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Author Archives: Teri J Pieper

Making Lox

Our neighbor shared some homemade lox with us last year and when I expressed interest in learning how to make our own from freshly caught fish, he volunteered to teach me this year. The first step is having an excellent salmon and he generously provided an Alaskan Sockeye. With a deft hand and a sharp knife he had it quickly filleted and ready to be cured.

Making lox at home

 

Then we spread the cure of salt, sugar, crushed peppercorns across the bottom filletMaking lox at home

 

Tom had told me last summer to freeze fresh dill from my garden just for this purpose. Here the dill is placed between the two fillets.Making lox at home

 

The two fillets ready to be wrapped and cured in the refrigerator for five days.Making lox at home

 

Wrapped and ready. It needed to be turned every twelve hours. By the end of the five days, it was a sticky mess.Making lox at home

 

The finished product, cold smoked and ready to eat!Making lox at home

 

I served it with cream cheese and capers and red onions on thinly sliced breadMaking lox at home

 

It doesn’t get much better than this!Making lox at home

Open Merc February 15

So we made it to Open Merc in Twisp this week. Lots of good local musicians playing a nice mixture of original music and famous tunes as well. The Merc has great acoustics and is a wonderful place to hear music. I think they said the next one will be March 23rd. But check with the Merc  website to make sure. Don’t rely on my memory! If you are wondering about some of the props in the background, the Merc is also having rehearsals for its upcoming play – The Hobbit. Ken was the last to perform and he had two really fun accompianists – Egon Steinebach on harmonica and Brad Pinkerton playing the mandolin.

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Music at our house last night

Open Merc was re-scheduled and somehow I missed that. Our friends came up from Grant County for a visit and to watch and play music so we came home and had a living room concert instead! Fortunately for our visitors it was one of those picture perfect bluebird sky Methow day so they had plenty of fun and said they didn’t miss the Open Merc at all. They will return to try it another time.

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New Snow

Sunday’s new snow left everything fresh and clean, at least for a little while. The spring like temperatures in the afternoon took care of that in a hurry. Here are a few images from the morning while it was still wintry.

 

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The Race of the Methow

Today was the classic part of the annual Race of the Methow held at the course at Liberty Bell High School. The snow really slowed down the racers and they spent much of their time double poling, even downhill.

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