With Halloween coming up soon and with all the parties we and our children have been giving or getting invitations to, we’ve been trying to come up with some new ideas to be yummy and creepy at the same time. I’ve found these, maybe you would like to try them with your ghouls, too. Have a Happy and safe Halloween. Also, Mrs. P. on North Street-I would love to have your fudge recipe to share. The holidays are almost here and we are all going to be looking for new, quick ways to prepare gifts for friends, coworkers, and family. Thank you!
Strained Eye Balls
6 eggs
1 (6oz) tub whipped
cream cheese
1 (7oz) jar green olives
with pimientos
red food coloring
Directions: Place the eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Cook over high heat until the water begins to boil. Then turn the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
Place the cooked eggs in cold water. When they’re cool enough to touch, crack the eggshells all over by rolling them on a hard surface. Peel away the shells and cut in half width-wise.
Remove the yolks and fill the empty holes with cream cheese.
Press and olive into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento facing up
Dip the tip of a toothpick in red food coloring and draw broken blood vessels in the cream cheese.
This next one is so easy, I’m almost embarrassed to share, but for those of you that promised to bring cookies to the halloween party for your goblins, this could be a fun and easy way out.
Ghost Cookies
(a friend of mine made these to share with us at work a couple of years ago)
Get a package of NutterButter cookies. Dip in melted white chocolate bark, one side at a time. Put mini chocolate chip morsels on the face for eyes.
Fake Wound
1 Tbsp Vaseline
tissue
cocoa powder
2-3 drops red food coloring
Directions: Place Vaseline in a bowl. Add food coloring. Blend with a toothpick. Stir in a pinch of cocoa to make a darker blood color. Separate tissue. Using 1 layer, tear a 2×3 inch piece and place at wound site. Cover with petroleum jelly and mold into the shape of a wound. The center should be lower than the sides. Fill the center with the red petroleum jelly mixture. Sprinkle center with some cocoa. Sprinkle a little around the edges of the wound to make darker.
Helpful hints: Instead of cutting out around the stem of a pumpkin, cut a round hole on the bottom. Instead of putting your hand inside to light or change the candle, you can lift the whole pumpkin up and set the candle on the cut out bottom.
Use an ice cream scoop to clean out the inside of the pumpkin.
Instead of the usual jack-o-lantern face on your pumpkin, carve out words, or spiders, or bats. Or: paint a pumpkin face on. You can use stencils. Tape a stencil onto the pumpkin and use tacks to poke holes about a half an inch apart along the stencil lines. After removing the stencil, use the connect-the-dots as the pattern to carve along.
I’ll be looking forward to hearing from you and any suggestions or recipes you like. I can be reached at susieqcooking@ainop.com or c/o Pioneer Times, PO Box 456, Houlton, Maine 04730
See you next week! Susie Q
