>>21469154I'm sorry. I'm not at the 'pooter this evening and don't feel like tippety tapping at my phone all night writing it up again. I'll give the one you may have not heard of before: smoked cod roe dip AKA taramosalata AKA the only Greek food actually worth a damn.
Get crustless croutons and soak in warm water. Squeeze dry then add to blender/processor with grated onion, good tarama (the smoked roe) and juice of half a lemon and pulse to mix. Run the machine and stream in some olive oil /slowly/ until the result is dip-like. Finally, salt to taste, if necessary (likely won't be using much, if at all; tarama is salty af) and adjust "brightness" with additional lemon juice, if you prefer.
Some recipes use riced potato instead of bread but I've never had it that way. I just use plain ol white bread.
Good roe will be peachy orange. Bad roe will be pink or red with dyes. Avoid that stuff.
Actually, this same recipe can be done with any hot-smoked fish instead of roe. I forgot that I did it once in college with some tins of shitty "smoked" trout a roommate bought then moved out and left behind. It was pretty good with that, too. I only remembered after mentioned the dyes cuz that trout was smoke flavoured rather than actually smoked and very obviously dyed
