October-Fest

[~*Twi*~]

I sooooooo love fall its my favorite time of year!
on Oct 22 we will be having our annual Costume party i look forward to it every year now 2 things we do at the party is Best Costume and Best creative spooky dish we judge whoever brings a treat and its creativity now im so undecided on what to give the winner in each catagory can anyone give me some ideas?

[ellanoize]

Can you believe we are a week into October already?

The nights are getting cooler, Leaves are starting to fall, Farmers are harvesting their crops, I heard that snow is falling in the Western Mountains, Leaves are stating to turn colors.

I like the autumn season.

<font color="#0040A0" size="1">[ October 05, 2005 12:20 PM: Message edited by: ellanoize ]</font>

[ellanoize]

Hello Twi, I guess I lived a deprived childhood because I never went to a Halloween party. I wish I had because it sounds like a lot of fun.

I don't have any recipes of my owen, but I googled a couple of intresting ones:

Bloody Bug Juice
24 ounces frozen strawberries thawed
6 ounces lemonade, frozen concentrate
1 quart ginger ale
1 cup raisins
1 cup blueberries - fresh or frozen
Place the strawberries in a bowl and mash with a fork. In a large pitcher, mix the strawberry mash, lemonade and ginger ale. Place handfuls of raisins and blueberries (bugs) into tall glasses. Pour the liquid over the bugs, then sit back and watch the bugs and scum rise to the top of each glass. To quench a creepy crowd's thirst, double or triple this recipe and serve in a punch bowl. Drape some gummy worms over the rim of your bowl for a particularly swampy-looking effect!

Bloody Eyeballs on the Rocks
12 radishes
7 ounces olives - pimento-stuffed
46 ounces tomato juice

Prepare these bloody eyeballs the day before your plan to serve them. Peel radishes,
leaving thin streaks of red skin on them for blood vessels. Using the tip of the vegetable
peeler or a small, knife, carefully scoop out a small hole in each radish. Stuff a green
olive, pimento side out, in each hole. Place 1 radish eyeball in each section of an empty
ice cube tray. You may need to pare your eyeballs down a bit to fit. Fill the tray with
water and freeze overnight. Pour tall glasses 3/4 full of tomato juice and add a pair of
eyeballs to each glass.

Dead body Meat Loaf
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 egg -- beaten
1 cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup minced onions
26 ounces spaghetti sauce
olives, corn kernels and pimentos
garnish

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using clean hands, mix together all ingredients, except for
the spaghetti sauce and garnishes, in a large bowl. To form the corpse: In an ungreased
baking pan, sculpt the meat mixture into a body. (Generally, bodies have a single head,
torso, 2 legs and 2 arms, but yours can have as many or as few as you like.) Using olives
for eyes, corn for teeth and pimentos for a tongue, decorate your loaf. Feel free to try
other vegetables, too. Pour spaghetti sauce around the corpse and bake for about 1 hour
and 15 minutes. Right before serving, stick a dagger (butter knife) into the "heart" of the
corpse as a garnish.

Worms In Dirt
3/4 cup chocolate pudding
1/4 cup chocolate pie crust crumbs
2-4 gummy worms
Layer 3/4 cup of chocolate pudding into desert dish.
Top with 1/4 cup of chocolate pie crust crumbs.
Serve with 2-4 gummy worms, half buried in the chocolate pie crust crumbs, hanging out ot the dish.

Hope you have a great party. Maybe you could start a Halloween thread & share some photos.

rog

[~*Twi*~]

Thanks for the recipes Roger! i will take some digitals and im also gonna videotape it we have a blast we've been doing Halloween parties now for about 19 yrs ,too bad you and your wife don't live closer you would surely be invited well let me say you are invited if you can make a flight come on down. we have so much fun ..... we were gonna do the hayride this year but we are not gonna be able too .but we do have our costume contest and our spooky treat contest,we Karaoke and shake our bon bons *L*
we have goodies to eat this year im making a blood bath punch with frozen hands should be neat!
we take family pics of everyone dressed up .. we give lil prizes to winners in the costume and treat contest. we have such a good time many of the couples that come every year can't wait they count down the months until our next party *L*
Thanks for those recipes i may just choose me out one to make ......

[ellanoize]

That sounds like So much fun, You really have put a lot of thought into this.

I grew up in a very rural area and we didn't have much of a chance to get togeather like that.

I hope you & everyone has a blast.

[~*Twi*~]

I will post pics ,its a really inexpensive party to throw if you have lots of couple friends or single friends and ever think about throwing a halloween party i can tell you how to go about it really cheap far as decorations and food goes i think in all we may spend $40.00 in all including food,decorations,invitations and cups,plates and napkins you see iam a thrifty shopper so i get the bargains *L*