Recipes for February 23. For cooking we need

Winter is full of holidays! And, perhaps, the latest in a series of holidays loved by the people will be the date on which we all congratulate the strong half of humanity. If earlier February 23 was a purely professional holiday for the military of all branches of the armed forces, now it has unofficially become a day of honoring all men, young and old - after all, they are all our defenders in one way or another.

But at least once a year (not counting the birthday) you really want to please your dear and beloved man with a festive menu compiled especially for him. It just so happens that men prefer hearty dishes, so we offer you a menu option of all kinds of dishes (from snacks to a special drink) that you can safely prepare.

And if for some reason such a menu does not work out, but you want to feed a man heartily in any case, see our last article about army food -.

You don't have to spend all day in the kitchen, trying to recreate a complete menu in order to dump a man on the couch with calories. You can choose the most preferred of the proposed recipes and, having tied a beautiful apron, get down to business.

Menu:

1. Combined meat hodgepodge for men on Defender of the Fatherland Day

The combined meat hodgepodge is very popular at all times. The real recipe is said to contain 7 types of meat (including horse meat), which make this amazing soup very nutritious and rich. For a daily dinner, this dish comes out a little expensive, but on a holiday it will be the most suitable and the man will appreciate your efforts.

Ingredients:

• Water - 4 liters.
• Veal on the bone - 500 gr.
• Pork - 300 gr.
• Smoked ribs - 200 gr.
• Raw smoked sausage - 200 gr.
• Boiled pork - 200 gr.
• Boiled sausage - 200 gr.
• Sausages - 100 gr.
• Canned capers - 30 gr.
• Canned cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• Olives - 100 gr.
• Onion - 2 pcs.
• Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• Sour cream - for dressing when serving.
• Black pepper - 5 peas.
• Fresh lemon - 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. Thoroughly wash all types of fresh meat. Pour water into a large saucepan and put the veal on the bone.

2. We peel one onion from the husk and send it to cook in the same pan along with smoked ribs and pork slices.

3. During cooking, be sure to remove the foam so that it does not settle, does not spoil the transparency of the broth and does not begin to float with lumps. Also, during cooking, you need to salt the broth. 15 minutes before the meat is ready, throw in bay leaves and peppercorns.

4. When the meat is cooked, take it out to cool on a plate. We remove the onion and spices. If you still didn’t follow the foam, then it’s better to strain the rich broth and pour it into a clean saucepan.

5. Cut one pickled cucumber into strips or small quarters.

6. Grate the second cucumber for the thickness of the hodgepodge.

7. The second onion is peeled, chopped into strips and sautéed in sunflower oil until half cooked.

8. Add chopped cucumbers to the onion and season with tomato paste.

9. Mix everything well and simmer for 10 minutes.

10. We clean the boiled veal and ribs from the bones and chop into strips that are convenient for eating.

11. We clean the boiled pork cut from films and cartilage and also chop it into strips. We grind sausages, sausages and boiled pork.

12. We send sausage and meat slices to the broth and after a few minutes add canned capers.

13. As soon as the pieces of sausages emerge, they are ready. By the same time, all the cold cuts will be saturated with the aromas of the broth with dressing.

14. Cut the olives into beautiful rings or cut them into halves and send them to the pan to the hodgepodge. Cook for about two more minutes and leave the finished dish to infuse for about half an hour under the lid.

Olives can be added along with the brine in which they were preserved. You can also add half a glass of cucumber pickle.

15. When serving, be sure to put a slice of fresh lemon on a plate, sprinkle with herbs and add a spoonful of sour cream.

Bon appetit!

2. Beef stroganoff with mashed potatoes for February 23

Tender meat that melts in your mouth, cut into thin strips and stewed in a creamy sauce after frying. Have you imagined its amazing taste? This is exactly what “beef Stroganoff” turns out to be, or as it is more often called, beef stroganoff. It was precisely tender beef that Count Stroganov wanted, and his French chef applied maximum ingenuity to satisfy the demand of the gourmet and his guests.

Although now this dish is prepared from both animal meat and poultry, the original recipe called for beef. Lamb is not suitable due to its fat content and specific taste.

Meat strips must be rolled in flour before frying, so that the juice remains sealed inside.

Another secret of the wonderful taste of this meat dish, so loved by men, lies in the creamy sauce of sour cream and cream. It is he who gives a sweet aftertaste with unexpected sourness and tenderness to the fried pieces.

Ingredients:

• Beef pulp - 0.5 kg.
• Cream, sour cream - 100 ml each.
• Potatoes - 0.7 kg.
• Milk - 3 tbsp. l.
• Butter - 2 tbsp. l. + 2 tbsp. l.
• Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. l.
• Flour - 2 tbsp. l.
• Onion - 2 pcs. (medium size).
• Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. We clean the onions and cut them into half rings.

