when cultures don't just collide, they share a toothbrush...

[lagilman]

lox-fried rice.

It's so wrong, it's right.

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to try that, but I'm scared. did you cut the lox into little bits?

[lagilman]

Yeah, into bites about the size of my thumbnail. My grocery store sells the trimmings from larger slabs of lox, by the container. I picked some up last week and have been using them as inspiration strikes. It's a nice way to get the flavor without spending $$.

I had some saffron rice from last night's dinner in the fridge, a bunch of fresh scallions, a couple of eggs, and the salmon bits, so I figured, hey, why not? Very much yum, very filling.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

I also make appys out of sushi rice mixed with softened low-fat cream cheese wrapped around the same lox bits (unsalted works better). Variation on what my local Sushi shop calls a (I kid you not) Hanukkah Roll (which is a standard sushi roll with cream cheese and salmon inside).

Lox bits also work in lo-mein with the right sauce...

Oh, and I didn't win the drawing for those Food Network VIP tix, sorry Laura :(

[lagilman]

Hey, thanks for the offer, anyway (I'm so Up To My Ears I might not have been able to make it, anyway)

My local sushi place does something similar but it's called something else ("Miami Roll," probably...)

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Lox is smoked salmon, right? Have you ever tried scrambled eggs with smoked salmon? Just a little bit of creme fraiche mixed in when it's finished cooking. Yum. I used to get this when I was still a omnivore.

[lagilman]

oh yeah, that's an old standby. Even the non-Jews on the East Coast chow that one down (see: you, exhibit 1 *grin*)

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between "What are you doing?! That should be on top of a nice bagel!" and "You can do almost anything with enough supercooled gas (I'm also thinking of the do-it-yourself liquid-nitrogen ice cream recipe)."

Do you hate me yet? Should I stop before you ban me from commenting?

[lagilman]

Hah. You're not even in the top three of Itching For A Banning posters. Sorry....

[vincam.livejournal.com]

American culture is all about fusion. That's why Europeans think we don't have any. Silly Europeans.