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

Last year we went to Morrisons and bought what we thought was just a really large side of salmon for £15, but it was actually a whole salmon, folded.

It was actually huge, excellent value for money, took a good couple of hours deboning it, filleting it and bagging it up for the deep freezer.

I'm sure we must still have some in there.

A salmon Christmas dinner sounds absolutely delicious. Crispy salmon skin, tenderstem broccoli, cauliflower cheese, a meaty miso glaze. Yum. Hungry now.

Just reading back through the comments and licking my lips at a miso-cranberry sauce thought.

I'm not Gordon Ramsey though so in my head it sounds delicious, in practice it's probably something you expect your toddler to make and watch you eat excitedly while you try not to gip.

We have a side of salmon over Christmas week, and we rub it with olive oil and ground spices eg cumin, ginger, turmeric, garlic and coriander. We roast it in foil and serve it with rice mixed with vegetables (onions, peppers and peas?) and a salad.

Why not make a Salmon en croute the day before then just cook it on Xmas day. There’s a lovely Waitrose recipe I’ve used in the past - watercress and crème fraiche.