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This was breakfast. It’s a Scandinavian dish called Gravlax. It’s traditionally an appetizer composed of a fresh salmon filet cured with sugar, salt and fresh dill for 2-3 days, thinly-slized. Here it’s served with hard-boiled egg, onion (alas, I had no red onion this morn), bread and a dijon mayonnaise with capers and sprig of dill. The mayo is not that light, whipped egg-white, flavorless garbage, but real mayonnaise: two egg yolks, some salt, white pepper and lemon juice, creamed and ~1c of oil slowly whipped into emulsification.

Treat yourself.