Before kids, Halloween used to almost be a bother. It seemed like just another chore, to make sure that I had a basket of treats to hand out to the little ghosts and goblins. Fast forward thirteen years later - after life with kids - and my entire experience of Halloween has evolved. Halloween, a bother? Certainly I was too young to be such a fuddy-dudd. Amazing what fun and learning kids can bring into your life. Take, for example, making punch for a Halloween party. While you could just go with soda or regular punch, it's a prime opportunity for...
Maybe you received a last minute invite to a Halloween potluck, or maybe *someone* forgot to tell you that you needed to bring a treat to a party. Or, maybe you just procrastinated (hey, we don't judge!). Whatever the reason, we've got some great last minute Halloween recipes to share that won't require Martha Stewart-like decorating skills, or a major investment in special baking pans, or a trip around the city looking for illusive ingredients (have you tried to find black food coloring the day before Halloween?).
Just like the monster lurking under the bed or those things that go bump in the night, there is nothing scarier than the unknown, and that goes for food too. When it comes to food, from childhood we are often conditioned to be scared of everything that looks weird: iridescent purple eggplant, whole cooked fish with heads still attached, spiny green artichokes. Being scared of how a food looks for most of one's young life (and into many adult lives) and thus not eating it just isn't sound policy. There are a whole world of good eats being missed out on, not nearly as scary...
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