Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Trouble of Eating Fish
"Whew, it's really cold outside!" Against the howling north wind, Filimon opened the door of his house, and a dodge in, standing on the carpet in the doorway, stomping the snow on his feet, and patting himself with his gloves on the floating snow.
Although it has not snowed for many days, the sub-zero temperature in Boston, and the howling north wind, will always give the cowboys in Jiang Hai Manor some trouble every morning, such as the frozen roads, such as the floating snow blown everywhere, and the points on the roof.
"Come back, let's eat!" Looking at the figure of Philippon's return, the voice of Mrs. Philemon, who was still busy in the kitchen, also came from inside, and then she smiled and brought out a plate of fried fish and a basket of bread.
"Fish again?" Walking to the front of the dining table, Philippon looked at the fried fish in front of him, and his face was a little ugly.
This is the eighth consecutive meal he eats fish, although he doesn't vomit, but he is a cowboy, not a fisherman, the reason why he chose not to be a fisherman, in addition to not being lonely at sea, eating fish every day is also his least favorite thing.
"Besides, the fish in the house can be sold, what can you eat if you don't eat this?" Glancing at Filemon, Mrs. Filemon said with an unhappy look on her face that she had been eating fish these days, and she was a little tired of eating.
"Hey, if I knew earlier, I wouldn't have taught the boss how to fish." Shaking his head with a wry smile, Filipon said helplessly, picked up the fork in front of him, and got the fish in front of him, which was fried until golden brown on the outside, and the snow-white fish on the inside, it looked really good, if it was paired with their specially blended sweet and sour sauce, which was somewhat similar to a mixture of jalapeño sauce and tomato sauce, it was actually very delicious, but no matter how delicious it was, it would take several days in a row, and no one could resist it.
"Where's the boss?" Looking at the fish in front of him, Filipon sighed, stuffed it directly into his mouth, then raised his head and asked his wife beside him, Jiang Hai should also eat here at this time.
"I'm going fishing again." Hearing Philemon's words, Mrs. Philemon crossed her arms and said angrily.
"Oh, what a wickedness!" Hearing that Jiang Hai had gone fishing again, Philimon now really wanted to die.
Ever since he and Harriman taught Jiang Hai to break the ice and fish, Jiang Hai has been deeply obsessed with this kind of game.
In fact, it can be understood, in winter, Jiang Hai really has nothing to do, staying at home and playing all day long, it's not like that, people always need exercise, and this fishing seems to him to be a good sport.
And there will be a harvest, that day he and Philemon and Harriman fishing, the next day after he had lunch, he came by himself, the original disgust of the sand silkworm and the boat Ming, now is not so disgusted, carrying a small bucket, not almost to eat dinner, will never go back, for so many days, he has been there every day to fish, the fish caught, Jiang Hai can not throw away, so can only be brought back, handed over to Mrs. Philemon, these river fish, although they can be raised for a while, but not for long, they will always die, So Mrs. Philemon can only take advantage of the fact that the fish is not dead, and make the fish, Jiang Hai is the owner of the manor, Mrs. Philemon naturally wants to change her tricks, after all, this is the person who pays her own salary, but for Philimon, it is not a good thing, those fish that are about to die, after they are done, basically go into his stomach.
Fish is indeed delicious, but it is needless to say which is more delicious compared to beef.
These days, Jiang Hai can bring back at least four or five fish a day, or even six or seven, a person like him, it is absolutely impossible to put back the fish he caught, of course, too small is counted, but too small, basically let him make bait, you must know that in this river, there are many fish that eat meat, Jiang Hai only rested on Thanksgiving Day.
Then it started again, these days, Jiang Hai has sent a lot of fish to several other places, but the most fish sent is naturally his own canteen, Mrs. Philippon, but he doesn't eat as much as he eats, which is also inevitable.
"What a wreck!" Sighing again, Philippon continued to eat with his head down.
And just as Philemon was fighting against the fish that Jiang Hai caught, Jiang Hai also drove his F650 to the river where he usually clings.
Although Boston is far worse than the pure temperature, the wind here is hard, and the temperature feels no warmer than the ice city.
"Get out of the car!" Park the car, Jiang Hai got out of the car first with the things he wanted to use, and then Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai also got out of the back seat, since they didn't bring Philimon to them, Xiao Bai and Xiao Huang became Jiang Hai's fishing partners, and these two dogs, for coming out to play, are still very interested, on Xiao Bai's body, there is also a little squirrel, it is Banya.
Jiu Jiu is still too young now, and almost every day he can't do anything other than sleep or eat.
And Banya gave up after robbing it many times of nest to no avail, because Jiang Hai made him a nest again.
