You can organize a small feast on your own for any occasion and quite often (anniversaries, New Year, February 23 (I advise you to look at the ideas), March 8, successful completion of affairs, and so on).
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I tried to choose proven and easy-to-make snacks, so bookmark the article so that this cheat sheet is at hand at the right time! My ideas will help you organize a holiday quickly and inexpensively.
I'm not advocating making all these snacks! Choose!
The first thing that comes to mind is small, elegant snacks (canapés). I’ve been collecting all these ideas in pictures for quite a long time and add them regularly, so you’ll definitely find suitable options (evaluate the time and financial costs).
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I liked the idea of serving canapés on a shaped mirror. An unusual tray, it looks festive, and there are twice as many snacks :-). Take note!
...if you butter the bread prepared at home mustard oil(for 200 g of softened butter - 1 tablespoon of ready-made mustard from a jar)
… prepare cheese cream(in a blender, beat 150 g of hard cheese, 150 g of soft cream cheese, 2 cloves of garlic and several sprigs of herbs, 1/2 cup of cream 20-22%)
... put a piece of sausage or boiled pork for tartar sauce(add 30 g of finely chopped pickled cucumbers, 1 tablespoon each of chopped capers and green onions to 150 grams of mayonnaise, cool for 30 minutes, pour in 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste).
As a rule, more than one person prepares a buffet at work, so you can distribute in advance among colleagues who can do what at home in advance. Approximate design of sandwiches on the picture:
Sandwich meat It's better to do it yourself. Believe me, your colleagues will highly appreciate a natural homemade product, it just takes a little effort! The meat is prepared simply.
Herring oil(beat one herring fillet in a blender with 200 g butter) or minced meat(scroll through a meat grinder the fillet of one herring, a green apple without peel, a small onion, a boiled egg, 70-100 g of butter, season with black pepper) they will only require a small decoration from a slice of cucumber and a sprig of dill. Figured bread can be made using cookie cutters.
Homemade chicken liver pate on a slice of bread with thin strips of bell pepper - a great appetizer for a buffet table at work. Recipe: Put carrots and onions in a saucepan with water, boil until tender, add 500 g of chicken liver to boiling vegetables. Boil everything together for 15 minutes, remove from the water and beat with a blender while hot, gradually adding the broth in which the products were cooked until a homogeneous mass is obtained, similar in thickness to sour cream. Let cool slightly, add 150 g of softened butter, salt to taste. This is a very cheap but festive snack!
Cheese cream with garlic on bread toast. I already wrote about how to make it in this article a little higher (it can be used as a “pillow” for boiled pork and sausage). But the cream itself is incomparably tasty and beautiful if you put it on a leaf of lettuce using a pastry syringe.
Small pies made from yeast or puff pastry with the most traditional fillings (meat, cabbage with egg, potatoes with mushrooms) are a constant success. They fly apart first! I won’t describe it in detail, for now I’m just throwing out an idea for a holiday in the office. The most important - small size, also “one bite”.
Another good appetizer for an office buffet, which you can prepare at home and eat cold - spring rolls. Also tiny, of course. With red caviar or lightly salted salmon, for example. Look for a skilled person in the team, someone will definitely be able to handle it :-)!
Yes, I say boldly, since there are several ways to present them in an original way!
If you chop your usual salad (Olivier salad, crab salad, etc.) a little smaller than you are used to cutting for a regular feast, you can put it on a slice of bread or in a basket. Sometimes for salads they use disposable glasses or the most ordinary glass glasses (Martini glasses, bowls). Here's what it looks like:
By the way, you can put it in cups and I decided to throw in a very cute idea here! I saw it in a magazine and immediately scanned it for you :-). It will look very original (if your buffet at work was organized on New Year’s Eve) or just a “tree of happiness” made from candies if you are celebrating something else.
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Look through the buffet appetizers for the holiday table (recipes with photos) and you will understand that you can prepare buffet dishes at home without much hassle. Thanks to the recipes presented on the site, you can create a menu for the buffet table, and the dishes for the buffet table listed on the site (recipes with photos) will help you make your choice.
