A lazy holiday (so far, anyway)

Breakfast was a scramble with duck eggses, red onion from the farmer's market, mozzarella, and house-cured bacon. With a side of homemade sourdough toast and homemade apricot jam.

As soon as I finish wasting time here, I need to slice up the remaining five pounds of bacon.

Lox is not gravlax, and vice versa.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Whey-Cured Gravlax.
People conflating gravlax and lox is a pet peeve of mine. They are different. Lox is traditionally cured salmon belly, generally smoked. Gravlax is specifically Scandahoovian cured salmon, less fatty, unsmoked. Got it?
The linguistic derivation for each is similar, from the Middle High German lahs, salmon. Lox is via Yiddish. Gravlax comes from being buried in the ground, grav or grave.
( Now that the lecture's over... but if you get it wrong in my presence, I will cut you. )

( pics! )