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Food to go with Cosmos
I'm making dinner for my sister's 30th birthday for her, her husband and our parents this Friday and all she'll tell me is that she wants the cosmopolitans I told her I'd make. I need some feedback on what would pair well with the cosmos. Here are my thoughts but feel free to share others:
Sausage and white sauce pasta
Red pepper risotto (not sure what meat.. maybe chicken)
chicken with 40 cloves of garlic
Chicken Marsala
Thanks for your input!
Re: Food to go with Cosmos
I would do a play off the cosmo flavors, an orange glazed chicken with a cranberry risotto, or a cranberry sauce and a lemon risotto.
You could also do an appetizer of a shrimp cocktail, but serve it in a martini glass with cocktail sauce in the glass, and the shrimp hanging
Maybe some cosmo jello shots? and an orange cake or somethign pomegranate
Cosmos are a light fruity drink so you do not want to overwhelm their flavor. Sausage will overwhelm, 40 cloves of garlic will overhelm and Marsala is the wrong liqueur.
Red pepper risotto sounds perfect. I would skip the meat.
Lemon Chicken works well or a simple roast chicken with a herbal rub.
Shrimp cocktail (as per the PP).
Steamed Halibut with a light fruit salsa
Fettucine Alfredo (light on the garlic) works well.
If you can make a steak without heavy onions, (I can't caramelized onions are a must for steak), that would also work.
I don't know that I'd coordinate an entire menu around a cocktail. I guess I don't think of drinking them all through dinner, but maybe that's just me. Have a pitcher ready when guests arrive to have with the appetizers. Another nice twist would be to make cosmo cupcakes for dessert. You could base them off of these: http://jaimecooks.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/margarita-cupcakes/, but replace half of the lime juice for each component with cranberry juice.
Agreed with this. I like A cosmo, but I don't want to drink or eat one all night.