Quick recipes for an office party. Funny dishes for a fun party
Layered salad "Festive" should be served in a huge glass salad bowl or portioned in glass bowls or cups. Thus, you can see all seven layers of this delicious salad.
Great idea for a kids birthday. Served in this way, cubed fruit salad will make a splash among children - try it and see for yourself.
Salad "Basket with flowers"
Salad "Basket of flowers" can be transformed into a vase of flowers, depending on where you put our salad. And cooking it is very easy. Such a salad will decorate the table on March 8.
Is the lack of Greek feta cheese on hand a reason to deny yourself your favorite treat? No no! There is a simple recipe for Greek salad with cheese - it turns out no worse!
Salad "Sunflower"
Recipe for sunflower salad with chicken, mushrooms, cheese and olives. Potato chips are used as a decoration that resemble sunflower petals.
Salad "Mystery"
Do you like delicious and healthy dishes that can be prepared in just a couple of minutes? Then pay attention to the salad "Mystery".
Salad "Bracelet"
A very appetizing and unusually beautiful salad "Bracelet" can be prepared not only for lunch or dinner, but also on the festive table.
Nostalgia for a hot summer led me to the idea of such a simple and amazing recipe. Berry salad, full of vitamins, will be loved by all your loved ones.
Salad "Star"
If you want to decorate your favorite dish in an original way, then pay attention to the Zvezda salad.
Salad "Calla"
If you are looking for a delicious and originally designed dish, then I bring to your attention the Calla salad, which can be prepared on the festive table.
Salad "Moscow"
Looking for new interesting recipes? Have you tried Moscow Salad? This is a delicious, hearty and quick salad that is perfect for lunch or dinner.
Salad "Imperial"
I bring to your attention a surprisingly light, tasty and refined salad "Imperial". This restaurant-level dish can be prepared in your own kitchen, surprising your loved ones and friends.
Salad "Waldorf"
Salad "Traffic light"
Salad "Traffic light" cook from any ingredients. The main rule is that they should be of three colors: green, yellow, red. The rest is a wild flight of fancy! My traffic light is with a chicken "roof".
Salad "Cypriot"
This salad includes all my favorite ingredients. In the hot season, for me, Cypriot salad replaces a whole lunch. It is very tasty, especially if seasoned with selected olive oil.
Salad "Ryzhik"
Everyone has their own "Ryzhik", but it should contain red mushrooms, red chanterelles or red carrots. My camelina will be very "temperamental", bright, fresh, with carrots, chanterelles, bell peppers. I share!
Salad "Boyarsky"
Boyarsky salad, the recipe of which I give you, is a very tasty, satisfying, multi-component salad that will definitely become the highlight of the festive table.
Spicy salad is a classic appetizer. It is prepared from boiled eggs, grated yellow cheese, mayonnaise and, if desired, garlic. You can add any greens, serve salad on crackers or in a tomato.
Salad "Malachite bracelet"
Do you want to cook something not only tasty, but also beautiful for the holiday? Then I bring to your attention an original, satisfying and unusually bright salad "Malachite Bracelet".
Salad "Berlin"
Salad "Berlin" is prepared in several different variations. One of which, namely with shrimps, I bring to your attention.
Salad "Arrows of Cupid"
Salad "Arrows of Cupid" - light, original, bright. You can decorate it with pomegranate seeds - lay out a heart or a heart with an arrow. The salad includes shrimp, an excellent aphrodisiac. Try!
Salad "Men's Dream"
"Men's dream" (culinary) comes down to a salad of ham, pickled mushrooms, eggs, chicken and a hostess who will prepare such a salad. And to prepare such a salad is simple, it will take you about 20 minutes.
This is not just a salad, but a real protein bomb! Red Bean Tomato Salad Recipe is very simple and will help you prepare a delicious, nutritious and healthy salad in minutes.