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Canapés are small, neat sandwiches, which are often made on skewers: to make it convenient to pick up with your hands and eat right away. This is an indispensable appetizer for a buffet table: beautiful, appetizing and, most importantly, small. There are countless options for canapés: after all, you can combine the ingredients in many ways. Main, …
Very tasty and appetizing tartlets with lightly salted salmon and hard cheese are perfect for a festive table or buffet table. The spectacular appearance of the snack will undoubtedly attract the attention of guests. We will use cheese mixture with garlic and fresh herbs as the filling for the tartlets. ...
Snack profiteroles are a great option to serve some salad in a creative and unconventional way. This is especially true for buffets - after all, it is customary to serve food that is convenient to pick up with your hands. So just a salad in a salad bowl at a buffet table is not for guests...
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It was the practical and sophisticated French who coined the term “buffet,” which means “fork.” That is, all the food served at the buffet must fit on one fork. A distinctive feature of a buffet is that people are not seated at tables, but move freely around the room with a glass and a small plate in their hands, which does not prevent them from feeling comfortable and communicating with each other. Before organizing a buffet, you need to familiarize yourself with its first rules, one might say, commandments:
All kinds of cold appetizers are extremely popular at the buffet table: small sandwiches, multi-layered canapés, stuffed vegetables, and especially rolls and mini-rolls with various fillings.
No buffet is complete without exquisitely decorated meat and sausage cuts, cheese plates, and assorted fruits.
Beautifully decorated tartlets with different fillings, various sandwiches, snacks on skewers, slices or chips - all this will not only become part of a wonderful menu for any holiday, but will also be perfect for any corporate event, business buffet or friendly party.
If you want to have a fun holiday, be sure to take care of alcoholic beverages in advance. Basically, guests at the buffet table are offered champagne, table wines, and a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails.
According to the rules of the buffet, all dishes and snacks served at it must be “one bite”, that is, they are decorated very laconically, but capaciously and compactly. The following are not at all welcome at the buffet table:
Basically, the buffet table consists of cold appetizers, which should be light, unobtrusive, for every taste. At the same time, they should be portioned so that guests do not have to cut or share the dish, trying to take a piece for themselves.
Before the buffet, you should carefully consider the menu and serve universal snacks that will be good both cold and hot, since it is not customary to reheat food at such an event. Food should be in harmony with the drinks offered to guests. So, we offer you several popular and proven options for buffet dishes.
Traditionally, at a buffet table it is customary to serve a variety of cuts: meat, vegetable, cheese and fruit platters. Dishes with slices look very beautiful, especially if you don’t just put meat and sausages on the dish, but combine them with other products, such as olives, wrap them in rolls, and string them on skewers.
A cheese plate looks very advantageous: several types of cheese are cut in a variety of ways: hard cheese is cut into plates or triangles, and soft cheeses are cut into cubes.
Along with the cheese, it is customary to place grapes, honey and nuts on the dish: these products are in perfect harmony with each other.
Cold appetizers for the festive table in the form of rolls are not only nutritious, but also very beautiful dishes that diversify and add originality to the menu of any feast. You can make such rolls from almost any product: pita bread, cheese, fish, zucchini, pieces of meat or ham, as well as wrap all kinds of fillings in pancakes, omelettes and crab sticks.
The most popular rolls at buffets are:
A very unusual dish is a cheese roll with chicken and mushrooms. To make it you need:
Lavash or omelette rolls are made in the same way. You can wrap any products in them that are in harmony with each other to taste.
Don’t forget about fruit slices: fruits and berries must decorate the buffet table, and they can be served in an original and elegant way:
The simplest snack at a buffet table is sandwiches. You can prepare countless quantities of them and they will all be completely and irrevocably eaten, the main thing is to serve them beautifully and effectively, using a variety of products for cooking. It is convenient to use different breads as a basis for them:
Potato pancakes are suitable as a base for sandwiches: any salted fish goes well with them. Even from simple products such as black bread, lettuce, cream cheese, small tomatoes and olives, you can make very impressive and appetizing sandwiches.
Take note of a few more extraordinary ways to prepare canapés.
The simplest, but no less tasty, are cold appetizers served in tartlets. You can bake them yourself, or you can buy them ready-made at any store. These small baskets can be filled with any salad, garnished with a sprig of parsley or a few eggs, and an original, delicious appetizer is ready.
