Avocado stuffed with Seafood

Description
''Avocado stuffed with seafood. Perfect dainty!''
 * Yield: 8 portions

Ingredients

 * ¼ cup lemon juice
 * ¼ cup dry white wine
 * 1 tsp curry powder
 * ½ tsp mace
 * 1 pint mayonnaise
 * 1 lb crabmeat or lobster meat
 * ½ lb shrimp, cleaned and deveined
 * lettuce leaves
 * 4 avocados, halved, peeled
 * 32 grapefruit sections
 * 32 strips of pimento
 * 16 sprigs chicory
 * 32 black olives
 * 4 hard-boiled eggs
 * 24 or 32 capers
 * 16 carrot curls

Directions

 * 1) In a 1-quart bowl, blend lemon juice, white wine, curry powder, and mace.
 * 2) Add mayonnaise.
 * 3) Mix in crabmeat or lobster meat, and shrimp, cleaned and deveined.
 * 4) Marinate the seafood slightly with a little of the dressing immediately before serving.
 * 5) Use only enough dressing to blend.
 * 6) Arrange lettuce leaves to form cups on plates.
 * 7) Place avocado halves, peeled, in center of cup.
 * 8) Fill lightly with seafood blended with dressing.
 * 9) Arrange grapefruit sections at side of plate.
 * 10) Place 1 strip of pimento across grapefruit.
 * 11) Place 2 sprigs chicory, one at each end of grapefruit.
 * 12) Top with 1 black olive.
 * 13) Garnish with ½ hard boiled egg.
 * 14) Top with: 3 or 4 capers and 2 carrot curls, one at each side.