101 Simple Meals: #23
Description: “The New York supper: Bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon. Serve with tomatoes, watercress or arugula, and sliced red onion or shallot.”
Notes: I think I’m a bagel prude. I like my (never raisin and never ever blueberry) bagel with cream cheese and, if I’m feeling especially sassy, maybe tomato. So, I stuck with the basics here: bagel, cream cheese, smoked salmon.
Anyway, I’m from an almost totally goyim town, so maybe you’ll understand why I had never eaten smoked salmon before this salmon I bought at Zabar’s yesterday.
Sweet fancy Moses, it’s like… Kosher bacon. Fatty, smoky, salty — if G-d told me bacon was off-limits, this would be the first place I’d turn, too. I think the Zabar’s salmon was especially good, as even my husband said it was the best he’d ever eaten.
Rating: Fifteen hours after eating this, I already want to eat it again.
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Rebecca
That’s not dinner! That’s sunday morning breakfast! Okay, so sometimes it is dinner. Or lunch. Or a snack. Or, if lox can be had for a decent price, 2 or more of the above.
If you have any leftover lox (I know, the idea is nearly unthinkable), try it in an omelet.
Oh so good.
tinymich
I had that at Murray’s recently with a visitor. Lox is oh so good. But you know what REALLY made the sandwich in my mind was the sliced tomato and red onion. The tomato provided some brightness and a little bit of sweet to balance the heaviness and salt of the lox + cheese, and the little bit red onion both cut through the pungency of the salmon *and* enhanced it at the same time, if that’s possible.
I’d be really interested for you to try the sandwich with those two (IMO indispensable – I’ll never go back to without) extra ingredients and tell us whether you like it better or worse that way.
David
You forgot to mention that the bagels were from the famous H&H Bagels, probably the only bagel shop with its own Wikipedia entry.
Jennifer
I am shocked you haven’t had this already. Shocked I tell ya!
Will I cause you a coronary if I tell you another blend that will make you happy?
Ham, thinly sliced, on top of a toasted bagel with a bit of dijon or spread of choice, top that with a thick slice of tomato and a slice of jarlsberg sprinkled with ground pepper. Broil.
Drooling yet?
rachel
I could eat lox with every meal. I also like it on a bagel w/cream cheese and capers. Salty heaven.
Alyce
Add me to the shocked column. I remember having this for the first time at Rose’s in Portland, Ore. When I moved to NYC I ate it at least twice a month. Why not?
Welcome to the dark side.
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