2. From the beef tenderloin, we cut slices 1 cm thick across the fibers, which we lightly beat off, and then cut into five-centimeter strips of centimeter thickness.

3. Roll the resulting meat sticks in flour directly on the board and shake off the excess flour so that it does not burn during frying, but just wraps the meat well.

4. Pour sunflower oil into the pan and add butter. When the oil mixture is hot, send the chopped onion to fry for literally 1 minute.

5. Put the boned meat sticks on top and stew the meat on the onion pillow for about 5 minutes.

6. Mix well so that the meat is well fried on both sides to a beautiful brown crust and does not give juice. It should look like it is in a delicate glaze.

7. Salt and pepper to your liking, mix. First, add sour cream and, stirring slowly, let the meat soak in it for a couple of minutes, and then pour in the cream and simmer for ten minutes with occasional stirring.

8. Wash the potatoes thoroughly and peel and cut into pieces.

9. Boil in lightly salted water. As soon as it is ready, drain the water and knead with a crush.

10. You can directly in the process of kneading or already when the potatoes are in a mushy state, add milk and 2 tbsp. l. butter. Mix well to form an air mass.

11. We beautifully lay out a side dish of mashed potatoes in a serving plate, make a small hole in the middle, into which we lay out a beautiful slide of beef stroganoff. If desired, you can decorate with chopped pickled cucumbers and chopped or whole herbs.
Bon appetit!

3. Salad "Revnivets" to the Defender of the Fatherland

What can we hide, but all men, to one degree or another, have a sense of possessiveness and are periodically hidden or explicit, but still jealous. It turns out a kind of explosive mixture of a prickly hedgehog and a dangerous tiger cub. That is, almost incongruous character traits are combined.

So in salads, it turns out you can be able to create a prototype of the character of a jealous man: a mixture of spicy with sour, meat, cheese, sweet and crunchy. The flavor combination is so incredible that you want this dish again and again.

Ingredients:

• Fresh chicken fillet - 200 gr.
• Fetax cheese - 50 gr.
• Chinese cabbage - 80 gr.
• Slice of bread - 2 pcs.
• Red bell pepper - 35 gr.
• Canned corn - 2 tbsp. l.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Mandarin - 4 slices.
• Garlic clove - 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
• Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
• Soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
• Provence herbs - ½ tsp
• Sesame - 3 tsp
• Dried basil - ½ tsp
• Salt, pepper, dill - to taste

Cooking:

1. First, let's prepare bread crumbs with impregnation. To do this, cut the bread slices into one and a half centimeter cubes.

2. Grind a clove of garlic with a garlic press and combine in a bowl with vegetable oil and Provence herbs. So that the croutons do not turn out “fresh”, lightly salt the resulting sauce and whisk well with a fork or spoon.

3. Dip the bread cubes in butter sauce and put them in a baking dish or on a small baking sheet, and then dry them in an oven preheated to 170 degrees. It will take about 20 minutes to get beautiful fried crispy pieces. And so that they do not burn on one side - periodically mix them during the drying process.

4. Cut fresh chicken meat into beautiful small cubes. Salt and pepper to your taste and roll in sesame seeds so that they look like breaded. We send the rolled sticks to fry in heated sunflower oil and, with occasional stirring, cook them for about 5 minutes so that the meat has time to fry and not to fry. It is very important that it remains juicy inside.

5. Cut the cabbage into short strips.

6. Similarly, chop the bell pepper with straws.

7. Cooking cheese balls with spices. To do this, grind the clove of garlic with a garlic press and finely chop the fresh dill. We combine them with cheese and dry basil. Blend well until smooth.

If the cheese mixture turns out to be too dry, then you can literally add a teaspoon of cream, which can “tie” all the components together.

8. We sculpt balls from the cheese mass, simply rolling pieces of the mixture between the palms.

9. Preparing a gentle salad dressing. To do this, squeeze the juice from the tangerine slices in any convenient way. Grind a clove of garlic. Mix them with mayonnaise and soy sauce.

Mandarin can be mashed in a blender and used in sauce along with tender pulp.

10. Finely chop the onion. If the onion is too bitter, then the slices can be doused with boiling water and the bitterness will go away.

11. In a large deep bowl, combine cabbage and onion slices, fried meat sticks, bell pepper straws and canned corn. Mix everything well so that the ingredients are evenly redistributed among themselves.

12. Put the mixture into portioned plates or a beautiful dish, sprinkle with toasted crackers on top and put cheese balls with spices. We complete our masterpiece by pouring a fragrant sauce.

Bon appetit!

4. Snack "Stuffed breaded dryers"

Who would have thought that from ordinary dryers you can make a great stuffed snack! It turns out a rather unusual, but very tasty breaded combination of dryers with cheese and chicken.

