Posted by momseyeview on 28th October 2009
Categories: Food, Holiday
6 comments
I suppose that the one night a year when no one really NEEDS a special holiday treat would be Halloween, since it already features a metric truckload of individually wrapped cavity-bombs, but what are we, GRINCHES? No we are NOT.
Here’s some cooking inspiration for your Halloween evening, if you can put the fun-sized Butterfingers down long enough to spend time with a recipe or two:
Caramel apples. Classic. Sure, you could give one to your kid, but do you really want to be cleaning caramel out of the carpet all winter? Me, I’d wait to nosh on one after the trick-or-treaters are in bed for the night. Shhh, it’ll be our secret.
Sweet and Savory Pumpkin Cauliflower Soup. This sounds like a perfect dinner to celebrate the season and strengthen the spirits before you start the grueling chore of stuffing your child into their once-beloved costume, which they of course now hate with the burning hate of a thousand hating suns.
Sweet and Salty Pumpkin Seeds. Cinnamon, butter, and sugar? Yeah, I’d hit that.
Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream. Homemade. Pumpkin. Pie. Ice. Cream. Dear LORD in heaven. GET IN MAH BELLEH.
Leftover Candy Cookies. Here’s a good way to stop eating the leftover Halloween chocolates: use them to make some delicious cookies. Then eat those instead.
Meat Hand. Oh, I SO saved the best for last. Wait, where are you going? Children NEED a good meal before heading out into a cold October evening! Why not warm them up with a nice hearty meatloaf for dinner? EVERYONE WILL LOVE THIS!
That hand is the creepiest thing EVER. Yet also somehow yummy. In a I-like-to-eat-burn-victims kind of way.
Hmm. I may never eat meatloaf again. Or toasted cheese.
Melospiza | October 28th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Oh I love the meatloaf hand… disturbing and delicious. Also the pumpkin ice cream, sounds absolutely fantastic. Makes me tempted to go out and buy an ice cream maker just so I can make it, but maybe I’ll just go to Coldstone instead.
Anonymous | October 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Seriously, that hand. THAT HAND. I think it’s the onion fingernails. OMG, That hand.
AndreAnna | October 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
What about the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins Linda posted a couple years back? I made those for the teachers and, as usual, they were a HUGE hit. I have discovered they are best as mini muffins or as mini bundt cakes (I have a wilton pan that makes 9 mini bundts- giant muffins with holes in centers)
Deanna | November 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I had neverbefore heard of or SEEN The Meat Hand and I loved my life a lot more then.
samantha jo campen | November 5th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I think I just barfed while laughing.
Frondly | November 9th, 2009 at 3:09 am