Went to the local Buy Low to check for bulk blueberries and found fresh wild Sockeye. I cut it crosswise, bone in for more flavor, in about 1.5cm widths. Yumi making salted mini steaks to freeze for later use in bentos and onigiri rice balls.
Thank you Sockeye!
I rarely follow recipes to the letter, because I like to incorporate extra ingredients.
So we had an aging zuchini in the fridge, and a bunch of cheese bought on sale. Googled zuchini cheese and came up with a cubed bread casserole that looked good.
By the time I’d finished preparing it, and adding some extra veg, I realized it was pretty much like a casserole stuffing with a whack of cheese on top 
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Several SEHAB (Salmonid Enhancement & Habitat Advisory Board) members had a productive meeting today with 2 Department of Fisheries Directors, 2 Regional Managers, and the Stewardship Planning Coordinator.
We met via Teams to report out on the last SEHAB meeting, bringing forward concerns from BC’s streamkeeper and stewardship volunteer community on issues such as groundwater access for volunteer hatcheries, the salmonid fry salvage policy and adult salvage (fish stranding when drought affects watersheds), enhanced networking opportunities, DFO research into the 6PPD-Q chemical in vehicle tires that is known to be lethal to Coho salmon, and some planning looking forward to the province-wide streamkeeper/stewardship conference in 2025, etc. Whew!
One of the key issues was the likelihood of drought affecting watersheds across BC again this year. The outlook is not good for fish, for agriculture, for forestry, for fires. . .
But you cannot have Ukrainian Christmas without kutya — hard wheat berries toasted and simmered to the point that they’re still a tish crunchy, scalded & ground poppy seeds, chopped walnuts, and honey.
Yum!
Three days of fishy meetings near Ladysmith, BC, over the last weekend and early this week.
SEHAB (Salmon Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board) members representing volunteer stewardship groups from across BC shared info and heard many excellent presentations from the federal Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, and BC provincial ministries.
What’s a meeting about volunteers working to protect salmon without, er, a home-smoked salmon?
And when you’re dealing with several levels of bureaucracy, the initialisms and acronyms fly thick and fast, eh? We began keeping track of some of them for the benefit of folks newer to the table.
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It was a lovely day for a Skytrain/walk to the Farmers Market in New Westminster, BC, late this afternoon. We checked out Tipperary Park, and concluded in the early evening with some time on the river boardwalk.
After our morning walk on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, we walked up the hill to the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre to take in the Nikkei Garden Farmer’s Market.
We scored a delicious Okanagan Apple Sunflower loaf from A Bread Affair.
