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Every summer we buy local wild range fish from local fishermen at local marina. It is Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) that travels a long way up to Gulf Of Bothnia and its rivers only to reproduce. The salmon fishing is regulated and they have a certain number of fish the local fishermen are allowed to catch. They need to mark each fish by the blue tag. If you take a look at the map you can see what a journey from Atlantic Ocean the salmon needs to swim to get up here to Kemi, Finland. And up the rivers.

Usually we buy the fish by the Mid Summer. You can buy it just going to the marina and see if there is some. Or pay a lot of extra at the local supermarket. Usually the queues in the marina can be quite long. Before MidSummer the queues were so long that we turned away and decided to come later. Because of Poor-Pii our plans turn upside-down. This morning He has a change to go meanwhile me looking after Pii. If you take carefully look at the pics you see some fish have the tags and the others don't. There is not legal and illegal salmon. The tagged fish are Atlantic Salmon.

The un-tagged fish are Brown Trouts (Salmo trutta). It is more rare up here but actually more common than Atlantic Salmon in Europe. Can you spot the differences of Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout? Look at the mouth. Brown Trout's mouth reaches behind the eye, Atlantic Salmon's don't. The tail end of Brown trout is straight line, Atlantic Salmo's tail end line is rather V-shaped. And when you look at the figure of the end part of the Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout you notice that you actually can easily lift up the salmon from its tail but not a Brown Trout because it is straight and slips away easily.

We use all the parts of the fish. These are for the fish soup. An the rest what we or our dogs don't eat, He uses in hunting small predators.

There are many ways of cooking fish but this is one of my favorites. Especially when it is warm enough so that I can have it on our terrace deck. Then it feels like a holiday far and away.

You know I have a quite difficult diet with coeliac disease etc. Usually my diet is rather simply. This spring I introduced myself gluten free feta-gnocchi pesto because I found gluten free gnocchi on my latest Turku journey. I was a bit suspicious and decided to make sure it will be good. Anything that has this much cheese can't be bad! And it was not! I first cooked the gluten free gnocchi. Then I stirred it all in the pan with feta, cheese and pesto sauce. Simple, easy and fast! It is vegetarian, but not vegan and not to mention healthy with all the grease!

I do can eat healthy. Here you can see how I usually have my free day lunch no matter the season or weather. It is gluten free toasts with cheese and garlic, berry soup, tea and berry smoothie with milk and gluten free grains.