How to set the table for men on February 23. Shortbread cookies "Hearts"

February 23 - Defender of the Fatherland Day. Initially, it was believed that this is a holiday of people who served or are serving in the army. But, today, many women stand guard over peace and tranquility along with men, so this holiday has lost its original meaning and has become just a holiday for men. It doesn’t matter what professions they have, how old they are, whether they served in the army or not - these are people who you can always rely on in difficult times. Real defenders!

In our article, we would like to talk about how beautiful and interesting to set the table for the holiday, what to cook on February 23 to surprise and please your beloved men.

Table setting for February 23

For the festive table for the Defender of the Fatherland Day, serving is a very important point. Therefore, it will be a great solution to serve cooked dishes in an unusual style. So that the main participants of the celebration, looking at the design of the dishes, understand that today is their holiday!
Here you need your imagination and talent of the designer.

Below you can see several options for decorating dishes for February 23rd. It can be carved dishes in the form of a star and salads in the form of a tank or a soccer ball.

In the matter of decorating the table, it is best to start from the hobbies, activities and hobbies of your men. Many advise to make a table in military style or in the main colors of the flag. But if your friend, father, husband has nothing to do with the army, and even worse, if he has bad memories associated with this or your men simply do not like khaki, why set the table in such styles. Do something pleasant for your men, set the table with their favorite flowers.

You can simply cover the table with a green or blue tablecloth, serve napkins to match.
You can also add various figurines symbolizing the day of the defender of the patronymic, and even better if you yourself make jewelry that will remind you of your joint happy days together, of helping and protecting your men in relation to you.

What to cook for February 23?

February 23 is the only men's day that belongs entirely to them. And, therefore, men should be congratulated on a grand scale. Show more care than usual so that they feel like they are having a holiday.

For a special mood, you need to prepare a festive treat.
Desserts, mousses for a men's holiday are not relevant. Hearty salads, various spicy snacks are suitable.
Also, on the festive table of the heroes of the occasion, alcoholic drinks are appropriate.
There are no traditional recipes, such as a turkey for Christmas, on February 23rd. And, thanks to this, you can show maximum skill in cooking.

Above, we decided in what style we will set the table, depending on the hobbies of your men, now you need to decide on taste preferences and the venue for the feast.

First, we decide on the place, the men's holiday can be perfectly celebrated outside the home, if, for example, you have a summer cottage, then it would be ideal to fry a barbecue. If you do not plan to stay at home at all, then field kitchens will help you, taste delicious buckwheat porridge with tea right on the street.

It may well turn out if you arrange a holiday in nature, the so-called picnic.
Here you can do without lace tablecloths and crystal wine glasses. The main thing - exquisite "marching" dishes.
Serving a camping table implies disposable plates, glasses. Now they are offered in many different sizes and colors. Again, you can take the color in the style of "military", so that everything is in the theme. Arrange prepared dishes in containers and serve them to the table.

The main thing is that there is a lot of tasty and beautifully cooked. Meals are usually prepared at home. They should be such that it is not necessary to warm up. That is, mainly appetizers and salads.

If a holiday is arranged for male colleagues, then the “office” version of the dishes can be exactly the same as in nature.

But if you still decide to celebrate at home, then the first thing you need to do is remember what your men love.

You can clarify which alcohol a man will prefer for a holiday, and the choice of dishes that will be on the festive table will depend on this.

On February 23, you definitely need to cook hot, appetizers, salads, and, if you have a sweet tooth, then dessert. There are many options. Let's consider some of them:

Rich hodgepodge, with its amazing taste, is loved by everyone. The dish is not fast, but worth it. There are many recipes. This option is different in that it does not contain expensive products.

Ingredients:
1. Pork - 250 g
2. Smoked sausage - 250 g
3. Boiled sausage - 250 g
4. Chicken breast - 250 g
5. Pickled cucumbers - 250 g
6. Tomato - 50 g
7 Onions - 150 g
8. Olives - 50 g
9. Olives - 50 g
10. Cucumber pickle - 100 g

Recipe
Pork meat, cook for an hour over low heat, after removing the foam. Remove, let cool and cut. Chicken breast, cook for 20 minutes. And also, cool and cut into strips.
Cut the boiled and smoked sausage, finely chop the onion, cut the cucumbers into small strips.
Fry meat ingredients with onions. Then add cucumbers and fry for another three minutes. The next step is to add the tomato, simmer for five minutes.
Dip the cooked meat and fried vegetables with sausage into the boiled broth. Pour in the cucumber brine. After that, seasonings.
Serve with a circle of lemon, olives and olives. You can add sour cream.

Meat "Three in One"

Three types of meat in one dish is an incomparable solution. It is very festive and, by all means, men should like it.

