OT smoked salmon

Best before date was yesterday and I've still got loads left. How long
does it keep (it is smoked after all) and any ideas on how to use it
all up?

 

Feed some to your cat. If it doesn't die within a day, it's probably
safe to eat.

Actually, I'm faced with this dilemma on a recurring basis; finding
half-used tins of tuna at the back of the fridge, I usually clear a
nostril and give them a bloody good sniff. I haven't died yet or had all
that many untoward toilet experiences.

 

Work in progress emerged from their own little world to say

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/minismokedsalmonandd_68058.shtml

or something similar, with whatever you have in the larder, then freeze
them rather than refrigerate

 

Should be OK for a few days, but if you wantr to keep it longer, cook it in
something and then freeze it.

Can I suggest somked salmon and scrambled eggs, or smoked salmon sandwiches
with horseradish?

Strips into hot tagliatelli with cream and herbs


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Bad form abd all that, but strips stirred into spaghetti with lemon juice
and chilli flakes and melted butter is yummy.
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It keeps fine for *days* after the SBD. First, the safety margins built
into SBDs are generous and secondly, as you say, it's smoked.

It freezes well. Or make pate out of it.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older Gentleman amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

I reckon the well known dairy not a million miles from here is
relabelling their milk. I bought a 2ltr carton/tub/bottle on new year's
eve with a UBD of 6th January. I opened it last night and it's fucking
rank. It's two days away from being yoghurt.

 

It has been known....

Use it for that, then. Or a nice riata, and make a curry to go with it.

 

"Sell By", "Use By" and "Best Before" all mean very different things.

"Use By" is the only one you really really should stick to.

 

Too good for the cats.

I think I'm getting less reckless in my food experiments as I get
older. I always tip it out of the tin and into a bowl now.

I have immodium if it all goes horribly wrong.

 

Excellent, thanks. My dill died before I froze any so chives or fennel
as a substitute. I've no cream cheese, cheddar would over power the
salmon so a good chunk of decent butter instead should work.

Kids will turn their noses up at it, but sod them all the more for me.

 

With food poisoning the worst thing you can do as it can make things
*much* worse, just let your body purge whatever upset it.

 

Was planned for breakfast new year's day but the bacon seduced me.
After a week away from it over Xmyth I was starting to feel sorry
about mocking Blaney.

I've no decent bread in.

Doh, should have worked this one out.

I've got so many ideas now I may have to buy some more.

 

Did your kids eat it? Mine have developed a 'don't like fish' scorn.
No more battered cod for them then.

 

Depends on what it is and how cold it's kept. Use by dates assume
normal refrigeration levels, i.e. around +5degC. Some fridges, like
our Bosch, with fan-assisted cooling, can very accurately keep the
fridge between zero and .5 degrees, so many food items will keep for
_much_ longer.

For example, in a normal domestic fridge lamb will only keep for a few
days, whereas beef will happily survive for a couple of weeks. At
+.5DegC, however, they'll keep for about the same time.

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I was vastly amused by the new year's eve menu[1] at the French hotel
we were stayiung at last week. The starter choice on their "Menu
Enfant" was pâté de foie gras or smoked salmon. I can't begin to
imagine what would happen if that was offerred to an average english
child.

[1] Excellent, it was. Priced at Eu108 pp, but included in the
half-board price.

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Actually, Jamie has loved and guzzled both these items since he was
about nine.

 

Rope said...

My cousin is like that. She'll eat chicken and pasta and that's about
it. She's just spent 10 days with me and it was a fucking nightmare
finding places to eat that she'd be ok in.

She stopped eating most animal meat when she found out from some bloke
how the Maltese kill the animal. She stopped the guy telling her before
he got to how they kill chickens, so she'll still eat those.

 

Ace emerged from their own little world to say

My teenager would want both. He's always been fond of fish and has liked
pâté since I introduced it to him when he was about 9 or so.

 

As has Jess. Although it has to be said it's pate, pate rather than foie
gras but the point remains much the same.

She's pretty partial to sea food and was pretty much in heaven when we
were on holiday on the Ile d'Oleron.