Space … Even in the 21st century, outer space continues remain inaccessible, mysterious, attractive and somewhat intimidating. It doesn’t matter how old the dreamer is – his all the same time from dreams of promenades on the lunar surface, flights on huge intergalactic cruisers, or at least modern rockets taking off from the launch pad.
Perhaps, it’s not without reason that people sometimes envy all those who can safely call space his real home: astronauts, astrophysicists, science fiction. However, why not try to translate dream come true in a completely unusual way? For example, with using food or room surroundings? Moreover, the reason for this is not need and look: very soon there will be World Cosmonautics Day! Game of colors or associative techniques
You can start by imitating physicists: with preparation experiment. Playing with colors will determine your mood in the evening. With a choice of dominant colors for serving or decoration the kitchen or the living room as a whole is easy to decide if you recall the game in an association left in childhood.
Most people associate space with navy blue: what Well, in this case, it should be taken as the basis of the gamut. Smooth blue a tablecloth falling in soft folds will be very interesting decision, because will create an impression of depth and tranquility. Intricately folded light yellow cloth napkins will serve the embodiment of fragments of celestial bodies in outer space. Canteens can also be light yellow elements. appliances (plates, other utensils): in this case it is more expedient pick up napkins to match the navy blue tablecloth. Add entourage matte colored glasses will also help.
Accents will help to set not only pale “star” elements, but also a variety of metal parts. Devices with silver plated (or even silver), candle holders, glossy silver napkin holders (e.g. stainless steel) will come in handy along with composite shelves for sandwiches and fruits, metal trays for bread, as well as other small details. Cold steel shine on a background of dark blue fabric with splashes pale yellow do a great job creating a mysterious “cosmic” atmosphere. “Space” hand-made
Handy little interesting little things will be great addition to the general “galactic” surroundings. In order to create your own “starry sky” within the kitchen or other premises, you will need not so many materials that are always are at hand almost every housewife. To them relate:
- foil (ordinary for baking or colored);
- wire (preferably thin, silver);
- jewelry made of metal (chains, hairpins or brooches);
- cardboard (good, tight);
- any fasteners (nuts, screws, etc.);
- spray can with silver color.
Stars, rockets, planets, satellites – from these improvised materials You can make everything that the fantasy tells. For example, from jewelry and thin wire can make excellent holders napkins. Thick cardboard coated with paint will serve for cones. Cutting holes in the cones in the manner of portholes and putting inside beautiful (you can even scented) candles, you can get nice rocket candle holders. Foil can be used for making stars and other decorations for the ceiling, table and hanging shelves. You can fix such “stars” using threads or tailor pins.
Foil is also easy to wrap ordinary wooden frames, turning them into a “space” accessory. Such frames can be tight wrap with thin wire, then glue the pieces on top foils of various shapes (for example, rockets or planets). Images of astronauts inserted into framework. Yuri Gagarin, Tereshkova or – in the children’s version – Squirrel and Arrow: personalities are determined individually.
“Space” dishes. Experimental holiday table
Cosmonautics Day holiday table can include any dishes in any form. Moonlight appetizer surfaces with craters, salads and cakes in the form of rockets, stations and satellites, planet pies and other equally delicious goodies.
Gourmet Smoked Salmon Craters
Components:
smoked fish (salmon) – 300 grams; beans (chilli) – 300 grams; lettuce (2-3 pcs.); gherkins (5 pcs.); tomatoes (4 PC.); onion; olives (5 pcs.); olive oil (6 tablespoons); vinegar (wine) (4 tablespoons); clove of garlic; a teaspoon of mustard; salt, pepper.
The last five ingredients are for seasoning. snacks. Cooking process:
Cook beans in a not very large amount of salted water; Tomatoes peel, cut (slices), gherkins – stripes, and onion – half rings; Lettuce tear into small pieces; Mix all the components of the dressing, and then fill it with it the resulting mixture of crushed products; Put the salad on a plate, forming a pyramid with rounded edges, and then decorate thin slices of smoked salmon and rings of olives.
Beef Salad: Meat “rocket”
Ingredients: boiled beef – 0.5 kg; marinated mushrooms) – 250 grams; red pepper (sweet) – 1 pc.; feathers green Luke; thick sour cream – about 2/3 st .; a tablespoon of horseradish; 2 tbsp lemon juice; pepper, salt.
The last four ingredients form a dressing.
Cooking process:
Cut four thin layers from a piece of beef, after which cut meat into thin strips with mushrooms; Peeling off the pepper seeds, chop the vegetable into strips; Finely chop green feathers, after Why mix all the ingredients, except for “refueling”; Cook salad dressing, fill it with a dish; Serving carefully slides on plates, “wrap” them with slices cut at the beginning meat by forming rocket cones. If the “slides” fall apart, then layers of meat can be held together with toothpicks.
Hot experiment: meatloaf with delicate omelet
The presentation of this dish is easy to make unusual and colorful, having issued rolls in the form of “space” food in tubes. Garnish served fried or baked potatoes.
Components:
beef and pork for minced meat – 250 grams each; bulb; loaf or plain white bread, well soaked in milk (3 slices); hard cheese – 100 grams; salt pepper. The filling consists of: 3 eggs; 2 tbsp mayonnaise (sour cream).
Cooking process:
Beat eggs with sauce (sour cream or mayonnaise), then pour on a small baking sheet and bake the mixture until cooked; Onion, bread and skip meat through a meat grinder, add spices and thoroughly knead the resulting stuffing; Unfold on a table moistened with water cling film on which to put a thick layer of minced meat. Sprinkle a layer of cheese, put on top an omelet (it should be laid out whole piece, so you need to carefully remove the filling from the pan); Having rolled the roll using cling film, put it on parchment for baking or prepared baking sheet. Make the roll look like a tube, squeezing it slightly on one side;
Puncture the film in several places, put the pan in an oven for three quarters of an hour. The finished dish will let transparent juice which will flow through punctures in polyethylene. Ready Meatloaf you need to cool a little, after which you can free it from the film and nicely garnish on the sides. The crown of creation will serve tube cap made from half a tomato. Note: canned peas can serve as a filling anything else prompted by the imagination of the cook.
End of flight: space sweet dish
Cake “Flight” is perfect for completing the “space” in the evening. The main difficulty in preparing it is in the protein test, who need real lightness and airiness. Well for the sake of such an event, you can make your own, culinary, feat!
Test components:
proteins – 6 pcs.; powdered sugar – 400 grams; a glass of nuts; some lemon juice. For the cream you need: milk – 0.5 l; sugar powder – 200 grams; yolks – 6 pcs.; butter – pack (200 grams); some vanilla. Cooking process:
Let the proteins cool, beat them with a mixer, adding some lemon juice. It should make a strong white foam which must be divided into 3 parts; In two of the protein “parts” add chopped, pre-fried nuts; Cut out baking paper 3 circles of the same size (according to the diameter of the cake); On one of the circles squeeze small meringues out of the mass without nuts. Bake them for 1-1.5 hours at a temperature not exceeding 100 degrees; From the remaining “parts” bake two cakes in diameter circles.
The cream is prepared as follows:
Boil milk with powder, grind the yolks thoroughly and add to the milk mixture (but gradually). Cook the resulting mixture until it thickens, then cool; Whipping butter add to it the yolk-milk mixture and vanillin; Received cakes grease with cream, form a cake that decorate with “bezeshkami”. Finished treats can be garnished with grated chocolate or slices fruit.
