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Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Ten Fun and Creepy Halloween Party Snacks
It doesn't matter if you have a big family or if you're on your own... Halloween is one of the most fun holidays ever invented. But if you are a busy mom (and your house is the one house on the block where everyone goes for Halloween parties) you may be looking for some quick and easy Halloween party snacks to have ready for kids, visitors, guests, and freeloading adult friends during the Halloween season.
Looking for some new ideas for festive snacks that don't take a hundred years (or work your fingers to the bone) to put together? The ten Halloween party snack ideas below are lots of fun, simple to make... and some of them are even healthy!
1. Rotting Eyes and Severed Fingers
This is a very healthy but rather creepy Halloween party snack that makes good use of black olives and baby carrots. Arrange the black olives and baby carrots on a party tray with a bowl of your favorite dip (I like a cream cheese veggie dip). Inform your party guests that the tray is filled with rotting black eyes and severed fingers. And then watch this snack disappear. A good way to get your kids excited about veggies!
2. Jack o' Lantern Oranges
This healthy treat is so easy to make, and looks so pretty! Carve jack-o'-lantern faces into oranges and place on a platter. The kids will love it. And they can help, too, without ever having to pick up a knife. Have them simply draw the faces on with a black marker, and carve them yourself. Or don't worry about carving them-- they look just as good with faces drawn on.
As a variation of this fun Halloween party snack, I like to hollow out an orange with a Jack o' Lantern face and fill it with fruit salad. Healthy, easy and quick!
3. Easy Bugs in the Bone Yard
This is such a fun Halloween snack for the kiddos. All you have to do? Sprinkle raisins into a bowl full of white-chocolate covered pretzels. (You could also use chocolate covered raisins.) Kids will eat them up once they learn the name of this snack. Or they'd eat it up anyway, since this mix tastes divine.
4. Slimy Halloween Jigglers
You know those Jello jiggler molds? They work great for Halloween! Either use whatever you have lying around the house, or go out and pick up a brain or a heart-shaped Jello mold. Make up a batch of orange, black, purple, or flesh-colored Jello and pour into your mold(s). Or make a flat pan of Jello and cut out shapes with Halloween cookie cutters instead.
5. Ghost Cereal Bars
Prepare a batch of the Rice Krispies marshmallow treats recipe on the back of the cereal box. When the mixture has set up, cut out shapes with ghost shaped cookie cutter. Pour warm white frosting or melted white chocolate over the shapes to cover. Add M&M eyes and mouth. A delicious and easy Halloween party snack.
6. Green Gelatin Intestines
This is one of the grosser looking Halloween party snacks. Make lime gelatin and add pineapple bits, chopped marshmallows, sliced bananas and mandarin oranges. Pour gelatin mixture into an angel food cake pan and let set up. Invert pan to remove gelatin mold. Slice the mold horizontally into about 5 layers. Slice the layers in half and arrange on a platter in semi-circles to look like intestines. Gross!
7. Spooky Healthy Eyeballs
This Halloween party snack is both easy and healthy. Wash a bunch of green grapes. Insert a raisin into the stem end of the grapes and freeze them all until ready to serve.
8. Monster Crackers
Color some white vegetable spread or cream cheese with green food coloring and spread on your favorite crackers. Arrange small bits of green and red bell peppers to make a green-eyed, red-mouthed cracker monster. Use small amounts of broccoli sprouts to make the monster hair. A sneaky way to get kids eating their veggies.
9. Wormy Halloween Punch Recipe
No respectable Halloween party snack list would do with out having this squeamish punch. Just make green Kool-Aid and put in a clear glass punch bowl. Set the punch bowl on top of a glow necklace so the light shines through the punch bowl. Add some gummy worms and watch the kids squirm when they see it.
10. Vampire Blood
You use V8 juice for this one so it is healthier than the wormy punch above. Pour the V8 juice in a clear picture that you have labeled as "Vampire Blood." For an adult party, add the ingredients for a bloody Mary, if you like. For a kids' party, well... good luck getting them to try it. It is V8, after all!
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Crispy Chocolate Cakes - Recipe Video
Video 16 - If you like chocolate you will love this recipe. In no way is it healthy, but very simple and very bad for you!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Scary Halloween Leftovers
I hope you were strong. I hope you didn't let the diabolical marketers who put the Halloween candy out in July or August entice you into buying it, seeing it around the house, and then eating it so you were forced to buy it again. Personally, I think there should be a law that stores cannot put Halloween candy displays out before September 15th (or later). Write your representative.