Ingredients:
1. Pork or beef tenderloin - 500 g
2. Bacon or smoked meat - 300 g
3. White wine - 100 ml
4. Chicken breast - 2 pcs.
5. Garlic - 2 cloves
6. Spices

Cooking
Dry the washed meat and breast and cut into small pieces. Same size. Salt the meat, pepper, pour white wine. Remove to refrigerator. Salt the chicken a little, squeeze the garlic and add the oil. Olive is recommended. After a few hours, marinated meat and chicken pieces, steamed together, wrapped in strips of smoked meat or bacon. Secure the ends of the bacon with a toothpick.
Put the cooked meat rolls on a greased baking sheet, and bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Serve garnished with any vegetables or boiled rice.

You can cook a festive snack from the liver. And by adding mushrooms there, you can turn an ordinary liver into a masterpiece of culinary art.

Ingredients:
1. Beef liver - 500 g
2. Chicken liver - 500 g
3. Eggs - 2 pcs.
4. Milk - 1/2 cup
5. Salt, pepper.

Filling:
1. Mayonnaise - 300 g
2. Garlic - 5 cloves
3. bow 1
4. carrot
5. Salt, vegetable oil.
6. Two hard-boiled eggs and one bunch of dill - for decoration.

Cooking
Pass the prepared liver through a meat grinder. Add milk, eggs, spices, flour and mix everything until smooth. Get a cookie dough. It should be like a pancake.
Fry like pancakes in a pan greased with oil.
Now, chop the onion, simmer until transparent, add finely chopped carrots, salt and simmer until the carrots are soft. Add garlic, passed through a press, to mayonnaise. Mix. Lubricate the liver cakes with mayonnaise and stack one on top of the other, shifting the filling. Press the last cake a little, spread with mayonnaise, sprinkle first with grated protein, then with yolk. Decorate with dill. It is advisable that the snack stand for a while to soak.
No holiday table is complete without a salad. Men are generally reluctant to change their culinary habits. Therefore, it would be appropriate to offer something with herring. Always a win-win. Hearty and very tasty.

Ingredients:
1. Beets - 2 pcs.
2. carrots 2 pcs.
3. potatoes 4 pcs.
4. bow 1 pc.
5. boiled eggs 2 pcs.
6. Slightly salted herring 1 pc.
7. Mayonnaise 80 g
8. salt, pepper.

classic salad recipe

We cut the herring. Rinse under running water, dry. Carefully remove all the insides, cut off the fins. Make a longitudinal incision along the spine. Near the tail, pick up the skin of the fish with a knife. Then take it off
Now, you need to separate the bones from the fillets. Pry off the fillet from the side of the spine and, pressing your finger against the bones, separate the fish meat. Remove spine.

Why is it important to cut the fish yourself? This is the only way to be sure of its freshness.

Boil all vegetables with skins on. So they will be more starchy. Peel the prepared vegetables, cut the onion into small cubes. Hard boil eggs. Cut the fish into cubes.

You need to pay attention that there are no bones.

When the preparation is completed, you can start laying the layers. Coat all layers with mayonnaise.

The first layer is herring fillet, then a layer of onion. Then, grated potatoes. Again, an onion. Grate the carrots, then the eggs. The last beet, also grated on a coarse grater. Top with a large layer of mayonnaise.

If desired, the vegetable layers can be salted. Decorate according to the holiday.

If you wish, you can make a "royal herring under a fur coat." How? Everything is the same, only on top you need to make a layer of red caviar. And, decoration, and, truly - royal scope.

But the festive table should delight and surprise. Therefore, you can cook a real "male" dish

Ingredients:
1. Pork 1 kg
2. Bow 3 pcs.
3. Vegetable oil - 50 ml
4. Pepper, salt and rosemary.

Cooking
Cut the meat into large pieces, about 5 cm each, onion rings. Mix everything and add spices to taste. Thread onto wooden skewers, alternating, and arrange on a baking sheet. Roast in the oven at 220 degrees for about one hour. The taste is not worse than at the stake.
Tips: the marinade at first can not be salted; keep the meat in the marinade for no more than two hours; wooden skewers need to be held in cold water for about forty minutes so that they do not burn.

If you cook from beef, then the meat is tougher. To make the barbecue a success, you need to pour alkaline mineral water into the marinade.
Men are well-known meat-eaters, so barbecue can be served both for the first and for the second, and even instead of compote.

Do not forget that the simplest dish, beautifully served at the table, cheers up and develops an appetite.

You can make pizza. It will replace regular sandwiches.

Italian pizza recipe

First you need to prepare the yeast dough. To get the right result, you need to use fresh yeast, not dry. Flour must be hard grades. Do not use eggs, sugar - these products will make the dough heavy. It must be done within two hours. You need to stretch it not with a rolling pin, but with your fingers. Baking time - 10 minutes. At a temperature of 280 degrees.