The following combinations are great as fillings for tartlets:
These same snacks can be served in another way by placing them on large potato chips of the same size or, alternatively, on unsweetened crackers.
The most popular food for a buffet table is appetizers on skewers, as they are very convenient to eat and very easy to prepare.
You can put any food that goes well together on the skewers. On them you can string cubes of meat, thin slices of ham and cheese, miniature pickled mushrooms and gherkins, cheese with grapes, as well as various seafood - mussels, shrimp and others.
This appetizer is very original and tasty. "Taste of Italy", and it is very easy to prepare. For this you will need:
Remove the mozzarella from the brine, dry it and roll it in dried herbs. Thread a tomato, a green basil leaf and a ball of mozzarella onto a skewer.
Stuffed dishes are an excellent option for cold appetizers, because a lot of products can be stuffed, the contents of which can be taken out and filled with something tasty, resulting in a snack with a harmonious, refined taste. An excellent option for a cold holiday snack would be:
An original and elegant appetizer that will decorate any table is “Fly Agaric”. To prepare it you will need:
Steps for preparing the snack:
In order for the appetizer to acquire a finished, believable look, you need to put mayonnaise dots on the caps of the fly agarics.
Baked goods are very welcome at the buffet table, but all of them should be in mini format: if they are pies, then miniature ones, if they are pies, then they should be cut into tiny portions. Eclairs with cheese and liver filling and small puff pastries, which can be stuffed with any salad, are very popular.
At a buffet table, it is customary to serve pancakes stuffed with everything you like, in several serving options:
Today, muffins are very popular at buffet tables - miniature cupcakes with or without filling. This snack successfully replaces even a cake, because you can serve several options for muffins and guests will try them all.
Although the format of such a holiday as a buffet does not imply heating food, hot food is required at such an event. The following would be ideal as hot dishes:
Fondue is perfect for a buffet table: hard or processed cheese is heated in a sauce container and brought to a liquid consistency, to which you can add herbs and spices. Anything can be dipped into this sauce: small sausages, cubes of sausage and cheese, croutons, miniature potatoes, pastries.
Over time, not only new recipes for buffet dishes become popular, but also the ways of serving them are improved.
Snacks in transparent glasses : a very fashionable type of treat for even the most sophisticated buffets. You can put everything in a glass: from thick sauces (guacamole, sour cream, to which garlic and dill are added, eggplant pulp, mashed with herbs, garlic and cheese in puree, to soups with a creamy consistency).
In these glasses you can dip skewers with lightly salted herring strung on them, boiled or baked meat, ham, croutons with vegetables.
Surprise your guests with an original presentation of simple products, prepare an appetizer "Chinese chopsticks". To prepare it, you will need a package of regular straws and 300 g of lightly salted red salmon. The fish is cut into the thinnest slices and overlapped onto each straw. If necessary, the base of the straw can be tied with a feather of green onion.
You can serve thinly sliced ham and salami in the same way, and use cheese sticks instead of straws. These sticks are served by placing them in glasses.
Club sandwiches - unusual sandwiches made from familiar products. They are prepared from toast bread and any ingredients (ham, meat, fresh cucumbers, processed cheese and others). It is noteworthy that such a sandwich is “multi-story”, covered with bread on top, and cut into several small triangles. Sometimes tiny buns are used to prepare them.
And, of course, rolls are an incredibly popular snack that has simply become a trend at modern buffets.
To make your buffet unforgettable, you need to be creative not only in preparing dishes, but also in decorating the festive table. So, we offer you some tips to help you create an unusual, original holiday:
We invite you to consider other options for the original design of dishes on the buffet table:
For more details on how to decorate buffet dishes, watch our video:
In certain situations, there is nothing better than a buffet to celebrate significant events. Your guests will arrange their own food and drinks, serve themselves, and the host of the party will be free to accept congratulations and communicate with his friends in a relaxed and easy atmosphere.
Holidays of this format have gained popularity and spread for quite some time. A buffet at work may be the best option for holding an event with colleagues. In our article we will look at successful food options and some tricks that will help you organize the best holiday.
It is not always possible to have a feast everywhere. Usually the main argument in favor of a buffet table is the lack of “seats”. Not every room can accommodate a full table with a tablecloth and chairs. You can organize a buffet at work for a birthday if your office is not spacious enough to comfortably accommodate your colleagues.
