I walk here most days, it was obvious that it had only just washed up. Went down and had a look at it.

What a pleasant surprise, it was covered in mussels of various sizes. These floats are used to keep the mussel line afloat and occassionally mussels attach to them. So I picked off the largest mussels, about 2 kgs worth, pushed the float back into the water and walked home.

Dinner last night consisted of an entree' of Blue Rock Dam smoked trout on biscuits followed by a thick tomato based white wine sauce (with vegies) with fresh Mornington mussels and pasta.

Scott's mate is a butcher and regularly smokes his own fish (and meats) so he did the trout for Scott for free, of which Scott kindly gave me one. There is no comparison between wild trout and farm raised fish, just none.

Just thought I would share.

[HaTTerS]

Waste not want not.
A nice reward for an early morning walk.

I can't help but wonder how you carried them all home though... I'm picturing you running up the Esplanade with pockets overflowing and a horde of seagulls in pursuit

[ELM]

No dog poops picked up that morning, hey Mav well at least not in the same bag anyway I hope

Good one with the muscle's, and what happened to my smoked trout

[ELM]

probably help if I caught one

[maverick]

Fortunately I had a beanie on, which turned into a mussel carry bag.

[Donkey]

Damn Mav. I'm sitting here starving and know I won't be eating for another 2 hours, then I read that! .droooool. Might go se if I can find some possum road kill to russel up a meal.

[maverick]

I'm sitting here starving and know I won't be eating for another 2 hours, then I read that! .droooool.

Cool, we are even then. I looked at those pictures of you (Marlo post) and big bream and I drooled.

[HaTTerS]

[bilby]

The new doco coming to SBS "Pete versus the wild". Just don't strip off and try to raft over to Altona.
Bilby.