Ingredients:
1. Fresh yeast 10 g
2. water 300 ml
3. salt
4. Flour 2 cups

Cooking
Dilute the yeast in water, add salt, flour, at the very end add a spoonful of olive oil. Knead the dough.
While the dough is resting, prepare the filling. The filling should be exactly like dough. Cheese is better to choose the type of "mozzarella".

Filling Ingredients:
1. Cheese 120 g
2. Salami 80 g
3. Mushrooms 80 g
4. Olives 7 pieces.
5. Tomato sauce or ketchup

Cooking:
Grate the cheese, cut the salami into thin circles, cut the olives and champignons into thin slices too. Stretch the dough, lay out the filling in layers; salami, mushrooms, cheese, olives.

In fact, pizza is cooked in stone ovens at a very high temperature, approximately 600 degrees. But, the oven is quite a suitable option.
May this holiday be unforgettable!

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Defender of the Fatherland Day is a significant and great date for our people. Many celebrate the holiday on a grand scale, preparing a variety of dishes, as for the New Year. On this occasion, the wives turn on all their culinary skills to please the men. Everyone has long known that the best present, in addition to socks and shaving foam, will be a delicious treat prepared with soul and warmth.

Many are lost in conjecture, thinking about what to cook for their husband on February 23, how to please a loved one with delicious delicacies. It would be appropriate to make something nutritious and as satisfying as possible. Almost all men love meat in different variations, the easier it is for you and me, dear women! No need to bother with light snacks and salads.

But do not forget about the decoration of the solemn table. You should forget about pathos and surroundings - we focus on conservative design. Incense will be useful if you mark the date tete-a-tete. Also take care of a sweet dessert. For example, bake a cake. Beat your loved one on the spot! We present to your attention the original recipes for February 23, which will be the best present and will be remembered for a long time.

Juicy manti from and potatoes

Uzbek food has long taken root in Russia. In principle, these are large dumplings, only steamed with the addition of spicy spices and have an unusual shape. To make the dish juicy, you need to roll out the dough very thinly, and take a lot of fillings. Some housewives consider Asian food difficult and are afraid to cook it.

But this is only at first glance. Following a step-by-step recipe, you will be able to create a culinary work that will delight you with taste. No more guessing what to cook for your husband on February 23rd. Manti will surely please your chosen one, especially in combination with a spicy sauce. Enough demagoguery - let's move on to the process.

Ingredients for the dough: a glass of boiled water (warm), two eggs, a pinch of salt, flour (by eye). For the filling: (400 g), five potatoes, onion, black pepper, two cloves of garlic. Products for the sauce: in equal proportions mayonnaise and sour cream (150 ml each), 40 g of spicy adjika or tomato paste, six cloves of garlic, a bunch of dill.

kneading the dough

What to cook for your husband on February 23? Of course, the meat according to this recipe. Beat the eggs with a whisk, season with salt, pour warm water in a thin stream and carefully pour in the flour in small portions. We stretch well. So that it does not stick to your hands, grease with vegetable oil. The mass should turn out without lumps, a homogeneous consistency. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.

Now let's deal with minced meat: cut the turkey into small cubes, add grated potatoes, sauteed onions, chopped garlic and spices.

We form manti

We spread the chilled piece of dough on a wooden board sprinkled with flour, cut into small pieces, which we roll out into thin squares. We spread the minced meat on each flour product, fasten the side edges overlapping on both sides, connect the pockets. Make sure that the dough does not tear, otherwise the filling will pop out.

We coat the steamer sheet with butter so that the manti does not stick to the surface. We cook for at least 40 minutes. You can use a multicooker. Make the sauce: mix all the above ingredients. Ready manty is laid on green lettuce leaves. When setting the table on February 23, do not forget to style it unobtrusively and nicely.

Festive recipe for lamb with pumpkin and chestnuts

Unlike pork and beef, sheep meat is considered dietary and contains a minimum amount of cholesterol. In addition, it is tender, juicy and nutritious. Let's describe the original version for real gourmets. To knead the test you will need:

• 300 g flour;
• one egg;
• butter (20 g).

Other ingredients: a kilogram of young lamb meat, half a kilogram of pumpkin, two glasses of pomegranate juice, 1.5 glasses of rice, chestnuts (400 g). You will also need five onions, a pinch of saffron, one hundred grams of butter.

Cooking organization

Holiday recipes are numerous, our version will appeal to everyone without exception. To begin with, boil the washed rice groats for no more than 10 minutes. The main thing is not to digest, otherwise it will turn into porridge.

