Hi friends and Happy October! Fall is one of my favorite seasons, and mostly because of rainy mornings, curling up in bed, hearty soups, and chillier weather. This season is all about being cozy and comfortable and that's always something I'm up for. So in the spirit of things, I'm sharing Pumpkin Gnocchi for this
These Spooky Italian Mummy Sausages are dressed in Bucatini pasta. Truly, the perfect meal to share for a Halloween!
Hearty and full of rich homemade flavour, this beef stew recipe is an easy way to sneak in extra servings of protein and vegetables to the kids dinner. It’s especially good on a colder day alongside some tasty green vegetables.
This will scare the hungry spirits away!
We made good old chicken pot pie Halloween party-worthy by loading up the filling with fresh vegetables and herbs, and decorating the top with bones and skulls cut from puff pastry. You'll need special cookie cutters; or you can create your own skull and bones from cardboard and cut around them on the pastry with a knife. For the best "puff," keep the pastry cold as you work.
Are you ready for this pizza of the dead? Black sesame dough, basil pesto, sauteed onions, cheese and cute savoury mushroom skulls topped with fresh herbs make it perfect. A fun way to celebrate Halloween with your hungry friends, goblins and ghouls.
It's a good thing Halloween only comes once a year. If Sue and I cooked everyday like we cook for Halloween we would both weigh a million pounds. Seriously. We made soooooooo much food. Cute and spooky Halloween food to be exact. We will share all our photos in this blog and then, as we complete the individual and how-to blogs, we will provide links to those blogs. But, enough chit chat...let's get to the photos, shall we? The above Dracula Pizza was probably my favorite from this year. So cute. I had to make 2 so I could share one. They were a little fussy to make but overall, quite simple. I had been scrolling through pages of Halloween treats when a picture of a vampire pizza appeared on screen. I knew I had to try and make something similar. I made a simple cheese pizza mummy as we had a few fussy eaters who didn't want anything on their pizza. These were store bought mini pizza crusts. They took about 2 seconds to throw together. The longer cheese across the mummy is a cheese string that is pulled into strands. I thought it made them look more like mummies. Here is our Frankenstein's monster pizza. Yes...we had a few different pizzas. These ones were all individual sized pizzas. Instead of pizza sauce it is pesto mixed with alfredo sauce. So yummy! These were made on store bought Naan bread. We got the idea from Munchkin Munchies. Making the stitches out of olives was the only tricky part. Otherwise these were pretty easy. Okay....last of the pizzas. This is our spooky spider BBQ chicken pizza. We have made this for several Halloween dinners as it is so popular. There it is going in the oven. BBQ sauce instead of pizza sauce and a half of a store bought deli BBQ chicken make this guy amazingly delicious. Sue made this spook-tacular Graveyard Dip. (Click HERE for the link) A spicy bean dip and some tortillas make for an impressive dish. Our friend, Kerry, was able to track down a brain mold for us. We made our gruesome mushroom, shrimp, cream cheese dip because we knew it would look very brain like. I thought the knife was an especially nice touch. It was really good on whole grain baguettes. (Click HERE for the link!) This was supposed to be a mummy filled with spinach dip. (You can get our Spinach Dip recipe HERE.) Sadly, he came out looking more like a potato monster. Hey... Potato monsters can be pretty scary too.... We found some black bow tie pasta on a trip to the city and thought it would be perfect for a Halloween pasta salad. It tasted great but certainly looked a little sketchy. Sue made these fabulous monster toes. They are store bought chicken nuggets with whole cashews died black. Then she sprinkled them with finely shredded cheese to make them a little "hairy". Mmmm.....hairy monster toes. Another super-de-duper simple Halloween dish. Some spaghetti with meat sauce in a "jack o'lantern" orange pepper. It looked like their poor brains were leaking out. Their brains did taste very yummy. There is the 2012 spread. See....sooooo much food. Sue did some creative carving on our mini pumpkins. The one Halloween decoration we were able to find at Sue's house. (She still has everything packed up in storage!) Cool dollar store labels turn ordinary pop into Halloween worthy drinkables. And...some for the adults too, of course. Hopefully by next Halloween Sue will be in her brand new house and we can totally crazy planning a huge Halloween party. It's so much fun to see people's reactions when they see something ridiculously gross or cute or just super cool that they can eat. Feel free to leave a comment and let us know what your favorites are! We'd love to hear from you. Want to see tons of fun links? Head over to Blissful and Domestic and Anyonita Nibbles! and Hun... What's For Dinner? and Table For Seven and Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons and Chef In Training.
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Spicy green curry made with a fresh homemade curry paste. Topped with black forbidden rice
A delicious Napolitan overnight black pizza with chipotle BBQ chicken strips, mushrooms & red onion recipe.
Dinner in a cemetery anyone?
Make these cute ghost pizzas as an after school or pre-trick-or-treat nibble your kids will love.
These Spicy Hamburger Pizza Mummies probably won't scare your Halloween guests--but they are a big hit with my Halloween crowd...soooo--BOO!
Halloween fun foods give us joy and satisfaction, and our graveyard pizza recipe just might be our favorite to date. The results were perfect and easy!
Flex your creative muscles with this spooky pizza skeleton, a show-stopping and delicious Halloween party appetizer or dinner treat.
Here is an idea that I regularly make every year for Halloween. It is hilariously fun to make, incidentally is also nutritious and delicious. It is a good
Halloween rückt immer näher und wir werden nicht müde, Halloween Rezepte auszuprobieren. Folgendes Hackfleischgericht sorgt für eine ordentliche Portion Gänsehaut. Einerseits, weil es zum Fürchten aussieht, andererseits, weil es extrem…
It's a work of art! 🎨
Check out Spooky Spiderweb Pizzas at Woman's Day.
It's Spooky Season my fellow ghoul babies and that means it's time for another Halloween extravaganza! This time we would be holding it in our new house. Take a look inside and see the decorations, the food served and the costumes we wore. And there was no shortage of drama and fun this year!
I love this cute little mummy braid. You can use crescent dough if you like but I greatly prefer puff pastry for both taste and texture. I have learned that I detest reheated crescent dough as well, so puff pastry is the way I go if I plan on having any leftovers. Check below to...
Isn't it funny how life works out? A few days before my Halloween party, I came down with a terrible bug which involved throwing up, sore joints, pale, waxy skin, crusted over eyes and lips. Suddenly, the look that I had been hoping to achieve by makeup was facing me in the mirror. And I didn't need a jot of makeup.
Kids will love these baked biscuit cups filled with seasoned ground beef and topped with fun Halloween pumpkin faces made of cheese.
