Halloween dinners traditionally feature hardy comfort foods, and especially vegetables that are grown on or under the ground, Here's my favorite menu for a luscious Halloween feast!!!... [It's more fun if you come in costume.]
ON THE BUFFET TABLE:
"Witch's Fingers" Appetizers --- Make these by getting pretzel rods, slivered almonds and cheddar cheese spread. Get a wide mouthed glass jar. Glue the slivered almonds on the ends of the pretzel rods with the cheese spread, transforming them into the "fingers". Put them upright in the glass jar.
"Eyeballs On Toast" --- Boil eggs, cool, slice. Get green olives stuffed with pimentos. Slice the olives so they make little rings. Make toast, cool it, spread with cream cheese, cut each slice of toast into four little sections. Put a slice of egg on each piece of toast. Put the "eyeball," a slice of green olive, with a little pimento as the "pupil" glued in the center of the egg with a little cream cheese.
Beef Stew With Baking Powder Biscuits [You can cheat with canned stew if you like.] with baking powder biscuits [Again, you can cheat by buying those ready-bake biscuits that come in the little cans in the refrigerated section of the grocery store.]
Mashed potatoes [Of course, you can use instant ones, but if you do you can make them taste better by adding some ranch dressing.]
Yellow Hubbard Squash --- Remove seeds, cut it in chunks, boil it, scrape the cooked squash out of the skin and mash with plenty of butter, sprinkle the mashed squash with powdered nutmeg
Raw Carrot & Black Raisin Salad With Mayonnaise [Because it's delicious and black and orange.]
Raisin Bread with Cream Cheese
Pumpernickel Bread With Whipped Butter
Buttered Spinach [Yes, get frozen, if you like.]
Blackberry Pie [I'm not a baker, so I always buy deserts.]
Chocolate Cake
Apple Cider, Cola, Orange Pop [Because they're black and orange] For The Kids
Coffee, Tea, Red Wine & Ale For The Adults
Fresh Golden Delicious Apples Piled On The Serving Table
ENTERTAINMENT: Tell ghost stories, or read them... One of my favorite ghost story books is the paperback series "Haunted Ohio". You can probably get it from your library or on Amazon cheap.
Have a costume contest, one for the adults, one for kids. Give gift certificates to cool stores as prizes.]
Or, ALL of you go Trick Or Treating.
Or, put one of these wonderful movies in your dvd player, --- "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow," [May be too scary for children], with Johnny Depp & Christina Ricci, or the animated Walt Disney version, "The Addams Family," with Angelica Huston & Raoul Julia, "Beetlejuice," with Gena Davis, Alec Baldwin and Michael Keaton, "Practical Magic," with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Aidan Quinn, Diane Weist & Stockard Channing. Or, for those who like a really dark and very adult movie, most definitely NOT for the kids, "From Hell," about Jack The Ripper, with Johnny Depp, or "The Skeleton Key," also adult dark and scary, about Hoodoo, with Kate Hudson, or "The Haunting," based on the Gothic horror novel "The Haunting Of Hill House," an adult and creepy movie," with Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson & Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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