Poached Salmon With Cucumber Scales

[Tilly2]

How do you do that?

[Buenchico]

Simply arrange thin slices of cucumber around the poached salmon, to look like this:
http://www.2gourmaniacs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/poached-salmon.jpg

Recipe here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/wholepoachedsalmonwi_93188

[stuey]

Well firstly, you have to steal the salmon from the Manor House stream in the middle of the night.

[Tilly2]

Thanks for the recipe, Chris.

[Tilly2]

The salmon is already in the freezer, Stuey. I paid for it.

[stuey]

Only two answers, and Chris nets BA. On the scale of things it's a total travesty I tell you; a total travesty. But I won't intimate that there is something fishy in that coz I'm not like that at all, I'll have you know.

[Mosaic]

It sounds very Fanny Cradock to me.

[Old_Geezer]

It's spelt W H Y, not H O W

(Possibly W O U L D rather than D O too.)

[Mosaic]

Lol AOG, an answer that's to subtle for the dish!

[Mosaic]

http://justhungry.com/files/images/book-fannyc3.jpg

Swanny's fans

[Tilly2]

OG, salmon goes nicely with cucumber.
............and, hopefully, it will look as if I've made a bit of an effort. :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Au contraire. I must disagree, I have no idea how you can tolerate it. Cucumber is awful stuff which pollutes anything it touches with it's water carried taste. (Not to mention scent.) Salmon is a wonderful foodstuff, such great flavour. Putting one on the other is an act calculated to make great food untouchable. It's just so sad :-( Please don't do it.

[Tilly2]

I like cucumber, OG!

[sandyRoe]

51. Cucumbers; Eating
"It has been a common saying of physicians in England, that a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
I'm not a great fan of it myself.

[Tilly2]

Sorry, Sandy. I still like cucumber.

[ummmm]

I like it too.

[Tilly2]

... lovely, crunchy, fresh tasting, refreshing, flavour enhancing food, with an intangible smell.

[Tilly2]

... but do you do fish scales with it, Ummmm?

[Mamyalynne]

I love it too but know may don't - so when doing a whole salmon for a buffet table I don't add it.

[Mamyalynne]

^ many don't

[Tilly2]

Mamya, if they don't like it, it is easily removed. I shall find cucumber slices, in all the plant pots, the day after Boxing Day!