Egging You On

Boo!!! Hiss!!! There I go again with the completely lame puns. Hehehehe. You wouldn’t love me anymore if I stopped.

I’ve always been so so on eggs. When it comes to your typical fried, scrambled, etc, I eat them maybe three or so times a year. About the same amount of times I get a strange craving for a PB&J on mushy store bought white bread. No, I’m not a major peanut butter fan either, unless one counts Reeses peanut butter cups. Then, yep! I’m a peanut butter fan! That counts right? Right? Huh? Tell me it counts.

With eggs however, ehhhh. A scrambled or fried egg sandwich every once in a great while (again; must be on mushy store bought white bread and nothing on it but salt and pepper. I think it’s a nostalgic thing.) and I will do the breakfast for dinner thing at times and make eggs, toast, sausage, yada yada. But as I have crudely joked to my husband, one reason I don’t like eggs is because egg burps are the grossest things on earth (watches my readership bottom out). C’mon now; this is ME! You know I don’t pull punches in here. 😀 Anything for a laugh…or in this case, a groan and a shudder. You know I’m right on that though; they really are gross. 😛

But one egg dish I do love is Deviled Eggs. I could happily eat my weight in them. I’m not sure why I am willing to eat them but yet really don’t care for eggs in general. I would guess it is that it isn’t as “eggy” with all the contrasting flavors. So today I made something I had been planning on trying to create for a while; Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs. They turned out really good if I do say so myself. Good enough that I now have absolutely no interest in cooking or eating dinner because I am filled up on deviled eggs. Ummm…oops? One thing they didn’t have however was the extra smoked salmon I had planned to garnish them with. Why you ask? Because when I went to get it from the fridge, I noticed that the chub of salmon I had was ten days past it’s “best by” date. Sigh. That will teach me to not check things like that when I buy them. So when you make yours (and you ARE going to make them right? Because I’m adorable and batting my lashes at you right now.) they will look different from my picture because YOURS will have yummy pieces of smoked salmon on top of them. So try these. They would make a perfect appetizer for the fourth of July because 99% of you planned on making deviled eggs anyway so why not give these a whirl?

Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs

  • 1o hard boiled eggs
  • 1/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 8 ounce tub smoked salmon cream cheese, softened
  • 1 teaspoon dried dill weed (yes, dried. It has a stronger flavor. Save the fresh for the garnish.)
  • 1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  • 1 4 ounce chub of smoked salmon, cut into 20 pieces
  • fresh dill and smoked paprika for garnish
  1. Slice eggs in half. Take out the yolks and put them into a medium sized bowl along with the cream cheese spread, mayo, mustard, lemon zest & dried dill. Set the whites aside. Beat the yolk mix well until it is pretty much lump free. I say pretty much because I don’t know about you, but short of using a ricer or food mill which is FAR too much trouble for deviled eggs, I’ve never been able to get them lump free.
  2. Pipe or spoon the mixture back into the reserved egg white shells. Garnish with the smoked salmon pieces, smoked paprika and a sprig of fresh dill.
  3. Eat. Realize YOU no longer want to make dinner. Listen to your family gripe because they don’t get dinner again because you filled up on blog post type food.
  4. If you have any extra, it is wonderful on an everything English muffin. Don’t ask me how I know that too. *Groans* I think I ate too much.

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30 thoughts on “Egging You On

  1. I love deviled eggs, but my husband pulls me away from them at every potluck. All because I don’t burp after eating them. ¬_¬

    • Might be a regional term. It’s the ones that come in small blocks (for lack of a better word) and not the one that are thinly sliced.

  2. The only thing I like more than a deviled egg is smoked salmon, have to admit I have tried them together, but I will now! (I could probably spoil my dinner with a plate of these too!)

    • Thanks Ann! Hmmm, maybe you could use smoked trout or something though that wouldn’t help with the cream cheese part. Maybe onion and chive cream cheese there?

  3. I’ll take eggs any way that you want to give ’em to me! 🙂 But you’ve taken deviled eggs to a whole new level here… love the addition of smoked salmon cream cheese!

    • Thanks Erin. I have a thing for those anyway so using it was an easy next step for me. Mmmmm…. cheeseeeeeeee 😛

  4. Well, these are different – in a good way! I’ve never heard of nor seen smoked salmon cream cheese, but then, I don’t buy a lot of cream cheese. Maybe it’s time to start. I loved devil eggs and these sound great!

    • Mjs, you can find it in tubs where the regular cream cheese is at in the grocery store. Kraft brand is what I used. 🙂

  5. I’m definitely a huge fan of unique deviled eggs! And it just so happens that I picked up some smoked salmon just the other day – so I can’t wait to try this =)

    • Let me know how you like them Peggy. I found that they are actually even better the next day. The flavors mellow out.

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