Owen Smoking Sockeye Salmon

Every year when Owen loads the smokehouse up with Salmon we can often get a good bunch of Salmon eggs… if we’re lucky!  We’re always in a quandary as to what to do with them all.

Sharon and Pam want some to make caviar, Melonie wants some to moosh-up and make paint, somebody else might want some to salt-cure for fishing lures, there’s some that want to eat them in scrambled eggs, and I want to make chowder (the best Clam Chowder I’ve ever had, in Alert Bay on Cormorant Island at the opening of the Big House, was seasoned with handfuls of salmon eggs! Yumm!), and of course, the cats love them.

Sharon And Pam Making Sockeye Caviar

But you have to act fast as they’re very fragile.
Photo of glass jar of Sockeye Caviar

They are so very beautiful and represent such a multitude of things.  The whole cycle of life is right there in those precious little eggs.  I always feel such a reverence for them, even when we have so many that I end up burying them at the feet of my roses.  My roses love them too!

Beautiful jar of Home made Sockeye Caviar

Over the years I’ve collected some gorgeous orangey beads that have always reminded me of salmon eggs, so I created a necklace to celebrate Salmon eggs!  This necklace is full of Amber, Red Coral, Carnelian, Antique Hudson’s Bay White Heart trade beads, Copper Beads, Czech and East Indian glass.  The little jumping Salmon are both Sterling Silver and Copper.  Owen hand carves these jumping Salmon and we usually sell them as Earrings in Sterling or Gold.

Sockeye Caviar Necklace with Silver and Copper Hand-carved Salmon

I love mine and wear them often.  Anita has a necklace and it looks wonderful on her beautiful Viking skin.

A friend was talking to me about how he thought the necklace looked DELICIOUS! I thanked him and was pleased that the effect was attained.