New Year’s Eve ideas: how to enjoy a simple celebration at home

New Year’s Eve ideas: how to enjoy a simple celebration at home

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This does not mean that you have to pack it and go to bed before midnight, unless you are looking forward to a good night’s rest all year round. This is a valid choice. Even if the night feels different from New Year’s celebrations of the past, you can still make the evening special – and fit yourself – without hitting the city.
First things first: if you have put off household cleaning during the holidays, give the house a good opportunity to get it ready for 2021. You do not have to clean the plinths or scrub the shower doors, or to take the Christmas tree . down if you have not yet said goodbye! – but a quick eavesdropping will work wonders.
Cleaning is beneficial to your emotional well-being, several studies have shown, so consider it a gift for your future. Take an hour to reach the places with a lot of traffic: change the sheets, make fresh towels, clean places like tables and benches of the pile of piles well and do a quick sweep.

Now you can rest easy, knowing that you will really be able to have a fresh start when you wake up on New Year’s Day.

Keep yourself in check

The impulse to drink a drink, or two or three, is ingrained in Western New Year culture. But it doesn’t have to be an evening of tequila shots and Champagne. Transport yourself to Italy this year with some low-ABV or non-alcoholic cocktails. (ABV stands for alcohol by volume, which is the standard measurement to determine the strength of an alcoholic beverage.)

Although commonly regarded as a summer snack, “the spritz is a fun, festive drink in itself,” says mixologist and mind educator Tad Carducci.

Try a classic Italian spritz for a quiet yet festive New Year's Eve, mixologist Tad Carducci recommends.

This classic Italian cocktail works on New Year’s Eve, as it combines sparkling wine with slightly bitter aperitifs. This range of herbal and botanical liqueurs contains less alcohol than hard drinks such as gin and vodka, but has ‘great, spicy flavors’, Carducci explained. “It deceives the palate that we drink something heavier than we are.”

Even better, “you can not find a simpler drink to make.” Carducci likes the Venetian spritz for its easy-to-remember ratio 3-2-1: 3 parts prosecco, 2 parts Select Aperitivo or Amaro Montenegro, and 1 part soda water or seltzer. Garnish with a fresh orange slice or, according to Italian aperitivo tradition, with a bright green Castelvetrano olive.
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But you do not need alcohol to celebrate the night. Look for bitterly sweet Italian soft drinks like Sanbitter and Chinotto, which have many of the same botanical flavors as aperitif flavors minus the drink. “Add a large square ice cube, and you’ll think you’re drinking a Negroni,” said Joy Manning, founder of Better Without Booze, an online community for sober and sober curious people.

Or instead of prosecco, try Manning’s favorite substitute in your Champagne flute: Craft kombucha with a drop of bitter for extra pizzazz. “I’m lazy and it’s very easy,” she admitted.

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Make dinner a thing to remember

As winter’s first big snowstorms are already washing over the country, you can eat outside, in your forest neck. So keep the meal indoors and make dinner an intimate occasion.

You can always take the night off and support your local restaurants, which offer various options for take-off and delivery, such as prix fixe, à la carte menus and meals that you can finish in your own kitchen.

If you feel more ambitious, then take on a cooking project that you can do as a team. Turn your dining room into a classic steakhouse and make a dinner of steak fries, complete with hand-cut fries and a indulgent side of creamed spinach.
Prepare freshly made pasta for New Year's Eve at home and then finish with gravy in the store.
And fresh homemade pasta can be tossed from start to finish within an hour, and then tossed with sauce like marinara, Alfredo or Bolognese. (You can buy the sauce.) Do not have a pasta maker? No problem! Grab a dough roller or a bottle of wine and work your aggressions on the dough.

The advantage of embarking on this fun kind of project is that the work can be time consuming but not too overwhelming, and that you will get the results when you are done. “DIY is something I always recommend when I know I want to set a tone to slow things down,” Carducci said.

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For dessert, plan ahead and order a treat to close your party. Magnolia Bakery sends its famous banana pudding and cupcakes via Goldbelly. Brooklyn’s Butter & Scotch customizes a confetti cake with the unconventional message of your choice for a more personal celebration and sends it to your door. Or pick up a sweet specialty at your local bakery.

Study a classic New Year’s movie

As a subgenre of the pantheon of the holiday movie, New Year’s Eve flicks may not get the same collective anticipation as ‘A Christmas Story’ says. But there are a few films that focus on the overall Christmas-to-New Year week, or a New Year’s Eve scene is prominent as part of the climate finish.

And if you’ve burned out about the hype and seriousness of the latest streaming options, take comfort in the familiar by calling up one of these explosions from the past:

  • “Wait to breathe out”
  • “While you slept”
  • “Ghostbusters II”
  • “About a boy”
  • “When Harry Met Sally”
  • “Bridget Jones’s Diary”

While the credits roll, make a toast to make it to one piece by 2020 and call it a night.

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Casey Barber is a food writer, photographer and illustrator; the author of “Pierogi Love: New Takes on an Old-World Comfort Food” and “Classic Snacks Made from Scratch: 70 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Brand-Name Treats”; and editor of the website Good. Kos. Stories.

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