Recipe: Fun with smoked salmon

Here are some ideas. I don't use regular recipes, merely descriptions, but I
hope you can use my ideas, and then experiment...
I use smoked salmon often. I mostly use it for starters, for lunch or a light
evening meal.
*In Norway it is usual to serve smoked salmon with scrambled eggs with lots of
chopped chives.
Just beat some eggs lightly, add a pinch of salt and one spoon of cream for
each egg, and liberally with chopped chives. Then let it stiffen in big lumps
on a medium hot skillet while stirring. The eggs should not be completely dry
when the skillet is removed from the heat. You then arrange things on
individual plates or on a big glass-plate: Lettuce leaves, eggs , thin slices
of salmon, twisted lemonslices and maybe cooked aspargus. Bread on the side -
toasted white or homemade.

*You can also make a stiff cream of sour cream, a little sugar, a dash of lemon
juice, chopped dill and some grated horseradish. You have to taste, but for 1
cup of sour cream, I would use 1 or 1-1/2tbls horseradish, 1 big teaspoon
sugar, lemonjuice to taste. Stiffen it by adding 1 teaspoon pectin powder.(the
thing one uses to stiffen jams and jellies) If you use a fat sour cream, that
may not be necessary. You can also use whipping cream, whip it stiff, add the
other ingredients+ a couple of tbls of sour cream. You then slice your salmon,
twist two slices loosely round the tip of your finger so it looks like a rose.
Put it carefully on a plate covered with the inner leaves from lettuce. Put
down on the light green bed as many salmon pink rosese as you need. Fill the
centers with horseradish cream. Lemontwists in the outskirts of the rosebed. -
or sprigs of lemonbalm. Toast or french bread.

*One popular snack with drinks has been s little stick of swiss cheese - the
sice of your little finger, a sprig of fresh dill , and the cheese and dill
rolled up in salmon. Serve on toothpicks.

*I prefer it the simplest way possible - one homemade slice of bread, a thin
layer of mustard, a thick slice of salmon. That's it!!

*I know it is popular on bagels,- cream cheese, red onion, slices of salmon,
fresh dill. Period.

*A hot dish - maybe as part of a lunch or dinner: Filled crepes.
Chop a small onion - preferrably shallot, and sautee in butter. When golden,
(not brown!), add a teaspoon flour, stir, add cream slowly until it forms a
thick sauce. Add chopped, hard boiled eggs, chopped fresh dill or parsely and
some leftovers of smoked salmon cut in small thin strips. Heat through. Take
small crepes, fill it with this stew, roll them , drizzle some grated cheese on
top, and put them under the grill for a few seconds.

* Pasta
Cook your favorite pasta. In another pan, soften a little onion in butter, add
full cream and a little freshly milled pepper and a handful of sliced, smoked
salmon. Heat, but don't boil. Add cream and fish to pasta.

*Blinis.
Make small thick pancakes from a batter of buckwheat, flour, beer, salt, yeast
and egg. Serve hot with sour cream, chopped onion and smoked salmon and/or
caviar.

*False blinis: Make french toast by soking slices of white bread in a mixture
of eggs, a little milk and a pinch of salt. Fry slowly in butter, serve hot
with cold sour cream, chopped onions, chopped radishes, caviar and/or strips of
smoked salmon. And white wine, or maybe a beer or even a shot of vodka (not my
choise, but...)

And the people use it in salads, quiches, egg cocottes, as garnish on top pf
the hollandaisessauce served with poached sole, as garnish with filled eggs, or
just hard boiled gulls eggs...

It's a fabulous product with lots of taste. And even with Omega 3.
Have fun experimenting!!