DH went to get a turkey. Came home with a salmon

[Handsnotwands]

Which is fine. I much prefer salmon to turkey

but what do we do to go with it for lunch?

it’s whole. And roughly the size of a 3 month baby

😂😂😂😂😂😂 so sorry to laugh! Reminds me of the time when I sent my ex H for bottle holders as in gift bags and he came back with the free supermarket cardboard 6 packs. Yours is dafter though !
My fave and easy salmon recipe is this :

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/salmon_en_crote_with_69499

Depending on where he got it from is it cleaned and scaled?

Potato dauphinois and lots of green veg?! Buy a few lemons and cook it covered in lemon slices.

I love salmon! Def prefer it to turkey.

Salmon is pretty robust, I'd just cook Christmas lunch as normal.
The stuffing and gravy will need a bit of a tweak.

Don't blame him, the salmon at Aldi yesterday looked really nice and was a very reasonable price.

You can just poach it whole (stuffed or unstuffed) if you have a fish kettle, otherwise fillet it and make salmon en croute or whatever your favourite dish is.
Make any leftover bits into stock.
If DH did this I'd be a mixture of thrilled (I love salmon) and gutted (I have already made pigs in blankets and red cabbage and don't have time to trim a fish or faff with hollandaise in the next 72 hours).

How many are you serving and when?

Celeriac and potato boulangere/gratin/dauphinoise
Green beans

Roast salmon is delicious but make sure it's cooked for the right length of time or it won't be.
The Prue Leith method we've always used is to measure around the widest part - wrap string around it - and cook it for 4 mins per inch of salmon girth

Agree about serving it with green veg and a potato dish - maybe rosti, roast potatoes or dauphinoise. I had this in a pub the other day, with a crumb on the salmon, and it was lovely, and also plenty of room for starter and pud, I'm too full for anything else if I have a big 'turkey and veg' roast.

If it's more than what you need and it's fresh, I'd cut it up and freeze some, if you're confident, cut it into two sides, or if not, probably easier to cut into a head and tail half and freeze one half, as the cooked salmon will come off the bone easier.

If you have leftover cooked salmon, you could make it into a salmon pate with cream cheese, marscapone if you have it, lemon, dill and possibly some smoked salmon if you have it - then serve with crusty bread, crackers etc.

Cooked salmon for Christmas lunch the year my pescatarian sister and family were with us. Just baked the salmon and served with normal Christmas dinner sides - no gravy, of course, substituted a dill sauce and vegetarian sausages in stead of pigs in blankets. Roast potatoes and all veg as normal.

That sounds amazing!! Turkey can be so dry and even DH doesn’t like it … doesn’t stop us from having it every year unfortunately! I love the idea of dauphinois potatoes, lots of lovely greens and a big wedge of lemon. Heaven!

Could you go out and grab a chicken for Christmas day and have that with all the trimmings, and then have the salmon poached or baked with buttered new potatoes and either nice veg - asparagus, tender stem, baby carrots etc or some nice salads on boxing day ?

Why would they do that @Lakeyloo? The salmon is for Christmas day lunch.

No need to 'grab a chicken'. It's not the law to have turkey, or any poultry at all for that matter, on Christmas day or any other day of the year.

Salmon with roasties is nice. Cranberry sauce also goes great with salmon as does bread sauce.

There is no need to break into 1970s faux french cookery.

We roast salmon with butter, dill, black pepper and lemon juice and have that with roasties and vegetables, very nice.

Salmon is our Christmas Dinner every year. Neither of us (and it's just us two hallelujah!) like fowl of any sort.

We are not fussy, so it could be salmon "On Crutches" lol (en croute) M+S style woops. Or just poached in salted water + lemon juice. A simple tartare or tarragon or parsley or whatever white sauce and job done. Lovely. We do have mash, roast, carrots and baby peas. Simple dish but very nice and not too filling either. Can be done and enjoyed!

Poached with new potatoes and butter and your favourite veg. Dead simple

I would do this. Add some chives to the potatoes and cook the salmon with lemon slices, butter and dill. Maybe some parsley too.

Brine it for 30 minutes to remove the albumen (the white stuff) then poach or roast and serve with salsa verde.

www.linsfood.com/italian-salsa-verde-bagnet-vert/

You are all amazing. Thank you. Time to get a googling. Liking the idea of dauphinois and some fabulous ideas of how to actually cook the beast here.

If you don’t have a fish kettle you can wrap it in buttered foil with some white wine in the parcel, bay leaves, lemon slices and so forth, and bake. I use High Fearnley-wotsit for timing but I love the idea above of timing it per inch perimeter!

We've got salmon en croute on Christmas Eve but I now really want poached with buttery / dill new potatoes!

@BarbaraofSeville of course it isn't. No one said it was. Could just as easily have said Beef/Duck/Pork or nut roast ! Just another option if OP had been looking forward to pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, gravy and all the other bits that don't really go with Salmon.

Is it a while salmon? If so look up Delia Smith salmon with herb mayonnaise ,amazing and easy www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/large-servings/foil-baked-whole-fresh-salmon-with-green-herb-mayonnaise

This is far far better than my ex-h who went out to buy a carton of milk and came back with a Range Rover.

Brilliant! I once was very late to a wedding and not very prepared. Ask DH to get the paper (to wrap the present en route while he was driving) and pick me up. Got in the car, sped off and asked for the paper. He passed me a bag with the Guardian in it FFS.