On Saturday, Jan. 24th, at 5:30PM, Don & Vanessa will be hosting "A Taste of Alaska" Dinner to benefit Adopt-A-Family for the 2009 holiday season.
The tickets are $12.00 each and available from Don or Vanessa at site #209.
What do you get for your $12.00, besides
the knowledge that the money is going to
families and children that have much less than we do?
You get a sumptuous feast of seafood from Alaska, caught by Don & Vanessa.
Just...caught? All they did was catch a fish? That's it?
I think not...
Let these pictures help you understand the immense amount of work
(and play!) that lies behind this dinner.
Beautiful scenery, of course....
First you've got to catch the fish.... 
Then catch more fish....
Then catch a few more...
Then catch a few more...Throw back the ugly ones.....
Then start cleaning...
Get some help cleaning...
Keep cleaning....
Then start cleaning... Get some help cleaning...Keep cleaning....After cleaning, get the smoker going....
Since the smoker is going already throw on a gazillion moose sausages and caribou corn dogs.
Don't forget to gas up the boat.
Oh, and in your spare time, remember to package and freeze for the multiple thousand mile journey to Sandpiper's. 
Vanessa! What fun, but hoo-boy, a lot of work, too.
Don! What a great life you two have in Alaska! Thanks a million for sharing it with us.
4 comments:
I am now getting super hungry! And it's all low fat too of course....so it's food I could really enjoy!! YOu have me drooling!
Well we know he can cook fish and we know he CANNOT cook primerib.
Be prepared for the best primerib cooked by Tony after the olimpic's
If you want well done and dry eat Don's.........If you like medium rare and jussy eat Tony's
Pity the Poor Pig
Pity the Poor Muslim,
for she has never tasted bacon, eggs and hash browns for breakfast.
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Pity the poor Jew,for lunch, he has never eaten my mother’s croque monsieur,(its ham and cheese, our equivalent of kid cooked in its mother’s milk) and,although camel, rock-badger and lizard are off the kosher menu,locust and grasshoppers are permitted, which surely is the real pity.
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Pity the poor Buddhist,
for she may never suck a clam from its shell,wok-fried with garlic, basil and rice wine.
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Pity the poor Hindu,
for while hamburger, chips and beans is not the hautest or healthiest cuisine,on occasion,
it is just what the doctor ordered.
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Pity the poor Christian
simmering in the cannibals’ pot.
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Pity the poor pig, locust, clam and cow,for,for me,the only dietary law is “Red wine with red meat;white wine with chicken or fish”.
by Mark Caltonhill
Last August, Mary and I enjoyed the adventure of tagging along with Don & Vanessa as they caught the salmon supply for this year. We journeyed the 350 miles from their home to the port of Valdez, to harvest the bounty in Prince William Sound over the course of about a week. We rode in their large boat and, while we were unlicensed to fish, we helped them to land and manage the 70 or so large fish landed on that trip (along with another friend of theirs).
They dressed the fish each day on site, and hauled the meat home on ice in large coolers. Along the way we saw fantastic scenery; mountains, waterfalls, a glacier, and the occasional wildlife, such as wild swans and a large bull-moose grazing right alongside the highway.
Back home we saw the work of placing all the meat on racks for the smokehouse operation, then we made an assembly-line of putting the smoked salmon into bags, vacuum sealing them, and moving them to several freezers.
Later, for the long trip to the lower 48, the meat was all transfered to the chest-type freezers you see here in the park, along with the halibut from an earlier excursion to some other fishing grounds at Homer, Alaska. As we stopped each night along the Alaska Highway, and through Montana to Missouri (then all the way to here), the freezers would have to be plugged in to keep them cold.
The fishing was just some of the experiences we enjoyed on our wonderful visit with wonderful people in Alaska last summer. We had the time of our lives!
David #211
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