Our Gross Halloween Party meal was a total success. Mara and I managed to really creep out the kids, hubbies, and even ourselves with our efforts. Amazingly enough the kids tried almost all of the menu choices and even had seconds. I have some fun ideas already planned for next year. I have more fun with getting this meal together other than any other throughout the holidays. Although at the end of the meal Mara and I were already thinking how we could make Thanksgiving preparation more fun (for us all) so we threw around the idea of making everything miniature. I'm tired of the turkey year after year that hardly anyone enjoys in our own house. Here are the pictures because words do the meal no justice.
"Ogre toes" were buffalo wings and if I had more time I would have put out a sign for the blue cheese that said something like "Ogre toe jam" :) The "mashed boo tay toes" should have been piped nicely onto plates with some olive eyeballs, but things got a little hurried. In the picture above were our "creepy creature eyeballs" (deviled eggs) and next to that was a creative macaroni dish with "bugs, worms and snails" (hotdogs, olives, and mac and cheese).
Mummy toes were simply mini cocktail sausages rolled in crescent dough from the can.
Mara made this delicious soup/bread/cheese concoction for the "Jack-o-Lantern pot". It tasted like french onion soup. I'll have to get the recipe from her and have this for another time.
These "bat wings" were most probably the grossest item and surprisingly delicious (soy sauce, brown sugar and food coloring).