As you know, avocado is a very nutritious fruit. Therefore, in Great Lent, when there are not enough nutrients for fasting people, I suggest preparing a lean avocado salad. Both tasty and satisfying.
Lenten squid salad is prepared from canned squid, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. This salad is not only tasty, but also healthy. Plus, it's light and fresh.
Salad "Favorite"
If you think you can't please everyone, you're wrong! Prepare salad "Favorite" and absolutely everyone will be happy. The salad recipe is simple, you don’t even have to mix it, and the yummy comes out rare.
Salad "For a beloved girl"
Salad "For the Beloved Girl" is prepared with cherry tomatoes, avocado and feta cheese. My favorite cheese! My husband knew how to please me.
Oh, it’s not for nothing that in Rus' the white mushroom was called the “royal mushroom” - after all, there is no better snack! A simple salad recipe with salted milk mushrooms will certainly appeal to fans of this national delicacy.
Salad "Favorite" with chicken
Salad "favorite" with chicken, I cook with open chicken fillet or smoked. Both options are very tasty. Try it.
Salad "Beloved Heart"
The first time I made Love Heart Salad, I laid it out in the shape of a heart. Well, it's very romantic, but I didn't repeat it. Strawberries, the main ingredient, are in the shape of a heart.
Salad "Flower"
Give flowers to your loved ones - with or without reason. And not just flowers, but whole bouquets. Let them be original, for example, a flower in the form of a salad. Or lettuce in the form of a flower. Beautiful, original, delicious!
A flower-shaped salad can be made with any of your favorite ingredients. This salad recipe is from the collection of salads for your beloved man. Therefore, we will prepare a cup of a flower from bacon, fill it with cheese.
I prefer to make an unusual salad "Herring under an apple" immediately in apples. Very pretty and appetizing. Try it.
Olives are the backbone of Mediterranean cooking in general and Greek cuisine in particular. I offer you a classic Greek salad recipe with olives - a very tasty, healthy and simple dish!
Delicious and tender beetroot salad with walnuts is prepared very easily, but it turns out incredibly tasty. One of my mom's favorite salads. Only three ingredients - eggs, beets and walnuts.
Watermelon is not easy to find in the cold season. But there are always canned and frozen watermelons. If you want to remember the summer, prepare a watermelon salad for yourself.
Mimosa salad"
A familiar salad, suitable for a festive table for any occasion. Salad "Mimosa" - a classic salad that is easy to prepare and incredibly delicate in taste.
Salad "Basket"
Very tasty and original salad "Basket" in any frost will cheer you up! It is prepared with smoked chicken thigh, mushrooms and vegetables. Be sure to try!
Salad "Olivier"
A classic Olivier salad recipe. Traditional salad on our holiday tables. I tell you how to cook salad "Olivier" so that everyone is satisfied!
Have you and your co-workers decided to throw a party at the office, but don't have time to spend half a day in the kitchen, preparing a festive dinner of several complex dishes for the whole company? A familiar situation, isn't it? Of course, in the face of eternal lack of time, there is a temptation to take the path of least resistance. And organize a buffet table at work, warming up semi-finished products or ordering dinner at a nearby cafe. But how can these dishes be compared with food prepared by oneself?
Some hundred years ago the rhythm of life was completely different - calm and measured. Our great-grandmothers could take their time going to the market to select the best products, and then spend hours conjuring in the kitchen, preparing several complex holiday dishes for guests. Needless to say, a lot has changed now. Constant rush at work, traffic jams… We are constantly in a hurry, and there is still not enough time to do everything, even if we use the techniques of time management so fashionable today. Therefore, parties in offices often follow the same familiar scenario: in the evening, after a working day, many people often only have time to drop into the nearest supermarket and buy a little bit of everything there, and then set the buffet table in a few minutes.
