Some people eat herring for good luck at New Year's - I prefer smoked salmon. If you put it out on a plate the salmon tends to go much too quickly to last until midnight. Layered with mustard-y capers and mild cream cheese, it makes an easy dip for crackers that looks straight out of a 1950's cookbook.
Fancy Smoked Salmon and Capers Spread
Step 1: Assembly
- Find a pretty glass container for your spread - you'll want to show off the layers
- Buy a small tub of whipped cream cheese (less calories, and more fluffiness), a small jar of capers, and about 4-6 oz of smoked salmon
- Take a regular spoon and scoop out enough cream cheese to fill the bottom of the container about an inch
- Use scissors to snip the salmon into small pieces, cutting against the grain (so to speak, this makes it less stringy) and add on top of cream cheese
- Spoon in 1-2 T of capers on top of salmon
- Repeat until all ingredients are used up or container is full - feed leftover salmon to cat
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