As you know, there is a Catholic Christmas and an Orthodox Christmas, and at the same time it is difficult to find even two Catholic or Orthodox countries that would have absolutely identical Christmas dishes and Christmas menu. The Christmas table should not only saturate the family, but also symbolize abundance, the beginning of a new life. Traditional Christmas dishes in different countries are very diverse, in connection with the end of the fast, a variety of products are allowed. For example, from the end of November to January 7, the Orthodox Christmas fast lasts, the menu of the Christmas fast is a great way not only to be cleansed spiritually, but also physically. Eating during the Christmas fast excludes fatty animal food, fish can be eaten several times a week. But after the fast, the recipes for Christmas dishes are more diverse, there is meat, fish, and dairy products.
For the countries of Western Europe, Christmas baking recipes are especially characteristic of sweet dishes. At this time, houses and bazaars are really flooded with Christmas pastries. The recipe for Christmas baking is Christmas cookies, as well as Christmas gingerbread. Christmas cupcake and Christmas candy recipes are also very popular. There is even a special English Christmas cake in England. The recipe for Christmas cookies is simple, the main thing is a beautiful design. To please your loved ones and, especially, children, we offer you a recipe for Christmas gingerbread. You will need flour, sugar, soda, eggs, butter, cocoa, honey, spices. After mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough, it should be put in the refrigerator overnight so that it is infused and soaked with spices, in this case you will get especially fragrant Christmas gingerbread. The recipe for Christmas gingerbread will also require you to have a certain artistic taste, because it will be necessary to mold human figures, animals, or some geometric shapes from the dough. After that, the cookies are baked in the oven and decorated with icing. About the same way Christmas cookies are prepared. The recipe for a Christmas cake is very popular in England. It is prepared with dried fruits and nuts, soaked with some alcohol. For Orthodox Christians, Christmas sweets are primarily Christmas carols and Christmas pastries, for example, Christmas cake. The recipe that creates a holiday for children is lollipops in the form of cockerels. The ideal option for Christmas baking will be Christmas tea. It is made from black tea, ginger, cinnamon and orange peel.
Also in many European countries, a mandatory Christmas dish is a Christmas goose, a Christmas duck or a Christmas turkey. Christmas goose is prepared in Germany, Denmark, Greece etc. You will definitely not regret if a Christmas goose appears on your table. The Christmas goose recipe usually uses apples and prunes. Christmas turkey is a recipe that is typical for England and the USA. Meat dishes are often served with a Christmas salad, the recipe of which may differ in different countries.
A bright, elegant roll will adorn any festive table. The combination of cream cheese, salmon and vegetable sponge cake will not leave anyone indifferent. I assure you that the guests will ask for more.
I bought a wonderful goose at the market to make confit legs and wings. The skeleton put it on the broth for soup. But the breast! It deserves to become a separate dish, quite refined and beautiful. Goose, of course, need home. Those that are sometimes found in butcher shops are most often frozen and Packed so that you will never guess what you bought until you defrost it.
Lavender bird’s milk is unusual, refined and magical! Brew a fragrant tea and prepare this dessert-allow yourself the euphoria of a trip that will take you to the aromas of lavender fields to taiga forests, where blueberries and blueberries grew and sang.
I took the recipe from the book “Georgian cuisine”. A wonderful appetizer of eggplant with walnuts and aromatic spices. Very tasty, flavorful and satisfying!
You can’t just walk past the market and not buy anything. Again I took berries, this time blueberries, dried Rowan and rose hips. So this time I decided to make a cake with the taste of wild berries and the aroma of fragrant herbs. With a sponge cake on mineral water. The rich taste of berries and spices will be balanced with a delicate butter cream. The weather is bad-cold and wet. On the street only when necessary. So we will eat cake and imagine ourselves on a forest walk.
Every year, on the birthday of my daughter, I bake a cake, every year different, but a cake that conveys its taste to her, my favorite. This year it is an unusual cheesecake-sweet and salty, with fragrant apples and a cinnamon aftertaste, with delicious caramel and nuts!
I offer you a recipe for fragrant and juicy rolls of quail fillet. How much of that fillet is there? That’s enough. How do I get it? Come on in, I’ll tell you. As a result, you will get a wonderful quail without a single bone, which will be convenient and pleasant to eat!
I want to treat you to a delicious dish of chicken legs. Pitted, with cheese, Basil and sun-dried tomatoes. And to garnish with fragrant bulgur with vegetables and chicken broth, soaked in juice from hams.
I offer you an appetizer of pumpkin pancakes stuffed with chicken liver pate. I didn’t expect pumpkin and liver to go together like this. It’s delicious!