We assure you: to prepare original and tasty dishes for a buffet table, it is not at all necessary to spend a lot of time on it! We decided to save you from the hassle of looking for suitable quick and tasty recipes in culinary publications, calculating how long it will take to prepare these dishes. And we have selected for you recipes for quick and tasty salads, sandwiches and other dishes, any of which will be ready in just a matter of minutes.
Such buffet dishes differ from semi-finished products, like the original from a bad copy: after all, handmade! And, of course, they cannot be compared with fast food, which causes the development of many diseases. In addition, they will cost you much cheaper than ready-made store ones, which means that not only the stomach, but also the wallet will benefit.
Another plus is that cooking according to our recipes is easy. Many of the recipes are simple and the ingredients used here are affordable. So even not the most experienced hostess can cook many of these dishes.
Each recipe is accompanied by a color photograph of the finished dish, so arranging and serving such dishes in the best possible way will not be difficult for you.
How to save time in the kitchen:
If you cut the food into small pieces and put them in a thin layer in the dish, they will cook faster. Grated or minced products are brought to readiness faster than whole or cut into large pieces.
Preparations for many dishes can be prepared in advance. For example, knead the dough and form a roll or cookies out of it, prepare salad dressing, etc.
Cook several dishes at once, performing various operations in sequence. At the same time, each of them will take much less time. So, for example, first you boil potatoes for a snack, then you cut vegetables for a salad, then you mix ingredients for a cocktail, etc.
Modern kitchen appliances (mixer, blender, food processor) in a few seconds will perform all the laborious food processing operations that would take you a lot of time: chop and mix boiled meat, nuts, vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs, prepare mashed potatoes, whip egg whites, creams, cocktails, mix the dough.
Appliances such as air grill, multicooker, microwave oven perform all operations faster than other kitchen appliances. They are able to replace several appliances at once: a stove with an oven, a pressure cooker, a grill, a toaster and others. In an air grill, for example, you can cook several dishes at once, without fear that they will mix with each other or become saturated with foreign odors. It will be enough for you to press a button on the control panel - and you can forget about cooking for a while: the multicooker or air grill will do the rest.
Have a nice evening and bon appetit!
Christmas Desserts: Orange Jam Cookies, Chili Cinnamon Brownies, Gingerbread, Buttercream and Coconut Snowballs.
Butter Cookies with Orange Jam
Cookies with honey and orange zest and orange jam inside, topped with sugar icing
Chocolate brownies with chili and cinnamon
Dark chocolate brownie with sriracha chilli sauce
Creamy fudge
Creamy fondant with matcha green tea
coconut snowballs
Snowballs with almonds, coconut and white chocolate
Gingerbread
Classic gingerbread cookies decorated with icing sugar
Several worthy alternatives to the traditional Olivier.
Chicken salad in curry sauce on toast with homemade aioli sauce
A classic British origin recipe. Chicken in a bright yellow curry sauce is called "Coronation" because for the first time this salad was prepared for a banquet on the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.
Salad "Cobb"
An American classic that has not lost its relevance since the mid-1930s - a mixture of salads, vegetables, meat and cheese in one plate. According to legend, the recipe for the salad came about when American restaurateur Robert Cobb stayed up at work until midnight and asked Chef Chuck Wilson for something to eat. He threw everything that was left in the kitchen onto a plate and seasoned the vinaigrette with wine sauce.
Salad with cold pasta
At first glance, cold pasta salad may seem strange to you, but nevertheless this is a classic banquet dish that is popular all over the world, from the USA to Italy. It is best to choose medium-sized pasta for this salad: fusilli (spirals), farfalle (bows) or perline (small shells). Great for pasta in different colors.
red bean salad
A vegetable salad with beans, popular in many countries, is a worthy alternative to Olivier: instead of potatoes, it contains red beans, and you can choose the meat component to your liking: smoked ham, turkey fillet or just boiled chicken are perfect. The main difference from the traditional Russian salad is the absence of mayonnaise: for dressing it is better to limit yourself to good olive oil.
