Halloween Dinner

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:19 am

Dear All

Can anyone recommend a spooky main-course for two? Most halloween recipe websites only seem to carry ideas for party food, biscuits, cakes etc.

Yours in Hope

Boo!

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:42 pm

What about Steak Tar Tar??

You can turn any meal in to one for Halloween......based on the table setting.

I have seen people making cheeseburgers, with the cheese cut out in to a jack o lantern, you can color macaroni and cheese green.

You can buy green colored pasta. I have seen pumpkin shaped pastas too.

Anything Italian can work because of sauce looking like blood, and spaghetti looks like intestines.

Chinese Food is great too, because they have all kinds of things that look like worms and maggots (just watch the Lost Boys).

Use lots of Onion and Garlic...

tomanderson · Post by **tomanderson** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:46 pm

heh heh heh such charming suggestions!

Martha Stewart's book actually has some cool recipes in it. There is a sausage and bean stew cooked inside a pumpkin that looks really neat, I would like to give that one a try.

If you have some pie pumpkins around, the little sweet ones, you can cut one up and cook chunks of the flesh with some chunked onion and butter until half tender, then spice with curry powder and add to cooked rice.

spookyboo · Post by **spookyboo** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:36 am

If it were me I would go with two nice rare prime Ribs or Fillet mignon with Bernaise sauce with spooky Blue Mashed Potatoes!

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:42 am

Thanks guys, some good suggestions.

Last year I tried chicken wings died black to resemble bats wings....my wife refused to eat them

magickbean · Post by **magickbean** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:24 am

Lamb and Pumpkin curry?? I have a recipe for it if you would like it

Or you could make a steak and Pumpkin Ale pie!

For a starter you could have pumpkin soup with rustic bread, for a desert you could have ice cream with meringue bones on top (see Britta.com for the recipe for those)

Irish Slayer · Post by **Irish Slayer** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:45 am

You know I have never tasted pumpkin. Can anyone tell me if it tastes nice as I want to try it tomorrow night.

tomanderson · Post by **tomanderson** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:18 am

If you like squash, then you'll like pumpkin.

Of course the sweetened pumpkin in pumpkin pie filling is well known. Unsweetened pumpkin in dinner recipes is much subtler but still really nice.

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Spooky Blue Mashed Potatoes! Now that sounds like a good idea any time of the year! Weird!

ooga_booga · Post by **ooga_booga** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:17 am

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_hd_h ... 395,00.htm