Let's make the dough: beat the eggs into the sifted flour, add oil and water. We roll out the layer, line it on the bottom of a deep cauldron, pour it with melted butter. Put half-cooked rice on top, cover with a lid, cook for another 20 minutes.

Immerse the chestnuts in water, put on the stove - do not touch for 7 minutes. Cut raw pumpkin into medium pieces. Chop the onion, sauté in butter, then add the chopped meat. Pour pomegranate juice and a glass of boiling water - simmer for half an hour.

Fry the pumpkin with chestnuts, transfer the mass to the lamb. Season food with salt and pepper. Simmer covered for ten minutes. Stir the saffron in a tablespoon of water, pour rice over it. Discard the dough on which the cereal was prepared. We level the grains of rice on the surface of the plate, put pieces of stew with pumpkin on it. We chop greens.

Chicken dishes (holiday) for Defender of the Fatherland Day

Poultry meat will never be superfluous on the table. The optimal ratio of quality and price makes it in demand. If you try and add a twist, you can get a delicious dish, such as Provencal chicken - a traditional French dish.

Essential Components:

• chicken carcass;
• vegetables: five tomatoes, three onions, seven cloves of garlic;
• pitted black olives - 150 g;
• cheese - two hundred grams;
• olive oil - 50 ml;
• spices: two large spoons of Provence herbs, 2.5 grams of fennel seeds, a pinch of red pepper, salt.

Technological process

If your man prefers lean meats, be sure to cook a variety of chicken dishes. Festive variations will surprise the hostess with ease and speed, and guests with juiciness and piquancy. Now to the recipe. We cut the carcass into portioned pieces, lightly add.

Separate the pulp of tomatoes from the skin, cut into slices. Onions - half rings, and olives - into four parts. We combine all the ingredients, put one part on the bottom of the brazier. Put the meat on top. Season with spice sauce: mix squeezed garlic with fennel, pepper, herbs and olive oil.

We cover with a "vegetable coat". Bake for 1-1.5 hours. A few minutes before turning off the oven, sprinkle generously with grated cheese. Such a seemingly banal recipe, but what taste and aroma! on February 23 will surprise your man. Decorate the room with candles and incense for a romantic atmosphere!

Baked chicken rolls

This dish can easily claim the title of a gourmet treat. The cooking process will not take much time, and you will be able to prepare for the event. It is necessary to purchase in advance about two kilograms of chilled chicken fillet, three hundred grams of high-quality bacon, three medium-sized ripe oranges. Also take green salad leaves, black pepper, vegetable oil, salt.

Instruction

Remember that the table for February 23 should be different from No pink tones and flowers are needed. Cut the fillet into small slices, pour over the squeezed juice of oranges, flavor with spices. Leave to marinate in the refrigerator for two hours.

We cut the bacon into thin strips, wrap a piece of meat in it - turn it into a tube, fixing it with a toothpick. We lay parchment or foil on a baking sheet, grease with oil, lay the formed rolls. We put in the oven for 20 minutes.

We dip the baked chicken tubes on lettuce leaves. We frame cherry tomatoes and enjoy a magnificent evening. As you can see, it is not necessary to spend a lot of money. Recipes for February 23 are very simple. Show your imagination and a little effort, then your table will be replete with culinary delights.

In addition to deli meats, use fish. For example, salmon steaks under spicy festive dishes are many-sided, they will satisfy the taste preferences of any gourmet. Do not forget to please your man with a sweet product. Note to the hostess - biscuit cake.

Festive cake with condensed milk

If you still have a question about what to cook for your husband on February 23, then after you try this sweet dessert, all doubts and worries will go away. The process, of course, is lengthy, but the time and effort spent is worth it. Cake ingredients:

• three hundred grams of flour and the same amount of butter;
• six eggs;
• boiled condensed milk - a can;
• 1.5 cups of granulated sugar;
• cocoa powder - 50 g;
• baking powder - 5 g;
• 15% cream - 30 ml;
• fruit jam, walnuts.

Let's get started...

Let's prepare a white cake: beat two eggs into a lush voluminous foam, then carefully pour in 150 g of sugar, sifted flour (120 g). The dough will be liquid, bake for about half an hour.

Brown cake: in sown flour (180 g), add baking powder, remaining sugar, cocoa powder, beaten eggs (4 pcs.). Put in the oven for 20 minutes. Cut the cooled cake into two equal parts.

Cut out a star from white and chocolate cakes (do not touch the second layer). You can use a stencil. The remaining brown biscuit is generously covered with fruit jam, sprinkled with chopped nuts.

We make cream: beat boiled condensed milk with butter (150 g). Lubricate the chocolate biscuit soaked in jam, creamy mass. On top we set a star from a white cake, pour over with cream, sprinkle with nuts. Cover with a brown star, also soak with white sweet sauce. Refrigerate the product for about an hour.

