Smoked Salmon Roulade with Cream Cheese and Avocado Cream

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The recipe Smoked Salmon Roulade with Cream Cheese and Avocado Cream is sponsored by America’s Dairy Farm Families and Importers, collaborating with the Innovation Center for U.S.Dairy. All opinions are mine.

The holidays and end-of-year dinners are coming soon, and one thing I learned from my mother is that you need to plan and decide on a menu that allows you to make some things in advance. This starter or appetizer Smoked Salmon Roulade with Cream Cheese and Avocado Cream is tasty, easy to make, unique, and served cold.

In my family, traditionally for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the first course was always fish or seafood, and the main dish would be turkey or pork. Some years it was shrimp, prawns, and other smoked salmon. I love all these flavors. The stuffing with cream cheese and vegetables is tasty and has a beautiful color. You can use different vegetables and give them a personal touch. I used plain yogurt for the sauce, which makes for a very fresh and tasty sauce combined with the cucumber and avocado. I never stop being amazed by how flexible dairy products are. The avocado and cucumber sauce is also perfect for salad dressing or dipping sauce.

Since coming back from my visit to the WildCat dairy farm in central Texas, I have a deeper appreciation for the families that own and manage dairy farms in the USA, the great sense of responsibility and pride for what they do. It was terrific to see how they continuously innovate to create a better future for our children and grandchildren.

Dairy farmers are committed to caring for our environment, water management (including recycling several times, 3-5 times on average), waste, and land management. They are a sustainable industry. With the technology and management improvements currently adopted to produce 1-gallon milk: 90% less land is used, 65% less water, and the carbon footprint has been reduced by 63% compared to 1944—an outstanding and never-ending effort on their part.

Back to the end-of-year celebrations, other tips to help to have stress-free dinners include:

When planning the menu, immediately decide what kind of plates you will use and whether serving the starter or dessert on disposable plates would be reasonable. The same goes for the cutlery. I do not recommend washing dishes in between, although this often happened to my grandparents (another era).

Set the table the day before. Make flower arrangements or centerpieces in advance. Prepare trays with glasses for the toast. Arrange plates for snacks—lay napkins.

Serve cake for dessert; it’s best if it’s been allowed to rest overnight and always impressive. Or pie. With a plate of fruit, there are dessert options for everyone.

You may also be interested in the recipe: Milk-braised Pork Loin.

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This post is created with America’s Dairy Farm Families and Importers, partnering with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. However, the views and opinions included are my own.