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Welcome to my virtual New Year table!
New Year Party is the best and most important party for all Russians. This page shows my New Year table, all the meals I cooked for my friends and myself. I spent the whole day cooking and enjoyed it a lot! My friends told me the food was delicious. For most of you however, this table is virtual. :) Happy New Year!

Dining Room & New Year Tree

I've always had a very nice New Year Tree for every New Year season since I was boorn. Unfortunately I had to skip last year due to my relocation on December 18 and temporary housing situation. This year, I needed to make it up for myself.

This is the place where the real table is located :) Not a lot of lights, but this is my first attempt... Please come in, be my guest.
Dining Room New Year Tree, aka Christmas Tree
New Year Table Table ready for guests

Appetizers (Cold meal)

All the usual stuff for Russian New Year table including Red Caviar and Olivie salad. Yes, the salad includes real nice meat and is shown on the picture without dressing. Some people get full with just this leaving no space for the hot meals :)

Red caviar on bread with butter Read caviar on bread Olivie - 'French' or 'Russian' salad :) - The must on a Russian New Year table! Peppers and tomatoes in oil with black pepper Eggs and onions salad Hard German Bologna [Best match for 'Sovetskaya' bologna] Fresh cucumbers Ham Marinated Mushrooms Orange Pepper Yellow Pepper Pickled cucumbers Sprats Fresh tomatoes Havarti [Best match for 'Rossiiski' cheese] Bread
See ingredients

Main course (Hot meal)

The final stage of hot meal cooking usualy takes place after the party has started. Hot meals are served about half an hour into the new year which makes it impossilbe to take pictures without disturbing guests. Therefore what you see here are pictures taken after the party of what't left.

Marinated grilled pork Baked Potatoes with cheese
See ingredients

Champagne & Fine Wines

Sovetskoe Muscatnoe - Soviet Sweet Sparkling Wine, $10.99/0.75L, Russian Cafe & Deli Sovetskoe Polusladkoe - Soviet Semi-sweet Sparkling Wine, $10.99/0.75L, Russian Cafe & Deli Sovetskoe Igristoe - Soviet Red Semi-Sweet Sparkling Wine, $10.99/0.75L, Russian Cafe & Deli Chandon Carneros Blanc De Noirs, $14.59/0.75L, Costco Massandra White Muscat, $19.99/0.5L, Russian Cafe & Deli Fonseca BIN N27 fine reserve porto, $12.99/0.75L, Costco Clocktower Australian Port, $9.99/0.75L, Safeway

Soft Drinks

Ryan's Natural Freshly Squeezed Apple Cider, $3.99/2x0.5Gal, Costco Kirkland Signature Aronia Berry Juice Coctail, $4.99/2x96FlOz, Costco Ocean Spray White Cranberry Juice, $3.99/1Gal, Costco Safeway 100% Pure Orange Juice, $2.89/0.5Gal, Safeway

Tea table

Tea table is something that is planned but never really happen at the end of the party since everybody is full. It takes place the morning after.

Zarrin Pure Ceylon Tea, $5.99/1Lb 2Oz, Russian Cafe & Deli Ahmad Ceylon Tea, $5.99/1Lb 2Oz, Russian Cafe & Deli Bonne Maman Blackcurrant Jelly, $2.99/13oz, Safeway Bonne Maman Wild Blueberry Preserves, $2.99/13oz, Safeway Grilizah v shokolade - Chocolate covered nuts candies, $4.49/0.90Lb, Russian Cafe & Deli Delicia Chocolate Truffle Gift Kirkland Signature Chocolates of the World $9.99/32Oz, Costco Golden Chocolate Poppy Seed Rullet $3.99, Russian Cafe & Deli Pacific Dessert Raspberry Oat Streusel Bar, $6.99/44Oz, Costco Amros Zefir - Amros Delux Marshmallow, $4.99, Russian Cafe & Deli

Fruits

Sunkist Tangerines, $3.49/5Lb, Costco

The party is over, we enjoyed it a lot. As always I wasn't very precise in figuring out how much food to cook. In fact, it turned out I cooked for about 10 people, while only 4 showed up. So LOTS of food is left in my refrigirator. :(

3 light sources - top, left, and right Tech details:
Meal cooked by my own hands guided by magic powers and the force.
Map grabbed from Microsoft Streets and Trips. All pictures taken with Canon PowerShot S10 digital camera. All food 800x600 medium compression, incandescent lighting, 3 sources, as pictured. Exterrior - same as food, no extra lighting. Interior and tree 1280x960, resized to fit 800x600. Pictures resized in ACDSee 3.1 picture viewer/editor. HTML page created in the build-in text editor of FAR Manager.
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