So today is a little bit of a different blog, today we are going to be talking about my families Christmas dinner. For this years Christmas dinner we decided to theme it around Ukrainian cuisine, This was one of my favorite dinners we have ever done, the decorations were amazing, the food was amazing, all of it was amazing! We had ribbons on the ceiling, a flower wreath and doilies EVERYWHERE. I will go in to detail about all those pieces separately.
So starting off with the vocal point off the room, the table setting. As you can see there was a lot of red on the table but it doesn’t look as red in person, there was accents of gold and flowers and doilies. we were modeling it after formal dining settings in Ukraine, here is and example of that,
now the kinda of all together theme of these tables was red, flowers and doilies so we tried to encompass that in our design (see below). to go along with the flower vibe of it we
decided to make a sort of flower wreath. This was a VERY DIY project, we did not know what we were doing at all, our process was shove the flowers in and hope it stays and it worked so. for this project we used fake flowers from the dollar store and a string of fall leaves from some craft store. we also made the last minute decision to weave lights in and amongst it which i think it made it 10 times better.
Ok so now moving on to the food. our menu consisted of: potato latkas, piroshki, cabbage rolls, pierogis, carrot Korean salad, sauerkraut. my dishes were dessert. We started off a few days before with making homemade strawberry marshmallows. we had to try this twice because we found d out that marshmallows are an exact science, here are some of the things we did wrong: first we didn’t wait fro the sugar syrup mixture to become thick enough, second we let the gelatin set before adding it to the mixture, and finally we only used on beater on our mixer which caused the marshmallow to not get whipped
enough to hold it’s shape. Although the first time did not work out so well the second time was much better and they turned out amazing. The last dessert we did was a traditional Kiev cake, before i get into the making of it, here is some of the history behind it. the Kiev cake was created in 1956 and was wildly popular in
the USSR. I think the only thing that really went wrong with this one is how we did not melt the chocolate enough so it didn’t pour on the cake and drip like it’s supposed to