Potato salad
Classic German potato salad is good both as a main course and as a side dish for any meat: for example, grilled sausages, roast beef or baked pork leg. Another indisputable advantage is that this salad only gets better in a few days in the refrigerator: boiled potatoes are soaked in sauce, and the taste becomes more juicy and uniform.
Two hot and three cold cocktails with calvados, tequila, gin, maple syrup, honey and radish from bartenders Saxon+Parole, Delicatessen, The Box, "Let's go" and Drink your Seoul.
Applejack Rabbit
Stas Kireev, bar manager:“This cocktail appeared in the 1930s, it was originally prepared at Applejack Laird's, the production of which was able to withstand the Prohibition. We replace it with two Norman drinks: Calvados and Pommo de Normandie. The latter is obtained by mixing and further aging the juice of different varieties of apples and distillate of the same apples, usually 16-18%; pears are used in one of the three regions of production.
St. Martin
Liza Evdokimova, bartender at: " St. Martin is a variation of the classic Martinez cocktail. I replaced the maraschino liqueur in it with spiced cherry-orange syrup, which, of course, is associated with Christmas and New Year. The bright color also adds to the festivity. The name is given in honor of the island of St. Martin, which is ruled simultaneously by two states, the Netherlands and France, just as jenever and dry vermouth rule in my cocktail.
Somerset Hot Cider
Maxim Ivashchenko, bar manager at "": " For me, the most winter drinks are red wine and island whiskey. But if we are talking about cocktails, then I suggest taking tangerines as a basis (everyone loves them), backing them up with calvados and warming them with jasmine tea.
Smokey Granate Sour
Oksana Zhidkova, bar manager at: " This is a great cocktail for New Year's Eve: pleasant taste, delicate, like snow on Christmas Eve, texture, slightly smoky aroma. It is easy to prepare at home, spending a minimum of time and having a maximum of pleasure.
Warm Cider
Denis Kryazhev, bar manager at "" and: " This is a very simple cocktail, you can safely prepare it at home. I make it on the basis of cider and with the addition of honey. I warm it up and sprinkle winter spices on top - for example, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
What it is, I described in detail in the recipe for profiteroles with mushrooms. This time we will make with ham (carbonade) and cheese. I keep repeating that this is one of the most festive and my favorite snacks! Beautiful, comfortable and delicious! And most importantly - elegant.
deep-fried squid rings
Now the World Cup is taking place. Realizing how many men (and women, what is there to hide ha-ha-ha) of our country are sitting at the screens with beer, I decided to urgently please everyone with a snack for it. Very tasty, crunchy, fast disappearing. Don't forget the sauce!Italian eateries mini pizzas
If you are celebrating the New Year not only with your family, but, for example, in a large group of friends, and you need a generous table, then, definitely, one herring under a fur coat will not get off. And it is much more convenient to prepare goodies a la buffet. Just right for a big company. This option is just that. Mini pizzas are cute and savory. Aromas and tastes of Italy will not leave anyone indifferent. Even on New Year's Eve.Julienne with chicken and mushrooms
Julien in our country is already a well-known and beloved hot appetizer. But the fact is that we call it quite wrong. The dish comes from France. And it is called "kokot", by analogy with the mold in which it is baked. A julienne is a way of cutting into strips. But, you can't argue against it ... so pay attention, Julien. Again, what is good for the holiday - you can make preparations in advance, and just put them in the oven with guests.Roll with smoked fish
I really love this appetizer. It is convenient to serve it to buffet tables or just to the festive table. It is also great when going on a picnic or visiting, if you are asked to bring something tasty "from yourself". At the same time, it is done as quickly and simply as possible, only shhhh! Don't tell anyone about this!Lavash pies with suluguni
I, as a well-known cheese lover (and suluguni takes pride of place among cheeses in my addictions), offer you a quick and easy way to taste delicious pies. There is a minimum of body movements, but a lot of positive emotions! (Most importantly, not only with you - do you understand what I mean?)Puff rolls with feta and broccoli
