If you choose to go with bright briny salmon or trout roe, which can be lovely, your wallet will take far less of a beating and you'll still have a great blini party.
Francis asked for fish, and for three Euros, received a large bright red trout over a bed of fresh vegetables and French fries.
The creature I caught was a Montana rainbow trout, as bright as the light on the stream it came from, as treasured, by fishermen, as clean water, but an invader nonetheless.
An elegant yellow chrysanthemum meticulously fashioned from raw baby-squash circles gave way to layers of anise-flavored hyssop leaves and bright-pink yuzu-cured trout.
A tranche of local smoked trout dressed with bright orange pearls of trout roe atop an oyster cream is a slap around the face with an unabashed fishiness.
It was a way to be outside, and the creeks filled with wild trout quick and bright in the clear, sparkling water.
They rolled in as we rocked on the front porch, captivated by the view: 10,000-foot snow-frosted peaks towering behind a trout-filled pond; bright white clouds suspended in a big, blue sky; buck fences lining fields of happy little sagebrush.
After three pleasing runs, the trout came to hand, bright silver in color, indicating a recent arrival from the sea.
And for smoked trout or sturgeon, a bright Pigato from Liguria can be an ideal match.
In fact for the next 30 minutes several brook trout impaled themselves on the bright green fly, and then, as if to tell me they had gotten wise to my tomfoolery, stopped biting.