It was made of wood, and it was stapled to the wall next to it, and the outside of that section of the wall was covered with bark, and Panya obviously preferred his new nest to the nest made of clothes and weeds.
So the war of the nest, which had been fought for a long time, could be regarded as over.
After determining his own territory, Banya's heart was also a lot wilder, seeing that Jiang Hai always took Xiaobai and Xiaohuang outside, it was also coming, and it didn't matter if Jiang Hai arrived, anyway, it just didn't run away.
With a bunch of things, and the three animals came to the river, Jiang Hai first lit a fire, and the three beasts sat there around the fire, as for Jiang Hai, after removing the layer of ice floe, he took out the boat maggots in the bucket and hung them on the hook.
The ship maggot, compared to the sand silkworm, it has an advantage over Jiang Hai, because from a biological point of view, the ship maggot is actually not a maggot, nor an insect, but belongs to the clams, that is, shellfish, although it looks infinitely like a bug, but it is really not.
This made the hurdle in Jiang Hai's heart invisibly lower a lot.
This kind of ship maggot mainly feeds on wood, in the era when ships were mainly wooden structures, this kind of creature can be called the enemy of ships, there are countless warships, merchant ships, are destroyed in its hands, at the same time, those wooden stake docks, it is also unavoidable, so at one time, it was once the creature that the seafarers most wanted to kill, there was no one.
However, later, as the ship entered the era of metal and fiberglass, the ship maggot had no soil to survive.
As for the docks, by now, in general, there are very few docks of wooden structure.
For example, Jiang Hai's gravity wharf, which is made of earth and reinforced concrete, even if there is a wooden structure, it is also wrapped in cement, and the ship maggots naturally have no room to live, and these ship maggots are all raised by Edward Anderson out of wood.
These boat maggots can not only be eaten, but also a good hand when fishing.
After all, it belongs to the clam family, and as a creature at the bottom of the food, there are a lot of people who like to eat this thing.
Not only fish like to eat, but also shrimp and crabs, and it is a good thing for fishing.
However, compared to the sand silkworm, the ship maggot is not too easy to find, and the effect is not as good as the sand silkworm, after all, the sand silkworm is the legendary universal bait, but Jiang Haining can use the ship maggot, and he does not use the sand silkworm, because he has no resistance to insects.
These days, he found that the original freshwater fish in North America are really powerful, most of the fish are carnivorous, with rows of teeth, but these carnivorous fish, how can they not do the toothless Asian carp?
It's very confusing, but then again, the taste of these fish is really quite good, with fewer spines and large pieces of meat, which is not worse than deep-sea fish at all, and even has a more tender feeling than deep-sea fish.
There are dozens of species of fish in this river alone, and there are more than a dozen species of perch alone, striped perch, white perch, hybrid wolf perch, yellow wolf perch, largemouth black perch, small-mouthed black perch, spotted black perch, white perch, yellow perch, zander perch, bigeye zander perch, bigeye lion perch, hybrid zander perch, etc., and what other bowfin fish, buffalo fish, that is, cochineal, channel catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish, bighead catfish, totoaba fish, most of this fish are marine fish, the most famous should be the yellow flower, but there are also freshwater totoaba in the morning of the United States, The taste is not much different from that of yellow flowers, as well as Yaluo, pike, pike is also divided into white spotted dog and North American dog, sucking fish, sunfish, and the same exotic species of African crucian carp, the legendary tilapia and so on.
It can be said that the original fish species of the North American freshwater ecosystem are really not ordinarily abundant, but unfortunately, now they are squeezed by carp, crucian carp, carp (silver carp, fat head), silver carp, black fish, grass carp and so on, and there is no living space.
The upper part of the whole river is basically filled with these fish, and they hardly need to be fished, they only need to sprinkle some bait, like bread crumbs or something, and just take the fishing net and wait on the side, even if it is winter, if you don't catch one or twenty a day, you are really embarrassed to say that you are eliminating the harm.
It's not that Jiang Hai admires the ocean, sometimes it's really carp, fat head or something delicious, but more often, these local fish are more delicious, especially Jiang Hai sometimes catches trout, which is the emperor of freshwater fish.
Naturally, the taste is also excellent, and can even be compared to the legendary Atlantic salmon.
Today Jiang Hai is also full of such a mood, came to the river, after getting everything right, Jiang Hai threw the hook into the river, and then began to wait patiently, Jiang Hai is now fishing, and the second is also killing time, these days, he is also half a veteran, so he probably knows when these fish bite the hook, the first twenty minutes, almost impossible, after twenty minutes, it is very possible, you need to pay more attention.
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As a foodie, when I write about the manor, I naturally mainly write about eating and drinking, uh...... Isn't that the leitmotif of the manor?