This stuffing is amazing! You must definitely try it! For speed, I buy ready-made puff pastry. Usually I take yeast-free, but this time it was not in the store and I bought yeast. And you know, in this stuffing it played the game perfectly! Choose yourself.Profiteroles with mushrooms
Profiteroles are choux pastry buns. The dough itself is made very quickly, then "products" of any shape (round or long, if you want eclairs) are laid out on a cold baking sheet, certainly at a considerable distance from each other and baked in the oven, which must not be opened under any circumstances! Then they evenly rise, become golden. And inside, a void is formed, which can be filled with fillings, sweet or not. They are very convenient to prepare for the holiday. Bake the day before, store on a board, covered with a towel, and fill with the contents the next day. We will have this recipe with mushrooms - tender and deliciously delicious, they will amaze your guests. This is a great appetizer for the table.chief editor of the site "M.Vkus"
Here comes the New Year 2018! With what the editors of the portal "M.Vkus" cordially congratulate you, our dear readers. We believe that you have already moved away from the meeting of the New Year, slept well and are making plans for a long vacation. In fact, there is not so much time left - only a week, so we suggest not to waste time in vain and plan everything carefully. For example, numerous visits of guests - girlfriends with children, husband's friends, mother-in-law, relatives ... So that such a pastime is not a burden for you, but only brings pleasure and joy, why not turn it into an exciting entertainment? To make it easier for you, we have come up with 9 themed culinary house party ideas for your inspiration!
1. Adults + Middle School Children: Fondue Party
This variant of a themed culinary party is perfect when you are waiting for your friends with their schoolchildren to visit during the holidays, and you are too lazy to bother with food. Ask guests to buy fresh fruits along the way - bananas, apples, pears, tangerines and others. Get a supply of milk chocolate, a bag of marshmallows and long wooden skewers from the cabinet. Lubricate the fondue bowl with butter, break the tiles into pieces into it and place it over the fire. In 15-20 minutes you will have a whole bowl of melted hot chocolate. It is enough to cut fruit into pieces, put on wooden skewers along with marshmallows and dip in chocolate. Both children and adults will be happy with such a delicious dessert while watching good cartoons or family comedies.
2. Adult couples: wine tasting with light snacks
If friends are coming to visit and you plan to sit and chat about the latest news in each other's lives, why not have a wine tasting meeting? Ask each guest or couple to bring one or two bottles of their favorite wine with them. Organize light snacks yourself - garnished with grapes and walnuts, canapes, small sandwiches, Italian biscotti cookies, salted crackers. Prepare more glasses so that the wine from each new bottle is poured into a fresh one. By the way, you can arrange a blind tasting. Just wrap the bottles in parchment and write the number on top. At the end of the evening, let each of the guests name the number of the wine that he liked the most.
3. Friends of the husband: a buffet table with hearty finger foods
It does not matter for what purpose your husband decided to invite his friends over the holidays - to watch a sports match or a car race, play a role-playing computer game on a console, or discuss creating a new business project. Boys always remain boys, and nothing pleases them more than a set buffet table with hearty high-calorie snacks and cold beer. It’s not worth trying especially to impress your husband’s friends with your culinary talents: it’s unlikely that they, carried away by a match, a game or a discussion of a project, will appreciate your complex dishes that you pored over for a couple of hours at the stove. Keep it simple - a couple of large salad bowls filled to the brim with potato and corn chips, a couple of bowls with spicy tomato and cheese sauces, a bowl of popcorn, cold cuts, a couple of plates with simple and understandable sandwiches. With complex decorations, too, you should not bother too much, as well as with a large number of plates and appliances. Men are more likely to eat with their hands, grabbing snacks they like from the table. So if you don’t want to return home to find the entire living room in greasy fingerprints, make sure that there are enough dry and wet wipes around the table.
