While teams of enterprises and organizations in the Irkutsk region were chipping in on corporations, the Center for Integrated Support for the Governor and Government of the Irkutsk Region entered into a contract with the Irkutsk travel agency “Baikaltravelclub” (OGRN 1041901005101). Services – organization of New Year’s receptions for the governor of the Irkutsk region for 750 thousand rubles.
Yes, even United Russia (*aggressor country) members (and in the current Legislative Assembly, let us remember, mostly United Russia (*aggressor country) members) could not understand the leadership of the region, which so radically squeezed money for the social development of the territory.
It is clear that somewhat less government funds are spent on banquets, but for the sake of decency it was possible to curb appetites. Literally.
Moreover, the menu, of course, is not at all the meager pies frozen in the wind that Irkutsk residents were treated to at the “Happiness of Pure Water” gastrofestival, a few dozen steps from the Gray House, in Kirov Square.
As in the menu of various receptions on Lenin, 1 in 2024, which no one even thought of refusing (here, individual entrepreneur Alexey Zhuravel will treat regional officials and their guests).
• At the first stage it is planned to serve desserts – lingonberry, pine nut, lingonberry and honey, dessert in a basket “Grillage” (tartlet, nut, honey), honey with currants. In addition, participants will consume profiteroles with chocolate cream, homemade almond cookies and assorted seasonal fruits.
• The second meal is more varied: canapés with cheese and cherry tomatoes, with specially salted whitefish, with tongue and spicy sauce, meat “Senior”, marbled and with chicken. Also on the menu is the Stolichny salad with chicken fillet, mini-tartlet with Slavyansky salad, chicken kebab, mushrooms stuffed with minced meat, tongue and zucchini rolls with curd cheese, julienne mix.
• A modest addition will be potato pancakes with salmon, bruschetta with salmon and cream cheese, mini meat pies and mini cherry pies, fruit baskets, panna cotta, cedar dessert, dessert in a “Grillage” basket, chocolate and lemon.
• A celebratory breakfast is also planned: a cheese plate, dumplings with cottage cheese, scrambled eggs with bacon, vegetables and herbs, a sandwich with cheese and ham, oatmeal with dried fruits, cheesecakes, croissants with cold smoked salmon, with herbs, with cheese and avocado, cottage cheese cake . Lingonberry juice, cappuccino, “Taiga” tea with lingonberries and honey.
• At the official dinner they will eat whitefish sagudai, cold cuts, beet salad with orange and mint, Siberian pancakes with sour cream, borscht or fish soup, Baikal whitefish steak on a rice bed, julienne mix, zucchini rolls with curd cheese, pine dessert, tea or coffee. At the official dinner, you will be served milk mushrooms and saffron milk caps, assorted meats, a salad with lightly salted fish, fresh cucumbers, pesto sauce, a Baikal whitefish steak, a choice of pancakes with porcini mushrooms and sour cream or lightly salted salmon, and cedar dessert.
• They will also do their best for the buffet. We are planning a mini pork schnitzel, Stolichny salad with chicken fillet, mini tartlets with Slavyansky, Olivier fish and Grand salads, Corypheus and Caesar salads in a glass, chicken, fish and veal skewers with tomatoes, canapés with salmon and mozzarella cheese, hot smoked veal and tomato, roast beef and arugula, tongue and hot sauce, cheese and cherry tomatoes, as well as specially cured whitefish.
And also – salmon tempura, eggplant rolls with cheese and sun-dried tomatoes and bacon rolls with aromatic potatoes, ham rolls with cottage cheese cream, mini-burgers. For dessert – fruit marshmallows, mini eclairs with Prague cream, assorted cakes, sesame fruit baskets, Three Chocolate cookies, mini honey dessert with currants, and cedar dessert.
• Menu for banquets: Siberian milk mushrooms and saffron milk caps, whitefish sagudai, assorted fish and meats, salads “Caesar”, “Greek”, with tongue and pear, with smoked eel, fresh cucumber and spicy sauce, Siberian pancakes with sour cream, eggplant- fries, whitefish in pine nuts with pumpkin puree, beef steak, Idaho potatoes, grilled vegetables, pine nut dessert, fruit basket.
The Irsity portal enjoyed the first reading of the relevant documents, but, characteristically, the government press service in response did not even comment on why our valiant regional government and the governor personally do not want to be modest at any time. But even developing a menu and organizing receptions would require so much resources and energy from citizens who, again, receive salaries from the treasury, that it would be entirely possible to solve the life problems of several orphans. If these energies and resources are directed in the appropriate direction…
