03/18/2007

How to Throw a Caviar Party

How to Throw a Caviar Party

Throwing your first Caviar Party may seem like a daunting task, but with a little help from The Little Pearl, you can host an unforgettable event. By following a few key steps, you can prepare a festive, memorable evening to share with family or friends.

First, choose who you are going to invite. It is a good idea to balance couples and singles, invite old and new friends, and keep the party relatively small for a more rewarding experience. Once that is decided, send out attractive invitations to your guests to announce your upcoming party and get them excited about the event. The Little Pearl can print invitations for you. Just send us the names and addresses of your guests, the date and time of the event, and any special notes and we will print and mail them for $5 per invitation. Please allow 10 business days for printing and mailing. Send your request to orders@lapetitepearle.com or call 1-888-61-blini.

Before you prepare any food or drinks, focus on setting up your home to create a space that is conducive to mingling and promotes an ambience of fun. For a festive feel, decorate the house with lights, candles, and freshly cut seasonal flowers. A simple, consistent theme makes decorating easier and can be both elegant and trendy.

To set the mood, choose a selection of music that will keep your guests lively and entertained. Before the guests arrive, light votive candles and lower the lights for atmosphere.

When guests arrive, begin serving beverages. Passing glasses of Champagne is a nice welcome that impresses your guests. Be sure to have non-alcoholic beverages available, such as sparkling water.

For the feature of your party, serve your favorite assortment of The Little Pearl's Caviar and Blini. Try serving Caviar with crème fraîche on 1-inch blini, sprinkled with dill leaves. Choose different types of Caviar so that those who are not as familiar with eating the delicacy can choose their favorite. Seafood mousses with blini, sliced bread, or your favorite chips offer a more familiar alternative.

To pass hors d’oeuvres, lay out plates 7-10 blini. Add a dollop of crème fraîche or sour cream to the blini. Then spoon 1/8 – ¼ ounce of caviar onto each blini. The plate or blini may be garnished with dill, parsley, or your favorite aromatic herb.

A similar presentation may be laid out for guests with caviar in bowls. On a cocktail table, fill a caviar bowl with ice and your caviar of choice. Neatly arrange blini warmed in the microwave or toasted on a serving plate. Fill another caviar bowl with crème fraîche. Use mother of pearl serving spoons for presentation and to prevent sturgeon from staining metal utensils.

For a taste of Japanese-Russian fusion wrap caviar and crème fraîche or white salmon mousse and cucumber sticks in 10-inch Russian blini. Roll the blini around the mixture tightly, then slice into 6 rounds. Spreading crème fraîche or mousse on the blini edge you roll towards helps the rounds hold together, as will chilling the entire roll overnight before slicing. Personally, we prefer to heat our blini and serve immediately after rolling. Arrange the sliced rolls on a decorative rectangular sushi plate.

When serving caviar, freshness is a key to success. If you wish to leave the caviar out for guests or cooks, place it in a caviar bowl or leave the jar on ice. Only spoon as much caviar onto blini as will be consumed within the next hour, and ideally within the next 15 minutes.

Our packages contain recipe cards such as the ones featured in this guide which you or caterers may follow. If you create your own recipe we encourage you to submit it to The Little Pearl. The recipe will be named for you, published on our website, and, if selected to be professionally photographed, you will receive the printed recipe card in a future order.

As the host, be sure to mix and mingle equally with all of your guests and remember that if you are having a good time, your guests will too. The Little Pearl product cards contain easy to remember facts about the products. You may choose to display these, hand them to guests, or remember the information. However, while The Little Pearl offers significant discounts for referrals, your party should be about the experience among you and your guests. Caviar is an amazing accompaniment to life that everyone will talk about, but people make the party.

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