Warm Smoked Salmon with Cucumber

This recipe is based on one of the very best things we ate at Ballymaloe (the lovely country house hotel near Cork in Ireland), from one of the chef’s special menus. Not a fan of many cooked smoked salmon dishes, I was quite won over by this treatment. Of course, the chef had the excellent local smoked salmon to work with, and it is really only possible to do it if you have a whole side of smoked salmon, since it is sliced straight down through the thickness of the fillet to the skin, in sm