Ingredients:

• Drying - 30 pcs.
• Minced chicken - 350 gr.
• Milk - ½ liter.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Garlic clove - 1 pc.
• Egg 3 pcs.
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Breadcrumbs - 100 gr.
• Flour - 200 gr.
• Sunflower oil - 1/4 cup.
• Spices, salt, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. So that the snack does not have to be chewed, it is necessary to soak the dryers in cold milk. To do this, we leave them to soften for about half an hour and keep an eye on them so that they do not become limp, but simply slightly swollen and softened on the outside, and remain hard inside.

In no case do not heat the milk, because drying in a warm liquid will simply turn sour!

2. Grind the onion along with your favorite herbs and garlic. You can do this with a blender or by hand.

3. Add minced chicken and pepper. We combine with chicken yolk and the previous chopped components. Mix well and leave in the refrigerator for 25 minutes.

4. We cut the cheese into cubes, which will fit into the drying hole in size. Approximately centimeter by centimeter for the number of snacks (30 pcs.).

5. We lay out the drying on a board moistened with cold water. First, on one side, fill it with half a teaspoon of minced meat, then turn it over. We put the cheese in the center and seal the top with the second half of a teaspoon of minced meat.

6. In three bowls, prepare the lezon (2 eggs and white are beaten with salt and your favorite spices), breadcrumbs and flour.

Instead of breadcrumbs, you can use a ready-made bag of breadcrumbs for chicken.

7. Roll each stuffed drying first in flour, then dip in lezon and roll in breadcrumbs. Then we fry the breaded “bombs” in a deep fryer or in hot oil in a deep frying pan.

8. Let the excess oil absorb into a paper towel for at least a minute and serve hot so that the inside of the cheese is still melted.

Bon appetit!

4. Cake "Napoleon" for February 23

I was surprised by the recent discovery that most men who are not very fond of sweets are still madly in love with the Napoleon cake. Crispy puff pastry with custard, it turns out, was to the taste of the stronger sex!

Ingredients:

Puff cakes:

• Flour - 600 gr.
• Cold water - 150 ml.
• Butter - 400 gr.
• Cognac - 3 tbsp. l.
• Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
• Vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt - a pinch.

Custard:

1. Milk - 1.5 liters.
2. Butter 82% - 200 gr. + 30 gr.
3. Sugar - 360 gr.
4. Yolks - 7 pcs.
5. Vanilla sugar - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Carefully separate the yolks from the eggs and mix them with regular and vanilla sugar. We grind them to a homogeneous mass.

2. Pour in a third of cold milk.

3. Mix well until smooth.

4. Pour the sifted flour and stir gently so that no lumps are formed that we do not need.

5. Add another third of the milk and mix until a creamy homogeneous consistency.

6. Pour the remaining third of the milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil with occasional stirring. Then, in a thin stream with vigorous stirring, so that the yolks do not “brew”, pour it into the egg-milk mixture.

7. Pour the resulting mixture into a saucepan and over low heat, constantly stirring with a whisk or spatula, heat until thickened, without boiling.

8. Put the butter (a piece of 30 grams) into the hot mixture and cool to room temperature under a lid in a water bath. It is advisable to stir periodically so that the hard crust does not freeze.

9. In a separate cup, beat the melted butter (200 grams) with a mixer.

10. Beat the thickened egg-milk mixture with a whisk or a mixer.

11. Gradually add the egg-milk substance to the whipped butter in a couple of tablespoons.

12. Beat each approach with a mixer until smooth.

13. Gradually combining the components, we should get a lush, homogeneous, beautiful and very tasty custard that can be used immediately, even after storage in the refrigerator (but not more than 2 days, because the cream contains raw yolks!).

14. In a separate bowl, combine cognac with cold water and vinegar. Then, in a glass or a deep bowl, stir the eggs with salt and combine them with a cognac-water solution. Mix until smooth. No need to beat!

15. Cut the butter into cubes and spread on top of the sifted flour.

16. Using a knife, chop the butter with flour so that you get a small crumb.

This procedure can also be carried out in a food processor.

17. We collect the butter-flour mixture in a small hill, in the center of which we make a “crater” and pour the previously prepared solution into it.

18. Knead a dense dough that is pleasant to the hands. We divide it into 12 identical balls, which, having covered with a film, put it in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.

19. We send a baking sheet to a preheated to 220 degrees for literally 40 seconds, then take it out and, turning it upside down, sprinkle it lightly with flour. We put a ball of dough and press it slightly in the middle with a rolling pin.

20. Roll out each ball right on the baking sheet to the state of a thin cake.

21. Put a plate on top and cut off the excess dough along its edge. Slightly move it aside, but do not remove it.

22. So that we do not get swollen, clumsy cakes, we evenly apply punctures with a fork all over the circle.

23. We send the cake to bake for 7 minutes. You should get a beautiful slightly light golden brownish color.

24. Carefully pick up each cake with a knife or spatula and put it to cool on a flat surface, and put the baked dough scraps on a plate.

