The snowman is one of the favorite heroes of winter and culinary "plots" when it comes to the festive decoration of appetizers and salads. And all because it is very simple to arrange this or that festive dish in the form of this wonderful creature.
For more than a year now, culinary specialists have been preparing salads and snacks in the form of snowmen for the New Year's feast: large, small, in different hats (from cucumber, carrot, dark bread, etc.), in unsweetened and sweet variations. Today we will talk about savory options - salads and snowman snacks.
The largest snowman was made from snow in 2008. in the US city of Botel, Maine. Its height was 37m and weight - 6000 tons.
You can make an edible snowman from almost any light-colored food: eggs, rice, crab sticks, mashed potatoes, cheese, etc. The great thing is that, having made a snowman, for example, according to the following recipe, you can decorate any dish with it - with cold cuts, salad, sandwiches, etc.
Recipe for edible snowmen to decorate dishes
You will need: 2 eggs and processed cheese, garlic, sour cream / mayonnaise, salt (also, if desired, grated nutmeg, black pepper), decoration - greens, boiled carrots, peppercorns, canned green peas.
How to make a snowman decoration for dishes. Grate garlic, boiled eggs and curds on a fine grater, season with mayonnaise or sour cream, mix until a plastic mass, salt and season to taste. Form snowmen by sculpting balls of different sizes from the mass with wet hands and stacking them on top of each other, make “hands” from greenery, eyes from black peppercorns, a nose and hats from boiled carrots, from green peas - decoration for the torso.
You can make a snowman out of sushi rice or regular rice. 
For greater "fluffiness" of the figure, you can roll balls molded from any mass to taste (rice, cheese and garlic) in finely grated cheese. 
In the form of such snowmen, you can even serve full-fledged salads - for example, corn salad with crab sticks, rice and eggs. 
Or you can lay out an edible snowman in a “flat” version, as in the following recipe.
Recipe for New Year's salad with canned fish and Snowman rice
You will need: rice, canned fish, pickled cucumbers, sweet and sour apples, boiled carrots or beets, suluguni cheese, mayonnaise sauce, sour cream, soy sauce, spicy mustard.
How to cook fish salad "Snowman". Mash the fish with a fork, drain the liquid, grate the cucumbers, drain the liquid from them, also rub apples, carrots or beets, cheese. Mix the ingredients for the sauce. Spread the salad in layers on a flat dish in the shape of a snowman, each spreading with sauce: boiled rice, fish, cucumbers, apples, carrots or beets, cheese, coat the last layer with sauce. Make a snowman like this: make a scarf from bell pepper and green onions, a hat from finely chopped olives, tassels on a scarf from pomegranate seeds, eyes and buttons from olives, a mouth from sweet peppers, a nose from carrots, a dill broom.
Recipe for New Year's salad "Muzzle of the Snowman" with chicken and mushrooms
You will need: 450g boiled chicken fillet, 3 boiled potato tubers, 250g pickled mushrooms, 3-4 boiled eggs, mayonnaise, carrots and olives for decoration.
How to cook chicken salad with snowman mushrooms. Cut the chicken into small cubes, do the same with boiled potatoes, separate the egg whites from the yolks, rub the whites on a fine grater, use the yolks for other dishes. Spread the salad in layers, each smearing with mayonnaise: mushrooms, chicken, potatoes, proteins. Make a mouth, nose and cheeks from boiled carrots, cilia and eyes - from olives, let the salad soak before serving.
Next - a few more ideas for decorating New Year's salads in the form of snowmen. 
For quail eggs, you can use wooden toothpicks.
Cooking
Boil hard-boiled eggs: chicken - 8-9 minutes of boiling when laying in cold water; quail - 5 minutes. Refrigerate and clean.
Trim off the ends of the eggs to make them firm.
To make a snowman hat, cut two circles of carrots of different diameters: cut the large circle from the thick end, and the small circle from the thin one.
Cut a wooden skewer from one end to a length equal to the height of two eggs stacked on top of each other. When cutting, make sure that there are no chips on the cut.
A prepared skewer has one end sharp, the other blunt.
With the sharp end, make holes in the centers of the carrot circles.
Then insert the skewer into the circles with the blunt end, as shown in the photo.
Place two eggs one on top of the other and stick a skewer with a carrot hat vertically on top of them.
If the snowmen are intended for children, cut out the eyes and buttons from black olives or black bread crust.
Insert the peppercorns and carrot nose into the indentations made in the egg whites with the sharp end of the skewer.
Decorate the snowmen with parsley sprigs or add whatever you like.
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Envy - a very bad feeling? It makes it difficult for me to communicate with my friends.
I am madly jealous of those who have help with the child, grandmothers at hand, whose husbands come at 7 pm and take care of the child. I'm just horribly jealous. It’s spinning in my head - well, why do I need all this, my husband works until night almost without days off, it’s impossible to change jobs.
There are grandmothers, one sits once a month, the other doesn’t want to at all, you can’t force them. All by myself, with a child 24/7, and I solve all household problems, since my husband has no time. And girlfriends complain, they say, mom only comes 3 times a week. Only 15 thousand a month they help (no one gives us money, everyone does it themselves).
I just want to cry. And to be honest - do not communicate with them. Because the emotions from all this I feel are simply the most unpleasant. Has anyone had this? How to stop envying what I cannot change in my life?
