Salad is an integral part of almost any feast, and it does not matter whether you are preparing for a celebration with a large number of guests or just having lunch with your family, salad is something you can not do without. Acting as a wonderful addition to the main course, the salad can be served as a snack in front of the “heavy artillery” of the festive table or as an accompaniment. It is believed that salad is an indispensable tool for our stomach in digesting the main dish. Each housewife chooses independently which salad to cook and at what point in the feast to serve it, the main thing is that the contents should be to the taste of the guests. However, you can impress not only with excellent taste and unusual salad design, but also with beautiful, properly selected dishes for this dish. And there are a lot of options - individual salad bowls, large salad bowls for a common table, sets for serving salad platter or assorted pickles, as well as various dishes. In this porcelain-glass variety, it is enough to catch the harmony, and a set of the style you like will be selected depending on the culinary skills.
Before starting to cook a sliced salad (from raw or boiled vegetables, meat and fish ingredients), which will subsequently be seasoned with oil or mayonnaise sauce, you need to take care of a large bowl in which it will be convenient to combine the ingredients, and then mix them thoroughly. A large bowl of porcelain or thick glass will serve this purpose perfectly. Fresh vegetables will not change their color in it, as can happen in a metal bowl. In an informal and not particularly ceremonial setting, serving a salad on a common table is highly acceptable. Make sure that each guest has a place where this salad can be put - in most cases, this is a dinner plate, the size of which allows you to place both the main dish and the snack. With a particularly magnificent feast, it will be appropriate to set the table so that each guest has a separate salad plate or bowl.
Perhaps, all winter celebrations, and first of all, the celebration of the New Year, cannot do without such famous salads as herring under a fur coat and olivier. Herring under a fur coat belongs to the variety of puff salads, and for serving it requires a flat dish of porcelain or glass. The shape of the salad will entirely depend on the dish on which it will actually be formed - it can be a round or oval dish. The appearance of the salad itself is quite bright due to the last beetroot layer, so a white or transparent dish will be appropriate. Interesting options are corrugated glass. Usually, a herring salad under a fur coat is made on a large dish and placed in the center of the table, like a king of a feast. On smaller flat plates, other types of puff salads are served, for example Mimosa, another tender salad with a "fish" character.
Olivier salad is a classic New Year's table. The salad is beloved by everyone, and therefore the serve deserves a decent one. A crystal salad bowl with such delicious contents will decorate the New Year table very much. It should be noted that crystal ware spends most of his life in a sideboard on a shelf, since it is suitable only for exclusively solemn holidays, but New Year is just one of them. New Year's Eve is not complete without sparkling champagne in the crystal, so the crystal serving of salads and slices will be very well harmonized on the festive table.
If herring under a fur coat, olivier and vinaigrette are “Soviet” classics, then a salad such as Caesar or Greek relatively recently won the hearts of our compatriots. Undoubtedly, a delicious novelty will appeal to all guests, only the presentation should be appropriate. Caesar salad must be prepared immediately before use, or at least seasoned and sprinkled with crackers right before serving. With a small number of guests, Caesar in individual porcelain salad plates will be the most successful option. If you decide to serve a salad on a common table, both an in-depth dish and a deep salad bowl are suitable. The same goes for the Greek salad: when serving individually, the ingredients should not be mixed, and in the general deep plate, the salad will look more like a vegetable salad with feta cheese and feta cheese.
Whatever salads and serving utensils for them you choose, you should not forget that all the dishes on the holiday table should be combined with each other, in the same style. White porcelain is suitable for any celebration, and if there is any doubt that it will look very banal, you can experiment with the shape of salad bowls and dishes. The fashion trend is the square shape of the dishes. Originality in the design of the table and the serving of salads is the key to the success of the celebration and an extra reason to hear a compliment towards the hostess.