Halloween Ideas, recipes and etc.
Use plastic doll arms and legs for drink stirrers
Either buy dolls and take them off or go to hobby lobby and buy bags of arms
and legs
Use any masque lined with plastic wrap for foods requiring a mold. You will
be able to turn the masque facing up on a plate, remove plastic wrap and have a
very interesting looking dip! I am betting with some of the gelatin molds I
have seen on list lately this would work too.
Pudding cups Halloween style:
Use chocolate pudding and vanilla pudding
Dye vanilla pudding orange using a combination of red and yellow dye Using
clear dessert cups, layer the two puddings
Sprinkle some crushed chocolate wafer cookies on the top
On the top of the cookies sprinkle chopped up candy corns
Peanut mix:
Mix equal parts salted peanuts and candy corn together
This is suppose to taste like baby Ruth or butter fingers or something but it
is good.
Pumpkin tortilla chips
preheat oven to 400
from beredo size tortillas, roasted red pepper and or jalapeno cilantro flour
tortillas work good.
with a half inch pumpkin cookie cutter or any size, cut out as many as you
can. If you have other Halloween cutters use them too.
bake on ungreased cookie sheet 5 minutes until crisp
Roasted pumpkin seeds
1 1/3 cups pumpkin seeds, cleaned and rinsed
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. I like to use parchment paper
or tin foil. Combine the pumpkin seeds with the garlic powder, salt, crushed
red pepper, and black pepper on prepared baking sheet and toss to combine. Bake
for about 15 minutes, or until seeds are crispy and light golden brown. Remove
from the oven and stir with a spatula or wooden spoon to release any seeds that
have stuck to the baking sheet, and cool completely before serving.
HALLOWEEN PUNCH
1 lg. can Hi-C orange drink
1 lg. can pineapple juice
1 lg. bottle ginger ale or 7-Up
1/2 gallon orange sherbet
Mix Hi-C, pineapple juice, and ginger ale. Spoon in orange sherbet.
Because of the orange coloring of this punch it is considered Halloween, but
what I have done is get one of those plastic jack-o-lanterns the kids use for
trick or treating and put any type drink in that apple cider etc but it becomes
a nice punch bowl and the kids get a kick out of it, not to mention the adults
too!
Dead Man's Meatloaf
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 egg, beaten
1 cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup minced onions
1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
Olives, corn kernels and pimentos (garnish)
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Using clean hands, mix together all ingredients, except for the spaghetti sauce
and garnishes, in a large bowl.
To form the corpse: In an ungreased baking pan, sculpt the meat mixture into a
body. (Generally, bodies have a single head, torso, 2 legs and 2 arms, but
yours can have as many or as few as you like.)
Using olives for eyes, corn for teeth and pimentos for a tongue, decorate your
loaf. Feel free to try other vegetables, too.
Pour spaghetti sauce around the corpse and bake for about 1 hour and 15
minutes. Right before serving, stick a dagger (butter knife) into the "heart"
of the corpse.
You can use your favorite meatloaf recipe but the sauce around it really does
finish the dead man's look off. My grand boys loved it. This is one of those
things that if it looks weird it just adds to the halloween theme!
I often am scrambling to find a costume idea that is cheap and can be put
together in a short time.
Costume ideas:
Static cling: Wear anything in a solid color, all white or even all black. With
safety pins, attach stuff to yourself such as socks (no matching pairs
allowed),underwear and dryer sheets. Spray your hair straight up into the air,
and you're good to go.
The all-American tourist: Guys wear loud Hawaiian shirt, shorts (if weather
permits), large straw hat. Gals, brightly colored loud dress, flats, big sun
hat, straw bag. Don't forget to have a camera and maps hanging out, and that
"we're lost!" look.
Real nerd: Slick back the hair, grab some pants that are too short, white
shirt, white socks, penny loafers or lace-up oxfords, pocket protector with
lots of pens, dark rim glasses (don't forget to tape the corner) and briefcase.
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