618497 Sat May 09 06:07:08 -0700 2009 21 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 4668235 Bagels are obvious, but what else do you use as underpinning for lox / gravlax / cold smoked salmon? And what for embellishments? At the last brunch I was invited to they served bagels, cream cheese, thin shreds of red onion, and capers. Sat May 09 06:07:08 -0700 2009 13619 Sharuf 1 4668244 Add tomatoes and you are all set. Sat May 09 06:10:39 -0700 2009 4668235 10205 valerie 1 4668409 I mince the onion (always red) and I might put a droplet or three of lemon juice over the bite. No tomato for me thanks. Sat May 09 07:48:31 -0700 2009 4668235 131001 c oliver 1 4668417 Bagels are one option, though I love the Rye Crisps as well. When I was a kid in NYC, lox were served with a soft cheese, thinly sliced tomatoes and red onion, and capers. In France, they serve smoked salmon with a wedge of lemon, capers, hard boiled egg and a frisee salad, accompanied by a fresh baguette. Sat May 09 07:54:26 -0700 2009 4668235 59258 smtucker 1 4668419 No hard fast rules. I'm cold smoking two fillets as I type. All most always it's cream cheese. Bread can be a bagel or other breads like rye, pumpernickel, a round of baguette or what ever interesting bread we have at the time. Embellishments can be red onions, capers, a big slice of tomato, dill, fennel tops, olives.....what ever we have and sounds good. Sometimes we eat it without bread. I've even used it for sushi when given a very light or no smoke. Sat May 09 07:56:26 -0700 2009 4668235 89493 scubadoo97 1 4668502 From the ground up Bagel Cream cheese (1/4 in) Red diced onions Capers Hard boiled eggs diced Tomato slice Lox Lemon juice Open wide - hmmmm Happy eating indeed Sat May 09 08:37:58 -0700 2009 4668235 155034 alwayscooking 1 4668549 Well this could be brunch, I like to take a good Italian bread or a good pumpernickle my favorite, I use a creamy herbed cheese fresh arubula and the salmon and then topped with a good gruyere, topped and then pressed as a thin sandwich, cut in quarters and makes an excellent light sandwich. I have done the same on a croissant which is also good, I like to add some fresh dill before I add the gruyere and grill. I like to press mine as a panini. I have also used a green goddess dressing, thin sliced red onion, salmon, olives and cheese and then grilled. You can really use whatever bread you like best. I also make thin egg muffins. Ok, let me explain, I use a store bought buttermilk biscuit and place in the bottom of a greased muffin tin, then I top it with thin slices of smoked salmon, then eggs, mixed with a little softened herbed cheese, a little water to give it some height and chives. Then bake at 350 for about 20 minutes. Then should puff out like little muffins. Then I top with red onion slice, sour cream with a mix of dill and capers. Neat interesting way to do the same as a bagle but different. Just fun. This can also be done is small ramikens. Just a lot of fun. Salmon cucumbers, goat cheese, arugula and fresh tomatoes is also very good. for a quick sandwich. I put smoked salmon in my scrambled eggs with fresh spinach all the time and then top the egg mix on a pre baked pizza crust spread with of course cream fraische some fresh dill and then topped with fresh red onions thin sliced and fresh very thin tomato slices, Topped with a little fresh gruyere and baked just until the cheese melts. Cut into slices and a great breakfast pizza. This is perfect with a great fruit citrus salad. Easy quick and really different. I actually use the pre bought pizza crusts boboli or whatever, but for company I would make my own or buy dough from a pizza store. But this works pretty good. Sat May 09 09:00:50 -0700 2009 4668235 232829 kchurchill5 1 4668596 I saw Sara Moulton make a Reuben with Smoked salmon in place of the corned beef. Have