The most long-awaited holiday for adults and children is the New Year. However, the pre-Christmas pleasant vanity with festive paraphernalia and gifts involves certain troubles. Concerns related to the organization of the festive table are disturbed during this period of time by any hostess.
Features
Inexpensive and original to lay the table for the New Year under the force of each. The main thing is to create an optimal menu, considering the ratio of the cost of ready-made dishes and their taste. With strict adherence to recipes and non-standard serving, it is interesting to beat even the simplest and most traditional dish. Of course, the main highlight of the table will be the dish corresponding to the coming year, which can even be simply decorated in a special style.
Menu selection
What can you cook for this holiday?
Beautifully set New Year's table can be without the use of exotic products. An excellent option would be baked chicken with prunes in orange juice. Healthy and colorful salad can be prepared from fresh cucumbers and tomatoes with green peas. As a dressing is better to use lemon juice. You can make bright canapes with skewers from cold cuts, cheese and grapes.
Traditional salads can be laid out in the form of fir trees or cones. At home, you can arrange a table and original dishes.
As a snack you can fry the Adygei cheese in breading. A roll of zucchini and potatoes with pumpkin filling is guaranteed to surprise guests. And positive gingerbread snowmen in the glaze will serve as an excellent dessert.
To design a children's New Year's table, you will need a fantasy and a few free minutes. Meals should already be familiar to kids to taste, but originally decorated. Balls of boiled rice or mashed potatoes that can be rolled in breadcrumbs or grated cheese will surely please the children. Sandwiches decorated with funny animal muzzles made of vegetables or made with sour cream or ketchup will serve as a snack. Salads in the form of the sun or fish (for example, crab or vegetable) are also undoubtedly interesting for children.
As a dessert, you can offer sponge cake with butter cream and fresh berries, and fruit tea or stewed fruit will help to charge children with energy. This will exclude another item of expenditure (for the purchase of carbonated drinks).
Fast New Year's table will decorate the salad "Coral Reef" or "Mazurka."
Bright ingredients will add color, and fresh vegetables will fill the room with mouth-watering aromas. Fruit dessert will be an excellent cake substitute. From bananas and strawberries, strung on skewers, you can make funny snowmen, who, by the way, will greatly delight the kids.
Options for budget meals
On New Year's Eve, guests can enjoy and very inexpensive menu. This will help you competent selection of products that do not require significant costs. Delicious and economical will be a salad with apples and fried chicken slices. Fresh salad leaves will complement it. Baked potatoes with beans and sauce will be a satisfying and successful alternative to expensive dishes. Salmon sandwiches are a luxury option. However, this fish can be completely replaced with herring or sprats.
If desired, even from the minimum, at first glance, the list of products you can prepare a delicious and festive dinner.Pickles, which were harvested for the winter (lecho from vegetables, gherkins, tomatoes, sauerkraut and compotes), will be very useful.
The cake should not be too satisfying, because on the table so there will be quite high-calorie dishes. A light and airy dessert made from jelly and whipped cream with berries will decorate a festive dinner and save time on preparing a sweet treat.
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How to serve?
Beautifully and properly served New Year's table is the pride of every woman. Therefore, you should develop a detailed list of rules and necessary elements for a perfect design.
The table behind which a New Year's dinner is planned should be comfortable for all guests. This should also be taken into account when arranging the instruments. The optimal per person is 50 or 60 centimeters of personal space.
Guest chairs should be placed on both sides of the table, opposite each other.
Of great importance in decorating the festive table is the choice of colors and dishes. Not so long ago, for any celebration, it was recommended to choose white dishes and crystal. But today the concept of serving has undergone many changes. Already there is no such categorical idea of what should be the tonality of the tablecloth, and what glasses should be served to wine.
The main thing is that the dishes and appliances are designed in the same style and color. Of course, from the plastic utensils on the table should be abandoned. This option is only suitable for picnics.
When the issue with the dishes will be resolved, it is necessary to proceed to the selection of the tablecloth. You can use the recommendations about the color of the symbol of the coming year or purchase a tablecloth with a New Year's print (fir branches, balls). According to the requirements for serving, The edges of the tablecloth should hang down from the table by 20-30 centimeters. It is worth refraining from using oilcloth, in this case it will be inappropriate.
If at dinner it is planned to use cloth napkins, their color should be in harmony with the tablecloth.
Napkins beautifully folded and laid on plates. Paper products (also having similar colors) are placed in special stands placed on the table in several places.
Proper serving is associated with the arrangement of instruments and plates. At a short distance from the edge of the table, a large plate for hot is placed, on top - a smaller plate for snacks. The knife is located on the right, pointed inward, the fork - on the left. An alternative to this layout could be the option of feeding devices wrapped in napkins. Before serving the main dish all the snack plates need to be removed.
Wine glasses and glasses are placed on the top right. There are no strict rules for arranging glasses and glasses, so you can rely on the taste preferences of guests and their imagination.
After completing the required table setting activities, you can proceed to decorating the table. Candles, fir branches, Christmas toys, Santa Claus figurines, snowflakes, etc. are best suited for this purpose. Showing a little imagination and using Christmas attributes, you can make an excellent thematic composition with your own hands.
Original ideas
To surprise the guests with a stylish setting of the New Year's table, it is enough to put a tablecloth diagonally or decorate the surface, combining several multi-colored cloths of contrasting colors.
Also along the table you can lay a bright rectangular cut of fabric, which will give the setting solemnity and place accents. The original idea will be the labels with the names of the guests, placed near the devices. On these stands can also be depicted symbols of the coming year.
Tips and tricks
A beautifully decorated table instills a sense of approaching holiday. According to tradition, it should include twelve dishes.The house is now decided to decorate, focusing on the Eastern calendar. In accordance with it, each year has its own color. A napkin, tablecloth, decor items and other festive attributes will help withstand serving in a certain color range.
If you want to decorate the table unusually, in addition to cones, candles and figurines you will find Christmas balls, flowerpots with flower arrangements, interesting lamps. Making jewelry can be enjoyed by the whole family. This will especially appeal to children and the older generation. Grandmas will show kids a master class on making Christmas crafts with their own hands, which can be an excellent family tradition.
Spectacular examples for inspiration
Festive evening together - a beautiful and romantic version of the New Year. This dinner should be remembered by both for a long time, so for a refined serving for two there is no better “helper” than a round table to find. It can be covered with a white or yellow-gold tablecloth.
A mandatory element of the decoration of the table will be candles. They can be put in the candlesticks, made in the winter theme.
In the center is to place a festive ikebana made of cones, pine branches, balls and artificial snow. Napkins should match the tone of the tablecloth. Instruments and glasses set strictly opposite each other.
You should not clutter up the space with all the dishes at once, it is more correct to serve them in portions. This New Year's table disposes to unhurried dialogue and pleasant pastime.
For a meeting of the New Year with the family, a rectangular table would be ideal. It is easy to decorate it for the holiday - just cover the surface with a tablecloth or several pieces of fabric. If the devices are made in dark colors, use a light tablecloth, and vice versa. Vases with fresh flowers or other beautiful compositions are placed at the same distance from each other. First served snacks.
On dishes or trays laid out various canapes, small tartlets, salads. Then a hot meal is offered. Dessert completes the holiday menu.
The most important thing is to try to create a certain atmosphere at the table, to show imagination and to invest in the design a part of your spiritual warmth. Then the holiday is guaranteed to be fun, and the feeling of a fairy tale will not leave you and your guests until the morning.
On how to properly serve the New Year's table, see the following video.
