It’s that time of year when I have to figure out what we are having for Halloween dinner. Do I do the “orange” theme, the “pumpkin” theme, or that whole “gory fun food” thing?
In case you are looking for some ideas, here’s what the Webster’s had last year. We had a body.
Starting at the top, but hard to see is the hair. That was made of salad.
Deviled Egg Eyeballs. Use an olive in the center and dip a toothpick in red food coloring to make veins on it, if you want.
The lips were wax lips. Throat was a cucumber sliced but not quite all the way through.
We had real ribs this year and a nice intestine. (I’ll have to post the rib recipe soon.) The intestine is a pie crust that is stuffed with anything you like. You can do a meatloaf, potatoes, or veggies. Just pinch the pie dough together in a tube and lay it in a 9 x 13 pan. After it’s cooked, put some red food coloring in some water and brush it on. Add veins by dipping a toothpick or fine paintbrush in blue and red food coloring and drawing veins. Looks good, huh?? (I think mine is stuff with seasoned mashed potatoes. Since I have some children who will die if they don’t eat mashed potatoes with their Sunday meal.) Just to make you feel a little better, I bought these pie crusts. Not enough time to make my own. Here’s the link if you want the original recipe.
The legs are made with breadsticks. I think I bought this dough, too. Depending on how long you want your bones, you can either tie a knot on the end of each strip or you can use a separate piece and just attach it to the long length of dough.
I used cauliflower for the wrist and ankle joints and turnip halves for the knee caps.
Toes are vienna sausages and fingers are baby carrots. I did find this cool gummy hand so used it.
My favorite attraction this year was the homemade jello heart, complete with gushing blood. I thought it looked pretty cool. Here’s the link for the original recipe. Since I didn’t know what grenadine was, I tweaked the recipe. And I didn’t have a mold, so I made one out of a bread bag or sandwich bag. I’ll have to post my made up instructions.
It appears from the background of this picture that I did throw in the traditional drink of orange sherbet with orange soda over the top. (Orange float if you will.)
I’ll have to post pictures of the cool Halloween dinner we did when Wes cut his finger off. We had all “finger foods” that year! It was pretty cool!
So what are you all having this year? Give me some ideas!