How to set the table for the New Year is often a concern that is no less than choosing Christmas tree decorations, writing congratulations in postcards and ways to make wishes.
The options below will help you navigate the diversity of possibilities and, in merging with some tips, create an individual, delicious and impressive New Year's table. After which you will definitely be able to relax, have a tasty meal and meet the happiness of the new year.
Mountain coziness
The meaning of the design is to create a cozy, warm atmosphere, as if magically transferring to the snowy forest edges, perhaps the Alps.
In this case, it all starts with lighting - no light from the ceiling, generally bright. Lampshade, shimmering Christmas tree lights, artificial fireplace. You can add LED animal figures. And on the table in small coniferous wreaths are candles.
It is recommended to take bright textile, for example, a red tablecloth and napkins in a blue cage. You can throw rugs on the chairs.
It is worth treating the audience:
- second courses in pots;
- cheese and / or chocolate fondue;
- baked meat with berry sauce.
Cookies and sweets in tin boxes will look spectacular, and drinks will be deliciously poured into mugs - cocoa with marshmallows, grog.
New classic
At the heart of this option are the time-tested elements of the New Year's feast, but in a modern style and with notes of aristocratic sophistication.
For example, the same Olivier salad can be prepared "as before" - with game meat, capers and caviar. Champagne can be poured into glasses like a Mimosa cocktail with tangerine juice.
Let the aspic be made from chicken stock - and with shrimp, quail eggs.
To decorate the table, it is recommended to take porcelain figurines, ideally the oldest ones that exist. They can be put on a multi-tiered vase. Mixed with cakes into which the cake traditional for the holiday has been turned (usually each family has its own, for example, Honey cake or Cheremuhovy).
Textiles can be anything, the main thing is figuratively folded cloth napkins on plates.
Fairytale Hour
The pearl of this table should be something dessert:
- Gingerbread house;
- waffle palace;
- multi-tiered cake with a cascade of cream / mastic decorations (can be replaced with a tiered vase of individually decorated cupcakes).
To create a light and slightly playful atmosphere, you will need a bright plain tablecloth and lace white, so reminiscent of snowflakes, napkins for each guest.
You can do even more original.
Why do you need the following:
- in the center of the table is placed a table path different from the tone of the tablecloth;
- bouquets of dried flowers (or compositions of coniferous branches and cones) decorated with artificial snow are placed on it;
- between them are placed figures of forest animals made of colored glass and small candles.
And a special treat should produce a treat for which you can:
- collect galantine from pike in the form of a whole fish;
- create from the curd sweet mass figures of polar bears, hares, lambs;
- arrange the salad as a figurine of a goldfish, a firebird, a hedgehog.
Multilayer colored cocktails are also recommended.
The American dream
Natural mistletoe - we have a rarer plant than the Christmas tree on New Year's days, so you can take an artificial one. The main thing is that there should be somewhere under the ceiling near the table and then you can hold all the suitable couples under it - immediately demanding a kiss under the mistletoe, which is due to the good old tradition.
But the main thing on this table is the predominance of red and gold, or green and gold.
Ideally, textiles and utensils should be as close as possible to what is on the tree. And there should be neatly hung red / blue / gold balls and bows.
On the tablecloth you need:
- spread the caramel canes;
- sprinkle gold / silver sparkles.
At one end of the table (where no one is sitting), it is highly recommended to place a figure of a deer (or several) harnessed to a magic sled. You can fill them with sweets, gingerbread cookies in a rusty package, individually, with fortune cookies.
And to make wishes, you can serve a vase with grapes - for 12 strokes, you need to eat exactly the same amount of berries and make a wish for each.
The kingdom of flora
What could be more surprising in December than transporting to the summer? For this option, you need a simple plain linen table cloth in pastel shades.
And fresh flowers are not flashy classic, like roses and lilies, but delicate and elegant, such as hyacinths, irises and tulips. In slender tall vases with silk ribbons of cold colors.
The second obligatory element is fruit - pineapple, mango, cherry, peach, pear, you can - melon and strawberries and much more. Fresh or canned, as:
- framing of baked bird;
- decorating desserts, like cheesecake, meringue with butter cream;
- elements on a dish with sliced cheese, meat delicacies;
- mulled wine ingredients.
And for the winter mood, in the center of the table on the tablecloth put a runner (table path) - a narrow strip of fabric, in this case - a bright color (blue / cyan / violet).
You can lay Christmas balls or snowflakes from paper napkins on top.
If the number of dishes tends to dozens, then they should be divided into several innings, accommodating in each different category, for example:
- I serve. Shrimp and mango salad, cheese plate, meat in pots, eclairs with curd cream.
- II feed. Salad "Pomegranate Bracelet", aspic, meatballs from fish, chocolate cake.
Between serves it is appropriate to serve fruit, ice cream.
Gustatory variety should also reign. Say, you should not cook all 4 hot chicken. It is better to combine - chicken, quail, pork, beef.
You can take note of other tips:
- cold appetizers will be more effective in appearance and taste if you serve them by placing dishes on ice (you can fill them with the same low crystal salad bowl);
- royal sculpture in any style will give an ice sculpture, especially with backlight;
- so that there are no unpleasant surprises, all new recipes should be tested at least 2 weeks before the holiday - so that there is time to refine the shortcomings.