Prepare the glaze: combine cocoa powder with sugar and cream, cook until thickened. We put a piece of butter (50 g), wait until the icing has cooled down, cover the cake with it. Decorate with fresh strawberries, sprinkle the sides with walnuts.

This is where we will end. We hope that the holiday recipes for main dishes will come in handy and win the hearts of men.

Ingredients: duckling, apple, sauce, syrup, dry wine, seasoning, salt, pepper, oil

I bake duck with apples several times a year. Previously, it did not always turn out juicy for me, most often I overdried it. But thanks to this recipe, for the past few years, my duck has been delicious.

Ingredients:

1-1.5 kilogram duck;
- 2-3 green apples;
- 15 ml. soy sauce;
- 25 ml. maple syrup;
- 200 ml. dry white wine;
- black pepper;
- Red pepper;
- thyme;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.

17.02.2018

Braised pork ribs with potatoes

Ingredients: pork rib, potato, carrot, onion, pepper, salt, laurel, paprika, garlic, water, oil

I don't know a single man who would refuse pork ribs. This is a truly masculine dish. For my beloved, I cook a very tasty, hearty dish - stewed pork ribs with potatoes

Ingredients:

- half a kilo of pork ribs,
- 400 grams of potatoes,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 onion,
- 1 sweet pepper,
- salt,
- pepper,
- paprika,
- dry garlic
- 1 bay leaf,
- chilli,
- 2 glasses of water,
- 30 ml. vegetable oil.

18.01.2018

Jellied beef and pork

Ingredients: beef, pork ribs, bay leaves, peppercorns, gelatin, salt, water

I suggest you cook a very tasty jelly. Beef and pork go well together in this dish. I have detailed the recipe for you.

Ingredients:

- beef - a piece,
- pork ribs,
- bay leaf - 2 pcs.,

- gelatin - 10 grams,
- salt,
- water.

18.01.2018

Beef jelly

Ingredients: beef, water, peppercorns, gelatin, salt

Kholodets is a very tasty and satisfying dish. There are a lot of jelly recipes and they are all insanely delicious. Today I have prepared for you an excellent recipe for beef jelly.

Ingredients:

- beef - a piece,
- water,
- black peppercorns - a few pieces,
- gelatin - 10 grams,
- salt.

17.01.2018

Fast and tasty economy pizza on lavash

Ingredients: lavash, tomato, salami sausage, cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, salt

Pizza can be cooked in 10 minutes if you use not a yeast dough cake as a base, but ordinary thin pita bread. It will turn out just as tasty and beautiful, but preparing such a dish is much faster and easier.

Ingredients:

2 pieces of thin pita bread;
- 1-2 pieces of tomato;
- 200 gr of sausage (such as Salami);
- 100 gr of hard cheese;
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise;
- 2 tablespoons ketchup;
- salt.

31.12.2017

Salad "Shishka" with almonds

Ingredients: chicken fillet, eggs, cheese, mayonnaise, almonds, salt, potatoes, pickled cucumbers

On the festive table, be sure to cook this very tasty and beautiful salad in the form of a cone. Toasted almonds in this salad add a delicious flavor to the salad.

Ingredients:

- chicken fillet - 300 grams,
- potatoes - 3 pcs.,
- pickled cucumber - 2 pcs.,
- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- hard cheese - 150 grams,
- mayonnaise or sour cream - 150 grams,
- roasted almonds - 200 grams,
- salt.

31.12.2017

Salad with herring - tastier "Herring under a fur coat"

Ingredients: beets, eggs, marinated mushrooms, herring, mayonnaise, dill

I want to offer you a recipe for a new herring salad, which I like even more than herring under a fur coat. Be sure to try it.

Ingredients:

- 2 beets,
- 1 carrot,
- 2 eggs,
- 1 herring,
- 150 grams of pickled mushrooms,
- 250 grams of mayonnaise,
- dill - sprig.

15.12.2017

Salad "Gift"

Ingredients: potatoes, yolk, carrots, grapes, beets, green peas, chicken liver, mayonnaise

Layered salad "Gift" will undoubtedly become the main decoration at your festive feast, no matter what holiday you celebrate. The solemn decoration of this delicious dish will definitely not go unnoticed by your guests!

Ingredients:

- potatoes - 5 pcs.;
- 4 yolks (boiled);
- carrots - 2 pcs.;
- seedless grapes - 300 g;
- beets - 1 large;
- green peas - 100 gr.;
- chicken or beef liver - 300 g;
- some mayonnaise.

