The Kitchen
 

old stoveghoul in kitchen
 
 
 

The ghoul is in the kitchen
boiling up some rats
But you can try these recipes
To serve at your next bash.
 
 

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Bloody Popcorn Halloween Chips
Eyeball Meatballs Jack-O-Lantern Cheese ball
There's A Hand In My Punch Edible Spiders
Pumpkin Cookies

 

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blood drop
Bloody Popcorn

Popcorn
Butter
Red food color

Pop the popcorn however you usually make it.
Melt the butter and add some red food color to
turn it to "blood". Add the bloodied butter to the
popcorn and toss to coat.
 

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ghost
Halloween Chips

Flour Tortillas
Olive Oil
Salt

Use Halloween cookie cutters to cut the tortillas into
Halloween shapes. Lightly brush both sides of the cut
shapes with olive oil. Arrange the shapes on a baking
sheet. Place under a preheated broiler and broil until
lightly browned. Turn them over and broil the other
side until lightly browned. Sprinkle with salt.
Serve hot or at room temperature.
 

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animated pumpkin
Jack O Lantern Cheese ball
 

2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 pretzel nub
Pitted black olives (large or colossal)
Crackers
 

Beat the cheddar cheese and cream cheese together
in a bowl until smooth. Cover and refrigerate
for 2 to 3 hours or until the mixture is firm
enough to shape. Shape the mixture into
a round pumpkin and place on a
serving plate. Use a knife to score vertical
lines down the pumpkin. Place the pretzel nub
on top for the stem. Cut olives in half lengthwise.
Cut 3 halves into triangle shapes and press on
the pumpkin as the eyes and nose. Shape additional
halves to form a mouth and press into place.
Refrigerate until serving time. Arrange crackers
around the JackOLantern and serve.
 
 

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I'm watching you
Eyeball Meatballs

1 pound ground beef
1/4 cup bread crumbs
2/3 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
2/3 cup evaporated milk
Stuffed green olives
Jar of spaghetti sauce
(or your own homemade sauce)
 

Combine the beef, bread crumbs, onion, salt,
pepper and evaporated milk in a bowl. Mix
until well blended. Shape the mixture into
36 small balls. Push one olive into each ball
with the stuffed end showing. Form the meat
around the olive, but leave the olive visible.
Arrange the meatballs in a baking pan and bake
at 350 degrees F. for 20-30 minutes, or until
cooked through. Turn once or twice during baking.
Remove from the oven and drain any grease from
the pan. Pour over the spaghetti sauce and
turn the meatballs to coat with sauce.
Bake at 350 degrees F. for 5-10
minutes or until hot. Serve with toothpicks.
Note: These can be made ahead and frozen.
Let thaw and bake at 300 degrees F. until hot.
 
 

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cauldron
There's A Hand In My Punch
 

New rubber glove
1 pound coffee can (empty)
Apple juice
Cranberry juice cocktail
Ginger ale
Red food color
 

Fill the rubber glove with water and tie
it tightly at the wrist. Put it in the
freezer for 1-2 days or until frozen hard.
Dip the frozen glovein hot water for a few
seconds to loosen the glove. Remove the glove.
Fill the coffee can about 1/3 full with water.
Set the hand upright in the water and refreeze
both together until frozen solid. Mix equal parts
of apple juice, cranberry juice cocktail
and ginger ale. Pour half of the mixture into
a punch bowl. Remove the hand from the coffee
can and set upright in the punch bowl. Add the
remaining punch. Place a few drops of red food
color on the tips ofthe fingers and let it
drip down the hand.

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spider
Edible Spiders
 

12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, melted
2 cups chow mien noodles
40 M&M's chocolate baking bits
 

Mix the melted chocolate with the chow mien
noodles in a bowl. Drop by spoonfuls onto
waxed paper. Set 2 baking bits eyes on
each "spider". Remove from the waxed paper
when cool.  Makes 20 spiders.
 

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pumpkin face
Pumpkin cookies
 

1 tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough
(or your own sugar cookie recipe)
1 can of cream cheese frosting
Candy corn
 

Slice the dough and bake according to package
directions. When cool, frost with frosting.
Place candy corn on the cookies to make a
JackOLantern face.
Variation: Tint the frosting with red and
yellow food color to make orange frosting.
Use chocolate chips or pieces of licorice
to make the faces.

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If you have a favorite Halloween recipe you would like to add
please E-Mail it to me and I will be happy to add it here.
 
 

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