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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Weekend with bernie ,the salmon, fresh from Alaska via Seatle via Delta

salt and egg white encasement
That weekend  that we spent on Bald Head Island off the Carolina coast back when there was a TWA and it owned the Travel Channel and Arthur Frommer was the star we watched weekend with Bernie get filmed..Andrew McCarthy and others were clearly part of a low budget flop...that became a sleeper cult hit. And who can get that crazy sick dead flopping body treated as a prop after death out of their minds...oh its NOT FUNNY...no it is.
               But now we turn to Daniel, recently encamped with a grand new job and car near the Pike Market and he conjures the kind of adventure that begins at the equally iconic Pike Market, where tossing large fish is as essential to Seattle's image as its needle or snow peaked mountain or the San Juan Islands as the empire state or statue of liberty is to ours.
                  Daniel obtains a salmon fresh from Alaska..it is tossed into a box and then his arms and then he goes to the airport and discusses what i assume wasn't more than a business class seat for his salmon...there are some logistical snags but the two arrive and the required preparation ingredients are obtained on the way from JFK and the prep begins. Mom Susan offers up a gazillion eggs for the salt packing and fresh Indian fenugreek for the sauce and alot of oranges lemons and limes(prettier  than when crushed)for the enlisted citrus man to slice and kosher salt in the kind of quantity that could have paved the flat track for a land speed record.
                  There was fresh grown tarragon...still growing in November in lush Bklyn...and the visitor was unboxed......clearly this dead fish was the gourmet prop to be named BERNIE...our weekend centerpiece
Recreating the couch scene from the Weekend at Bernies
No really this is how it was when I hooked it...gene splicing and fresh from the waters off silicon valley

Citrus man .
Bernie and new friend smile for the blog
decapitation caption
Daniel embrace his vision

The service is over..just a skeletal memory remains and a lingering taste of the most memorable salmon.

Fenugree sauce

Breaking away the salt crust

Next time we build a bigger oven so Bernie could  keep his head


...soon to be encrusted in a baked salt rock and served to more delight than the Bald Head Island revelers.

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