25. Cooled cakes can be stacked.

26. Grind the trimmings to the state of crumbs, which will serve as a sprinkling for the cake.

27. In a wide detachable form, line the bottom along with the edges with cling film or foil. We put the first cake in the center.

28. Apply 3-4 tablespoons of cream.

29. Spread the cream evenly over the entire cake. From above we lay the edge to the edge of the second cake and again coat with cream. So repeat the manipulations with the rest of the cakes.

30. When we lay out the last cake, it is necessary to slightly press down on the entire pyramid of smeared cakes so that the cream comes out slightly on the edges. And then well smear on top and him.

31. In order for the cake to be well soaked, cover it with a film on top and send it to cool in the refrigerator for the night or even better for the whole day.

32. Carefully remove the detachable form and cellophane, and transfer the cake to a beautiful dish. Lubricate the top and sides with cream.

So that the edges of the dish do not get dirty when decorating the cake, it is best to cover them with parchment, which, after completing all the procedures, is removed along with excess crumbs and drops of cream.

33. Evenly sprinkle the sides of the cake with crumbs.

34. The top of the cake is also covered with crumbs and, if desired, sprinkled with more grated chocolate or decorated with fruit or chocolate figurines.

Bon appetit!

5. Homemade cognac for men on February 23

For men, it is customary to serve strong drinks. And it's no secret that men really like cognac, rum, whiskey, etc. alcohol, but not every housewife can afford to buy these expensive beautiful bottles with strong contents.

But you can cheat a little and make cognac yourself. Moreover, if you do not say what they did themselves and from what ingredients, then many men will not even understand the difference and will appreciate your efforts. Moreover, the aroma will really resemble real French cognac with a hint of vanilla.

Ingredients:

• Vodka - 3 liters.
• Oak bark - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Nutmeg - 0.5 gr.
• Vanillin - a pinch.
• Leaf tea - 1 tsp.
• Instant coffee - 1 tsp.
• Black peppercorns - 3 pcs.
• Prunes - 1 pc.
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• Carnation - 2 pcs.
• Coriander - 4 grains crushed
• Raisins - 5 pcs.
• Soda - 0.5 tsp

Cooking:

1. Pour the bulk ingredients into a deep stainless steel or glass pan.

Do not be surprised that the ingredients contain soda - its taste will not be felt at all, but it is she who helps to draw the necessary color from the leaf tea leaves.

It is better to replace sugar with glucose so that an enhanced grape note from raisins appears.

2. Pour vanillin literally at the tip of a knife so that you don’t get a taste of liquor instead of cognac with a hint of vanilla.

3. Pour in vodka and start heating over low heat, closing with a glass lid.

4. In order for the vodka to be saturated with all the necessary aromas and the alcohol does not evaporate when heated, it is best to seal the hole in the glass lid (if any) with a bread crumb.

5. As soon as we see that our “brew” is about to boil, we immediately turn off the fire and let it also cool under the lid.

Cognac is never boiled!

The temperature of the liquid can be measured with a special culinary thermometer. Should be around 90 degrees.

6. We filter the cooled drink through the filter material. In extreme cases, a regular strainer will do.

7. Pour into a beautiful bottle or decanter and you can serve it to the table!

Enjoy enjoying the divine drink of your own preparation!

Let February 23 be not only another holiday for your men, but also be remembered for an unusual and such a delicious dinner. After all, no matter how strong our men are, they also really want warmth and care.

Dear men, happy holiday to you! Let prosperity and comfort reign in your family, the house will be a complete hut, and health and masculine strength will be stronger than Siberian frost!

Bon appetit and a festive dinner that pleases men!

What to cook for your beloved men on February 23? Use our selection of step-by-step recipes and your holiday table will be the most beautiful delicious!

Festive cake "February 23" - pastries for real sweet tooth. It turns out very tasty. Such a cake will be a pleasant surprise on Defender of the Fatherland Day.

For the white biscuit:

• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - ¾ cup;
• flour - 120 g.

For the chocolate biscuit:

• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 1 glass;
• flour - 1 cup;
• baking powder - 1 tsp with a slide;
• cocoa powder - 2 tsp

For cream:

• boiled condensed milk - 1 can;
• butter - 200 g;
• regular condensed milk - 2 tbsp. l.;
• a few drops of cognac.

For impregnation:

• Strawberry jam;
• water;
• cognac.

For glaze:

• cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. l.;
• sugar - 3 tbsp. l.;
• cream 15% - 2 tbsp. l.;
• butter - 50 g.

For sprinkling:

• walnuts.