12.12.2017

Korean homemade carrots

Ingredients: Carrots, garlic, vegetable oil, herbal vinegar 6%, ground coriander, red hot ground pepper, black ground pepper, sugar, salt, parsley

Korean Carrot is a cold vegetable appetizer with a spicy taste and a wonderful aroma of spices. This savory dish can be used both as an independent dish and as an ingredient for making delicious salads.

To prepare homemade Korean carrots you will need:

- 400 g of carrots;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 50-60 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1.5-2 tbsp. l. vinegar 6%;
- 2-3 tsp ground coriander;
- 1/4 tsp red hot ground pepper;
- a little black ground pepper;
- a pinch of sugar;
- a little salt;
- a few sprigs of parsley.

12.12.2017

Appetizer "Christmas snowballs"

Ingredients: chicken egg, coconut flakes, crab sticks, melted cheese, salt, ground pepper, mayonnaise, garlic

Snacks are the most popular dishes on any holiday table and not only. Today we decided to invite you to make original "New Year's snowballs" from crab sticks. The lunch was very tasty and beautiful.

For the recipe you will need:
- two eggs;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of white coconut flakes;
- eight crab sticks;
- 100 g of processed cheese;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- 60 g of mayonnaise;
- a clove of garlic.

12.12.2017

Stuffed eggs with cod liver

Ingredients: cod liver, eggs, mayonnaise, parsley, salt, ground pepper

One of the most delicious and original fillings for stuffed eggs is a delicate cod liver filling with herbs and mayonnaise. We offer to prepare an exquisite and elegant appetizer of stuffed eggs and serve it to the festive table.

For the recipe you will need:

- eggs - 4pcs;
- cod liver - 120g;
- mayonnaise - 2 teaspoons;
- parsley greens;
- ground pepper.

01.12.2017

Jellied pork tongue

Ingredients: tongue, gelatin, bay leaf, salt, black pepper, mustard, vegetables, herbs, berries

The recipe for one of the most common holiday snacks - aspic from the tongue. For cooking, you can use pork or beef tongue, to decorate the dish it is better to take fresh berries. A very tasty and beautiful holiday dish will delight family and guests.

Ingredients:
- pork (beef) tongue - 1 pc.,
- black pepper - 2 pinches,
- gelatin - one and a half teaspoons,
- bay leaf - 2 pcs.,
- mustard - 1 teaspoon,
- vegetables,
- greenery,
- berries for decoration
- salt - 1 teaspoon.

23.11.2017

Crab Salad with Corn and Egg

Ingredients: eggs, cheese, corn, crab sticks, mayonnaise, red caviar

We offer to prepare a very tasty, bright and festive salad with crab sticks, corn and cheese, decorated with red caviar. Appetizing, pretty and easy.

Ingredients:
- 150 g crab sticks,
- 150 g dessert corn,
- 50 g of red caviar,
- 100 g of hard cheese,
- 2 chicken eggs,
- 100 g of mayonnaise.

14.11.2017

Salad "Pearl"

Ingredients: slightly salted salmon, orange, eggs, olives, mayonnaise, cheese, red caviar, lettuce

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The original, beautifully decorated Salad "Pearl" will not go unnoticed by your guests. Our recipe with photos will help you prepare it. With caviar, fish and oranges, the dish turns out unusual, but very tasty.
You will need:
- 300 grams of lightly salted salmon;
- 1 large orange;
- 6 eggs;
- 2 tablespoons chopped olives;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- mayonnaise;
- Red caviar;
- for decoration olives, lettuce and half an egg.

04.11.2017

Shortbread cookies "Hearts"

Ingredients: wheat flour, butter, sour cream, chicken egg, powdered sugar, cinnamon, soda, red food coloring, lemon juice

How to express your feelings? And you bake delicious and beautiful cookies in the shape of hearts. Mom, sister and friend will be happy with such a gift. It is not difficult to prepare it.

For the recipe you will need:
- 200 g flour;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream;
- one chicken yolk;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of powdered sugar;
- cinnamon - half a teaspoon;
- soda - a pinch.
For glaze:
- one chicken protein;
- 200 g of powdered sugar;
- red food coloring - 1 g;
- lemon juice - 4 g.

03.11.2017

Georgian chicken satsivi

Ingredients: chicken, garlic, walnut, herbs, seasoning, water, salt

Satsivi is a Georgian dish that is known throughout the world. I know several recipes for its preparation, but most of all I like the classic recipe for cooking satsivi with chicken.

Ingredients:

- 1.5-2 kg. Chicken,
- 4 cloves of garlic,
- 150 grams of walnuts,
- bunch of greenery
- spices,
- 1-2 liters of water.

What is the best gift for a men's holiday? Experience suggests: hearty and fragrant, made by hand in the home kitchen. And it does not matter that Defender of the Fatherland Day is a celebration, rather, a professional one. The strong half also wants their own holiday, in which you can feel at the top of Olympus. Even with a minimum of culinary experience, creating a hearty menu for Defender of the Fatherland Day is easy. It is enough to decide what to cook for February 23, to have a few good recipes in stock and some free time.

