While I do have hickory planks for longer cooks, this was a cedar plank...well soaked, barely got singed until the fish was 130 and perfect...it is primarily for indirect heat. I added a couple small chunks of applewood for smoke...
Nice day for grilling…white king salmon, with compound butter, Okinawan sweet potato. 5% of king (Chinook) salmon have an aberration in the dna that doesn’t allow them to absorb the pink/orange pigmentation from krill and shrimp they feed on as smolts
Finished the trip with 2 days on the Yakima & Cle Elum rivers…seriously windy, gusting to 25-30…a bunch of small fish, but still managed a couple decent bows & cutties…
A couple humu’s (triggers)…it wasn’t a fishing trip, more about checking on our property…but I can’t help bringing a rod along…heading tomorrow to my favorite river in WA
Wanted to make Jamaican oxtail & butter beans, but no oxtail at the market…subbed short ribs….also no allspice berries, but found some mulling spices that had them. I was cooking while listening to The Beach Boys …”bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran”…