For decoration:

• strawberry jelly - 1 pack;
• cocktail cherry;
• confectionery balls.

Chop the walnuts and decorate the sides of the cake.

Prepare jelly as indicated on the package, pour into any mold. When the jelly is set, cut it into pieces and fill the star on the cake. Decorate the holiday cake "February 23" with cocktail cherries, confectionery balls, let it soak and can be served.

Recipe 2: Vest cake for February 23

• 2-3 eggs;
• half a glass of sugar;
• 1.5 tablespoons of honey;
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda and vinegar;
• 50 g butter;
• 2.5 - almost 3 cups of flour, how much dough will take. You don't need a lot, the tough dough is hard to roll out.

For smearing cakes:

• 1.5 cups of sour cream 20%;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sugar.

For stripes:

• equally sour cream and heavy cream, 2-3 tablespoons each;
• blue food coloring.

Knead the dough and bake the cakes. Mixing eggs, sugar, soda with vinegar, honey and softened butter in a saucepan, stirring, heat over low heat until foamy. Remove and gradually stir in the flour to make a moderately steep, moderately soft dough. We divide into 6-7 cakes.

Now the fun begins: we take a children's T-shirt, a sheet of cardboard and trace around the contour of the T-shirt (or just by hand) and cut out the template.

We roll out one cake thinly (1-2 mm) on a table sprinkled with flour, keep the rest sprinkled with flour in a bowl under a towel, then they are warm, soft and roll out easier.

Having rolled out the cord according to the size of the template, bake for 4-5 minutes on a fire above average on a baking sheet dusted with flour. Remove with a spatula on the table and the same, while the cake is hot, cut out according to the “T-shirt” pattern.

Thus, we bake and cut out all the cakes.

We are preparing a cream - sour cream, or simply mix sour cream with sugar and a little water, so that it is not very thick. We smear with cream all the cakes, except for the top one. And the top one is simply lubricated with sour cream, thick, so that the pattern does not blur.

Now we need to make stripes!

Mix sour cream with cream. Part of the dye (about half a bag) is diluted with a little boiled water and added to the cream, stir until a uniform color.

We fill the confectionery syringe with a “flat” nozzle and carefully draw stripes. To get it right, you should first practice on something, for example, on a plate.

The pie for our favorite Defenders is ready! Happy holiday, grandfathers, fathers, uncles, brothers, nephews and sons!!! Since February 23!!!

Recipe 3: Stuffed Volantes (Step by Step Photos)

Filled flounces are an incomparable snack option for a festive table, a buffet table. The most important thing in this recipe with a photo is that fillings for vol-au-vents can be invented endlessly, completely different variations that your imagination can come up with will do. All kinds of pate, a variety of salads, you can come up with a lot of something interesting. Today I propose to dwell on three options for fillings - cheese with eggs and garlic, beets with herring, mushrooms fried with onions and sour cream. Everything is clear with the fillings, but as for the vol-au-vents themselves, it’s even easier here - you just need to cut out the finished puff pastry with molds and bake, during the baking process it will grow decently and you will get chic blanks. Well, if you're a little interested, then let's get started.

• puff pastry - 500 gr.,
• beets - 1 pc.,
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.,
• herring fillet - 4-5 pieces,
• processed cheese - 1 pc.,
• garlic - 3 cloves,
• champignons - 150 gr.,
• onion - 1 pc.,
• sour cream - 2 tablespoons,
• mayonnaise - 2-3 tablespoons,
• greens - optional
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons,
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Prepare all the products on the list and proceed. Remove puff pastry from the refrigerator in advance, allow time for the dough to completely thaw. Choose any round molds, one with a large diameter, the second with a smaller diameter. So, cut out all the dough in a large shape, put half of the blanks aside, the second half is still needed.

From the second half of the blanks, cut out the rim for the flounces, using a mold with a smaller diameter.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put all round blanks on a baking sheet, gently grease each circle with beaten yolk. On top of each round blank, place a ring of dough, which is cut out in a small shape. The rest of the puff pastry, which we no longer need, can be sprinkled with cheese and seasoned with spices, baked - this will be a great addition to broths or soups. So, the dough rims themselves are also gently greased with yolk. Bake the fritters for 12-15 minutes.

Peel and grate boiled or baked beets, add mayonnaise and garlic, skipped on the press.

Salt and pepper the beets, mix.

Wash and dry the mushrooms, cut into small pieces, chop the onion into cubes. Fry the mushrooms with onions in a pan, add sour cream at the end, salt and pepper.

Evaporate the sour cream, put the mushrooms in a bowl, let them cool down a bit.

Grate the melted cheese on a fine grater, also grate one hard-boiled chicken egg, add the garlic, skipped on the press, mix.

While the fillings were being prepared, the flounces had time to bake, let them cool completely.

