New Year's table 2012

The coming year is Year of the Water Dragon on the Chinese calendar. And this means that the New Year's table 2012 must necessarily come to the liking of the patron of the year, so that throughout 2012 you will always be lucky. What dishes should be put on the festive table? What products can the dragon not like?

As the elements of the coming year are water, there must be a fish on the festive table, and best of all - fresh, traditionalsprats can not please the dragon. Of course, "fresh" does not mean "raw". You can fry fish or bake it in the oven. And if you do not want to serve as a main dish, you can please the guests with snacks from salted red fish fillets, for example, cheese rolls with salmon. Well, or prepare a traditional herring under a fur coat - in the coming year, it is particularly relevant.

But the dragon loves not only fish, he is omnivorous, so the more diverse the 2012 New Year's table will be, the more he will like it. Be sure to serve fresh vegetables to the table. Yes, in winter they are expensive and turnalmost in delicacy, but light vegetable salads will make your New Year's menu much more diverse. On summer, recall a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, and if you want something more satisfying - you can prepare a cabbage salad with crab sticks (as an option - with ham).

But "the highlight of the program"Must be meat dish. Still, the dragon will not be full of vegetables only. And stewed pieces of meat or even chicken legs can not get off here - the dish should be more large-scale. Of course, not everyone has the opportunity to cook a pork leg or a mutton, but to bake a whole chicken or duck is almost within the power of almost any hostess.

By the way, when preparing a meat dish, do not forget that the dragon is a fire-breathing creature. The option for the bravest is to submit to the New Year's table meat flambe. Before serving, the meat dish is pouredburned brandy (cognac) or gin, it turns out very effectively. Guests for sure will be delighted, and the symbol of the coming year will not remain indifferent. But if you are not ready for such experiments with main dishes, you can simply add more spices to the meat - let it be "fiery" even if in a figurative sense.

And the fire can be left for dessert. Instead of the traditional cake or jelly, serve at the New Year's table 2012 ice cream flambe. There are many recipes for cooking suchice cream, we offer one of them. Melt 50 g of butter in a frying pan, pour 400 g of frozen berry assortment, add 3 tbsp. sugar and stir the false until the berries are softened, and the sugar does not begin to caramelize. Pour 2 tbsp. cognac, carefully set fire to a long match (or light a wooden stick, and from it - cognac). Wait until all alcohol is consumed. Cut 0,5 kg of the filling into cubes, place a hot flambe in the crockery, ice cream on it, and then again - the flambe. Serve to the table immediately. This amount of food should be enough for three portions of dessert.

True, it is not possible to effectively set the dessert on fire right before the guests - the whole mystery will happen in the kitchen. Therefore, you can diversify the New Year's table 2012 burning alcoholic drinks and cocktails. Traditionally, before serving, incense, sambuca (aniseed liqueur) and some cocktails (for example, B-52, Hiroshima, etc.) are set on fire. But keep in mind that preparation of such cocktails requires compliance with safety rules, otherwise the celebration of the New Year can end with the arrival of an ambulance or firefighters.

A the most important condition of a good holiday - New Year's table 2012 should like you yourself. Do not give up your favorite saladOlivier, if you do not imagine a New Year's menu without this dish. Most importantly, your holiday mood, not the amount of money, products and efforts spent on creating a New Year's table.