[Robert J. Clawson]

Originally posted by David Mason:

Best way to do salmon if you can't smoke it all day: grilled with a bit of olive oil and lemon--nothing more.

I learned that from the great Greek chef, John Psaropoulos. It's a fine way to cook any fish from the sea.

Bob

[Robert J. Clawson]

Originally posted by Kevin Andrew Murphy:

Jack cheese, also known as Monterey Jack, is a white cheese common all along the west coast. It's slightly soft and very mild in flavor...

Is it not found on the east coast, or does it have another name there?

Sounds like a young, white cheddar, Kevin. A nice snack here is a pat of cheddar with a ring of jalapeno on a cracker.

Our hen-of-the-woods mushrooms have popped and we're eating them sauteed on toasted Tuscan bread with melted Pico, a soft, French goat cheese.

Mushrooms are so ephemeral, one must pounce and gorge.

Bob

[Jones Pat]

Enjoy while you can, folks....the northern coast of California has no wild salmon this season and no rockfish since 9/1/08...and likely won't next year either. That happens when we kill the rivers for other things you know? Of course, we'd either eat grilled eggplant than a farmed salmon dyed red on the grill...no matter how pretty it looks in a photo.

Pat

[Roy Hamilton]

Bob, that sounds so good. Football is upon us. Triscuit cracker with a square of sharp cheddar and a smoked oyster with black pepper under the broiler!

[Robert J. Clawson]

Originally posted by Roy Hamilton:

...smoked oyster with black pepper under the broiler!

Pity that twice cooked oyster.

We slurp them raw, with a squirt of lemon juice on the second dozen.

Does anyone know how many geologic ages oysters have survived? They look OLD, man.

[Roy Hamilton]

Pass the cocktail sauce, I'm in! (And Brady's out! )

[This message has been edited by Roy Hamilton (edited September 09, 2008).]

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

Well, no fresh local salmon, but you can still get wild brought down from Alaska, so that's still good.

The salmon fishing ban has been a rare outbreak of common sense. Hopefully it won't take that long for them to recover.