12 Lords A Leaping
Christmas isn’t Christmas without the copious elements that make delicious luxury snacks. Left over turkey or goose, christmas pudding that can be fried and served as a completely new dessert or left over roast potatoes and sprouts for a delicious bubble and squeek – fantastic day after the night before food. The one snack food that spells Christmas, but isn’t ‘a left-over’, is smoked salmon.
Raw Salmon Waiting To Be Cured
My Lords A Leaping is – Salmon. For some, the King of fish and of course, they leap up river to spawn. Any dish was going to be a stretch! Gravadlax was always served at those Christmas Eve parties; usually made at home with a sense of ceremony, rather than bought. For a change, I made Jamie Oliver’s beetroot cured salmon, partly because of the wonderful deep red colour the beetroot gives the fish, as well as a very slightly earthy flavour. It was a good experiment although, I would use a little more sugar if I made it again. This is a confection of grated beetroot, dill, vodka, salt and sugar. A delicious concotion that creates the ruby and pink firm fleshed fish ready to serve on blinis with a dill, mustard and cream sauce.
Sliced Cured Salmon
For those of you who have followed all or some of the 12 days dishes you will know that it all began with flicking through Delicious Magazine and seeing the 7 Swans A Swimming. I was convinced I could create a dish for each day of the 12 Day of Christmas song and this is the final dish. It’s been great blogging every day and following all your comments. So for one last time:
- On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a Partridge In A Pear Tree
- On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me two Turtle Doves
- On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me three French Hens
- On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me four Colly Birds
- On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me five Gold Rings
- On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me six Geese a laying
- On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me seven Swans A Swimming
- On the eigth day of Christmas my true love sent to me eight Maids A Milking
- On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me nine Drummers Drumming
- On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me ten Ladies Dancing
- On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me eleven Pipers Piping
- On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve Lords A Leaping
A very merry Christmas and happy holiday to you all.
Beetroot Cured Salmon Canapes
Well, I didn’t think of salmon – clever bit of reasoning that. The salmon sounds delicious and has an excellent colour. Have a great Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you too and thanks for following the 12days. GG
Beautiful and delicious as always.
I loveeee cured salmon and this looks perfect for a party!
Merry Christmas!!
We will be eating the salmon canapes before our 3 bird roast tonight, a pheasant inside a turkey inside a goose. Delicious! A very merry Christmas to you too!
This cured salmon looks so impressive it would suit any festive occasion. Curing with beetroot sounds very original.
Congratulations for the 12 days “marathon”. I am very happy to have participated in this fascinating adventure. Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!
Thanks for your support and comments it has really helped to keep me going. A very merry Christmas to you. GG
Merry Christmas, I hope you are having a wonderful day. I have really enjoyed your 12 days of Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too. This was fun to do, now I have to think of another challenge. Any ideas!? GG
Smoked salmon definitely does not seem leftover…and yours looks really delicious. Hope you had a lovely Christmas.
A great time, thank you. It’s great to find a new blog to follow thank you for commenting. GG
I have to admit I was very curious to see what you were going to do for this but I knew that you’d pull it off brilliantly-and you have!
Merry Christmas!
Thank you. Finding the linking dish was the hardest part of day 12, but making the salmon was really simple. I will have to make your root beer ham for New Years Day. Happy New Year to you. GG
Congratulations!! You did an AMAZING job. The 12 days was a success! Now what’s on the menu?
Congratulations!! You did an AMAZING job. Can’t wait till next year
Thank you. I think I might have set myself up for next year and not in a good way! GG
I love this Christmas series you had, going on.. That is one plate filled with deliciousness. Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!
Thank you, now I have to think of a new challenge. But before that I need to do all the things I put off to cook the 12 days of Christmas! GG
What perfect reasoning! This is an incredible recipe and one I’ve made before, so very very yummy indeed!
I hope you have a very Happy New Year with many fun foodie adventure to come!
If I’d realised how easy it was I would have made it ages ago. Now I’m going to have a go at playing with the recipe to try some variations out. Any ideas? Happy New Year to you too! GG
That looks really good! Love the colours!
I hadn’t realised how fabulous the colours come out when it’s done. It does look quite impressive for very little effort. GG
You could try Asian flavors next, with shredded kaffir lime leaves, coriander, splash of ginger wine, and some chili. Or Japanese with sake and wasabi and daikon could be nice too. Good luck!
Great ideas, thank you. GG