Tuna

Well Mom was expecting me to post something about the alderhouse pic nic but never got around to it, we had the surprise party for Lynn the night before and was pretty worn out from drinking Tequila all night, OK just til 1 am, that turned out really well, thank you Heather, Aubree and Shawna for giving your mother a special day, I got the crazy idea around 11:00 to make some bacon wrapped meatballs and nobody talked me out of that either, so at 12:30 we were feasting again, but man were they good. went to bed about 4:00 then got woke up at 7:15 to make breakfast, so wasn't really in top condition to have another big grilling adventure.

The alderhouse pic nic was over quickly, was still in the 100's then, just grilled some burgers and dogs, everyone ate, sat around talking for a little while and left, just too damn hot.

This weekend Lynn and I went out to Ocean Shores, Aubree & Hazen rented us a room there for our birthday presents, we had a really nice time, other than it kinda drizzeled all day, got up Sun. morning and ran around town a little more making sure we did everything there was to do, Then off towards Westport, they are catching Tuna there and I have been wanting to get out there for about 3 years now during tuna season, I've never had fresh tuna and everyone that has just raves about it, we walked around town for a while checking out the gift shops, woo hoo, then down to the docks to find some tuna, we found a guy selling it for $2.25 a lb, $2.50 a lb if he fileted it, being as I've never fileted a tuna I paid the extra 25 cents a lb, we had to wait an hour for the boat to get in so your not gonna get ant fresher than this.

We got a 21 lb fish, probably lose about half that after fileting out so probaly figures out to around $5 a lb for it, seems reasonable for fresh fish if you've ever bought it anywhere else, well today (Mon) for lunch I cut some steaks off, drizzeled them with olive oil, a little salt and pepper, seared 'em on the grill at really high temp, this is what I found on internet was best way yo cook 'em, people saying to cook 'em medium rare, I have never been a fan of undercooked fish, but everyone saying they get dry and lose their flavor if overcooked, I cooked 'em a little longer than recommended but still a little pink inside, all I can say is amazing, this was probably some of the best fish I have ever eaten, I may cook the next ones even a little more rare, It had a completely different texture than most fish, not mushy, reminded us more of really tender beef texture.

been wanting to get the fresh tuna for a long time, will probably be a yearly event now that we've tried it.

I don't think I've ever been through the highway from Aberdeen to Westport before, usually either go out to Westport/ Grayland area or to north beaches, but there is a sausage shop north of Westport we stopped at that makes a lot of different types of sausages, we bought a couple different kinds but haven't tried them out yet, hope they are good, might have found another reason to go to the coast.

Our trips are always about the food, I picked up a big fresh salmon filet too.