And such an organization of the holiday is also liked by those who like to dance and have fun. Guests can freely communicate with each other and walk around the room, holding glasses and plates in their hands.
If you are organizing a buffet at work at lunchtime, alcohol is simply unacceptable. Even serving light wine will put your guests in an awkward position.
There are a number of dishes that are not usually served at a buffet table. These include the following:
Any other dishes that are inconvenient to put on a plate and eat while standing are not suitable for the menu. If it is customary to eat a dish with a fork and knife, it is also better to leave it for another occasion.
What to cook for the buffet? Let's take a closer look at popular treats.
It is believed that these are the best and most convenient recipes for a buffet table. The main condition is that the sandwiches should be small. You can buy a French baguette to make them.
Canapes are a delicious and impressive appetizer that can become a real table decoration. Use different types of bread, and the main ingredients include ham and smoked sausages, various types of cheeses, small cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, olives and pickled mushrooms. They eat canapés while holding them by the skewer.
The word "buffet" has French roots and literally translates as "fork". Keep this in mind when deciding what appetizers to prepare for your work buffet.
It is inexpensive to purchase ready-made vol-au-vents or baskets. Today, similar products are available in any supermarket. All you have to do is stuff them. You can make the base yourself, from puff pastry or choux pastry. Pates, soufflés, seafood, boiled meat with sauce are used as fillings.
Long-standing Russian table traditions require the presence of a plate of sliced food at almost any holiday. You can serve this appetizer at a buffet at work.
If you want your pieces of sausage, ham and cured meat to look delicious and be easy to eat, don't rely on a knife. Buy a ready-made laser cutting product.
But the cheese does not have to be cut thinly. It will break, and it won't be that convenient to eat. It is better to cut the cheese into cubes. The more varieties there are, the better. The cheese is usually served with nuts, grapes and honey.
It’s impossible to imagine a buffet at work for a birthday without sweets. If you decide to serve a traditional cake, think in advance whether it will be convenient to cut it, place it on plates and eat it.
An excellent dessert option for a buffet menu is cups of jelly. Small cakes would also be appropriate. Be sure to pay attention to the mousse desserts in velor or magnificent mirror glaze that are fashionable today. They look elegant and modern.
A good idea for a themed buffet would be cupcakes decorated in the same style.
Chocolates at the buffet table are served without wrappers. It is acceptable to serve sweets in an open box, but it is better to transfer them to special multi-tiered plates in advance.
Is a whole pineapple or a basket of oranges appropriate for a buffet table? The answer is obvious. Large fruits are cut into small pieces. Watermelon and melon can be served together with the rind, cut into small triangular slices. But it’s more convenient to make balls using a special spherical spoon. Berries can be served in small glasses.
This question is quite ambiguous. A basket with pieces of bread is unlikely to look natural at an elegant buffet table. But some people simply cannot live without it.
But shu buns, toast and diet bread may be quite appropriate. You can place different types of bread on a common plate.
Today, along with the classic ones, many unusual recipes are also common. If you are planning to host a buffet at work, pay attention to these new items.
Snacks look impressive in ordinary vodka glasses. This is how you can serve salads. You can also serve sauces for fresh vegetables or nachos.
Sushi is also popular today. Of course, you need to take care of the chopsticks. The rolls are served with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger in small bowls.
A good idea for a buffet table would be sesame seeds wrapped in bacon. They can be served on a flat dish or in tall glasses.
Organizing a buffet at work is a troublesome task. It may be worth opting for disposable tableware. Of course, it must be of good quality and all in the same style.
To avoid unpleasant situations, make sure that there are 2-3 times more dishes than guests. It is unlikely that there will be an opportunity to rinse plates after appetizers.
At the buffet table, desserts are served with special forks, which differ from ordinary dessert forks. These forks have 3 tines, one of which is thicker than the others and has a sharp edge. This device is convenient for cutting pieces. Table knives are not needed at a buffet table, since it is still impossible to use them while holding a plate in one hand and a fork in the other.
To save space on the table, special multi-tiered dishes were invented. This presentation looks elegant and festive.
We hope our simple tips will help you organize a wonderful holiday for your colleagues.