Stuff the flounces with the prepared filling, put a piece of herring on top of the beets. Grind all the flounces with chopped herbs and serve them to the table.

Bon appetit!

Recipe 4: original appetizer for February 23

Coming soon February 23rd. If your man loves to gourmand, then this appetizer will be a godsend for him!

• Cucumber 1 pc
• Mint 30 g
• Garlic 2 tooth
• Curd cheese 200 g
• Black pepper
• Pine nuts
• Gelatin
• Lemon

A very light and tasty snack, consisting of just such simple ingredients.

Take cucumber in proportions one to one with mint and chop with a blender.

Mix curd cheese with chopped garlic, add lemon juice. Salt, pepper to taste.

You can add to this appetizer whatever you like according to your taste, and in any quantities. If you don't like mint, you can substitute dill. If you do not like garlic, you can not add it at all. And someone instead of curd cheese will take yogurt or sour cream.

Dilute 1 tablespoon of gelatin according to the instructions on the package. Add to separate cups to the cucumber mass and to the cheese mass, mix everything.

In this way (as in the photo), first pour the cucumber mass and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then pour the curd mass on the frozen cucumber. We put it in the refrigerator until completely solidified.

Garnish with roasted pine nuts when serving. And serve on the festive table for the Defender of the Fatherland Day!

Recipe 5: breakfast on February 23 for a husband

• Sausage (boiled and smoked (to taste))
• Soft cheese (curd cheese (to taste))
• Dutch cheese (to taste)
• Cucumber (to taste)
• Tomato (to taste)
• Bread (to taste)
• Pate (to taste)
• Ketchup (to taste)
• Mayonnaise (to taste)

We open the refrigerator and take out everything you need for sandwiches for breakfast, in any quantity. I had all of this on hand today.

I spread the bread with pâté and cheese, and then cut the sausage, cheese and vegetables into pieces that resemble ties, shirts and bow ties for men.

Here are some funny sandwiches I got. I'll make his favorite coffee and serve it to him for breakfast. Don't forget to congratulate him on February 23!!!

Recipe 6: pancake bags - a snack for February 23

Today we offer to cook pancake bags stuffed with boiled chicken, fried mushrooms and pickled cucumbers. Such a cute and mouth-watering appetizer is perfect for the Shrovetide table and on February 23, it will decorate the holiday and guests will certainly like it!

For pancakes:

• milk - 500 ml;
• salt - a pinch;
• baking soda - ½ teaspoon;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• flour - about 250 g.

For filling:

• chicken (fillet) - 300 g;
• champignons - 270-300 g;
• onion - 1 medium head;
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
• pickled cucumbers (or salted) - 100-150 g;
• cheese - 80-100 g;
• fresh dill - a small bunch;
• mayonnaise - to taste;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

For registration:

• pigtail cheese - 1 pc.

Lightly beat the eggs with salt until the whites and yolks are combined and a light foam appears. Pour warm milk, add sugar. In this case, we make the dough not very sweet, since the pancakes will be stuffed with salty filling.

Mix the flour with soda and, after sifting, gradually add to the milk. Working intensively with a whisk, we achieve a homogeneous and smooth composition without lumps.

Add vegetable oil, mix. The resulting mass of a sufficiently liquid consistency is left for half an hour at room temperature.

After the specified time, we collect the dough with a ladle and distribute a thin layer around the perimeter of the hot pan. We prepare pancakes in the traditional way: as soon as the bottom side is browned, we turn the product over to the other side and keep it on the hot surface for another 20-30 seconds. It is advisable to grease freshly baked hot pancakes with butter to soften the edges.

We cool the pre-boiled chicken fillet and disassemble it into thin fibers.

Chop cucumbers into small square pieces.

Grind the peeled head of onion with a knife, fry in heated vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes.

To the soft onion, load the sliced ​​\u200b\u200bchampignons. Stirring occasionally, cook the mushrooms over medium heat until lightly browned. Sprinkle lightly with salt at the end.

We combine chicken fillet, cucumbers, as well as cooled mushrooms with onions in a deep bowl. Add finely grated cheese and finely chopped fresh dill.

We fill the components of the filling with mayonnaise. Take a sample, salt and pepper to taste.

Now let's start forming pancake bags. To do this, put a portion of the filling in the middle of each pancake (about 2 tablespoons).

We lift the edges of the pancake up and connect in the center. To fix the resulting shape, we tie the workpiece with a cheese braid thread.

Pancake bags with filling can be served either cold or slightly warmed in the microwave.

Recipe 7: how to cook tarts for February 23

Appetizing and incredibly bright tartinki prepared according to the Belarusian recipe are a wonderful table decoration. Despite the fact that such an appetizer is prepared from the simplest products, the dish turns out to be unusually tasty, rich and tasty. Miniature sandwiches, created according to the principle of canapes, will be an excellent decoration for a feast. But Belarusian tartinki are no less attractive as an everyday snack. It can be served as an independent dish. However, it will give a special culinary chic to boiled potatoes.