Sandwiches, canapés or a vegetable snack?

The process of preparing for any celebration can be divided into two parts: directly cooking and festive table decoration. It is better not to waste time on twisting intricate rolls and bunches of parsley - men are unlikely to appreciate, and maybe not even eat. Exquisite and intricate decoration of dishes by February 23 will not correspond to the theme of the holiday - in this case it is more appropriate to observe asceticism and limit yourself to natural colors. Opt for vibrant vegetable starters and combo cuts of meat: use any variety of yellow, green, and red vegetables, smoked meats, and poultry.

As an alternative to slicing, you can "collect" canapes. Among the versatile and well-matched products are olives, unsalted cheeses, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, smoked sausages, all kinds of greens. Another option is classic sandwiches stuffed with sprats, smoked salmon, egg and cheese salad, bacon or any other products that are at hand.

The man loves pickles, but there aren't any bottles in the pantry? Decorate the table with a bright and appetizing vegetable appetizer, which is pickled in one night. It is not necessary to strictly follow the recipe: you can add the products that you find in your refrigerator - the main thing is that they go well with tomatoes. Eggs, cheese, nuts and all kinds of greens will do.

Salted tomatoes stuffed

Ingredients:

• 2-5 tomatoes;
• a bunch of dill;
• garlic clove.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the stem.
2. Remove dill stalks, finely fluffy greens.
3. Combine dill with crushed or finely chopped garlic.
4. Stuff the vegetables, combine the halves and marinate in the refrigerator for a day.

"Male" salad: less mayonnaise, more spiciness

Appetizers and salads for February 23 should be light to prepare a man for the upcoming meat variety. It is better to refuse traditional mayonnaise. Everyone loves olivier, but mayonnaise makes any dish too heavy: a healthier option is meat, spicy and spicy salads. In the same way, it is better to refuse multi-layered "fur coats". As a dressing, use vegetable oil - sunflower or olive.

Spicy cabbage salad with bell pepper

Most males love spicy dishes, so the recipe for a fragrant and burning salad will come in handy - cooking will not take you more than half an hour.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kilograms of Beijing cabbage;
• 1 bell pepper (preferably red)
• 1 teaspoon paprika;
• 1-2 cloves of garlic;
• 1/3 teaspoon coriander;
• salt, vegetable oil to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Cut Chinese cabbage into small squares.
2. Peel the peppers from the stalks and cut into strips.
3. Finely chop the garlic (do not press, so as not to lose the juices).
4. Pour oil into a preheated pan, add spices and heat them for 10-20 seconds.
5. Add pepper, fry for 2-3 minutes.
6. Add cabbage, fry for another 1-2 minutes.
7. Place the finished salad in a deep bowl, pour in the lemon juice, add salt and garlic.
8. Insist in the refrigerator - an hour is enough, but it is better to leave it overnight.

Meat crown for men's holiday

Exotic dishes are always in price, but by the Day of the Defender, you can afford to abandon time-consuming experiments: unusual recipes for February 23 should be unusual only for their taste. The simpler the main dish, the better it will be in harmony with the theme of the holiday. All types of meat will do: pork, beef, lamb - the larger and juicier the piece, the better.

But even the juiciest and youngest meat will not be soft enough without the right sauce. Among all the variety of marinades, it is beer that gives the meat a particularly mild taste with malty notes. For cooking, it is better to use a saucepan, but you can limit yourself to a baking sleeve.

Stewed meat in beer sauce

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kilograms of pork or beef tenderloin;
• 0.3–0.5 kilograms of dried or fresh mushrooms;
• 1 large onion;
• 1 carrot;
• a bottle of good beer;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• 0.5 teaspoon of pepper.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the meat and cut into large squares.
2. Finely chop onions and carrots, mushrooms can be larger.
3. Pour everything into a saucepan or sleeve, add spices and pour beer.
4. Cook at a temperature of 220-250 degrees, after boiling water, reduce to 200 °, simmer for about 1.5 hours.

A spicy-vegetable tandem of festive dishes will decorate the table and please even the most whimsical man, and even a young and inexperienced hostess will cope with cooking. This should be a real men's holiday - spicy, fragrant and healthy.

For nearly 100 years, Russia and some other countries that were once republics of the USSR have been celebrating a holiday that today is called Defender of the Fatherland Day. Despite the fact that the celebration primarily concerns those who once served in the army, it is now customary to congratulate all men without exception. In addition to gifts and pleasant words, most of the stronger sex are also waiting for a festive table. And women have to decide what to cook for February 23rd.

