Monday
Aug042008
salmon bagel: a weekend splurge
Monday, August 4, 2008 at 08:16PM 
When Paul and I want to splurge on a weekend breakfast, we walk to our neighborhood cafe, Savory, and order the salmon bagel. It's the kind of food -- so simple and yet heaped with richness -- that makes us feel like we're being rewarded for all our hard work during the week.
The red onion provides a perfect acidity against the fatty salmon lox, and the cucumber and tomato slices actually add enough juice and freshness to make this sandwich seem light. Ha!
Salmon Bagel
Serves 2
1 sesame bagel, toasted
1/2 cup cream cheese
4 cucumber slices
2 tomato slices
6 ounces salmon lox
Red onion slices to tasteDirections: Layer and serve.
Reader Comments (15)
What a sandwich. This is one of my absolute favourites as well.
Thanks, eatingclub vancouver!
You just took me down memory lane...one semester in college, i ate a seedy-licious bagel with cream cheese and SUPER thinly sliced cucumber and tomato EVERY morning on the way to class. i loved it.
This looks absolutely delicius! Great how simple things can make us so happy
I love smoked salmon! I've made my own in the past and it's delicious.
mmm...that looks like how our NYC friends make bagels when we visit. except they add tomato slices and lemon wedges to spritz over the entire thing. Looks so good, and bagels are always better on weekends:)
Sarah: Ooh, that sounds like the perfect breakfast to have before class. What a nice ritual!
Olga: So true, isn't it? When it comes down to it, the most simple things make me unbelievably happy.
Brilynn: Good for you for making smoked salmon yourself! I would love to try it one day.
Michelle: I love the idea of the lemon wedge spritz over the top. Brilliant!
Savory hasn't made a sandwich like this in years they just "nuke" stuff very boring food
and boring place..
and not very friendly the past cpl months..
I hear ya, Ed. Ever since it changed ownership, it hasn't been the same. The service is horribly lacking. This salmon bagel, which they still serve (as of last week!), is the best thing this place has going for it.
I grew up in a Jewish Deli and my best friend, Chuck Rossler used to own Celebrity Deli
now, who can afford the lox for the bagel?
my publisher just emailed me my RESTORATION POEMS going to printer for pre-press run (a galley proof) end of week
Looking forward to serving this gem to my husband soon - - special guests arriving on the 30th!!! Perhaps we can do this together - - or some other beauty from your wonderful food blog!!! YUM!!!!
Ed: Celebrity Deli... Is that New York? I'm from Oregon... Congrats on your book! Keep me posted.
Janet: We're so looking forward to seeing you! Can't wait! XOXO
Celebrity was on Neble Street in Rockville... Chuck sold it to Korean family a few years ago for over a million dollars not a very good place now I went there once...never again
Chuck' nephew. Guy, opened his own delli on Falls Rd.. too far awayfor me to go to..
nly decent bagels come out of NYC the water is critical
my book now at the printer..it will be here through CV Press:
http://web.mac.com/countryvalley/iWeb/Country Valley/CV Press.html
I do my own cooking...
in SS across from Myorga is a DYNAMITE family VN food..
Thanks for the link. I'll definitely check out that family Vietnamese place. Great tip!
yesterday...
we had
Buddha Delight
Curried Chicken
an "outrageous" (unfried) spring rolls w a peanut butter dip..
sorry i don't have the name and address
the whole nut including tip was about $22
will try lunch there this friday...
maybe eat out on their deck