not tried it yet but it looked tasty. Sat May 09 09:21:36 -0700 2009 4668235 28638 phantomdoc 2 4668738 Smoked salmon reubens are great, but I like to make them thinner more as a panini. Too thick is too much salmon and is too much, but yes it is a good sandwich. Been making that as long as turkey reubens. I love them. Grouper reubens too. Very nice with the kraut Sat May 09 10:18:53 -0700 2009 4668596 232829 kchurchill5 1 4668623 Dark German rye, cream cheese, or chevre, capers, dill and salmon roe. see photo: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/785219848_5ae7567eb2_b.jpg Sat May 09 09:30:54 -0700 2009 4668235 27532 steamer 1 4668798 Add a slice of muenster cheese to the bagel (toasted onion, please), cream cheese, lox, sliced tomato, rings of red onion, capers, squeeze of lemon juice, cracked pepper, a bit of sea salt, and I'm happy! Sat May 09 10:48:18 -0700 2009 4668235 27482 critter101 2 4668809 Plain, onion, pumpernickel or sesame bagel, cream cheese, nova salmon (plain lox too salty), red onion, tomato -- and that's all! Also like the above on good pumpernickel. One of my friends makes delicious scrambled eggs with onions and lox, but that's another story! Sat May 09 10:55:11 -0700 2009 4668798 12198 Beulah 2 4673043 Finally, someone else who likes to add a slice of cheese. I mentioned a slice of swiss as a topper to hold everything in place and got no support.. Muenster is another great choice. But it's got to be the last layer on top, well separated from the cream cheese. Mon May 11 08:27:34 -0700 2009 4668798 12829 Bob W 1 4670929 Cream cheese and water bagel. Period. Sun May 10 11:04:53 -0700 2009 4668235 196419 Kate is always hungry 1 4672263 sandwich: whole wheat bread smeared with cream cheese, fried egg, paper-thin sliced red onions, sprinkle of capers Sun May 10 23:10:12 -0700 2009 4668235 42513 Mawrter 1 4672630 Toast points, Triscuts, Wheat Thins, Carr's assortments, all good. Mon May 11 06:09:55 -0700 2009 4668235 149836 cstr 1 4674643 Made some wraps for a little Mother's Day picnic--Flour tortillas, grainy honey mustard, thin sliced cucumbers, gravlax, and roasted red peppers. Mon May 11 15:54:13 -0700 2009 4668235 198087 David A. Goldfarb 1 4675406 Latkes, rosti, roasted potatoes. And I'm in the pro-tomato camp. :) Mon May 11 20:01:41 -0700 2009 4668235 64215 cimui 1 4675678 Onion bagel toasted, double whipped cream cheese and the highest quality lox available. Mon May 11 22:48:13 -0700 2009 4668235 239340 latindancer 1 4676685 I dearly love lox on a bagel. (Although no bagel has ever quite matched the bagels of my youth - Eagerman's in suburban Boston.) That said, lox goes well in Oshizushi - pressed sushi. A thin layer lends a nice layer of flavor and looks good too. Some people (as you no doubt already know) like lox in scrambled eggs. Tue May 12 09:30:20 -0700 2009 4668235 95291 Richard 16 2 4676867 Eagerman's -- what a great memory. Living in RI, to us Eagerman's was one of those "big city" Boston bakeries. Eagerman's had great pastries too. Also, they spelled bagel baigel. The things we remember. Tue May 12 10:20:24 -0700 2009 4676685 12829 Bob W 3 4677259 When I lived in B,C., I used to order smoked salmon from a First Nations group on the Queen Charlottes who had made selling smoked fish into a commercial enterprise. I would order it my phone,and became friendly with the woman taking the orders at the other end. One day, she said to me "Why don't you try the cold smoked salmon the way we Natives do? Toast half a bagel, smear it with cream choose and top it wish slices of the salmon." I have happily followed this old tradition ever since, Incidentally, there seem to be people here in Toronto who prefer Montreal bagels to local ones. I can't see it. If I want a small, sweet roll, that's what I'll ask for. Tue May 12 12:13:22 -0700 2009 4676867 54222 ekammin