• salted herring - 1 carcass;
• boiled beets - 50 g;
• rye bread - 400 g;
• onions - 1 head;
• fresh dill - 3 sprigs;
• boiled egg - 1 pc.;
• table mustard - 1 tsp;
• mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp

On a note! To make the taste of ready-made tarts more dense and rich, it is recommended to use homemade mustard and mayonnaise.

Every culinary specialist will be able to cope with cooking, even if he encounters Belarusian cuisine for the first time.

You need to cut the fish. Bones, skin and all the insides are removed from the herring.

The finished fillet is cut into small pieces. It is optimal to choose the size that you plan to make the sandwiches themselves.

Boiled beets are rubbed on a grater with the smallest cells.

Mayonnaise and beets should be mixed.

Mustard is added to the resulting mixture and lemon juice is poured.

A hard-boiled egg must be peeled. It should also be grated on a fine grater.

Egg chips are transferred to the beetroot dressing, and everything is thoroughly mixed.

The resulting mixture is interrupted with an immersion blender to make the mass more tender and homogeneous.

The husk is removed from the bulb. The fruit must be washed and dried, after which it is cut into neat and thin rings.

Bread should be cut into small pieces. The optimal slice thickness is 1 cm.

On a note! To give the tarts a special piquancy, you should slightly dry them in a toaster.

The resulting slices should be cut so that the resulting piece fits entirely in the mouth.

Each blank is smeared with beetroot dressing.

A slice of herring is laid out on the sauce, a ring of onion goes on top.

Based on a step-by-step recipe for tarts, it remains only to decorate them with dill and serve.

Recipe 8, simple: shoulder strap sandwiches

• bread for toast - 4 pcs;
• salted lard - 100 g;
• garlic - 1-2 pcs;
• carrots - a little for decoration;
• lemon peel - a little for garnish

Take 4 slices of toast bread and cut off the edges to give the sandwich the shape of a shoulder strap.

In total, you need to cut 4 "shoulder straps".

We spread salted lard on bread, trying to give the pieces of lard the same shape so that they do not protrude beyond the edges of the bread.

Put thin slices of garlic on top of the fat.

Cover with bread on top. It turned out simple sandwiches, no frills. It remains only to decorate, for this you need to cut thin strips from carrots, and stars and buttons from lemon peel. The same stars can be cut out of cheese, and stripes can be drawn with ketchup, for example.

A minimum of products, a minimum of hassle - strictly, like a man :)

Recipe 9, step by step: boats for February 23

This original way of serving salad will look spectacular both on the festive table and on an ordinary family evening. The marine theme involves the use of cold dishes containing seafood in this recipe. Although the taste of cucumbers goes well with meat and offal. Thus, you can fill the boats in the cucumber flotilla with any salad of your choice. Now we will tell you how to cook this unusual dish using crab sticks and squid.

• Cucumbers 1 kg
• Bulgarian pepper (red) 2 pcs.
• Squid fillet 400 gr.
• Chicken eggs 6 pcs.
• Onion 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise 200 gr.
• Canned corn 100 gr.
• Crab sticks 200 gr.
• Lemon 1 wedge (or 1 tbsp lemon juice)
• Canned pineapples 100 gr.
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste to taste

Fresh cucumbers should be thoroughly washed in water and dried. It is advisable to choose them of approximately the same size so that the dish looks more aesthetically pleasing. Speaking more specifically about the size, it is worth noting that the length of the cucumber is not as important as its volume. That is, the vegetable should be "pot-bellied". This is necessary in order for the boat to turn out to be roomy and beautiful. We leave a few cucumbers untouched for decoration, and cut the rest exactly in half along the entire length. Next, with a spoon, you need to clean the cucumber pulp from each half. We leave the pulp, in the future we will still need it. In order for the boats to be stable, you need to cut off the bottom a little from each slice of cucumber, without damaging its integrity.

We use two different salads at the heart of the recipe, so you need to cook them in two bowls. Eggs should be placed in a saucepan, pour water, add a pinch of salt and put on medium heat. From the moment the water boils, we detect 7 minutes, after which the eggs must be placed under cold water and held in this state for several minutes. Next, remove the shell from the eggs. The squid fillet needs to be thawed and skinned.

This can be done in the following way: with a fingernail or a sharp kitchen appliance, you need to pry off the skin and carefully remove it, pulling it away from the pulp. She will be removed according to the principle of a stocking. Next, the fillet must be thoroughly washed. Add the squid meat to a pot of boiling salted water and cook over medium heat for 3 minutes. Then we take it out into a bowl and let it cool.