Quick holiday breakfast

Many doctors and nutritionists consider breakfast a must and the most important of all meals. But festive morning meals can be very different from the daily healthy foods that are customary to eat at the beginning of the day. How to make breakfast useful and original at the same time?

Green pancakes

A tasty and healthy dish can be obtained by adding spinach to the usual pancake dough. How to make these pancakes?

1. 250 g of thawed or fresh, but finely chopped and scalded spinach, put in a bowl, add half a glass of water and chop with a blender.
2. Pour in 3 eggs and 1 tbsp. milk, whisk until smooth.
3. Now you can add flour (1 tbsp), salt and sugar (1 tsp each), as well as 50 g of melted butter. Mix everything so that there are no lumps.
4. In a hot pan, bake ordinary pancakes from the resulting dough.

Beautiful green pancakes can be served with any sauce, but it is better to wrap the filling in them: cream cheese with herbs and olives, lightly salted red fish, fresh vegetables, etc.

Pepper scrambled eggs

Sometimes a woman does not have time at all to fiddle with pancake dough in the morning. And with the modern rhythm of life, this can be understood, so you can cook something simpler for your husband on February 23 - scrambled eggs in the form of bell peppers.

1. Wash the large bell pepper, remove the seeds and cut into rings about 1.5 cm thick. Heat a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil in a thick frying pan and put the pepper rings there.
2. To prevent the yolk from spreading, the egg must be carefully broken first into a glass, and then poured out of the glass into a ring. For each ring 1 egg.
3. Reduce the heat and fry the scrambled eggs until cooked over low heat. When it is almost ready, it must be salted.

This dish is served hot, and topped with herbs and onion rings. As an addition - fresh vegetables and rye bread toasts.

Gala dinner

Those who want to celebrate February 23 not only at breakfast, but also cook a festive dinner, will certainly include meat dishes in the menu. After all, if a man is not a convinced vegetarian, then he most likely considers meat cooked in different ways to be the most delicious and nutritious food. How to surprise meat-eaters?

Lazy dumplings or shtrumba

Despite the fact that dumplings cannot be called a solemn dish, Kuban shtrumbs can decorate any festive table on February 23. They are prepared quite simply, and taste incomparable. What will be required?

• dumplings dough - 1 kg;
• beef or a mixture of pork and ground beef - 700 g;
• 3-4 heads of onions;
• tomato paste and sour cream - 2-3 tablespoons each;
• salt, pepper and herbs - to taste.

Twist half the onion, mix with minced meat, add salt and pepper. Roll out the dough into a rectangle less than 5 mm thick. If the layer is too large, then it can be cut in half. Put the minced meat in an even layer on the dough, roll up the roll and cut into pieces, lightly press them on both sides so that the height of the resulting “snails” is about 3-4 cm. They can be steamed or simply boiled in a saucepan. But it is best to heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan, put the shtrumba there, pour water (1.5 tablespoons), a mixture of fried onions, tomato paste and sour cream and simmer until cooked for about 30 minutes over medium heat.

This dish looks very unusual. It is served with different sauces - mustard, tomato, just soy or spicy with chili peppers.

Shtrumby are good because they cook quickly. But if you have time, you can do something bigger. For example, bake a pork knuckle in the oven, but it will take at least 2 hours. It will take about 1.5 hours for a piece of beef weighing just over 1 kg, and for chicken fillet - 40 minutes, but it must first be marinated.

Defender of the Fatherland Day in the office

Many people celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day not only at home, but also at work. Employees gather together, and each brings some kind of treat with him. What to cook for colleagues on February 23, so that it is easy and convenient to transport the dish?

Layered salads, meats with gravy, etc. not suitable for work events. It is best to cook something that will last at least half a day without a refrigerator and is easily warmed up in a microwave oven (if, of course, the office has one).

1. . The filling for them can be brought in a container and laid out on the table. It can be crab salad, caviar, curd cheese with herbs, slightly salted fish, etc.
2. Sandwiches. On bread, smeared with mayonnaise, put a slice of ham, on top - a semicircle of pineapple and cheese. Melt the cheese in the oven, garnish with an olive.
3. . Variations on these little snacks include shrimp, cheese, and pineapple; cherry tomatoes, fresh cucumber and boiled chicken; grapes and cheese; red fish, bell pepper and pickled cucumber, etc.
4. Pies. The fastest way is to buy ready-made pie dough and bake pies with cheese and ham, with fried minced meat and boiled egg, with salted mushrooms, etc.

Deciding what to cook for February 23rd with these simple recipes will be pretty easy. The most important thing is that the dishes turn out to be hearty and tasty, it is unlikely that the representatives of the stronger sex expect some exotic dishes from women on their holiday. Therefore, you can safely cook what is most liked by close men.