There is not so much left before the New Year 2019 - it's time to think about what to cook for the festive table for treating family and friends. The symbol of the upcoming holiday is the Yellow Earth Pig, and it is this totemic animal that will dictate its own rules when cutting salads, making cold snacks and choosing the New Year's menu 2019. What will the fastidious pigs like, and what dishes will it oppose during a lively feast?
The most important question that torments many housewives on the eve of the 2019 meeting is whether it is possible to serve pork dishes on the festive table, use bacon, sausages, ham and other meat products, delicacies when cooking. After all, in order to appease the Earth Pig, you need to try, but not everyone can avoid mistakes in serving and drawing up the menu. So what will the symbol of 2019 like - pork ribs with cranberry sauce, baked suckling pig or diet salad of acorns, dandelion leaves and sprouted wheat?
Tips for setting the table and choosing dishes
The year 2019 of the Yellow Pig interprets its own rules for decorating the New Year's table, the selection of a festive tablecloth and some decorative elements. So, astrologers advise not to be greedy when choosing dishes, napkins and glasses. You should not get shabby plates and cups, sparing the services from the closet - it is better to decorate the feast with beautiful glasses, trays to appease the hospitable pig. The table should literally burst with all kinds of treats from meat, herbs, sandwiches and snacks, light alcohol, juices.
In the new year 2019, it is worth decorating the table in three shades of color - gold, red and dark light green, almost green. Moreover, it is not necessary to mix these tones too much, otherwise it will turn out to be lurid bad taste. For example, you can choose a red tablecloth and golden dishes with a bouquet of green spruce branches in the center. Or choose light green dishes, complementing the decor with glasses with gold rims.
It is also recommended to decorate the table with small decorative artificial Christmas trees, compositions of spruce or pine branches, gilded cones wrapped in gold foil of walnuts. It would be nice to arrange live bouquets in vases, complementing the decoration with figurines of pigs and pigs.
Cutlery can be tied with a red or green ribbon, and napkins, plates, cups can be picked up in solemn New Year's patterns corresponding to the symbols of 2019. It is easy to pour gold beads into transparent glasses, put cranberries, lingonberries, and small Christmas tree decorations in them. And most importantly, you need to arrange all kinds of hot dishes, salads, snacks and wines so that guests and households can choose treats to their liking.
What can be served in the Year of the Pig
On the table on New Year's Eve on the eve of the onset of the year of the Yellow Earth Pig, there must certainly be dishes that symbolize this animal. In the center, a salad in the form of a pig will look spectacular, and it is better not one, but 2-3, different in composition and taste. You can simply form any familiar salad with a slide, coat with mayonnaise, supplement with ears, tail, piglet cut from boiled sausage. And voila - the usual "Olivier", "Stolichny" or the traditional "Mimosa" will already look original and very appetizing.
Despite fears that meat and cuts cannot be served in the Year of the Pig, hearty meals are allowed. Only pork, baked suckling pig, barbecue pork ribs and so on with them are prohibited. However, you can and should cut salami, boiled pork, smoked and boiled sausage on plates, as well as cook fish, beef, veal, rabbit, chicken, duck.
Here are some options for hot meat dishes for the New Year of the Pig:
- chicken with apples;
- lamb on the bone;
- stuffed carp;
- beef rolls with vegetables;
- duck in Peking sauce with cranberries;
- baked turkey;
- pieces of rabbit in sour cream sauce.
If, in the year of the Yellow Earth Pig, you put a salad in the form of a pig, a hearty meat dish in the center of the table, supplementing the festive menu with sandwiches with red fish or caviar, a grunting symbol will surely give the hostess good luck and wealth. Do not forget about desserts: cakes, pies with berries, cakes, sweets, all kinds of cookies and jams. The most important thing is to decorate everything in accordance with the theme of the feast, complementing the trays with nuts, tangerines, apples, pine cones and Christmas tree decorations.
What dishes cannot be cooked on New Year's Eve 2019
The main ban on food in the coming year is pork dishes: it is better not to include pork ribs, baked suckling pig and fatty ham on the menu. Do not anger the pig, it is easier to replace appetizing meat with a layer of lard with dietary one. Also, you cannot cook on New Year's Eve semi-finished products that the pig does not like - dumplings, fast foods, any frost from the supermarket. Celebrating the new year 2019 at McDonald's is generally a bad omen.
Examples of the design of salads and snacks with photos
To appease the symbol of the year - the Earth Pig, at least one New Year's dish must be made in the handicap of an appetizing pig, preferably pink and with a piglet. The easiest way to arrange salads like this, disguising the composition under mayonnaise with beet juice or sliced boiled sausage. Below are beautiful examples of decorating New Year's salads, which are easy to take note of with minimal imagination.
As a decoration for hearty and light salads, you can use a wide variety of products: boiled or Korean carrots, sausage, peas or corn, slices of olives, grapes, olives, pomegranate grains, mayonnaise. The easiest way to cut the piglet, ears and tail is from boiled sausage, and the eyes are made from olives.
