My 2018: Welcoming the new year - A Blue White Red New Year Eve

in #my20186 years ago

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Welcome to 2019! A new year begins, but how did it end? I believe that there is as much way to celebrate the New Year as of people on the earth ... I have lived many different New Year party, with different friends, in different countries, but this year and for the first time, it's with my best friend, who is like my big brother and his friends that I celebrated it. And it's this NYE celebration that I'm going to share with you, a New Year's Day, how to say? Very French !

14:30 - Shopping List

Firstly we met together to drink a tea, talk about the menu for the dinner and make the shopping list. It's very important because the supermarkets of December 31 are full of people who jostle, who respect nothing and who scream. But we are reckless and so we went there anyway!

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Preparation of the stomach


15:30 - Shopping

The idea for the evening meal was to make an apéro-dînatoire literally translated as aperitif-dinner, which means that we plan several small things (we mean by this: amuse-bouche, finger-food, raw vegetables ...), we do that quite often in France because this avoids getting to the stove early in the morning and finishing late in the afternoon so we can spend more time together, it pleases everyone and it's excellent!

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Ready to face the crowd


17:00 - Cooking Time

After the vicissitudes of the supermarket, we went to the host's house to cook a little, especially desserts. As I said, the advantage of doing such a dinner where you peck in different dishes is that there is not much preparation. For the little story we often do this kind of aperitif in France during summer with friends, everyone brings something, we share everything, we redo the world while drinking wine or beer, but the real idea behind that is to spend time together.


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I'm here to motivate the troops while doing the dishes


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One who cooks, one who looks, one who photographs


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19:30 - Last arrangements

After baking the last cake, everyone went home to get ready and we came back to my best friend's place for finishing the meal, setting up the table and the beginning of festivities.

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Our Apéro-Dînatoire

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MENU:

  • Foie gras toast with fig confit
  • Toast with tzatziki and smoked salmon
  • Salmon and vegetable cake
  • Tomato and basil bread
  • Goat cheese bread
  • Saucisson
  • Truffle cheese
  • Raw vegetables and spicy Greek sauce
  • Homemade fried chicken aiguillettes
  • Serrano ham
  • Olives stuffed with red pepper
  • Speculoos cheesecake and red berry
  • Matcha tea brownie
  • Champagne
  • White wine
  • Red wine
  • fullsizeoutput_1244.jpegMy best friend serving Champagne


    20:30 - Let's go

    Once the party started, we played "Limit-Limit-Limit". It's a card game where you have to create the most trashy phrase possible to earn points, it's very funny! We did a karaoke, Celine Dion is a classic. We also put on little hats to see who was the most ridiculous of us all.

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    00:00 - Happy New Year / Bonne année 2019

    A new cap jumps, a new bottle of champagne empties, we drink, we kiss, we wish the best, we dance, we do a battle of paper balls and streamers ... It's the new year!

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    02:00 - Enjoying the night

    After dancing a crazy rock, eating dessert (a piece ... two pieces ... three pieces ... it's not my fault if it was excellent!) we had deep conversations with people a little alcoholic about love, politics, traveling, etc. This kind of conversation that we believe very deep on the moment but that we find futile the next day or that we have totally forgotten ... These are my favorite, it is a parallel world often utopian and that we would dream to create.

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    *To consume with moderation


    03:30 - Time to say good bye

    Some have fallen asleep, others are beginning, the last ones say it's time to go to sleep. It is not so late but we have almost all the obligations the next day and we have already celebrated well. I had a wonderful evening and I'm ready to go on new adventures, a new chapter called "2019" begins.

    This is the time for me to wish you a happy new year 2019 filled with dreams, travel, meetings, new friends and lots more!

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