In one bowl, add finely chopped squid meat, chopped 4 eggs, and finely chopped onion. We also send chopped slices of canned pineapple to the squid bowl. All ingredients are sprinkled with lemon juice and mixed thoroughly.

Salad with squid is dressed with light mayonnaise. The second dressing for the cucumber flotilla, recommended by us, with crab sticks. They need to be thawed and finely chopped. Dump them into a second bowl. We also add chopped 2 eggs, canned corn and chopped cucumber pulp, which we have left after preparing the boats. Crab salad is slightly salted and peppered, dressed with mayonnaise and thoroughly mixed until smooth.

Cucumber molds are filled with our fillings with a small spoon and placed on a wide dish. You can lay the flotilla scattered (meaning different fillings) or in a certain order, for example, in the middle with crab filling, and around the edges with squid salad.

Next is the most important stage in the preparation of the cucumber flotilla, which we give the composition maximum realism. Cucumbers need to be cut into very thin longitudinal plates. And the peeled and washed bell pepper should be cut into small triangles that will serve as flags. On a toothpick or a short skewer, you need to string a slice of cucumber on both sides, so that in the end you get a semblance of a sail. We string a triangle of red pepper on the free edge, and with the other edge we fix a toothpick in the salad fillings. The cucumber flotilla is ready, you can serve a snack on the table. Bon appetit!

Recipe 10: onion and meat balls for the holiday

Onion-meat balls filled with mushrooms, onions, parsley and minced meat are ideally combined with barbecue sauce.

• 2 onions;
• 0.5 kg of ground beef;
• 1 pack of bacon;
• ¼ cup onion, diced;
• ¼ cup chopped parsley;
• ¼ cup chopped mushrooms;
• 1 st. l. Sahara;
• 1 st. l. spicy ketchup;
• 1 tsp soy sauce;
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce (if available)
• ¼ cup breading;
• 1 bottle of barbecue sauce.

Prepare the coals in a broiler or preheat the oven to 220°C.

The peeled onion must be cut off the upper and lower parts. Then cut it in half and separate the layers, saving the largest for future balls. What remains, cut into cubes.

Combine ground beef and diced onion, parsley, mushrooms, sugar, seasonings and breadcrumbs in a large bowl. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

Shape the meatballs just the right size to fit the cooked onion halves. And make ball blanks.

After that, wrap the blanks with three slices of bacon. Secure the bacon with toothpicks so it doesn't unravel while cooking.

Bake the dish at 220°C for 40 minutes. Then drizzle with barbecue sauce and bake for another 5 minutes.

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.

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 fillet. 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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Snack decorations

To decorate the festive table, various canapes are perfect, which can be made with fish and fresh cucumber, with tongue or ham and cheese (the cheese is grated and mixed with garlic). You can also take cherry tomatoes, cut a “hole” in them, into which the same mixture of cheese and garlic is placed. It turns out a very tasty and spicy snack. You can decorate a canape, for example, in the form of a boat, by making a sail from cheese, planted on a toothpick.

Salads.

You can cook your favorite salad of the defender of the fatherland, perhaps it will turn out to be the usual “olivier”, but you can also surprise with an original dish like chicken salad with pineapples (pieces of boiled chicken breast, mushrooms, canned pineapple, mustard, mayonnaise are mixed). This salad is especially liked by lovers of sweets.

Second courses:

Meat in French. Perhaps this dish will seem banal to someone, but nothing is better than meat for a man, and it cannot be. You will need a baking sheet, on which potatoes are placed in thin layers, followed by a layer of meat, then a layer of onions, pepper, salt. After that, put another layer of potatoes, sprinkle it with cheese and spread with mayonnaise. Bake it all in the oven for about half an hour.

- Shashlik. This is a truly masculine dish that can be cooked at home in an electric barbecue. Pre-marinated meat will pleasantly surprise your beloved man.

— Chicken with apples. A whole chicken stuffed with apples baked in the oven will turn out simply and tasty.

— A lover of fish and fishing will like baked trout or salmon. It tastes best in its own juice. It turns out such a fish if it is cooked in the sleeve.

Dessert will be a wonderful addition to the festive table:

— The original and very tasty chocolate fondant will definitely please those who will sit at the table. This dessert is prepared simply, but it looks like a masterpiece.

- Ice cream, homemade, usually turns out much tastier than the one sold in the store. If you add fruits to it, sprinkle with chocolate chips, or sprinkle with honey, then it will turn out even better.

- Pie with berries, more to the taste of those who do not like very sweet desserts.

- Cake. You can cook a man's favorite cake, for example "Napoleon". It is prepared, of course, for a long time and difficult, but the result is worth it. On the cake, you can write a congratulation yourself or draw an original picture.

The most important thing is to cook for a beloved man with a soul, then he will appreciate the efforts and thank you on March 8!