Smoked salmon linguine with crème fraîche and lime

Filling yet delicate dish with a nice balance of flavors

Jun 19, 2025

∙ Paid

My first post of 2017 is coming a bit too late since we are already in February (!), but I will say this anyway. Happy New Year! Happy 2017! May it bring to you all that you hope and wish for, and more.

I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions or make lists of things I want to accomplish or do in the new year, never have been. What I always want, however, is to continue to stay true and honest to myself, and be the best partner, daughter, friend, colleague, woman, human being that I can be.

Oh and a better cook, baker, sharer of food. Because food, my friends, is a major part of my life, in more ways than one. I may not have a lot of time to cook, but I fantasize about food all the time. It’s in my nature to do that. Imagine recipes and dishes, stage them in my mind, take a mental snap of them, feel their texture in my mouth and their flavor on my tongue. Food is and will always be a source of inspiration and creativity to me.

And so I begin the new year here on this little blog of mine with a recipe that I love and crave. A simple recipe. A recipe for pasta —linguine to be exact that I generally favor over simple spaghetti— with smoked salmon, crème fraîche and lime.

It’s a filling yet delicate dish with a nice balance of flavors. The creaminess and mild sweetness of the smoked salmon is counterbalanced by the floral acidity of the lime and the smooth tanginess of the crème fraîche, while the grassy brightness of the chives and the piquantness of the black pepper impart even more flavor to it.