First and foremost: If you've never bought them before, THEY SMELL. I know fish smell, but I wasn't expecting these tiny little fish to smell every bit as much as a big fish does! Anyway, I figured the easiest way to handle them would be to freeze them individually, so I could dole them out as needed. Um, they're gross.
I gave one to Mona to try while I finished lining them up on the cookie sheet. Mona's reaction?
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| "Is this a joke?" |
CLEARLY UNAMUSED. She's used to getting little tidbits when I'm portioning out some meat for her. I'd already packaged up some ground turkey to freeze, and she had a little nibble of that. But the next time, I slipped her a smelt, and she would not touch it. I went ahead and put the sheet of them all in the freezer, and I'll bag them up once they're frozen. However, I'm afraid I might have just wasted $0.81 on fish that will do nothing but stink up my freezer. Lovely.
I got that same look from my dog Toby the first time I offered him a sardine. He would have absolutely nothing to do with it. So, the next day when it was dinner time (I only feed once a day) I got a solid frozen sardine and put only that in his crate to eat. No chicken, pork, nothing but the fish. And left him there. After a couple minutes he started nibbling on it, and finally finished it. He's still a little unsure about them thawed, but by golly he loves his frozen fish-pops! :)
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