Da mach ich doch gleich mal schnell ein neues PiCola Quiz draus:

Na, wer weiß, um welche Fische es sich auf dem Bild handelt?

Nachtrag: Na, will denn keiner mitraten? Ein Teil des großen Fisches ist bereits verspeist und zwei der kleinen flachen auch. Hat lecker geschmeckt. Mal was ganz anderes als Hering, Dorsch oder Wittling.

So, das waren schon ein paar Hilfen…nun aber ran mit euch!! Bitte mitraten!!

Then the sun began to set slowly

einfach schön!

We didn’t catch very much, but proudly I can say that I caught 4 herring and my dad 3, hehe. Makes 7 middle up to big sized herring. Once I had two big ones at once on my fishing root. Heavy fidgeting! I lost 3 fish during reeling it in, too bad!
Hey Nathan, if you read this, my dad really caught fish with his shitty fishing root, unbelievable. The reel is broken but he says that the fishing root is the same since he bought it. Well, the herring now is in my fridge (gut, cleaned and salted) and we want to eat it tomorrow for lunch; together with 3 cods that he had in his fish traps the day before.
Yeah yeah, like last year, the fishing season is the best in late summer
Good for me to get some fresh air as well, because I my best friend is my computer at the moment.

(ehm, I don’t know why there is so much white space in the post here, I use a new plugin to show the pictures from my gallery. This is also the reason why I can’t send newsletters at the moment, because my admin editor preview and all the field below are missing…weird. I need to fix that somehow.)

I hope you enjoyed Easter. Last week just went by very fast. I wanted to write a post here earlier, but always something came in-between. I worked every day together with my dad, renovating the new house. I had badly muscle ache, and my upper back hurt badly (massage for Cola not before May 30th..too sad). I wasn’t really used to such hard body work. No wonder, because I worked a lot in front of my computer the last months, sitting, not often moving. What a nice change of use of my body =) At least I do some kind of workout and am building muscles…ha, strong powerful Cola

Today is ‘White Sunday’. Instead of white it was very bloody for me. Why? My dad’s friend brought him some of his fresh cought herrings and cods today. Very nice! We all waited for the herring season to come and now our bay seems to be full of herrings, great! Here a pic of the fish before:

and after we cleaned and gut the fish:
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Yes, we gut the fish, which means that it was my first time to get in bloody and slimy contact with Mr. Herring and Mr. Cod (oh, there were a lot of females as well). I spare you with detailed (bloody) photos here, but of course did I picture everything =)
I thought that it was time that I need to learn and do this, because I like eating fish and if you eat animals you should also be able to prepare them…err yeah, or whatever, I did it and my friends know that I don’t even like to touch raw meet or slimy fish.
It wasn’t as bad as I expected it. I cut off the head, cut into the a**h*** (yes, that were the directions given by my dad) and cut the body til the head, gut the entrails, remove the fish scales, and wash out the whole fish. A little bit sadistic Cola is. Lol. Just kidding.
In the end, we fried the herring. It looked like this (called ‘Brathering’ or fried herring):

Then we pickled the herring, put it in two big bowls where it needs to stay for about 6 days. The cod came into my freezer.

YEEEHHAA the fish season started !!!
Ok, that was my bloody sunday, how was yours?

I said that the photos of the fish dinner from last Tuesday would follow – here they are:
Fried bread cod (my dad said it’s name is coated cod? Don’t know…you know what I mean ;-))

Together with the fish we ate fried potatoes (from our garden). A little bit oily but good together with the fish:

We used a new fry pan this time (titan-coated) and it was superb Nothing burnt (like last time the skin of the fish).

My skin really says thank-you-thank-you-thank-you for all the good fish and lots of Omega-III. Normally I must take omega-III pills against my dry skin…now my skin says *yeppee*!

The dinner was yesterday.
After it rained the whole night, last night, together with hail and storm it was beautiful and sunny today.
So I came back from grocery shopping and saw that super nice color of the sky and the leaves of my oak tree. I ran inside to grab my camera to show you these pictures:

I didn’t edit it in photoshop; it is like it was…beautiful. What do you think?

Here two more where you can see first a look into the garden and second where my study room is (nice view out to the oak) and where the other rooms to front are. Again: no editing!

What else?
My best friend Anja (yes, the same name and the same crazy as I am, also blond but green eyes and one year older than I ;-p) visited me today. She was in Egypt for a week for scuba diving (she has a nice tan) and wanted to show me her holiday photos. I said that I don’t have much time because of the thesis but we didn’t see each other for a loooong time so we had a quick coffee & cake chat in the afternoon. I made another apple cake with apples called “Boskop” from our garden. You can see our freaky coffee-&-cake-session now..haha:

The apple cake is even better than my last one [see 1st post]
When I have more time I can write the recipe(s) down here; somebody interested? Hmm, we’ll see…
I like food, did I already tell ya…lol. Maybe I should combine it with photography…together it is food photographer
My dad said the last time, when I took the pics of the fried fish that I will be starved when I’m done with the photo series…no, I wasn’t. Since I started last year in Perth with documenting my meals (I know I wasn’t the only one *wink-to-Andyman*) I never stopped doing it. Don’t ask me why; I like to do it. I just like it, because (maybe) I like FOOD!
Okay, enough from that…talk to you later. Bed time now. Cya & gn8

Ok, all vegetarians please read the next post, but not this one here, ok? Thanks.

