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What’s up for Sunday Brunch?
Our favorite is a bagels and lox platter. There’s no cooking involved!
This Lox and Bagel Board was created by Sherry Brubaker of the farm-to-table food blog: Backyard Bohemian.
Sherry is a wife and mom of three, who went into the culinary industry after serving and earning a Combat Action Badge in Afghanistan in 2010.
On returning home, she found that the meditative and mindfulness aspects of cooking where beneficial to her health. From there, Backyard Bohemian was created.
When she sent us this lox and bagels platter, we almost tried to eat it from the screen.
Here’s what you need to create your own, no-cooking-involved, weekend brunch.
But first, elsewhere on The Nibble:
> The history of bagels.
> The history of “everything” bagels.
> The year’s 4 bagel holidays.
> The year’s 28+ sandwich holidays.
> The year’s 60+ fish and seafood holidays.
> More bagel recipes.
RECIPE: WEEKEND BAGEL PLATTER
Main Components
Bagels: 3 different flavors
Lox: 3 ounces of smoked salmon per person (the difference between lox and smoked salmon), substitute gravlax
Cream cheese: pick 2-3 flavors, plain plus chive or olive cream cheese, for example
Onions: sliced sweet or red onions
Sliced tomatoes
Seafood spread: our favorites are chopped herring and smoked whitefish salad, but shrimp salad also works
> Check out more smoked fish options, below.
Add-Ons
Avocado, sliced
Cucumbers: English, Persian or other narrow type, sliced
Eggs, fried
For The Garnishes
Beet sauerkraut
Black olives
Capers
Dill, snipped
Lemon wedges
Jalapeños, sliced
Microgreens
Pickles: dills, sweet gherkins, plus pickled vegetables (how to make them)
Serve these on:
A large platter for the table
A buffet
A lazy Susan
Then, dig in. This is our favorite way to brunch.
BAGELS WITH SMOKED FISH GALORE
Beyond standard lox and smoked salmon (the difference), popular smoked fish for bagels include:
Whitefish salad
Hot-smoked kippered salmon
Smoked sable (sablefish)
Smoked sturgeon.
Plus, not smoked but popular:
Herring, pickled or in cream sauce
Pickled lox
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[1] Enjoy a bagel brunch this weekend (photos #1 and #2 © Backyard Bohemian).
[2] Close up on chive cream cheese. You can buy it or make it yourself by bringing cream cheese to room temperature and stirring in chopped chives.
[3] Smoked Nova Scotia salmon (photo © Zabar’s).
[4] While plain and chive cream cheeses are most popular, you can mix in dill, basil, or other fresh herbs for a new taste sensation. Or, simply provide ramekins of snipped herbs—or even cracked peppercorns—so people can garnish their own (photo © Isabella Eats | Arla USA).
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Other options include Scandinavian-style gravlax (cured with dill/liquor), smoked trout, smoked bluefish, and herring.
[ ] In addition to smoked salmon: herring in cream sauce, pickled lox, sturgeon, and whitefish (photo © Russ & Daughters).
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