Salmon All Day Long! Part II of III- Linguine and Smoked Salmon

After smoking some salmon earlier in the day it was time to use some of it in a wonderful dinner. I had decided to take on the task of making a two entree dinner.

The first was a Linguine and Smoked Salmon dish. My wife found the recipe from a follow blogger, and the original recipe can be found here. There were few tweaks that we thought the recipe needed. First, the dish as a whole needed more of the white cream sauce. Secondly, the amount of lemon needed to be reduced. The recipe below has already been adjusted for your pleasure!

8 oz. linguine,
6-8 ounces smoked salmon, sliced into 2 inch wide strips and set aside - if you want to be fancy,
2 cups heavy cream,
juice of 1 lemon,
1 cup grated parmesan cheese,
1/2 cup coarsely chopped flat leaf Italian parsley,
1/4 cup shaved parmesan cheese for garnish.

Since I was preparing two different meals at the same time, I did all my prep work first. When I was done I had a counter full of ramekins and other small bowls filled with their respective ingredient. Now it was time to cook.

In a large sauté pan bring the cream to a boil over medium high heat.
While continuing to boil add the lemon juice.
Lower heat to low and add the grated parmesan cheese, stir well.
Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley.
Place the drained linguine in the hot sauce and toss to coat well.

Now serve the linguine with the shaved parmesan and salmon strips. Instead of serving it with the salmon strips, we brought the smoked salmon out to the table. Then we each added our own amount of salmon. I took a hearty serving, my pregnant and morning sickness suffering wife took a smaller amount.

This was an easy pasta dish to put together, and proved to be a winner at our table! You could even substitute a different meat into it if you wished. We will be doing this one again and again!

But there was even more at our table...