Create a festive menu for your birthday? It couldn't be easier! The main thing is to know certain rules.
Consider the time of year when deciding what to cook for your birthday. If it's summer, there should be a lot of fruits, soft drinks on the festive table, and ice cream can be served for dessert. In the warm season, you can restrict yourself to light vegetable salads, but in winter it is advisable to cook more satisfying snacks.
But let's get down to specifics. What to cook for your birthday?
Salads and snacks
For a festive table, three types of snacks and 2-3 types of salads are enough. It is desirable that they have a different basis: for example, you can make chicken, fish and vegetable salads. Don't forget to serve bread.
Slicing
Slicing must be present on the festive table. If finances allow, make 4 types of it: meat, vegetable, fish and cheese, but you can limit yourself to two types: meat and vegetable.
Hot
One meat or fish dish is enough for a hot dish, which is accompanied by a side dish. As a main course, you can, for example, bake meat with mushrooms under mayonnaise. Mashed potatoes are usually served as a side dish.
Dessert
At the end of the meal, guests are served coffee or tea and a dessert. You can cook it yourself, or you can buy it in the store. For sweets, you can serve cake, pastries, soufflé, ice cream.
If you do not want to treat your guests to a shop cake, but are afraid that you will not have enough time to fiddle with the dough, you can purchase ready-made cakes and make the cream yourself.
What to cook for your birthday. Sample menu
Snacks:
- Lavash roll (you can use whatever you like as a filling: crab sticks with mayonnaise, salmon or ham with cream cheese and herbs, and even Korean-style carrots).
- Sandwiches with sprats (dry bread slices in a toaster and spread with mayonnaise mixed with crushed garlic; put two sprats on top of each sandwich and garnish with herbs)..
- Cheese balls with olives (mix grated cheese with finely chopped crab sticks, chopped boiled eggs, mayonnaise and crushed garlic; form balls from the resulting mass, put an olive in each).
- Cold cuts.
- Vegetable slices (cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers).
- Bread.
Salads
- "Greek salad.
- Olivier salad.
- Mimosa salad".
Hot
- Pork baked with cheese and mushrooms.
- Mashed potatoes.
Dessert
- Ready-made sponge cake with whipped cream and bananas.
- Candy.
- Seasonal fruits and berries.
- Tea and coffee.
