New Year's Eve: which festive menu for children?
Make them participate
To avoid the risk of seeing their pretty little face undone at the sight of your mealwhat better than to inform you directly at the source? If you yourself have childrenAsk them what they would like to eat and what their cousins or table mates like. If you are absolutely foreign to anything that touches the childish world, you can also children from your neighbor (provided you get along well). Count on them to tell you what to do and what to avoid with all the tact and spontaneity we know them!
Bet on the decor and the fun
For having tested it, you can (almost) make everything eat at a child, provided to have a little imagination, creativity and know how to manage with his 10 fingers. So, to introduce them to new tastes or simply to see them lick their plates and ask for more, give them molecular cuisine, multiply fun shapes and colors, innovate with beet crisps and make cookie cutters. and the sleeve pocket your best friends!
A simple menu
For the childrenThe key to success is often simplicity. No need to make complicated where just a fries / steak. Especially since they do not usually stay at the table for a long time and the sooner they finish their plate the sooner they can go play! But it's still Christmas so to avoid ham shells, here are some alternatives:
Starter: sticks of surimi and mayonnaise, cocktail sauce or lemon juice for dipping, blinis with salmon and fresh cheese sprinkled with chives or dill, rolled ham with garlic cheese and herbs, small sausages appetizers rolled in dough puff pastry, goat toast with walnuts and honey, vegetable chips ...
Dish : capon or chicken with french fries, hazelnuts, potatoes, steakhouse or potato pancakes, a touch of carrot puree, beetroot or peas if you want to add some color and greenery (you can even arrange in the shape of a fir tree or Christmas balls if you have your hand!).
Dessert : Chocolate ice cream log with toothpicks adorned with candies and other festive chocolates, fruit melts and / or chocolate marshmallows, coconut balls in the shape of a snowman ...
The idea of the chef!
To treat gourmands, Sabine Paris, author of Recettes de Réveillon (Larousse Albums) imagined a chicken in a casserole with sweet cider or coca-cola accompanied by homemade potato chips, a salad and its lightly roasted goat cheese and a frozen log chocolate / banana. And if we were invited to the table of the little ones this time ?!