My mom wanted to try something new and bought ready prepared wild rabbit meat (frozen).
It was not too bad, although it was a little bit hard not to think of sweet rabbits during eating…anyway, I ate it.
After the meal my mother asked me how it was and if I bit on a piece of bullet. A W-H-A-T??
Yes, you’ve got it right…a piece of bullet! You ask why? Click on the following pic:

Sorry that it is in German, but those who don’t understand, here my English translation for the fat red letters on the package:

“Hint: Wild rabbits are shot and in spite of the greatest care there might be pieces of bullets in it.”

*gulp*

Ok, no more wild rabbits for me please and thank you mom, that you asked me, when I was done with eating *grrr*

Okay, topic changes now from rabbit to FISH!

Congratulations to my dad! Why? Because we’ll have cod the next weeks for lunch and dinner :)
Yesterday he came back home with six fresh caught cods and one (same fresh) ale, today he came with three cods. You must know that it is raining like hell here since a few days and it’s pretty windy as well…and now think of my third post…(best weather).
Remember the small nut shell of boat with that we went out to the fish traps? He did this the last days alone (steering and doing get the nets out and all) and said that he almost went overboard because of the rough weather!! (*gg*)
But for Thank God (or whoever)!…he made it and we’ll cook some of the cod tonight – yummy!
Here the proud proof:

…and a closer view – Ladies & Gentlemen, I proudly present German cod:
(I said NOT for vegetarians!!!!!)
Pictures of the dinner tonight will follow

Last but not least another photo that has something to do with fish (& food).
This was my dinner last night. The paste on the bread is hummus (weaving to Megan!), I got to know it in Australia last year, through Megan. I love it now

Did I already say that I love food? No, ok – now you should know.

Well, now it is your turn! A game…yeah!! What a great idea

! Guess how this fish is called!
! It is typical for the (Baltic sea) coast here, especially for the towns Eckernfoerde and Kiel!
! And the smoking changes its original name to a new name!
! But be careful of the trap – you might think of the false one!

! You may take the telephone joker or the 50:50 joker or ask the Google audience!

If you think you know it, please make a comment on this post.

The winner will get a special postcard of Germany signed by my dad the great fisherman and me the great daughter who can eat heaps of fish

Excluded from the game are family members (sorry Schwesterherz) and people from Eckernfoerde and Kiel (too easy for you guys, sorry).

3-2-1-GO!

My father is retired from work and there is no better hobby for him than fishing and motor/sail boating =)
Today (more tonight) we went out together, he asked me if I can help, to check his fish traps and set them new. First I thought, ok well, I don’t have much time and I it almost a little bit too late because it will be dark soon (was around 8 pm) and I freeze so easily (people who know me know that) and on a boat it is always cold *brr*
BUT: I didn’t regret it at all! It was fun and the weather was nice; we enjoyed the beautiful sunset and I learned how to deal with fish traps and how to steer a really shitty old outboard motor.

To drive backwards I had to turn the whole thing 360° round and change the handle to my side. Our little trip was beautiful though.
First pic shows the jetty, the home of my dad’s small boat and then himself driving:

Looks beautiful, huh? Eckernförde is a very nice little town (I grew up here) but I was happier to live in Kiel (where my university is and my friends are). But if we have here and then some of these fishing events I won’t complain
Here some more impressions:

Yes, unfortunately we only cought one cod (German: Dorsch) But better than nothing

My dad gut the fish and then we put the fish traps back in the water – here (can you see the flag?):

My dad has several fish traps tied together (I think six). On each end is a kind of anchor (heavy stone, on it a stick with the flag…and of course a small buoy).
Then we drove back to the jetty and I enjoyed the beautiful environment for the short drive of a few minutes. As you can see it is autumn; the trees started to become colorful.

The boat is fixed (I learned how to make the right knots to tie the ropes around the landing stage) and we leave with the engine (has to be taken home every time because it can’t be locked; don’t ask me why) and the fish.
I don’t want to withhold the beautiful sunset scenery from you, so here the last pics (the first is from another day of going out with the boat):

So that’s it for today…I am tired now from all the fresh air
When I came home i found this on my rubber boots:

Oh cute…are these soup noodles?? *gg* where is my pan…*jokingly*

Bye for now from your delighted fishing girl.