Friday, December 28, 2012

New Year's Eve Party Planning


As you ready your menu of New Year recipes, the dishes you choose should show one or two of these themes: something new, something conventional, or something symbolic. After all, these are what represent the coming of the New Year, where anything new is treasured, the old revered and the fortunate most treasured, particularly the food on the table. Watch recipe videos online for your new year inspiration.

Always, New Year recipes should represent the joyous mood of the season. So for the new dish, décor or detail you want to include in your New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day parties, it should have that glow or sparkle in the conceptualization and implementation. New ingredients you normally don’t use in your cookery, like oranges or more specifically kumquat oranges, can now come along as a salad ingredient or as part of the marinade for Peking duck or roasted chicken. Adorn the finished dishes with the fruit not only to render off the new thing you've done but also to echo the symbolical rounds that are considered to bring great fortune. Learn how to prepare for the new year with these easy cookery videos.

If you have conventional dishes reserved and served only for New Year, then put that on the table too. Although we look forward to the future ahead, many cultures look back to the past with much gratitude and remembrance. Most especially the remembrance part. So you have there the conventional noodle dishes, the roasted pigs, the seafood paella, and other Formulas that you and your family serve every year. Have that on the table and sentimental guests would appreciate it.

Speaking of appreciation, the New Year smiles upon those with much desire in their hearts and auspicious little serves and fruits on the table. Gather a dozen round fruits and put them in a festive basket to represent your good wishes for the next twelve months. But as much as achievable, select the sweet, more than citrus or sour, fruits because you would wish your year to be sweet as well. Most often, some of the fruits will not be in season locally so raid your imported produce section to get the plums, strawberries, grapes, and the like. Add them also to your Formulas, such as the grapes on salads, the plums on pies, and more.

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