It's the big party this year because not only is it Halloween, but the 31st is also our 25th wedding anniversary! So this years blow out will be a week-end long event! That means food for a Friday night dinner party, a Saturday night Halloween/Anniversary party and a Sunday morning brunch!
We want to use this Punch Bowl Special Effect for each days party because it just looks so cool! but Sunday morning brunch will be limited to mixed drinks, both alcoholic and non. We'll make some special ice cubes for the drinks we'll be serving by using ice trays and plastic bugs or gummy creatures.
We like this Jello Mold idea, using Gummy eyeballs. We'll also have to come up with a main dish for the dinner party so we'll stop by Halloween Recipes to find some great ideas!
Here's one that we might use this year! This is a tasty treat for a meal or a party. You can stick toothpicks in each little meatball and let people serve themselves during a party, these tasty sweet and sour meatballs will be a big hit!
SWEET & SOUR SPIDER EGGS
Ingredients:
Pre-made or frozen meatballs, about 481
Cup Salsa1/2
Cup Grape Jelly
1/2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Barbecue Sauce (Hickory Smoked or your choice)
1/4 Cup Cider Vinegar
In a mixing bowl, combine ingredients except meat balls. Mix with a wire whisk until well blended. Pre-heat a large skillet, at least 12 inches, over high heat. Pour in mixture and meatballs and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until thickened. Pour into large serving bowl. Insert toothpicks or skewers if needed.
As a garnish, you can make a spider on the top of the bowl of meatballs by using a peeled hard boiled egg and some thinly sliced red or green bell pepper. Sit the egg in the meatballs and stick the pepper slices in for legs. Use a black olive for the head, attach with a toothpick. Put drops of red cake decorating gel on for eyes. You can also spot the "body" of the spider with decorating gel as well, to give it a more "spidery" look.
Labels: Recipes for the Halloween Party 2009
I found a great Halloween reipe, which we'll be using this year, at Halloween Recipes 101. We have found a bunch of gtreat recipes there in the past and they have some new stuff up now. This is one we can use right now and sure sounds tastey! It's for backed apples, anything apple our family loves. Classic Baked ApplesIngredients:
Large baking apples, Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, (one apple per person).1/4 cup brown sugar1 teaspoon cinnamon1/4 cup chopped pecans1/4 cup chopped raisins1 Tbsp butter3/4 cup boiling waterPreparation:
This recipe makes 4 servings, adjust for more or less apples. Preheat oven to 375°F. Wash apples. Remove cores to 1/2 inch of the bottom of the apples. An apple corer helps but you can use a paring knife to cut out the stem area and then the core. Use a small spoon to dig out the seeds. The hole should be 3/4-inch to an inch wide across the apple. The use of large apples is important so the holes can be large enough for the filling.In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, raisins, and pecans. Place apples in a 8-inch-by-8-inch square baking pan. Stuff each apple with this mixture. Quarter the tablespoon slice of butter and top each with a dot of butter Add the boiling water to the baking pan with apples in it. Bake 30-40 minutes ort until apples are tender but not mushy. Remove from the oven and baste the apples several times with the pan juices.Serve warm with vanilla ice cream on the side.
Best Apples For Baking Whole:
Jonathan, Winesap, Criterion, Gala,
Newtown Pip, Golden Delicious,
Jonagold, Rome Beauty
Labels: New Recipe for May 2009
We've been lining up the menu for our Halloween dinner party and have been looking for new recipes to use. I found this site, Halloween Recipes That has some good food ideas and also ideas for setting the tables, display ideas and more. It should make our party planning much easier for this Halloween's dinner party and Halloween costume party. The recipes below looks like it would be good for either party.
Sweet & Sour Spider Eggs
Ingredients:
Pre-made or frozen meatballs, about 48
1 Cup Salsa
1/2 Cup Grape Jelly
1/2 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Barbecue Sauce (Hickory Smoked or your choice)1/4 Cup Cider Vinegar
Directions:
In a mixing bowl, combine ingredients except meat balls. Mix with a wire whisk until well blended. Pre-heat a large skillet, at least 12 inches, over high heat. Pour in mixture and meatballs and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until thickened. Pour into large serving bowl. Insert toothpicks or skewers if needed.
As a garnish, you can make a spider on the top of the bowl of meatballs by using a peeled hard boiled egg and some thinly sliced red or green bell pepper. Sit the egg in the meatballs on it's side. Stick the pepper slices in for legs. Use a black olive for the head, attach with a toothpick. Put drops of cake decorating gel on for eyes, red or green works well. You can also spot the "body" of the spider with decorating gel as well, to give it a more "spidery" look.
With Halloween fast approaching, we've made the menu for our Halloween party and have most everything ready to go. Monday, we'll start baking cookies, cupcakes and cakes that need to be made. We'll get things together for the punch, including punch bowls and the lighted bases that we made for them, find the instructions at HalloweenOnline.
You'll find a bunch of new recipes in the Recipe section for this year. We are going to try some of the Jello molds and the Coffin Cake. Also making some Ice Hands to float in the punch bowls, which we found there also. Looks to be agreat party foodwise this year!
RICE CRISPY TREATS
These wonderful snacks are a favorite for any holiday.
INGREDIENTS:
3 tablespoons butter
4 cups miniature marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies®
DIRECTIONS:
Melt the butter in a large saucepan on a low heat. Once the butter is melted, add the miniature marshmallows. We like to use the small marshmallows rather than the large ones because the are easier to melt and stir.
Stir until the mixture is completely melted and remove from heat. Immediately mix in the Rice Crispy Cereal and stir until combined. Butter a pan. Most of the time you would use a square pan, like a brownie pan, but for Halloween we like to use something a little more festive, so we use a Jack O' Lantern shaped mini cake pans. Spread mixture evenly in the pans. Allow to cool and remove. You now have indiviual servings or they can be cut up when served.
Labels: 2007 Halloween party
