New Year's Eve, 5 trends to AperiTiamo with friends
The New Year is just around the corner, and it's time to leave the old behind by toasting in style. Why not organize a New Year's Eve aperitif to greet 2024 and welcome 2025 with a mix of flavors, music and fun?
This week, we'll help you make your New Year memorable with the trends of the moment for an aperitif that will amaze your friends.
The New Year's aperitif
The aperitif is the perfect way to Celebrate New Year in a relaxed yet elegant way.
Prepare a varied buffet, where each guest can choose what they prefer:
- Charcuterie and cheese platters: play with different textures and flavors, alternating soft and spicy cold cuts with aged and fresh cheeses.
- Guacamole Parma Is: reinvent the classic menu by adding fresh sauces such as Parma IS guacamole. It's a perfect balance between Italian tradition and international flavors.
- Gourmet mini burger: use your favorite bread and fill it with Italian cold cuts, melted cheeses and vegetables in oil.
- Creative canapes: a crispy bread base with ricotta mousse, slices of Strolghino and a splash of honey.
Top it all off with a selection of bubbles and light cocktails that match your dishes perfectly.
... Guacamole Parma IS. A perfect balance between Italian tradition and international flavors.
The product: Salumi and Guacamole Parma IS
Have you always enjoyed guacamole with fish? This year surprise everyone, bringing the fresh and fragrant Guacamole Parma Is to the table next to a nice cutting board and, of course, to your flute of bubbles.
Don't worry: the contrast will be so delicious that no one will regret salmon and shrimp!
5 ideas to steal from other cultures to celebrate the New Year:
- Spanish grape: Follow the Spanish tradition by eating 12 grapes at midnight, one for each month of the year, to wish you prosperity.
- Japanese rice (Mochi): Offer rice cakes to wish you luck and good health.
- Italian lentils: inevitable in our tradition, a symbol of wealth and abundance. Serve them in individual bowls.
- Greek sweet bread (Vasilopita): Make a toast accompanied by a slice of Vasilopita, where a lucky coin is hidden.
- Brazilian cocktails: Offer a caipirinha, the national cocktail, for an exotic and colorful touch.
Everyone gets a bag (but a bit special!)
Sparklers bags are a classic, but this year you can personalize them!
- Gourmet bags: fill them with small snacks such as mini salami, breadsticks wrapped in speck, or diced cheeses. Nobody will blow them up, of course, but the surprise effect is guaranteed!
- Cocktail kit: Have fun creating recycled paper confetti or shredding images (taken from newspaper excerpts) about the news of the past year. In a word: it shatters conflicts, fashions, price increases and bad news! Then ask everyone to get rid of them with energy and lots of cheers.
- Happy birthday messages: In each bag insert a card with an original wish for the new year, handwritten for a personal touch.
The playlist to blow the cork!
A self-respecting New Year needs the right soundtrack.
Here are the tracks to liven up your evening:
- ”Happy” — Pharrell Williams (listen now)
- “Don't Stop Me Now” — Queen (listen now)
- “Can't Stop the Feeling!” — Justin Timberlake (listen now)
- “Levitating” — Dua Lipa (listen now)
- “Uptown Funk” — Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars (listen now)
- “We Are Family” — Sister Sledge (listen now)
- “Blinding Lights” — The Weeknd (listen now)
- “Celebrate” — Kool & The Gang (listen now)
- “Dynamite” — BTS (listen now)
- “New Year's Day” — U2 (listen now)
... we'll help you make your New Year memorable with the trends of the moment for an aperitif that will amaze your friends. Happy New Year and happy aperitif!
