Making dishes for the festive table at home: interesting ideas

In any family there are many reasons for a holiday. Inviting guests, the hosts try to cook a lot of delicious treats, lay an elegant table and decorate the house. But even the most uncomplicated dishes can be decorated with your own hands so interesting that simple ingredients will “play” in a new way.

In modern culinary, the design of dishes has already turned into an art and replicated business. It is difficult to surprise your acquaintances by simply laying out layers of fruit, cheese and sausages. People are already slightly spoiled by alluring pictures from magazines and Internet sites with images of real works of culinary art.

For curly cutting of fruits and vegetables, a whole direction has already been invented - carving. Special kits make it easy to cut and shape various compositions.

For the implementation of ideas you will need:

• several thin sharp knives of various shapes and sizes;
• grater;
• spoons;
• scissors;
• paper napkins;
• tight packages;
• skewers and toothpicks.

An important step is the proper serving. Cutlery can be laid out directly on the table or beautifully wrapped in cloth napkins. The color of the tablecloth and other decorations should be combined with the table set. If you have a lot of varied colorful dishes on the menu, serve the table is better than light or monophonic tableware. This will allow guests not to be distracted from viewing edible masterpieces.

Optional to cook a lot of main dishes. You can always help out cold snacks. The more interesting and diverse they will be, the more chic the table will look.

One of the most common appetizers is cheese plate. The number of varieties of cheese depends on your preferences and wallet. The easiest way to design - lay out the cheeses in rows in the shape of a semicircle, overlapping pieces overlap each other.

If you have a dense and flexible cheese that can be cut into rectangles, try wrapping it in a tube in a shape resembling a calla flower. Such convolutions can be spread over the whole plate or you can put 3-5 pieces on top of the cut.

Often honey and nuts are served to the cheeses. Piala with honey can be placed in the center or at one of the edges of the dish, making it an accent composition. From the bowl will be "diverge" rows of cheeses. Nuts can be decomposed symmetrically in several places or arrange them on a dish chaotically.

Cheese goes well with fruit, especially with grapes and citrus. This nuance can also be used in the design. Grape clusters are placed on one edge of the plate, or distribute individual berries on top of the calculation. Pieces of cheese and fruit can also be put on skewers and fill the whole plate or part of it with them.

For more originality, products can be given an interesting shape. Cutting the same patterns with a knife is not easy. It is better to use special devices for this. So on your plates may appear cheese mugs, asterisks, squares or months.

When laying out meat, you can use the same techniques. Wrap the thread with a straw, a horn, or simply fold it nicely in half.Instead of fruit in this case, the composition is better to dilute with vegetables. As unusual and spectacular decorations fit red berries (cranberries, currants, grapes).

Fish platter traditionally decorated with lemon slices. They can be bent in the form of spirals and spread out in rows or in the center of the composition. The black color of the olives also beautifully set off the red fish. Salmon or salmon can be rolled up in the form of roses or loops.

To form spectacular vegetable compositions fit tomatoes, radishes, thinly sliced ​​cucumbers. The floral theme is also the most common. For decorative purposes, you can use other vegetables.

The easiest way to lay out bread in rows on platescovered with paper napkins. Comfortable and appetizing will look bread in a basket with a spread cloth napkin or a beautiful towel. In the stand, you can put several varieties of loaves, buns and other pastries.

There are many options for the design of salads. Thanks to the decorations, any recipe can be “tailored” to the theme of the holiday or simply to make it original.

Herring under a fur coat can be effectively laid out in the form of fish. Give any dish a royally luxurious look with a pomegranate. The display in the form of a ring decorated with small pomegranate seeds is very popular. Also suitable for these purposes red and green grapes. From its halves any patterns are easily formed.

Thematic decorations for the New Year's table can be the dials of olives on a white layer of mayonnaise. It looks interesting imitation of Christmas tree branches made of dill, cilantro and parsley. Wreaths decorated with berries and slices of tangerines can be laid over the products. Vegetable patterned compositions can also decorate the surface of any dish.

Main dishes do not usually require a grand decor. Fashionable and nontrivial is the supply of hot individual portions. From the decorations it is enough to add a few vegetables: cucumber slices, greens and cherry tomatoes.

The bird looks best as a whole on a large flat dish placed in the center of the table. The chicken can be effectively supplemented with curls of oranges, an abundance of greenery or pineapple slices. Goose for the Christmas feast can be decorated with needles of twigs, adding to it red, purple and green shades. Duck is better to arrange citrus, sliced ​​or round slices. Also, for the contrast, you can use whole pears and apples, red berries.

Sweets generally do not require additional decoration. This applies to cakes, pastries, sweets. They can only put in a beautiful dish. But if you serve a portion of desserts, they can be decorated with liquid chocolate, icing, powdered sugar, flowers or fruit.

Fruit slicing can be done in a particular form, in the form of canapés or compositions, arranged in rows. In the design, you can use types of cutting, similar to the design of vegetables: roses, lilies, figurines in the form of hearts and stars.

Children's holidays are a unique atmosphere of carelessness, fun and sincerity. Such a festive table should be perky and unusual. Toddlers usually do not eat complex dishes, they are also difficult to surprise with exotic products. What is on the table is often eaten by children because of an interesting feed.

Meat cuts, vegetables and fruits can be issued in the form of any animals. A multi-colored table filled with hedgehogs, ladybirds, fish, bears and other characters will surely delight the little ones. Sliced ​​fruits can also be laid out on a plate in the shape of a palm, flower or butterfly.It is possible to make volumetric figures with the help of cuts and toothpicks.

How beautifully to cut vegetables, look in the following video.