Hallowe'en ideas for supper?

[Diana Cda]

What are you guys considering making for Hallowe'en, not really as treats, but as a themed dinner type of thing? I'm scrounging around my files trying to figure out what to make next weekend for a family potluck but any meal ideas would be most welcome. :)

[Diana Cda]

... that could be made raw. Fabulous idea! We could just stuff with a paté and put the top of the "pumpkin" on till time to use the dip:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Halloween-Jack-O-Lantern-Pasta-Dinner-328185 (you can click on the picture on the left to enlarge it).

Continuing with my search.

[Diana Cda]

From a raw blog, they have a great idea for jicama-shaped bones that you then make a red/hot sauce out of (any raw tomatoe sauce would do with perhaps just a dash of cayenne, or something? Or it could just be a sweet sauce, too, I suppose).

And the bones are just the shape like the bones cartoon dogs carry around on the TV, simple shapes.

[Diana Cda]

Another blog is chock-full of raw Hallowe'en ideas and I had to share this one.

Ingredients needed:

Bananas
Lemon Juice
Shredded coconut for the white colour but perhaps even just soaked/dehydrated cashews or something then ground up would work as well
black currants or raisins

- cut the bananas in half
- sprinkle with lemon juice
- coat with shredded coconut, putting in a bag is suggested as easiest way
- add to dried currants or raisins for eyes.

These can be eaten fresh or frozen.

Spooktastic idea!

[Diana Cda]

Good point. We can put a piece of nori cut up to the right size to fit and then place it inside the Jack-o-Lantern pepper, positioning it so that the cut out eyes, nose and mouth, etc., are covered. Raw nori is black so it will look fabulous, I think. And that stops the paté or other filling from oozing out! Perhaps the oozing bit might be a good effect, but here's this solution in case that's not the desired effect <g>.

[Diana Cda]

Found some vampire mice and mouldy cheese, really cute!

The mice are made by cutting strawberries in hald and then you sit the "mice' on cut-side down. Stick vampire "teeth" into the mice by using sunflower seeds. Leave the pointy sides sticking down like fangs! <br>

2 pumpkin seeds stuck out of the top are the ears. 3 currant halves are neede for each mouse, 2 for the eyes, 1 for the nose (applied with a toothpick). I imagine they just stick on the strawberry easily enough.

The tricky part was using a cut strip of dried pineapple. Hmmm, doesn't seem mousey enough for me and I don't have dried pineapple. My mice might go tail-less! <g>

And for the mouldy swiss cheese, apparently any apple or pear will do. Peel the apples/pears and cut into wedges, leaving out core, of course. Sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent browning. You can sprinkle with green powder or spirulina. I'm guessing real, green stevia would work here, too, maybe? Make the "cheese" into swiss-style holey cheese by poking holes with a drinking straw.

Anyway, here are some cute pix of the finished mice and cheese:
(smaller) http://goneraw.com/image/vampire-micejpg
(large) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fAdIXsXB1Pc/Suil1trsQLI/AAAAAAAAA7c/c7PYSS1q8v4/s1600-h/vampiric+vermin.jpg

:)

[Diana Cda]

Well, finally, some food items, too, not just treats <g>.

Apparently you can make Mashed Boo-tatoes (if you please <g>), out of blending jicama, cashews, nutritional yeast, rosemary, and salt and then after shaping into standing-up ghosts, adding something like two black sesame seed eyes per "ghost".

Pic here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fAdIXsXB1Pc/SuX75UfCZyI/AAAAAAAAA6c/VIZUYlCyolE/s1600-h/ghostie+and+punkins.jpg

Adorable. As long as it tastes good, what kid (or adult, for that matter), could resist!

:)

[Diana Cda]

I just thought of something else, this time myself. I've seen a lot of different ideas for cutting fruits and veggies into Hallowe'en shape as garnish. But how about a whole plateful of veggies cut out as ghosties and ghouls and bats for a bowl of crudités (also known as veggies and dip)?

The dip could be made to look ghoulish, somehow. Perhaps a red, spicey dip.

And one could have jicama ghosts, carrot pumpkins, bats out of those dark burgundy sweet peppers ... what else ... I'll think about some more veggie & shape combos and add later (if I think of anything else of course ...).

Wonder if my dollar store has any tin Hallowe'en cookie cutters? I'll have to look into it today.

[Art Mom]

Another blog is chock-full of raw Hallowe'en ideas and I had to share this one.

Ingredients needed:

Bananas
Lemon Juice
Shredded coconut for the white colour but perhaps even just soaked/dehydrated cashews or something then ground up would work as well
black currants or raisins

- cut the bananas in half
- sprinkle with lemon juice
- coat with shredded coconut, putting in a bag is suggested as easiest way
- add to dried currants or raisins for eyes.

These can be eaten fresh or frozen.

Spooktastic idea!


With raisins ad goji berry eyes... we put these boo bananas on popsicle sticks then froze them - so good!