Smoked salmon pasta
My new favorite pasta is everything I want in a lox bagel, but in a one-pot pasta dish that I can justify having for lunch or dinner! I mean, honestly, I would also have a lox bagel for lunch or dinner, but this seems maybe a bit more appropriate. This dish combines pasta with a sauce made of cream cheese, which melts perfectly into a tangy, creamy sauce studded with capers and bits of chopped smoked salmon. When I first envisioned this recipe, I planned to use regular plain cream cheese, but when I went to the grocery store, I noticed right next to the regular cream cheese that there is a chive and onion flavor. I thought this would be perfect because those are already the flavors I want in my lox bagel. If you don't happen to find the chive and onion flavor, regular cream cheese is fine as well. My favorite way to eat a lox bagel is with a perfectly ripe tomato. When it's tomato season, I like to simply dice up a large fresh tomato and stir it into the cooked pasta, which sli