221Goat Agatha
Hello. before the New Year, I created a Temko proposal: send a certain thing on a journey from a forum member to a forum member (well, or to a forum member). It seems like a lot of people didn't mind. now let's get the details
I propose a certain thing here, a symbol of the year of my own creation (I can still fake it, stroke the tail) 
now what i want to ask
1. How do we mark her path? stickers or a travel note to send with it? Well, where are the places of stay? make a waybill? shove notes into her pocket (but she is not so big). anyone have any thoughts, let's decide
2. Name? she needs a name. I think it can be consonant with the word forum - Fima, Thomas? Frosya? Or even from another area? who thinks what?
3. well, let's actually choose where she will go now. I repeat, I would like it to be close, so that the shipments are short (and not so expensive), then more places will be visited by our symbol in a year.
territorially, who do not mind participating - respond: Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, East Kazakhstan, the Altai Republic.
I will remind you the conditions in the comment
Irina Irina
Hello, please let me know if this is the situation:
The child will go to school next year. The school has several types of classes. The building where general education classes without in-depth study of subjects is located further and across the road, and in the courtyard there is a building with classes with in-depth study of mathematics or English. All this is shuffled up to the 4th grade of the school. But already now they are asking to indicate a wish for choosing the type of class. Since only the building where the in-depth study is suitable, I really don’t know in which one to write it down. A child has been studying English since the age of 3 and is making good progress, but on the other hand, if he studies with a tutor, maybe it makes sense to send him to mathematical classes and they will pull him up there? I cannot determine the mentality of my son as such. The teacher at the beginning of the school says that he goes smoothly in general subjects. Tell me, maybe there are some tests for this or someone had such a situation.
elena pogodina
Briefly (I'll try):
We are a family of 3 people, me and my husband. The child is 10 years old and we are waiting for another baby. We decided to expand our home. Buy a kopeck piece. In the area where we live now, housing prices have risen due to the construction of the subway. You cannot buy a two-room apartment for the money we are counting on, or even a dead one, and there will be no money for repairs. In the area where my mother lives - the same thing, only the housing stock is even older and you have to choose mainly from five-story buildings. There are no (or very far from the metro) apartments of the footage we need (from 50 sq.m) and, most importantly, the price of the issue is up to 9,500,000.
We chose the Maryino area, picked up an apartment, a deal is coming soon.
So my mom called yesterday and let's yell at me. That we are idiots, we still need to educate ourselves, that no one does this, that you need to buy housing next to one of your relatives (or mine, or your husband) - so that there is help. And I’ll dig in alone with two children, she won’t come, she won’t go far, my dad won’t be able to either, he’s getting old and it’s hard to drive (although there is a car) - these are her words.
Although I do not count on their help, I told her about it, but she does not hear because. campaign does not perceive my words at all, considering them immediately either stupid or incorrect.
My mother-in-law will obviously rarely help, she works every day and has other things to do. I don't count either.
With the first child, pink glasses were removed from me very quickly - my mother did not come (although when I went pregnant - she promised a lot) - she was far away, but she took the child to her when I went to work so that I would not take sick leave often, but endured every time the brain tells me that he (the child) doesn’t know how, it doesn’t do it that way, in short, her help then went sideways to me, each time it brought me to tears. Now, when the child is sick, my dad comes. Sits with him. The mother-in-law worked and works, takes the child when it is convenient for her. That's all I want - so that they don't think that I like to push the child onto grandmothers and enjoy life. And in the future, I do not count on them. But my mother decided that I would definitely need help, I definitely couldn’t cope. Here is a direct installation as if he puts it like this. I try not to be nervous.
So the question is - I'm really wrong that I'm leaving so far from them all. Really need to buy housing worse in quality, but closer?
Anonymous
I am divorced, I am raising two children, my husband pays 5,000 alimony for each. Barely enough to live. My salary is the same. Not a librarian, but almost. I still don’t have the strength to get an education, and I don’t have time either, work and children and that’s it.
And my girlfriend. She has a brilliant Moscow education, but she did not work for long (in a large bank, not in the very last position), then she met her husband, he is a very wealthy person. They gave birth to a girl with poor health, so a friend does not plan to return to work.
She now has everything I dreamed of. Cottage with fireplace. Personal car. If she cannot drive herself, she can always ask her husband's driver for a ride. Travel around the world three times a year. Any of the most stylish clothes. Cosmetologist, stylist, personal massage therapist.
And I'm like that in traffic jams after work I return with string bags. And she calls me: Mas, talk to me, I'm sad! My fifth fur coat does not fit in the wardrobe (conditionally). It pisses me off, pisses me off, pisses me off!
Most of all I envy her husband. Calm, very responsible, looks at his wife and daughter with adoration. Flowers, gifts. Kisses on the shoulder, just passing by. Offers to hire a housekeeper to make it easier for her. Take it easy!! It doesn't work at all, what's the problem??
And yesterday I saw her husband with another woman. They sat at the table, holding hands, looking into each other's eyes. Definitely not a business colleague, they don’t look at colleagues like that. He saw me, hastily removed his hands, I pretended not to notice him, passed by. Now I'm fighting the urge to call to warn my friend. And I think to myself: I probably envied all this time in vain, you quickly get used to the good. And what will she do if she loses all this.
