December 25, 2009 7

Salmon=Success

By in food, kitty

The gravlax I mentioned the other day was unwrapped, rinsed, sliced and eaten. Not entirely, no, that would be crazy, but we ate about a quarter of it. A lot. The only thing I would do differently-next time I make it and there will be a next time-is to use actual Kosher salt rather than regular table salt. And maybe use brown sugar instead of white.

Salmon, indeed.

Try not to drool on your keyboard.

And because I was feeling culinarily ambitious, I made latkes to eat the salmon with. Oh, latkes are good eating, right?

Yep.

Yeah, really good eating. With sour cream. Oh.

Speaking of fish, big white fish Donna has a bruise on her shoulder and I wonder if there was a fight during the night or if she just got scraped on a rock. She’s pretty fussy about letting me look closely (and her fin blobs are getting worse too) and I’m guessing she’s not long for this world. Ah, 14+ years is a pretty good run for a regular, old fashioned feeder fish I guess.

I’m really hoping we hear from Ari today-she’s in California for xmas. Video chat is armed and ready!

7 Responses to “Salmon=Success”

  1. Janne says:

    Here (in Finland) we generally use sea salt for gravlax. And lots of dill.

  2. Caitlin Jane says:

    Ok, sea salt next time, you Fins know best. And I did use lots of dill! You can see green squiggles of it in the top picture!

  3. Shannon says:

    This was so crazy delicious! Caitlin has been feeding me really well as a Christmas treat (not that she doesn’t always).

  4. Allahkat says:

    I am so making that as soon as I get my hands on some feesh.

  5. Caitlin Jane says:

    My mom says she uses trout instead of salmon sometimes, it’s just as good and is cheaper.

  6. Steph says:

    *drools* OMG that looks SO yummy! Esp since I haven’t eaten a proper meal all day today. That looks divine and I LOVE latkes they’re so good!

  7. Caitlin Jane says:

    Steph, the salmon was the best part, but the latkes were VERY delish too!

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