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shari
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would YOU eat this?
Nan & D often come bearing gifts...a plant cutting, smoked fish or perhaps a cinnamon bun or two...but today they showed up with the only seafood
I'm not all that fussy about. Oh yes, I nibbled at it, ate some of the inside but finally found an ocean critter I wouldnt bring home.
cute little bugger though eh! NOT
It is sea cucumber season right now...tough job as the diver has to work at up to 20 fathoms and they are pretty scarce so they are down a long time.
Most divers that get the bends are diving for these...luckily we have a new hyperbaric chamber here now.
[Edited on 7-5-2012 by shari]
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NOT ME!!!
I'm not THAT adventurous!
Miguelamo   
Nomad Amigos...Here\'s hoping you all have safe Baja travels, amazing sunrises, sunny days, comforting breezes, beautiful sunsets, tasty tacos,
cold cervezas and frosty margaritas!!
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rts551
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That pepino is all yours
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nope, I'll stick to the abalone our neighbors just brought over....
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Of course I would. I love it, rawish, goes well with beer.
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I would eat it before I would eat Nieve...!!!!
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edm...aha! Ok then...let's hear how you prepare it por favor...it's not too bad in a stew type thing but seems rather tasteless to me...give me a
calico eye anytime!
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Twenty fathoms, Shari? I don't have the tables handy, but the down time on air at that depth is <15 minutes. The co-op might invest in some dive
computers and instruction and maybe the chamber wouldn't get so much use. Even a little decompression sickness ain't good for long-term health. But
of course, you know this already.
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when I recently took the Sta Rosalia ferry, I talked with a guy who was loading a big plastic container, about 4'x4'x4', full of pepinos del mar. he
said he takes them to the mainland where there is a big market for them in the Chinese community.
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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Oysters don't look very tasty either, but they sure are good.
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baja bruno...20 meters is the deepest they will go but yes, not having the dive computers puts the divers at risk and if the cucumbers are scarce, the
team jefe (up on the boat) pressures the divers to stay down longer to fill the bucket. I did consider putting out a request for any divers having old
computers to donate them to the coop...they really should make the investment themselves and the divers should be better trained and dives
monitered...it's the accumulated dives that gets em too as they dive every day in good weather.
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Ate plenty of RAW sea cucumber on my trips to S. Korea and they were fine. What I couldn't handle though was the RAW Jellyfish they served.
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raw jellyfish eh? hmmm...now ya got me thinking...the one in back sort of looks like a doughnut I guess...would you slice them thin? I am so gonna try
it on my next beachwalk. Now raw sea cucumber? they are so jiggly, do you just cut a piece off and down it?
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I am such a wimp. I'll pass. on both jelly n cucumber.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
edm...aha! Ok then...let's hear how you prepare it por favor...it's not too bad in a stew type thing but seems rather tasteless to me...give me a
calico eye anytime! |
Shari strip out the 4 lengths of white muscle meat just under the skin, stir fry in butter and garlic. Tender and delicious. I think the entire
animal dried then reconstituted for soup is an acquired Oriental taste.
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Brinloor....yes, this is how we ate it in B.C. canada too...yummy...kinda like seafood bacon..but the cukes are very small here so the strips really
arent worth all the trouble. They make a guisado or simmered stew with veggies out of them...but i find they dont taste like much...kinda like tripe.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Brinloor....yes, this is how we ate it in B.C. canada too...yummy...kinda like seafood bacon..but the cukes are very small here so the strips really
arent worth all the trouble. They make a guisado or simmered stew with veggies out of them...but i find they dont taste like much...kinda like tripe.
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Kinda like tripe. Ugh. Thanks for the warning, I won't try them here! Didn't realize you were from BC also.
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Hey paisano...brinloor, I never thought I would eat tripe either...but my husbands sisters make the best dang hangover soup out of
it...menudo...yummy!
and living in Clayoquot and Barclay Sound allowed me to eat lots of curious things like sea cucumber, geoduck, urchins, oysters of course, crab, and
my all time favoite herring roe off of spruce bows like the gray whales feed off of!
calico eyes are my favorite fish eye by far although corvinas are very sweet but tiny.....dont knock em till ya try em!!
 
[Edited on 7-5-2012 by shari]
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You and I have a similar streak, Shari--I also like to try eggs that float by or wash up on the beach. Most are pretty tasteless, other than the
briny flavor, but the tiny eggs bursting is kind of fun. I haven't done fish eyes, though, but you've given me an idea!
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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Sis the no-decompression time at 120 fsw is 12 minutes. Do you know if they do decompression stops if they exceed that time or do they just blow off
the tables?
carpe diem!
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