Inaugural dinner: will there be tartar sauce?

This is the first time in a long time that I've been interested in the upcoming presidential inauguration.

Daisy, my UK friend, sent along the inaugural luncheon menu and suggested we make some of the courses and post them on Flickr. It's a great idea, except I'm no foodie. Dinners at our house consist of three items, heated if necessary in their own pots and pans, and then placed on one dinner plate, far enough apart that they can't touch each other. When I read that the recipe for Seafood Stew calls for poaching lots and lots and lots of fish, I got light-headed and had to put my head down. In our kitchen, all our fish comes prepared in advance by a famous chef. I doubt she'd approve of the poach technique for her boxes of frozen, breaded cod squares. But it's a cool idea in theory, replicating some of these recipes. Just putting it out there.

Comments

[Anthony]

Considering all the international rules our "outgoing" Prez has violated, I'm not at all surpised that no one even has commented (so far) that the dessert is to be served with a "California Champagne"!
There's no such thing, or at least there wasn't last time I checked up on wine definitions. A "champagne" can ONLY be called such if has been produced in the Champagne region of France. Anything else is, techincally, a "sparkling wine" (and make no mistake there are some superb sparkling wines from around the globe--and some ROTTEN "champagnes" from France--).
If anyone has a more nuanced definition to offer, please chime in an put me in my place. And call Barack and Michelle to save them any potential huniliation when Rush and Sean inevitably comment on this lasps on the part of the incoming President/non-idiot.

[Daisy]

Oh fiddlesticks, I'd completely forgotten about the dinner. Am doing leek & tattie soup for supper while nursing a bad dose of flu and a cough that's loud enough to wake the mutts. But I'm cheering the new first family on from the sidelines while chuckling at your "I got light-headed" line ;-)