How to decorate a table for the New Year Goats (Sheep)

Winter holidays - the time of delicious salads, joyful fun with friends and relatives, as well as bewitching jewelry. All sorts of glowing garlands, shiny Christmas tree toys and a green Christmas tree - a fabulous beauty that creates an atmosphere of celebration. If you want to add a holiday of bright colors, find out how to decorate the table for the New Year. We offer you several options that will complement your culinary creations.

Fruit tree

One of the most creative and certainly bright ways to decorate the table for the New Year is to put a Christmas tree of fruits on it. To make it it is possible very simply from an apple, carrots and other colorful fruit components. And most importantly - it is ideally suited to the theme of the holiday.

Necessary ingredients:

• apple - 1 pc
• carrots - 1 pc
• pineapple - 3 mugs
• Strawberry - 10 pieces
• kiwi fruit - 1 pc
• grapes green - 30 pieces
• grapes violet - 10 pieces
• toothpicks - 1 pack

Cooking method:

1. First you need to make a foundation. To do this, take the apple, cut it slightly at its base. Check that the apple is firmly on a hard surface.
2. Make a small indentation in the apple, place the carrot there. It is advisable to cut not too much of the middle so that the carrots stay as strong as possible.
3. Stick the toothpicks into the carrot and apple from different sides, leave about 1 cm of the distance between them. In this case, the toothpicks should not be at a right angle to the carrot. Insert them slightly upward.
4. Try to place the toothpicks resembling the shape of a real Christmas tree.
5. Now you need to string on the toothpicks pieces of kiwi, thus creating the foundation of the tree. Add also green grapes.
6. Then start decorating the tree. You can add strawberries in chopped form or whole.
7. Violet grapes should be placed on a spiral around the Christmas tree, imitating a New Year's garland.
8. The rest of the fruit add to different parts of the tree, creating a beautiful color scheme.
9. At the end, add the top of the tree. To do this, take a piece of pineapple or apple and cut an asterisk.
10. When creating a tree, do not forget that most of it should be green, and strawberries, grapes and pineapples act as additional accents.

How to decorate a New Year's table - cauliflower lambs

Necessary ingredients:

• cauliflower - 1 head
• olives without pits - 10 pcs
• toothpicks - 1 pack
• salad - 2-3 leaves
• parsley - 20 g
• mayonnaise - 30 ml

Cooking method:

1. Take fresh cauliflower, rinse it thoroughly and peel it from the leaves.
2. Divide the cabbage into small inflorescences - they will soon become the torso of the lamb. From-cut to the very base of the pedicel of the inflorescence.
3. Boil the cabbage in slightly salted water for about 5 minutes or scald it with boiling water.
4. Puncture the olive with a toothpick, use a knife to make small ears in it. Paste the toothpick with olive in the inflorescence of cabbage - this is the head of the future sheep. In this case, the cabbage must remain trimmed side down.
5. Add to the base 4 toothpicks - legs. You can preliminarily string on them thin pieces of black bread or leave without anything.
6. Draw eye lids with mayonnaise.
7. On a large dish, put the washed salad leaves, and on top place the lamb. Decorate all with chopped parsley. Your green meadow with festive lambs is ready!