Smoked salmon accoutrements

We have a couple friends that fish the Bering sea. One of them had some of his salmon catch smoked and packaged professionally to give as Christmas gifts. He gave us enough for us and Hubby’s parents.

We gobbled ours up like grizzlies, but we want to put together a basket for the old folks.

So far I have crackers, cheeses, apples, oranges, sweet- hot mustard, a couple kinds of Lighthouse dips, high-end cookies and candies.

Is there anything else that just has to be eaten with yummy smoked salmon?

Capers.

Seconded. I’m devastated that I am currently out of capers, yet have two REALLY good packs of smoked salmon.

I won’t eat it without capers.

Gotta have capers. Cream Cheese. Bagels.

Red onion. Sour Cream. Dill.

Once again, my greatest sandwich creation:
Bacon
Red onion slices
Smoked salmon (dry smoke)
Sliced tomato
Cream cheese
Toasted poppyseed bagel

Sorry for the hijack.

Funny thing is, I wouldn’t touch seafood, but just the other day I made this for a customer. Hence, knowing that capers were a common side.

A restaurant around here has this as an appetizer. The ingredients:

–smoked salmon, sliced thinly
–red onions, sliced thinly
–dill spread - it’s dill, maybe some mayo and sour cream (or possibly cream cheese), mixed together
–capers
–crostini - toasted baguette slices, probably rubbed with a cut clove of garlic

Really yum, and super simple to throw together, I’d think.

I guess I should clarify. It’s Northwest smoked salmon, not lox. It’s dry and flakes easily. It has a very strong flavor. One side is the skin, the other is covered with garlic and pepper.
I’ll try it with capers.

How about a smoked salmon quesadilla? Add a slice of avocado, and you’re in heaven!

You won’t be sorry. Inspired by this thread, I went and bought capers for my salmon. I’ll be serving it on very dark, Russian pumpernickle bread – toasted – with cream cheese, capers, and extra sprigs of dill.

This might be unusual, but: pesto. It’s SO good.

Havarti with dill and smoked salmon are flavor buddies–great with crackers, or grilled in a sammich.

omg I am so hungry now.

But now I know what I’m eating for Christmas dinner :smiley: We’re celebrating with the kids Christmas Eve and morning, then have the evening to ourselves when the kids go back to mom. So this is a perfect celebratory nosh without going out anywhere <3

People eat smoked salmon with … accoutrements?

Honestly, I like it just straight up. Nom nom nom nom nom… Preferably with breakfast although any time of day is fine.

I just had smoked salmon with capers, finely diced white onion and hard boiled egg as a starter (before some absolutely lovely fillet of beef). Apparently that’s how they eat it in Spain. Wow. Very much having it that way in the future.

Thank you all. I tried the capers. Yum.

Teacake, that sounds great, we’ll try that tomorrow. We’re having prime rib for dinner.

It’s all your guys’ fault that I am so nicely stuffed on smoked salmon, lox, red onion, capers, caviar <the cheap kind, yum!>, chopped radish and fennel, rye bread, crackers, garlic cream cheese and tomatoes. :stuck_out_tongue:

And since my sweetie isn’t into any of that, I took all the leftovers and mixed them up in a bowl, added a touch of bacon salt and arbol chile powder, and will be enjoying this on bagels for days. <3

I use smoked salmon instead of canadian bacon in my Eggs Benedict.