ompOmelet wrote:
> In article . com>,
> wrote:
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> > feverish wrote:
> > > OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > >
> > > > Heh! It is an acquired taste I guess. ;-)
> > > > I always, _always_ eat it with cream cheese on crackers or melba toast.
> > > > The cream cheese cuts the saltiness considerably.
> > >
> >
> > Try caviar on french bread or crepes with unsalted whipped butter.
> >
> I'm told that butter and toast points are the classic way to serve it.
> It's also good on bagels with cream cheese as are Lox.
>
> > > > Paddlefish is becoming very popular due to the price of Beluga.
> > > > Paddlefish are also not a threatened species. They are actually being
> > > > farmed for caviar.
> > >
> > > That's cool. I wonder what the snobs think of paddlefish caviar?
> > >
> >
> > I prefer good beluga. Expensive though. Like hell. May be cheaper to
> > buy a roundtrip ticket to Russia and to buy and eat it there, from a
> > good farmer's market. They let you taste, so choose a good jar.
>
> Have you tried the Paddlefish? It has the gentle smokiness of the Beluga
> but it's a LOT lower in price.
>
Yes,I have tried paddlefish. Smoked. Tastes just like osetra and other
sturgeons.
And I rtasted a little bit of padlefish caviar: tasted like other small
sturgeon caviars. I like beluga for its low salt, size and aroma.
Is paddlefish caviar indeed like beluga caviar?
>
> Still pricey for fresh tho'.
>
> I confess to usually using the red or black lumpfish. It's not even in
> the same class...... <sigh>
>
I would never. Here in SF I can get excellent salmon caviar for $20 per
pound and decent tobiko for $6 per pound.
>
> But if I'm taking it to a party, I can't afford to spring for the good
> stuff. :-)
>
> Last year I made a cream cheese log and coated it in red lumpfish
> caviar.
>
Use tobiko instead.
>
> It was still $7.00 per 1/4 oz. and I used 1/2 oz. total. The
> party guests were impressed and ate it up.
>
Lumpfish????!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I had taken one more jar of the black with me to be served on the table
> with the rest of the goodies, but the host stashed it. <G> I was
> amused.... and it was ok. They were good friends so I just chalked it up
> to the "host gift" that I forgot to bring!
>
Lumpfish????!!!!!!!!!!!!