Happy 2015 everyone!!!
I was initially thinking of what might be considered New Year cuisine, but I couldn't think of anything unusual... at least, not that I had on hand. So what the heck. Here's some party food for all the new year gatherings you may be having this season...
The star for today's feature is really this salmon roe cream. It comes in a ridiculously deceptively unappetizing packing though... doesn't it SO look like toothpaste? *sweatz*
Anyway, mix 1 part of this with 1 part of sour cream, and you get an amazing cream for the most heavenly canapé I've tried... what I'll call salmon & roe canapé.
Basically, it's an amazingly savoury mouthful with a rich seafood flavour coupled with the herby punch of fresh dill (I like to heap that on), and the satisfying crunch of a garlic-buttered wholemeal toast to round it off. The wholemeal toast added a sweetness to the overall savoury mixture, which was a very nice complement. So I would recommend a relatively sweet cracker if you plan on substituting it.
So the ingredients are pretty straightforward. Some tobiko or flying fish roe, a dollop of that salmon roe cream mixture (the pale orange one on the top right), and chopped fresh dill... you can grow these in your own backyard or balcony... they grow like weeds.
Here's a close up of the tobiko. It's like a minute version of the larger salmon roe or ikura.
Of course, smoked salmon...
And probably the part that requires the most preparation: buttered wholemeal bread, optionally with garlic, and toasted to a crisp. You could probably also substitute the butter with olive oil.
Instructions? Well, duh, just heap it all on as you please, in any order or combination that you fancy.
All the ingredients are lovely, but as I said, the one that really packs a punch is the salmon roe cream. Just that alone is pure bliss to lick directly from the spoon, or, paired with any of the above-mentioned ingredients, makes that ingredient come alive.
It's a lovely feature in a party if you just lay out all the ingredients like that.
I was initially thinking of what might be considered New Year cuisine, but I couldn't think of anything unusual... at least, not that I had on hand. So what the heck. Here's some party food for all the new year gatherings you may be having this season...
The star for today's feature is really this salmon roe cream. It comes in a ridiculously deceptively unappetizing packing though... doesn't it SO look like toothpaste? *sweatz*
Basically, it's an amazingly savoury mouthful with a rich seafood flavour coupled with the herby punch of fresh dill (I like to heap that on), and the satisfying crunch of a garlic-buttered wholemeal toast to round it off. The wholemeal toast added a sweetness to the overall savoury mixture, which was a very nice complement. So I would recommend a relatively sweet cracker if you plan on substituting it.
All the ingredients are lovely, but as I said, the one that really packs a punch is the salmon roe cream. Just that alone is pure bliss to lick directly from the spoon, or, paired with any of the above-mentioned ingredients, makes that ingredient come alive.
It's a lovely feature in a party if you just lay out all the ingredients like that.
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