The whole world is celebrating the long-awaited summer with the Children’s Day. This is a great reason to do something nice for your beloved children. For example, to arrange a small festive dinner.
What do you call the ship…
The main thing in the process of preparing the menu is to creatively approach the choice of names of dishes. So, the snack boats “Scarlet Sails” success with the children’s public is guaranteed. To create a miniature flotilla, you need to boil hard-boiled eggs, cut them in half and extract the yolk. Combine it with grated cheese, sour cream and dill. The resulting mixture is alternately stuffed with our egg “boats”. Then we set up the masts in the form of toothpicks (or thin salty straws) with triangles of cheese or ham strung on them. Colorful sea waves are created from slices of cucumber and sweet pepper.
For sure, the kids will be intrigued by a dish called “Magic Bags”, they are also cleverly prepared pancakes. A simple dough for them is made from milk, flour, eggs and salt with the addition of slaked soda. From it, we will bake our pancakes, after which we will deal with the secret filling. Namely, we will cut and mix the boiled sausage with chicken fillet and add canned peas. A harmonious dressing for this filling will be sour cream with herbs. It remains to fill the bags with magical contents. To do this, put the filling in the center of each pancake, put its edges together and tie it with a feather of green onions, giving it the shape of a bag. From lettuce leaves and fresh herbs, we make a green clearing on a large plate and place our bags on it.
Unusual in the familiar
Even the most ordinary potatoes, if you approach its preparation with fiction, can become the highlight of a festive dinner. One of the win – win options is to make a colored puree. We prepare it according to the traditional recipe: boil the potatoes, carefully crush the tubers, mix them with hot milk and butter, beat them into an air mass. Various edible additives will help us to decorate the puree in the desired color. The summer green color of the puree will give spinach, sunny orange-carrots, a joyful red shade-tomatoes, romantic pink-pumpkin, rich raspberry-beets. The selected ingredient must be boiled and beaten into the finished puree with a mixer.
Pizza is a dish that almost all children are not indifferent to. For the convenience of cooking, you can take special blanks from the dough. Top with a delicious filling of boiled chicken breast, canned corn, bell pepper and fresh tomatoes. Fill the pizza with grated cheese and put it in the oven for 10 minutes. We serve it right from the heat of the heat, the main thing is that there are enough treats for everyone.
You can treat the kids with original meat rolls. To prepare them, cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and beat them well. Each such piece is covered with a thin slice of ham and cheese, and then roll up a roll, wrap it in food foil and fix it with a toothpick. The landing of the rolls is landed in the oven for 15-20 minutes, and in the meantime we prepare a creamy sauce. To do this, melt the melted cheese in sour cream or cream and carefully stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Hot rolls, poured with a thick sauce, will successfully complement the assorted fresh vegetables.
Sweet fantasies
With desserts, things are easier, because children are by nature noble sweeteners. A suitable solution for a festive table will be a treat of strawberries, chocolate and shortbread cookies. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and dip in it half of the available strawberries, previously removed from the tails. While the chocolate strawberries are frozen in the refrigerator, we roll the rest of the berries in powdered sugar. Then we lubricate each cookie with honey and put two strawberries on it: chocolate and sugar.
A good option for the celebration will be a homemade cheesecake. For its preparation, you can also use cookies, as well as muesli or oatmeal. Cookies turn into crumbs and mix with melted butter, achieving a homogeneous mass. We spread the resulting base on the bottom of the baking dish and put it in the oven for five minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the second layer: rub the cottage cheese, mix it with sugar, cream, semolina, and lemon zest. Then we spread the filling on the already baked base and its seasonal fruits and berries. It can be apricots, apples, strawberries and everything that is found in the house. Re-send the cheesecake to the oven for 20-25 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle it with powdered sugar and cut it into beautiful pieces.
What’s a summer without ice cream? If you cook it with your own hands, the pleasure will increase many times. To begin with, we will dilute a little starch in half a glass of milk. The remaining half a liter of milk should be boiled over low heat with a teaspoon of sugar, add the starch mass and a pinch of vanilla. The resulting mixture is cooled under a closed lid, then add one egg yolk and whipped with sugar in turn. After thoroughly mixing all the ingredients, we send the mass to freeze in the refrigerator. To diversify the taste of ice cream, you can add melted chocolate or any fruit juice during cooking. Before serving, fill the ice cream bowls with ice cream and decorate with fresh berries with whipped cream.
Do not forget to pamper your precious offspring not only on holidays, but also on weekdays. Health, happiness and good mood for you and your children. Happy holidays and, of course, bon appetit!