Capturing December - Day 31 : Fun

[avrelia]

As it happens, the New Year Eve's fun is as much about food as everything else. It is understood that food doesn't make the celebration fun, but without food it is no fun, either. I worry a lot before the day, since I have - every single year - that drive to cook as much as no one can eat, but thankfully, my laziness overcomes at the end and I only cook what can be eaten by two people - and it still takes us three days to finish it all.

But "THE SALADS" must be prepared - otherwise it's all wrong. "Herring under a coat" for P., and "Olivie" for me. Lately, with the addition of D, we also work on making holiday cookies.

So here are two pictures:

This is "olivie" salad


these are "kozuli" - traditional Nothern Russian cookies. the problem is that I haven't eaten the real ones, so I have no how do they fare by comparison, but they were delicious in their own right. D. was decorating himself.