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Musings on Life in my Fifties . . .

My friends Mickey and Jackie tied the knot Saturday night, here at the Urban Oasis. Jackie’s Mom, Kathy and Dad, Jack and her Aunts and Uncles also stayed here for the weekend.

Back in the fall, when Jackie and her mother went looking at event spaces, Jackie told her that she knew of a great warehouse loft space that did weddings. But I think a warehouse space didn’t exactly fit her mom’s pictures of the setting where Jackie would get married.

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I put these recipes from Tony the Fishboy at the end of my last post but felt like they deserved one all to themselves. There are more on his website

Wild Alaska Salmon Seviche

(makes 4 servings)

INGREDIENTS

• 1 medium red pepper
• 1 medium yellow pepper
• 1 medium orange pepper (Use any color but no green pepper)
• 1 medium red onion
• 3 small tomatoes
• Bunch of fresh cilantro
• 6-8 Lemons or ( 1 cup juice)
• 6 -8 Limes or ( 1 cup juice)
• Tabasco
• Salt and Black Pepper
• 4 6-oz Wild salmon fillets

DIRECTIONS

1. Squeeze fresh lemons and limes to obtain 2 cups of citrus juice.
2. Thaw and skin the fillets and dice the fish into small pieces the size of garbanzo beans.
3. Add the fish to marinate in the citrus juice while cutting up the vegetables ( 20 minutes for the raw fish to be “cooked” by the acid in the juice.
4. Dice the vegetables into small pieces to look like you see in Pico de Gallo
5. Add the Vegetables to the fish and citrus juice
6. Add Salt, Pepper and some Tabasco to taste
7. Serve on leaves of Belgian Endive or Tortilla chips or all by itself!

Seared Wild Salmon with Teriyaki Wasabi Dipping Sauce
(makes 4 servings)

INGREDIENTS

• 4-5 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, divided
• 4 6-oz Wild salmon fillets
• Tony’s Wild Rub or other conglomeration of spicy spices to include garlic, salt, black pepper, paprika
• 2 T Sesame seeds
• 4T Teriyaki sauce
• Wasabi paste to taste

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat with a few turns of the pan of olive oil, about 3 Tbsp.
2. Mix up the teriyaki sauce and add wasabi to taste.
3. Rub the thawed and skinned fish fillets with the Wild rub or spice mixture and then dip on a plate of sesame seeds on each side.
4. Transfer the fish to the hot skillet. Cook for 4-5 minutes on each side or until cooked to desired doneness.

Fish Bone Apetit!

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1) Fresh frozen Salmon fillets,
2) Fresh frozen Whole Salmon fillets,
3) Fresh Smoked and frozen salmon fillets.

Okay people today is your last chance to get your wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon. Come to the alley behind Joe’s Loft (corner of Boulevard and Irwin, on the Irwin side near the dumpster) from 3:00 – 8:00 PM and bring cash, checks or charge cards. Joe’s buddy, Tony the Fish Boy, is back in town from Alaska with his delightful girlfriend Heather, two German Short Hair Pointers and a trailer full of fresh frozen Salmon that he caught himself in Alaska this past season. Tony sells wholesale to fancy schmancy restaurants and groceries, but he always stops twice a year in Atlanta, to see his pal Joe and keeps all of Joe’s friends and neighbors in Salmon. And as Tony says,

straight from my boat to your plate!

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You bet it does. I was reading an old copy of Wired Magazine (May 2008) and ran across an interesting statistic, 17% of on-line daters have met their matches and actually gotten into marriages or long-term relationships. They point out that it is the same number of people (3 million!) that have met and married through church. So I guess that means you may double your chances to meet your mate if you go on-line and attend church but I think on-line dating is the greatest way to meet people if you are looking for a relationship.

Duane and I met through Match.com. In fact we had a dinner party and three of the four couples there had met on-line. I remember one Christmas helping one of my sisters fill out her profile and my mother was giving us a hard time about it. But hey she met a really nice guy and they have now been married about 5 years.

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