Penguin Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    large hard-cooked eggs
    giant size black olives
    carrot pieces
    lettuce leaves
Preparation
    Cut a thin slice off large end of egg and stand egg up.
    For penguin's head, insert one end of toothpick lengthwise into a ripe olive.
    Insert other end in top of egg.
    Use 1/4 of olive (cut lengthwise) for each wing or lengthwise sliver for \"necktie\"; poke short piece of toothpick into each section of olive first (from inner side), then into egg.
    For feet, cut a lengthwise slice of carrot, a little less than 1/2 inch thick.
    Cut the slice crosswise in 3/4-inch lengths.
    Taper sides of each piece of carrot and notch wide end to make webbed foot.
    Tuck a pair of feet part way under egg.
    Whittle a beak from carrot and push into olive-head for nose. Place on lettuce.

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