New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and if you don’t know what to put on the table yet, I have a few New Year’s menu ideas for you.

If you have a large family or group, it helps to ask your guests to bring something with them. However, this requires some organization, because you don’t want to end up with five potato salads and no meat to go with them.

The best way to do this is to make a list of starters, main courses, and desserts and ask each person what they can bring for each course. This will ensure a variety of dishes.

Here are a few ideas that can be prepared shortly before New Year’s Eve. I’ll start with finger food, appetizers, salads and soups.

Finger-food:

• Blinis with smoked Salmon and Caviar
• Delicious cold Plate
• Plantain Nachos Overload
• Cheese-Herbs Scones
• Tomato-Cheese Puff Pastry rolls
• Starter plate
• Pica-Pica Plate
• Finger-food with Cucumber
• Fried Feta Sticks with Sesame

Salads:

• Kilawin
• Tomato-Mandarin Salad with Mango Dressing
• Colorful Winter Salad
• Mozzarella with Herbs and Olives
• Shrimp Salad with Asian Dressing and Aubergines

Soups:

• Roasted Cauliflower soup with Basil and Lemon
• Warming Leek soup
• Carrot-Orange Soup
• Chicorée Soup
• Marroni Soup
• Whiskey Soup with Shrimps
• Blood orange-Leek and Ginger Soup

Fishy Starters:

• Gravlax
• Tuna fish Carpaccio
• Peperoni Tonnati
• Salmon Crudo
• Kataifi Shrimps
• Salmon Cream cheese Dip
• Salmon Rolls in Crêpe dough
• Tuna Tataki
• Salmon Carpaccio
• Tuna fish Tartar with Cracker Spoons
• Carne Tonnata

Meaty Starters:

• Gluten-free Egg rolls with Beef Filling
• Chicken balls with Mango Dip
• Chicken Pate Adobo
• Wilma’s Country Terrine
• Spanish Empanadas with Pork
• Curry Puffs
• Ham and Cheese Sliders

Others:

• Savory Cheesecake with Pistachio Crust and Mushrooms
• Herb Cheese Cake with Mortadella
• Swedish Sandwich Cake