Tips for happy holidays in the confinement: play, eat and company together – Coronavirus Vienna

Despite the Corona crisis, we don’t have to give up our cherished habits entirely. Delights can also be brought into the living room.

The ProntoPro.at service portal asked its professional team of event planners for advice on alternatives to popular Christmas traditions and also provides some recipe ideas for a culinary Christmas for everyone who wants to cook for themselves.

Christmas markets cannot take place in 2020. In order not to have to do without the number one humor generator before Christmas, it can simply be taken home. Mulled wine, toasted almonds, chocolate-dipped fruit, or potato pancakes – many specialties from the Christmas market can easily be imitated at home. There are many recipes online. Put on your red cap and say “Last Christmas” into the speakers, and go with the warmest Christmas market ever.

Many families bring out their favorite board games for Christmas. So the whole family gets together and all the generations have fun together. This will work in 2020 too – there are a number of special platforms where you can play videoconference together: card or board games, some contests, and much more. Or each member of the family takes out their board and plays together through the zoom. The advantage: when it gets boring, it’s easier to walk again.

Cooking yourself is great, but at least one holiday for which you also want to cook and go out in style. Why not turn your living room or dining room into a restaurant? The table decoration then becomes a family event, the food is collected in the restaurant on the corner and whoever wants to can choose a family member as an honorary waiter. Special Idea: There are special services that deliver the pre-cooked 3-course Christmas gourmet menu via parcel delivery. Heat, serve, and it’s almost like a restaurant, only more comfortable!

Antonio Pirker from [Kulinarium Weiz] (https://kulinarium-weiz.com/): “Food deliveries are particularly popular right now, much more so than pick-ups. We are still there for our guests,” reports Antonio Pirker, one of the service providers. [ProntoPro.at] (https://www.prontopro.at/). For everyone who wants to pamper their loved ones with a good meal this year too, here is a recipe for a Christmas menu.

Many birthdays and many family celebrations had to be canceled in 2020. The solution: do it next year. This works with the New Year too – why not a cozy summer picnic in the park? Or how about celebrating the beginning of winter in the southern hemisphere when it is hot in this country? And if it absolutely must be New Year, there are alternatives: you simply celebrate the Chinese New Year in February or the Jewish (Rosh Hashanah) in September. The turn of the year is almost always!