Making a festive New Year’s menu is not an easy task, sometimes even for an experienced cook. So many delicious salads, unusual snacks, impressive desserts and spectacular hot dishes! It seems that it is simply impossible to cook them all. But it’s worth trying, the main thing is to approach the issue thoroughly!
In almost all families, a lot of attention is paid to the preparation of festive dishes for the New Year and Christmas feast. Chefs want to show all their skills and serve the best treats to the festive table.
Recipes for the New Year and Christmas table differ from each other. By the New Year’s Eve, you need to flaunt all your culinary talents and surprise guests with fancy and incredibly delicious treats. Aspic with beautifully carved vegetables, French-style meat, homemade pates, delicious snacks of vegetables, meat and fish, salads with products that seem completely incongruous at first glance – preparing a New Year’s table is a great opportunity to show imagination in the culinary field.
It is customary to prepare lean dishes and lemonades for the supper on Christmas Eve. Vegetable broth, buckwheat porridge with mushrooms, cabbage pies, fish dishes, stuffed cabbage rolls with rice filling and many other goodies can be created in any cook’s own kitchen. Be sure to give your household a traditional lemonade (compote made from a mixture of dried fruits and berries) according to old recipes.
How to Make a Homemade New Year’s Menu?
According to experienced chefs, there will be enough for 6-7 guests: 1-2 hot dishes, side dishes, 3-4 types of salads, several types of snacks, hot and cold, dessert and fruit. This average menu can be varied depending on the circumstances, for example, if there are children among the guests.
One of the secrets of a successful New Year’s menu is to cook several new dishes every year. At the same time, you should decide what you would like to make the main bet on: someone prefers to invest time and effort in preparing a complex hot dish, and someone – in a variety of snacks. If, instead of traditional olives and caviar sandwiches, you offer your guests glazed duck with grapes on skewers, your guests will remember for a long time how refined and unusual your festive treat was.
But in fact, there is nothing wrong with having only traditional dishes on the New Year’s menu, without frills.
An ice cup will replace ice cubes, this has one drawback, it is impossible to stretch the cocktail for a long time, since the cups will melt sooner or later.
I want to offer you this drink in my own way. It is not necessary that the drink is infused and absorbed the aroma and taste of berries. Got it, cooked it and you can enjoy it. And how good he is in the morning after the feast, take my word for it.
This is not a recipe for the popular Baileys Irish liqueur, although there are similarities. The liquor turned out to be light and pleasant to the taste, it is suitable for girlish gatherings.
I have to say that I don’t like alcohol. So I decided, maybe this cocktail is not so bad, since that’s the name. Honestly, not bad. A very interesting combination of flavors.
A fragrant and very elegant tea that will cheer you up and warm you up on a rainy autumn evening. Be sure to try to make this drink and drink it together with your loved ones.
Looking through the recipes of Vietnamese cuisine, I found an interesting variant of a refreshing cocktail. I want to share this with you. Making this tea is very simple. It is ideal for children, as there are fruits there that are very healthy and delicious. But if you’re going to cook for the kids too, don’t pour alcohol.
Under this name, the recipe for this tea was published in a culinary magazine. The man wrote how this tea helped him to become cheerful and energetic)) The recipe reminded me of masala tea, but the cooking method is a little different. In general, I decided to try it, and I liked it! Tea is really invigorating, and since I don’t drink coffee, in the morning it is a very good alternative to coffee, and much more useful.
