Rourke's Random Musings

Do you enjoy bagels with smoked salmon, cream cheese, onions, and capers? If you do, then you’ll really like this dish.

You’ll need the following to serve two:

• 8oz. smoked salmon, cut into small rectangular pieces (I like the sockeye, personally)
• 2tsp. capers
• 1 yellow onion
• 1/2 lbs of pasta (angel hair work well)
• 1 lemon, zested
• dill
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• pint of cream
• 1 clove of garlic, minced

Make the pasta, drain, toss with 1tbsp of olive oil and set aside.

Heat a large frying pan or wok over medium high heat. I find a wok works really well for dishes like this, but not everyone has one. Add olive oil and garlic. Allow to cook for two minutes. Add onions and lemon zest to the pot and allow to cook for three or four minutes. You don?t want the onions super soft, but you want them to start to cook. Next, toss in the smoked salmon and capers and allow to cook for two minutes. Now add the cream and stir. Add a good sprinkle of dill. Adjust the heat so your the cream is simmering and allow to reduce to taste, but at least three or four minutes.

Once your cream sauce is just about where you want it, add the pasta back into the pan and toss, stir, and generally move everything around with the heat going so the sauce gets into the pasta and the salmon gets pretty evenly distributed. Plate, adding a sprink of dill to the top of the heap of pasta on each plate.