Blue food! Lunch for Sapphire wedding anniversary

[sarahsmummy]

Been volunteered to do a lunch for out-laws 45th wedding anniversary - ie Sapphire. Only for 6 people, but would be nice to do a theme - hence thought sapphire ... blue. Then got as far as blueberries and stalled. Any ideas for blue-themed courses?

Food dye in everything.

Blue cheese

Blue iced buns

mussels - their shells are blue.

Please don't try to do all blue food. Blue is rarely found in nature (exceptions like cornflowers etc) so it will look all sci-fi and weird and detract from what should be a nice, intimate event.

If you must -

Do a blue cheese salad as a starter and blueberry tart for pudding but then just do a normal main course.

You could always drink Blue Lagoons!

sapphires can be yellow as well as blue btw

might make things easier

Didn't Bridget Jones make blue soup?

no no no. it will look rank however you try and do it. you'll also end up making stuff just cos it's blue, not cos it's nice or makes up a nice menu.

better to do sapphire themed table decoration.

green and pink too

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire

One of my rules in life is 'Never drink a blue drink', I would probably extend that to blue food...

Think Janeite's suggestion is good.

blue food

Thanks for link, melpomene - amazing what there is on www, eh? No, I wasn't looking for the blue-string variety of food, hence looking for natural ideas such as the blue cheese and blueberries. Handy to know about the different colours of sapphires, though - learn something new .....