As usual in our family, a week for 2-3 before the New Year we make our menu of holiday table and write a list of products that need to buy something to buy in advance and not get lost in this sea of pre-sales. Shurik ordered stuffed fish, Sergei calamari salad, I'm Greek salad, and historically we have always baked a cake of semi-finished products, not to steam with cakes. In the end it all turned out not so, as we expected. It all started with the fact that nobody wanted to kill the living carp, who did not want to go to sleep himself, despite the 4-hour walk through the frost in a cellophane bag bag. Carp wanted to live and lived. While we decided what to do with the carp, digested squid. They were rubber. With this bustle forgot to put the champagne in the fridge. Later it was found out, that in a hurry instead of the beam celery, петрушкии cilantro was purchased three bundle of cilantro, and olives without stones were olive trees with seeds. At exactly 24 00 behind hastily compiled by the festive table all clinked glasses of warm champagne (I warm carrot juice) and ran all the family at the kitchen picking the bones of olives for the salad. As a result, at the festive table, to which we were coming up in the hour of the night, was: the warm champagne, a salad made of rubber squid, Greek salad without селдеря, parsley, smeared with soft cheese and olives from which выковыривали bones, and not rising in the oven cake and bananas, purchased in advance of the day for 3 which had been covered by the «corpse» spots. Live carp met the New year, floating in the bathtub (and we all "in the soap" take a shower and did not have time). The holiday was a success! Здесь чуть больше 10 предложений, но все же Надеюсь, что хоть каплю