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>> I'm having a few girlfriends for dinner tomorrow night. Having just
>> returned from a wine tour at Niagara-on-the-Lake with some fabulous
>> whites and sparklings, I was planning at menu of saffron lobster
>> risotto for the main (great recipe have made before) with a mixed
>> green salad (rocket, cress, radicchio, frisee) and simple white
>> balsamic vinaigrette. I have some nice cheeses, La Tur and Rochetta
>> for apps. And dessert will come from the local gourmet shop as I have
>> no time to prepare one from scratch. My question is, should I skip
one
>> or both of the cheeses because I'd really like to include caviar with
>> the first course (apps) with champagne. Too rich?
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> I'd skip the caviar because you have lobster as the maincourse
> (repeat of seafood).
**********!!!!
Caviar and bubbles go quite well together.
Lobster and risotto will be lovely with a nice white.
"Repeat of seafood"???!!!
Go flick yourself 50 times under the left nostril with a wet Udon
noodle!!
> Why not just serve buck's fizz as a start...light and refreshing and
> terribly easy for the hostess.
Last I heard "Bucks Fizz" was a 70's band that fizzed.