Spooky Goat day seven!
6SPOOKY FOOD!
I went to Aldi yesterday and bought some spooky food.
I don’t usually buy much themed food anymore, except for Monster cereal. (And, I have to admit, I’m considering the Burger King Halloween Whopper this year. Approximately 30 years ago Mueller had a monster-shaped pasta that I absolutely adored and made mac & cheese with a bunch of times, and I’m still mad they don’t make it anymore.
/image mueller monster shape pasta
I’ve never made much from scratch–a bundt-pan pumpkin a couple of times (two bundt cakes to make a pumpkin w/an upside-down cupcake for the stem), and once I made the sweetest punch in the world. I don’t think I have the recipe anymore, but it was 2 packs of Kool-Aid, purple and orange, a bottle of ginger ale and then you put orange sherbet in it. It was supposed to be black, and started out that way, but turned brown and then eventually a horrible swamp-green. The color was actually really effective with the melted sherbet making believable weird pond scum. If you like things that look disgusting and will actually make your teeth hurt you’ll love it! I made it for a party in my 20’s (I’d probably been waiting a decade for the opportunity), and everybody hated it except for one guy who loved it so much we filled an empty wine bottle for him to take home.
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Spooky food is fun! Meatloaf is my go to: zombies, feet, graveyard, mummies, brain, mice, hands, and more. I’ve made jello worms, finger cookies, finger hot dogs, and the pumpkin bundt cake which was more trouble for me than it should have been. They are not my ideas but I made all of these:
@callow WOW!
@callow
I would never eat those worms, they look to real.
@Star2236 They didn’t taste very good. I only ate them to gross people out.
@callow @Star2236 how do you make the worms? Is there a special mold for jello worms?
@callow Those are all delightfully disgusting! I’ve done fun things with gelatin but I can’t find my photos right now. They weren’t for Halloween, but for The Edible Book Tea, which happens in April. Maybe I can find them and post them then. Spam works kind of well for carving and decorating.
@Star2236 @stolicat Flexible straws! https://onelittleproject.com/how-to-make-jello-worms/
@callow @Star2236 @stolicat Brilliant.
@Kyeh An Edible Book Tea sounds fun! Can’t wait to see your creations. I will look for spam ideas.
@callow @Kyeh @Star2236 Okay, I can see what we’ll be trying soon. Fun web site, too!
I love the derby sage cheese, I use it all the time in a recipe. It only comes out this time of year and runs through Christmas so if you like it stack up. I just bought some from Trader Joe’s yesterday. Throughout the year I mimic the cheese my mincing lots and lots of sage and adding it to a bad of mild cheddar, it comes out to a similar taste but the derby sage is better.
heres the recipe I was talking about. I stuff them, so I use way more chicken, jam and cheese. And I don’t add a sage leaf bc I make mine as main course and nobody likes bitting in and pulling out a sage leaf.
@Star2236 That sounds delicious.
I made this years ago as an "Edible Book:"
I think carved Spam would work very well fot tombstones!
@Kyeh I never would have guessed it was spam!
So I wanted to post this and was hoping for a spooky foods thread:
@Kyeh Hmm, something to try next time we haul the ice cream maker out …
@stolicat
I fear scorpions more than most other creepy crawlies!
@Kyeh Is that in their stores?
@Kyeh @stolicat
/giphy oh-h3ll-no
@mossygreen Looks like it:
https://saltandstraw.com/pages/flavors
@mossygreen Oh, and you can expand your Salt & Straw experience to food perfume:
https://www.portlandmercury.com/food-and-drink/2022/10/07/46113747/a-lick-of-scents
Anyone up for some Char-spook-erie?
@mike808
That’s cute
I posted this last year but I still think it’s clever:
@Kyeh That looks like it could taste pretty good!
Eyeball cookies.
@mike808 Come in, Boris, we always have a guest for breakfast
Ha-ha-ha, I mean, Horace, we always have a breast for geckfast
/youtube bonzo dog monster mash
I forgot I had this in the fridge. It’s yucky but the label is pretty.
World Market has Halloween pasta! It’s not as spooky as the Meuller’s you had though:
Weird - it says 3 shapes but it clearly shows a 4th - a spider, which I think is the best one.