But the day is here, and in theory, adorable tots should be showing up at your door to remove all the calorie-laden goodness and take it home to ruin their dinners for many nights to come. But if you're like me, and you live on a major street in a safe, kid-friendly neighborhood, you've laid in enough candy to decorate every witch's house from here to Düsseldorf, and that means you're going to have leftovers. So unless you want to fit into that Santa suit without padding by Christmas, it's time to get creative.
The simplest solution is to avoid leftovers in the first place by becoming increasingly generous as the evening wears on. If you're giving out one or two pieces of candy early in the evening, and you can see that you're going to have more candy than you need, start passing out double portions. The older kids tend to be the ones out well after dark, so it actually makes sense to hand out more candy per trick-or-treater at 8:00 than you did at 6:45. If you play your cards right, you can empty your candy bucket and turn your lights out when the traffic dies (around here, that's between 9:00 and 9:20).
If November 1st still dawns with pounds of sugary bliss left in your living room, start looking for places to give it away. A lot of schools and churches have leftover candy drives. Take it your next meeting. Take it to the police or fire station. Do not take it to work, as it will sit in a bowl on your desk and you'll still eat most of it. Look for places to take it so that other people will eat it.
If you really want to get creative, and you can do some advance planning, start looking at the candy in a new way. If you do Christmas baking like I do, you will soon be buying the ingredients for that baking, and if you think about it, you're going to be buying a lot of the same stuff you just gave away. Next year, before you buy your Halloween candy, take a look at the recipes for your Christmas baking. M&Ms can go into cookies and Rice Krispies treats. Hershey Kiss cookies? Hershey's Special Dark bars and nuggets can be chopped into chocolate chips or melted down for icings, fillings, and more. Jolly Rancher candies and Life Savers make gorgeous "stained glass" cookies. Do a search for "leftover candy recipes" and you'll probably find some way to use up whatever you're stuck with, and you might find a new recipe you really like.
If you don't bake, you might have a neighbor who does, and you can work a trade of ingredients for finished baked goods. If you like toppings on your ice cream, you can crush most chocolate candy bars into sundae toppings. Crush them up and place them in well-marked bags in your freezer; that way, they'll be out of sight (and hopefully out of mind) and you'll use them by the spoonful instead of by the bar. If you are really virtuous, you'll simply buy candy you don't like yourself, so you'll never be tempted by the leftovers. Write and tell me what that kind of virtue feels like, because I sure don't have it.
The bottom line is, get them gone. Get them out of the house entirely, or earmark them for another purpose and get them into the freezer. Otherwise, you'll hear them calling you in their little chocolate voices every time you pass by the bowl. And you don't want to pack on extra pounds now, because turkey, stuffing and pie are waiting right around the corner. Boo!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Five Authentic Filipino Dishes
Filipino food recipes are very simple to cook and it's always pleasure to serve and eat. The recipes mostly consist of vegetables, seafood, dairy, meat and rice. They are very rich in flavor and color.
Filipino recipes are very much influenced by the recipes of other cuisines. For instance, they have adapted the noddles from Chinese, rice and meat dishes from Spaniards, spaghetti from Italians and fast food from Americans. But still we could find the different taste in Filipino dishes as they are made with some filipino touch. The Filipino recipes are the showcase of worldwide cuisines.
In this article, I have taken few Filipino dishes that you can try making in your own kitchen. The instructions given here will guide you to find out the essence of Filipino cooking. Just experiment some new cooking experince to spend quality time with your family and friends.
Igado: this is a famous recipe from North Philippines which is made from pork tenderloin and pig's innards like liver and heart. While making the igado, it is very important that the ingredients such as liver and heart should be clean. If you are using the kidneys, then you need to soak it in water with salt for at least 10 minutes after you slice them in order to reduce the odor.
Bulalo: it is light colored soup which is made by cooking beef shanks and beef marrow ones for hours. Seasoning plays the key role in the making bulalo. You can use patis, bay leaves or even garlic along with the salt and pepper. Bulalo is a simple cattleman's stew, best made in a large cauldron with whatever vegetables are growing near by.
Dinengdeng: being a famous Ilocano dish, it primarily consists of vegetables like jute leaves, the leaves of the horseradish tree, fruits of the bitter melon, amaranth leaves, sweet potato tubers as well as leaves, mushrooms like oyster mushrooms and wild potatoes.
Insarabasab: it has been originated from the Province of Ilocos and is a traditional Filipino recipe. While preparing the dish, pork has to be roasted on open fire until the pink color of the meat gets removed.
Pinipig Crunch: it is very similar to puffed rice or rice krispies- something similar to what we get in a bar of Nestle Crunch. It is prepared from a exclusive kind of rice.
So what are you waiting for? Come and discover it now.
Happy Cooking! Happy Eating!
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