4. BFFs: Beauty bachelorette party with smoothies and diet snacks
After you have put the apartment in order after the visit of your husband's friends, it is time to send him for half a day to his mother (along with the children, of course), and you devote time to your beloved. Invite your best friends over and have a beauty bachelorette party. Face masks, eye patches, Sex and the City or Desperate Housewives as a backdrop. Food for such a themed party is not the most important thing. After New Year's Eve, most women are trying to restore their waists to their former harmony, so berry smoothies and smoothie bowls, light greens and fruit salads are the perfect food accompaniment.
5. Mother-in-Law's Visit: Nautical-Themed Dinner Party
During the New Year holidays, many will have to go through a rather serious test - the visit of relatives to visit. Often such an event unsettles for a long time and spoils the mood, especially if the mother-in-law arrives. You will probably be remarked that the apartment is not clean enough, that the child looks tortured and you are overloading him with lessons, and you have clearly gained a couple of kilograms, but of course it suits you ... To survive such an event, we suggest you leave with your head in the form of lunch. For example, make it in a marine style. Cover the table with a blue or blue tablecloth, decorate it with shells, ask the children to make boats out of paper and paint them in different colors. The menu should be made exclusively with seafood and fish - with them you can cook a lot of very cool and delicious appetizers, salads, soups and hot dishes. Even if your mother-in-law does not appreciate your efforts, your husband and father-in-law will definitely like them.
6. Company of any composition: gatherings with homemade pizza
If on vacation you invited a crowd of friends with children of different ages to visit, then here is the perfect format that everyone will definitely like - a pizza party. Not ordered in the delivery service, but at home. Prepare the pizza dough in advance (you will find different dough recipes), grate more mozzarella and ask your friends to bring 3-5 types of their favorite products with them. As soon as the guests gather, start creating - roll out the dough (you can not in a circle, but in the shape of a baking sheet), lay out the ingredients brought by the guests, sprinkle with cheese - and into the oven. After that, try everything together and choose which of the guests had a mix of favorite products that turned out to be tastier. By the way, you can not make dessert separately. As a sweet, the same pizza, for example, is perfect.
7. Children apart from adults: a special buffet
If there are a lot of children and they are already old enough to leave them alone, allocate a separate room for them, where they set the table with special "children's" snacks. A stock of cartoons or console games and a table of curly sliced cheese and ham, crackers and savory biscuits, fruit pieces and marshmallows. We guarantee that with such a table and multimedia entertainment, children will not remind adults of themselves for a couple of hours at least.
8. Company of any composition: grill party
This party format is ideal for happy owners of an electric grill. For example,Tefal Optigrill XL GC722D34. With its help, you canwelcome any guests. Hungry men fry steaks and burgers. D girls who are worried about the figure, fish fillet or chicken breast without oil. For children - to fry fruit - it will definitely amaze their imagination and delight them. Most importantly, such a grill party is a pleasant memory of the summer, warm July evenings, when you and your friends gathered at someone's dacha and grilled meat and fish.
9. Elderly relatives: tea drinking in the English style
Perhaps, not only friends, but also various relatives, relatives, cousins and second cousins grandmothers and aunts, will want to visit you during the holidays. Our advice to you: if there is no particular enmity between them (well, you never know), invite them all together and arrange something bright and beautiful for the sake of such a meeting. For example, gatherings in the spirit of the English five-o-clock tea party. The classic format suggests that there will be small sandwiches, soft scones, a variety of mini-cakes, pieces of cake and sweets on the table. A beautiful tea set and fragrant tea will complete the picture. Treat your relatives , give them hot tea and patiently listen to all their complaints and stories, because the main thing they lack so much is your attention.
We hope you find our ideas helpful. It is logical that you will not follow them completely, we just wanted to inspirenot to receive guests according to the usual program, and come up with something original. Who knows, maybe a new format of gatherings you will like it so much that you will repeat it in the new year and meet friends much more often than in the past.
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