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Halloween Party Food Favorites- Turn Your Bash into a Smash

C.D. Watson — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:44:56 +0000

Great Halloween party food can leave your guests begging for more

It’s October, so say hello to Halloween again and start getting ready for your Halloween parties! If you are stumped on what kind of foods to make this Halloween, try out some of our tried and true twists on regular party food, and have your guests howling for more!

Want a nice, goulish appetizer? Try some Bloody Ears . Concocted from Shrimp and cocktail sauce, its a tasty and bloody-looking treat. You can also try your hand at some fingers, ears and eyeballs for some additional body parts, or go the whole distance and create and entire Halloween dead body buffet.

If getting good and bloody isn’t your thing and your kids are young, you can always opt for something a little more mild and with less gore. Bring a little Halloween to your lunch or dinner some spooky alternatives to breadsticks: Breadstick Bones and Tinted Kneecaps.

It doesn’t take much to take up your Halloween festivities a notch with some easy-to-make Halloween Party recipes. The only requirement is that you get your groceries ahead of time, to make sure you have all your ingredients.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Buffet Tips – Spooky Alternatives to Breadsticks

C.D. Watson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:41:14 +0000

When planning Halloween party food, creative variations of standard foods can be the talk of the party — but preparation time can sometimes be overwhelming. If you want to do more than standard breadsticks or dinner rolls this year, but do not have the time to make “monster bread” or “skeleton bread”, try these two simple alternatives:

1. Breadstick Bones -

a decorative twist to the standard breadstick. All you need is get a can of breadstick dough from the refridgerated section of your local supermarket, egg white and parmesan cheese.

First tie a string loosly around each end of the breadstick. Do it fairly close to the end, but not right on it. Remember, this is the part of the bone that will look like the joint. Next, brush with egg white and sprinkle with parmesan cheese — then bake according to the instructions on the can. That’s it!

2. Tinted Kneecaps – Get your standard ready to bake dinner rolls from your local supermarket. Beat some eggwhite and add orange food coloring (or color of choice). Brush onto rolls and bake. This will give a slight halloween glow and tint to your party bread. You can also add parmesan cheese, or apply to breadsticks instead of rolls.

For someone who is short on time but still wants to make their party fun, these are two great ways keep the Halloween theme without a big fuss. Tip: the breadstick bones work especially well as an option on the “dead body buffet“!

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Halloween Party Food — How to Make a Dead Body Buffet

C.D. Watson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:36:47 +0000

What better way to keep in the spirit of Halloween than by turning your buffet table into a feast that may almost turn their appetites off instead of on. Creating a “dead body buffet” will let them enjoy what you have prepared and leave a lasting impression when it comes to your party decorating skills. There are a good many ways to get this done. Let’s start with the basic supplies and then move on to the food possibilities.

Supplies:

6 foot long table
Black table cloth (8ft or larger)
Battery Operated Candles and/or table lights (safety first! battery operated please)
Various sizes of serving dishes
Wig (for “head” area – optional)
Old Men’s Dress Shirt
Pair of Old Pants
Various food items (see below)

The art of creating a dead body buffet lies in the strategic placement of the applicable food items. The goal is to create a tasty buffet of food that resembles a dead body, and additional portions of the creations are placed in front of the body for easy serving. You can start with the body’s accessories — a wig, large shirt and pants. The wig is easy, that is the head. When it comes to the shirt, it should only be buttoned on the “neck” area, and draped over the tablecloth open, as an additional decoration (sleeves are laid on the table flat). The pants are the same… use an old pair, leave the button and zipper open, and put a serving dish of whatever you are using for the intestine/stomach section. For the pant legs, however, cut each pant leg down the front center, just below the crotch, stopping before the hemline. Fold open and arrange serving bowls and dishes inside. It helps to shred the clothes up a little for added effect. There are endless ways to vary the buffet and the above is just one example to get your creative juices flowing.

As far as the food goes, try these options on for size:

Head - Eyes, Bloody Ears and Brain Matter are key here. First, however, place an appropriately sized bowl in a wig. This will be your head. Fill with brain matter (either leafy salad,pasta salad, or a specialty brain appetizer) and garnish with your choice of edible eyeball creations. It can be a good idea to make the head area an appetizer section, so that the actual head has one selection, allowing you to place two more additional appetizers like a bowl of Eyeballs (gelatinous eyeballs, deviled egg eyeballs, etc.) or a platter of Bloody Ears (shrimp “ears” and cocktail sauce).

Neck/Shoulders - Not a lot to do here. If you are using the shirt, you may want to button it up over a box and use this area for illumination effects and decorations… like a battery operated flickering candle with some spiders and spiderwebs.

Ribs/Chest - Place a serving dish (crock pot, casserole or pan) in the rib area and fill with boneless barbeque rib meat. Stack bone-in ribs in another serving dish at an angle in front of the boneless rib meat to create the “ribs” of the body. If you would rather, you can get some fake bones from a party supply or ask for some bones from a butcher that you can set out purely as a decoration, keeping the center meat in a heated dish.

Stomach/Intestines – Inside the pant torso, place your crock pot or serving dish filled with things like spaghetti (or any pasta of your choice), bratwurst, or any large sausage… really it can be filled with anything you think intestines or a stomach would look like. You may choose to just fill it with sweet and sour chicken (red sauce is pretty grotesque), or even some fried chicken gizzards complete with a little bloody dipping sauce (Marinara, or Red Ranch Dip)

Hands - the actual arms will be under some serving dishes, silverware or napkins, but the cuff of the sleeve can be adjusted to border the bowl or platter where you can serve appetizer “fingers”. There are many kinds of recipes for fingers, ranging from shrimp to cookies. It will be your choice here. Make sure to make a display hand and have the actual items in separate bowls. You can even create a hand out of dead finger appetizers and buffalo wings — using the drummette as a bloated rotting thumb (a light application of BBQ sauce with a little red food dye works great for this effect).

Legs - This is the area where you can stuff the pant legs with Breadstick Bones and Tinted Kneecaps (dinner rolls), or make them bloody-style by having a little marinara sauce handy.

Feet - You can create some toes the same way you do fingers, or you can just set aside this section for condiments and silverware, or other additional dishes and desserts you want to place on the table. Just decorate it with old boots or shoes (please wash first!). Slide the boots and shoes up against the furthest side of the table (eg: against the wall) and cover with fake spider webs, bugs,worms, spiders, etc.

All that is left is to put the table together. Drape the tablecloth over the table, then arrange the food in accordance with their respective body parts and clothing. Finish by arranging lights and fake spider webs to create the appropriate spooky effect. Since all party sizes are different, use your imagination to arrange the accessories and make your dead body buffet the life of the party!