Is the house on fire?

[SeaRay]

My poor wife had a misstep Saturday night in our garage and fractured her ankle. She is in a hard cast now hoping it will heal without surgery. I have been sticking close to the house because she needs help getting around, so with time on my hands I decided to smoke some salmon I brought back from my Oregon trip in September.

So, first thing was to brine them 4 hours in Joe's secret brine.


Then let them sit 8 hours until the pellicle forms.



Now they are ready for the smoker and here is where it got interesting. It was going down in the teens here last night so, of course, I decided to put the smoker in the garage. I was afraid it would be too cold for the Little Chief Smoker to work well. I started the smoker and let it prep for about 30 minutes, by now it was 11PM and the wife had gone to bed. When I opened the door to take the salmon to the garage, I was surprised at how much smoke the smoker had produced. Out in the open it is not very noticeable, but in a closed garage, there was enough to share with the kitchen. So after I shut the door and got everything going, I went back in the house, hoping the smoke had not made it's way past the kitchen. I guess you can tell from the title, that was not the case.


But all's well that ends well, and by morning the smoke smell was gone, except in the garage, and the salmon had cured nicely. We have a Smoked Salmon Quiche recipe that we really like which is why I was doing this in the first place.
With 3 more weeks before she possibly can get a walking cast, there is no telling the trouble I can get into.
Actually now the garage has an outdoorsy woodsy smell and I kind of like it. Wife has not been out there so the jury is still out on how that will go.