Foraging for food in the jungle.

It's time for us to cook our fish. Oh, they're nice and brown. You want to get in with me? So the children are asking us to take them fishing to see if we find any, if we can catch any fish to grill today. So let's go to the lake and see if we find any fish. Here we have a fishing line and some bait. Let's see if we have any luck today with the fish. All right, let's see if we catch anything. You think the fish are biting today? Whoa, there's something. What? Let me see. What did we get? We've never caught this kind of fish before yet in this spot. Wow. Yes, they're very, very sharp. Don't, don't. That's nice. Never. Oh, be careful. What do you think? Hey, are you excited? Yeah. Daddy caught us a nice fish. Okay, daddy caught a fish. Now let's see if you can get one. Let's see if you have any luck. Throw it in. Oh, look at those little fish. Look at all those little fish in there. Oh, wow. It got very hot. So we had to take a little break in the shade, right? Okay, there's one. Pull, pull, pull. Pull in carefully, slowly. Pull it in, pull it in, pull it in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got it. You got one. You got one. You got one. Look here. We got a fish. Let's cast it again. Maybe we'll get a big one. We've got a few small ones. Wasn't the best cast. Are you pulling it in? You got it. That's a big one. Whoa. Look at that. Now we have four fish in all for the day. I think it's time to go back and cook them. Daddy's getting a fish in. Maybe it's a big one. Another benton. Whoa, daddy has the luck for the benton. Wow. All right guys, here we have five fish. We're five people, so just perfect for everyone. We got two of these with red bellies and two of these. We never expected to catch this many. At first it was sort of dull and then we started catching them, right? Everybody got to catch one fish and we're going to take them in the woods and grill them. It's very easy to start a fire in the middle of dry season because everything is so dry, but it's also very important to pour water over a fire when we're done. Although it's very clean here at the campsite, so it is easy for it not to spread. But anyways, you always have to be very precautious, right? Because it is the middle of dry season. It's time for us to cook our fish. Here we have the fish that we caught this morning. Okay, we also have Yuka. We have to de-gut the fish and scale them. Where's the last one? Where are they all? Where are they all? Oh, this guy's still alive. Yeah, he can bite you terribly. Where's the other one? I'm going to scale them first because these fish don't have very much fat. So we're going to fry them in butter. We brought some butter in even a cast iron pan here to the camp, so it's going to be really good. I'm going to scale them just like this. Get all the scales off because the scales are not yummy. Yeah, don't put your mouth by their hand. And we have a really nice spot here in the creek. This is a laundry washing spot. Very fun to sit down here in the heat of the day and do laundry. It's like so nice. Here we have it nicely scaled. I'm going to de-gut it now. And it's completely dead, so not feeling any pain anymore. I wonder what these guys ate. Some wild fruits. They're not very fat, right? This time of the year there isn't that much food in the wild because it's dry season. Not so much fruit. At the end of the year they'll get fatter because there's way more fruit. All right, here I have it de-gutted nicely. Now I'm going to cut. And this is what I do so there aren't many bones because this kind of fish has a lot of very small bones and it could be very dangerous for the children to get bones stuck in their throat. So I'm going to show you guys a trick. Like this you cut it right here and you keep cutting small pieces like this and it cuts the bones up so small that you can just eat them right down without noticing a bone. See here we have one fish completely done, nicely cut. The inside is completely clean. I'm going to put it here. Was that a monkey? I hear a monkey. There's a monkey jumped off a tree. All right, so easy to scale these things when they're still fresh. Okay, all the fish are ready. All five fish nuts. Time to get the yucca ready. So when we go back up to the camp we won't have to make a whole bunch of trips. We just take everything up in one time. We have the yucca peeled. Split it in half like this. Oh there's fish. Very little. This yucca is getting hard to peel because it's a few days old already. We have everything peeled and we're going to put salt in the yucca and then water. We take it up to the camp and all in one time. Also salt the fish down here and I brought along my beloved salt container. Super portable and easy to take to far places. Time to take it all up to the camp and cook it. I'm gonna put the yucca in the hottest place and of course my cast iron pan is my one and only for outside cooking. Campsite cooking because it's already black. Just give it a good scrubbing and you never notice any stains on it. A nice amount of butter. Just like I said the fish are not extremely fat because right now is the dry season and they're in the wild. Of course they're not being fed anything. Here I'm going to stack up the fire. Stoke up the fire. Let's go find some more firewood because the fire needs to go a little better for us to fry the fish. Break it up nice and small like this. Here boys there's firewood. Good job. You guys know how to get firewood from the woods right? It's not hard in dry season. It's a real challenge in the rainy season though. Okay we have pretty much. Now let's take what we have back. We're not going to need that much. Okay this piece yet. Save some for next time. I will huff and I will puff. I know how to huff and puff. And of course we have to set up our hammock so the children are as comfy as possible and me too. I always like to have my hammock up. We have a very comfortable place to crash after we're done with eating the fish. Okay now let's see if it's sturdy and good. If it doesn't fall down with me it won't fall down with anybody because I'm the heavy. Okay looks good and even if they would fall they wouldn't get hurt. And by this time my husband arrived so he's going to help me with the fish frying now. The part that I might have burnt my hands because as you can see our fire really did start burning very hot. Wow look at that. This is going to be so delicious. It's already time to flip them. Oh look at that. Oh they're nice and brown. I think the heat might be a little too hot. That was scary. And there we have some banana leaves to lay out our food in so our food doesn't get dirty. Look at that. Wow the yuca is boiling. The fish are frying and I don't think we'll need any more firewood. Still a little bit more fish to fry in here. Yum. The fish fried in butter. So delicious. Show you guys something when you're in the woods with children and you have machetes and knives. If you're camping this is the way to put them away. You find a tree and you chop them in safely up high but they have to be like really solid so they won't fall down. I think I just inhaled a wasp. Here and then you have a small knife like this. There we go look. Make sure the children don't come close to this tree. You're safe. They won't be playing with the knife. They won't get cut and this kind of fish is very flavorful. Very very good. This fish is definitely done and I just absolutely love fried fish in butter. They're just so good. Oh yes and the yuca is also almost done so our meal is almost already come together. Now I'm gonna eat the crispies. And the yuca is done too and there's no way for me to get the pot off the stove so I'm just going to scoop out the yuca before it gets too mushy. My fire is indeed very very hot. Let's dig in everybody. Everybody has been waiting for this. This is the fish I've been wanting to try right here. Here and make sure the little one doesn't get any bones right. We don't want him to have any bones. We did but it still have to watch. You want water? With fish we always need water. Here let me haul this fish over here so I can get him some ribs. This fish is so soft and tender. Look here. Open up. We eat with fingers because it tastes extra yummy that way. Everybody's just quietly eating because it's so good right. Are you gonna go get more water from the creek? You need to be drinking water all the time. Who likes this kind of meal? I do. I do. It's good isn't it? This was good. Single ingredient. Single. Just two ingredients. That's all it is. Oh wait. Salt. Yeah. And oil. And butter. Four ingredients. And just the peaceful sound of the birds and the trees. Thank you. Cool creek water. That was it for a fun day. Extreme relaxing and having fun and cooking here. I hope you guys enjoyed this little adventure that we vlogged. Thanks for watching guys. Let me know what you think and we'll see you in our next adventure.