Of course, the holiday of the belly on New Year’s Eve will take place in any weather and, despite the difficulties, which cannot be avoided.
2015 of what sign?
With the New Year approaching, we begin to run around the shops in search of gifts, decorations for the Christmas tree and food for the festive table. What to cook for the New Year, how to set the festive table? After all, the dishes should be those that the symbol of the new year prefers, so that the coming year is lucky.
2015 is the year of the blue wooden goat. The coming year promises to be friendly, because the goat is a domestic, peaceful animal. A domestic, peaceful and charming animal, the Goat loves sophistication and nobility, as well as simplicity and clarity of lines. To make the year “work out” from the very beginning, we will meet it in such a way that the lovely hostess of the year will like everything. A shy goat does not like noise, so it is better to celebrate the New Year in a warm, homely atmosphere.
What to cook for the new year?
The goat loves greens, vegetables and fruits. The festive, and even more so the New Year’s, table allows you to realize the most daring culinary fantasies, try tempting new recipes, and improve your favorite dishes proven over the years. Trying to please the Goat, you should put the maximum amount of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits on the table. Let the abundance and color of vegetables make everyone happy and easy, because vegetables will not be a heavy burden on the stomach. That is why on the New Year’s table there should be a lot of vegetable dishes, dishes decorated with herbs, and fruit desserts.
If cucumbers and tomatoes are not the most delicious in winter (except for Baku ones, if you find them on store shelves – this is a great success and pleasure), then bell peppers, spicy herbs and a variety of lettuce leaves will save the day.
Add juicy apples and pears to traditional tangerines, the Goat loves to feast on them. Berries and exotic fruits are perfect for the New Year’s table, since you can choose fresh specimens from the variety of the assortment presented in the showcases.
Dairy products can be represented by various sauces based on natural yogurt and cheeses – prepare a classic cheese plate (replacing the plate with a wooden board) of several types of your favorite cheeses, decorating it with grapes, walnuts and a small bowl of liquid honey.
Salads, their choice and decoration, remain a matter of taste for the hostess and household members, but maybe the traditional Olivier “lighten” a little, instead of meat using shrimps or crab sticks, and replacing potatoes with lettuce leaves? Thus, we will please the Goat, and we will not gain extra pounds.
A large cake, a dish of profiteroles with a light filling, creamy ice cream or a refreshing fruit sherbet – the dessert is best prepared in advance so that during New Year’s Eve the hostess can be unloaded as much as possible and allow her to have fun with the guests, and not rush around the kitchen. Milk desserts are preferable for the Goat, but any options for sweets that are “not burdensome” for the figure will delight the Goat and guests.
Champagne, light sparkling wine, unusual cocktails with exotic ingredients, for lovers of strong drinks – aged cognacs and whiskey, as a rule, more than one name of alcoholic beverages is exhibited on the New Year’s table. One of the important rules is moderation and breaks between different types of drinks.
And it will all go to snacks, salads and desserts… But without hot on the festive table is indispensable. And in this new year it is preferable to cook dishes from fish and poultry. You can’t do without meat either, but most importantly, don’t cook lamb.
There is an opinion that dairy products should be on the New Year’s table in 2015. The goat does not eat dairy products, but only gives us its healthy milk. Therefore, you decide whether you will have dairy products on the table or not. Already put a cheese plate, as we wrote above, or fill the salad with sour cream – you definitely can.
How to decorate an apartment and a New Year’s table?
We have already written about how to set the festive table. Let’s just note that the 2015 trend is blue and green colors and all their shades. And you certainly can’t do without cute trinkets on the table in the form of wooden rings on linen napkins, wooden dishes or wooden souvenirs.
When decorating an apartment or a country house for the holiday, leave a few decorative elements that you used to decorate the New Year’s table with them. Large tinsel can be used to decorate a fruit vase or a candy bowl on a leg, lay beautiful balls on the table between dishes, or collect them in one transparent container, put in the middle of the table. If there is an opportunity to purchase small branches of fir, spruce or pine, place them in low vases or glasses, the aroma of the holiday will be there all the time.
When decorating dishes, you need to remember that the Sheep has an unusually curly wool, so a hot pie-vertuta or snack rolls, and any rolled dish will not only look spectacular, but also remind you of the charming hostess of the year. Therefore, rolls are welcome – salty, spicy and sweet, whichever you like best.
New Year is a home holiday, the Goat (Sheep) is very shy, you need not to frighten her off with loud songs and noisy games, for this any other day of the New Year holidays is suitable.
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- Salads on the festive table in the year of the blue goat
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