As is usual in our family for 2-3 weeks before the New Year we the menu is a festive table and write out a list of products that must be buy something to buy in advance and not get lost in the sea pre-New Year sales. Shura ordered gefilte fish, Sergei salad calamari, Greek salad, I, and by tradition we always baked cake from semi-finished products, not to bathe with cakes. In the end, everything turned out not as we expected. It all started with the fact that no one wanted to kill the living Carp, who did not want to fall asleep himself, despite the 4-hour walk on frost in a plastic bag. While decided what to do with carp, digested squid. They turned out rubber. With this bustle forgot to put the champagne in the refrigerator. It later emerged that in a hurry instead of bunches of celery, parsley and cilantro was purchased three beams cilantro, black olives, pitted and were olives with pits. Exactly at 24 00 for a hastily assembled holiday table all clinked champagne warm (I'm a warm carrot juice) and ran the entire family into the kitchen to pick out seeds from olives. As a result, at a gala table, which we podgrebli in the morning, it was: warm champagne, salad rubber squid, live carp, which we released in the bath (and themselves and not time to take a shower) , a Greek salad without celery, parsley, and smeared with soft cheese and olives, dig, and not rising cake in the oven and bananas, which are bought in advance for the day 3 and that had become covered with "corpse" stains. The holiday was a success!
