Halloween Goodies

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Halloween is in the air, and being a DJ, I know that “Thriller” by one of the greatest artists of all time, the king of pop, MJ, would be THE only time I would ever repeat a track, in my set. So sticking with that scary theme of things, I thought I would do up something with that in mind.

Every year there are usually crazy contests being put on by different clubs and schools. I have seen some pretty crazy costumes no doubt, this one guy (Greg from Mcleod Residence) got an OLD SCHOOL PAC MAN ARCADE…yup…you guessed it, and fitted himself in it, and the crazy thing is, he actually wired it to a car battery, so we could have played a game or two, needless to say he won the contest that year. I won’t lie though; I am a BIG WIMP when it comes to scary movies. I don’t like watching them on the big screen far less for my own house. Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, or any show that has Leah Miller in it, just crawls my blood, lets face it, she’s just as pale as most ghosts. But seriously though, it’s a scary time of year, and food, even though most people think it at most times can be sexy, if you have a crazy (or warped) imagination, it could be quite ghoulish.

So I thought if I was a Zombie, what would I wanna eat? I may want to eat a “Zombie BRAIN salad”. Best of both “worlds”, my brain protein and my veggies…come on some zombies may wanna be healthy… 👿
– 2 packs of gelatin, grape flavored would be best.
– 1 pack of firm tofu (and a melon baller)
– 1 container of cottage cheese
– I/2 lb of blueberries or peeled grapes
– 1 pack blue and 1 pack of red food colouring
Directions
Prepare the gelatine as you would usually, and chill for a few hours.
Scoop the cottage cheese into a bowl, and add the blueberries or peeled grapes to it.
Scoop out balls of tofu and dot each center with blue…for blue eyes and dot the others with red…for red eyes.
Add three drops food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice greyish color when blended.
To serve the brain salad, cut the gelatine into squares or any type of shape and place a few spoonfuls of the firm gelatine (it supposed to represent brain fluid) onto the individual plates.
Add your human tofu eye balls
Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) and berries or grape mixture.

My good Lebanese friend Laura, always brings this wicked dessert over to our house, whenever we have events called “Lady Toes”…i dunno why she calls them that, but she’s a crazy Lebanese … and they are delicious, so I ask no questions…I just eat them 😆  so I thought maybe I  can do up my Halloween version of that.

Freddy Cougar Fingers

We need a short bread type dough that you can use your piping bag to make them look like fingers. Then using a spoon, make lines suggesting knuckle and wrinkles; add a toasted almond for the creepy looking fingernail. If you use the plain almond, it looks equally as creepy. You can add a bit of red food colouring on the nail, if you want a bloody finger.

MmmMmm Marrow

Cut the crusts off of some slices of white bread. Spread a very thin layer of smooth peanut butter but double the amount of red jam on the bread. Roll the sandwiches up and now you have bones with gooey blood and yummy marrow!
Pimple Puss Poppers

For any teenager who just got rid of their acne problems, I’m sorry to bring them back up, but mom is gonna serve these pimples for dinner 😎

Core about 1/2 lb of cherry tomatoes with a pointy carrot peeler. Drain the excess tomato juice. Using a piping bag, fill the holes in the tomatoes with cream cheese. Give each pimple a gentle squeeze and arrange them on a platter. For an added effect, you can even put one black pepper corn on top of the cheese, to simulate those stubborn black heads 
Icey Blood Cubes
We will need some nice cherry flavoured kool aid mix. Mix as you would normally, and fill into an ice cube tray, and then freeze. When you are ready to serve, put a few in your glass. It would look a lot better if the liquid was clear (like 7up) etc.
And for an additional over the top effect, you can put raisins in your ice cubes before freezing, so when it thaws, you will be left with “black maggots” floating in your drink 😆

Hope you all have a safe and scary Halloween…definitely not my favorite time of year, so the only “creepy” thing I would be doing is “creeping” on face book…however, I have seen some pictures of friends on there…they can be just as frightening.

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