Bigjim68
Head Chef
I make a simple spread of smoked salmon, creme cheese, onion, maybe some capers, lemon juice. All sread on an onion or sesame or poppy seed bagel. Blueberry bagels with butter also work for me.
What's on your bagel?
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BreezyCooking
Washing Up
My hands-down favorite is an onion or garlic encrusted bagel with either lox & cream cheese or a good lox-&-cream cheese spread (where bits of lox are incorporated into the cream cheese).
Bigjim68
Head Chef
I'd have breakfast at your place anytime.
LEFSElover
Executive Chef
nuttin, not good or me, love 'em, but don't eat 'em
deelady
Executive Chef
Toasted sesame seed bagel with cream cheese cucumber and tomato.....my FAV with a little salt and pepper
ChefJune
Master Chef
"Everything" bagel with lox, cream cheese sliced tomato. and a few capers. 
LEFSElover
Executive Chef
Ok ChefJune, you just brought something back to my mind. Back in the day, during our lake trips, we always brought onion bagels/cream cheese/capers/red onions/Norwegian lox/tomatoes and that was breakfast. Even our total of 6 kids loved and looked forward to. Sort of a tradition back then. Gone are the days.........
I just got back from the store. As I was standing there waiting for them to package my mussels, I remembered this thread and looked for "lox". I saw four different packages of thin cut smoked salmon, but none said lox. Is that a regional name or slang? Or, dare I say, is it canned?
kitchenelf
Chef Extraordinaire
Smoked salmon will work. I truly don't know the difference. I always thought it was a matter of the lox being brined and NOT smoked... Someone else will have to weigh in here.
I MUCH prefer smoked salmon as the few times I have had what was called lox it was a bit too salty for me. So...the smoked salmon would have been fine.
I MUCH prefer smoked salmon as the few times I have had what was called lox it was a bit too salty for me. So...the smoked salmon would have been fine.
ke, I was going by that wiki link GB posted. It said lox was cured salmon, usually brined, but can also be smoked. I didn't see any brined salmon at the seafood counter, just smoked. And that's all the packaging said, smoked.
Not that I was going to get any, but I was looking for something that said "lox" anyway.
Not that I was going to get any, but I was looking for something that said "lox" anyway.
kitchenelf
Chef Extraordinaire
Ah - I didn't see that link nor check out Wiki. The salmon won't actually be in a brine when you buy it - it's already out. I think it will simply say "lox".
ChefJune
Master Chef
It is NOT canned! and it is not a regional name, as far as I know. In Jewish delis, the best is from the belly of the salmon. It is the fattest and the tastiest!
No one ever told me this, but Scandinavians cure their salmon in a manner that is called "Gravad Lox" or "Gravlax" I've long guessed that the name "lox" came from that. No?
ChefJune
Master Chef
Lox IS cured salmon, but not usually brined, as I know it. It's cured with a rub that is left to sit for several hours. The stuff in the rub cures or "cooks" the salmon.
LEFSElover
Executive Chef
not canned. they're in the plastic packaged filmy sealed vacuumed packed thingie. sliced paper thin.
take a looksie here, you'll more get the idea
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ChefJune
Master Chef
1. that's if you don't go to a deli for them The fresh stuff is not in any shrink wrapped package!
2. All smoked salmon is NOT Lox. The product in that picture did not look anything like lox, altho no doubt it was smoked salmon.
GB
Chief Eating Officer
KE there are two types of lox, belly and nova. Belly is VERY salty (think anchovies). Nova is much more mild. Both are delicious.
1. that's if you don't go to a deli for them The fresh stuff is not in any shrink wrapped package!
2. All smoked salmon is NOT Lox. The product in that picture did not look anything like lox, altho no doubt it was smoked salmon.
And that's what the stuff at the seafood counter looked like. Plus, I can't read the whole packaging in that pic, but I can see the one on the right says, smoked salmon. I don't see lox emblazened anywhere.
My guess, since the closest city to me is Erie, and Erie doesn't have any delis that I know of..... We are "lox deprived"
And to keep this on topic..... the one fresh bagel shop we had went out of business.
LEFSElover
Executive Chef
Now why don't you come out of your shell and say what's really on your mind.1. that's if you don't go to a deli for them The fresh stuff is not in any shrink wrapped package!
2. All smoked salmon is NOT Lox. The product in that picture did not look anything like lox, altho no doubt it was smoked salmon.
WHOA! I should have mentioned I've also gotten it at the deli counter, what ruffled your feathers today CJ? I guess it was me
jpmcgrew
Executive Chef
I love any kind of bagel but I really love the everything bagel poppy seeds, sesame seeds, onion, garlic. I love a really good toasted bagel with nothing more than cream cheese another favorite is cream cheese, fresh tomato slices with a bit of salt and pepper,sliced onion and sprouts or lettuce. If I want to get more on it I will add some fresh avocado slices or guacamole do not care for the lox.They also make a good sandwhich. I used to work in a tiny bakery in my mid 20s and made bagels from scratch and hand rolled them .One batch would make 120 bagels I got so good I either made 120 or 121 or 119 no less no more and that was not using a scale to meashure dough but just feel. Lots of practice to get there.
