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?
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.
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.
But now I know what I’m eating for Christmas dinner 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
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.
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.
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