New Year is rushing to us! Everything will happen soon! Whether we want it or not, ready or not, a pandemic or some other infection - the New Year will come!
And our task is to meet him with dignity, relax, eat and have a good rest on New Year's weekend, in order to rush with renewed vigor into the coming January.
So what should be on the festive table? This is how most Russians answer, and my family is no exception.
Herring under a fur coat, tangerines and Olivier
This is the opinion of 90% of respondents in the opinion of many statistical resources. And although in the yard almost a quarter of a century is already like the 21st century (sorry for the tautology), our people prefer to celebrate the New Year with Soviet salads with abundant fatty mayonnaise.
Oh, this is "Olivier" - just the alpha and omega of the New Year's table. And in a sense, it is even cooler than borscht, about which everyone is ready to argue for hours.
But for the wrong or "original" Olivier and you can grab it. For example, if you add an apple and or the wrong sausage to it.
I do not mind when we celebrate with relatives or friends, then yes, and I have to plan with "Olivier" basins and lay out on salad bowls in layers of 3-7 versions of "Herring under a fur coat".
But for myself and without relatives, I make different salads. Fashionable, as Grandma says. This is "Caesar", "Greek", with beans and crackers, caprese.
And what kind of festive New Year's salad in your favorites? Confess!
About the tangerines. Well I do not know...
Oranges are still more fragrant, and if with dark chocolate, then in general - a New Year's smell for the whole house.
But as popular wisdom says: if there is no vase with tangerines on the table, then this is not your New Year's, but some kind of profanation!
Jellied or aspic
A relic of the past on a modern table, not otherwise. It is more often found in the New Year's menu of the adult generation over forty.
I am still a couple of years old before this age, so he does not happen at my New Year's banquet.
But for mom or mother-in-law, you have to fill in a couple of trays of both when we celebrate together.
For their generation, the New Year without jellied empty and simple gatherings with wine. So that's it.
Yes, yes, the very immortal "What disgusting is this your aspic fish!".
My not disgusting, I know the secret and not alone.
And why jelly then? The question is, why make a double aspic, only with meat? What a stupid question!
Aspic is our Russian drinking tradition, although it is terribly ugly, but incredibly tasty.
And as my mother says - if the jellied meat is a success, then every man will eat it - it's like a compliment. It is doubtful, of course, especially since modern men do not really like jellied meat.
But, yes, I cook it, like aspic... Sometimes...
What about you?
Pickles
Sauerkraut, tomatoes, fragrant crispy cucumbers and mushrooms. And that by all means, everything must be properly grown and salted, or at least the last point is done with your own hands.
This is a special chic - to boast at the New Year's table how all these wonderful banks rolled up.
Actually, I'm not against pickles, I roll up several hundred cans myself every year. And yes, this is a great snack with spirits. Without a doubt!
The problem is that nowadays they rarely drink vodka: ladies prefer wines, men prefer whiskey or cognac.
Therefore, it is very strange to see how a decent cognac is regularly eaten with wild garlic, which completely kills the taste of any drink. But! Pickles on the New Year's table are our tradition!
Cold cuts
Oh, and piled sausages!
This is what my dad used to say when flat plates or tarilisches with different types of sausages, boiled pork and other meat delicacies appeared on the New Year's table. He could refuse a piece of roast beef, a baked chicken or a goose with apples in favor of this, in every sense, harmful cut.
What? Rich, expensive, plentiful, beautiful, and like the best houses in Paris and London.
That we are the worst? Get the sausage trays here! Immediately!
A joke, of course. Well, you understand me.
Goose, chicken or duck
I don’t know when this “tradition” of baking a bird for the New Year appeared, but 15 years ago it has already firmly settled in the brain of almost all Russians.
Well, I don’t remember that in the 80s we had a whole baked bird. The main hot dish at that time was cabbage rolls, or stuffed peppers, and most often cutlets.
And now everyone says that baking a goose or duck with porridge or apples is a Russian New Year's tradition.
Okay, let it be. Agree! Festive and beautiful! Real New Year!
Good luck to you! AND... holiday greetings!
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