Terrifyingly Tasty Halloween Recipes
As Halloween approaches, I'm putting together my black, orange and red Halloween dinner plans and thought I'd share the party planning specifics with my favorite readers as a Halloween present. To begin with, I'm serving an old family favorite: carrot salad. This is something that my father has been making as long as I can remember, and it couldn't any easier, more delicious or more perfect for my color focused Halloween dinner party.
The carrot salad recipe is simple: shred between 8 and 10 carrots (depending on how many hungry Halloweeners you plan on feeding) by hand or in a Cuisinart and then stir in about a cup of mayonnaise (or more, if the spirit moves you). Step three, add the finishing touch: a sprinkling of raisins to create a delicious black and orange Halloween salad. Serve cold or at room temperature to your Halloween guests.
For the main course of my Halloween dinner, I've decided to go red. I'll be serving beets, steak and baked tomatoes for a spooky and colorful Halloween flavor explosion. Beets and steak are fairly basic, but baked tomatoes aren't nearly as common as they should be, and I thought I'd add the recipe here in order to fill in any readers who have been missing out on this delicious dish.
You'll want to slice the top off of a medium sized tomato, making sure to leave a slight indentation. In the indentation, put a half teaspoon of butter, a teaspoon of brown sugar and salt and pepper to taste (for me, that means a lot of salt). Bake the tomatoes in a 350 degree oven until the skin starts to split and voila! Baked tomatoes! Whats so great about this method of serving tomatoes is that the delicious tomato juices mix with the butter and the brown sugar to create a rich flavor that will be sure to please your Halloween dinner guests. I plan on savoring the main course with my favorite pinot noir, but any red wine will work to drive home the blood red Halloween meal.
As for dessert, I plan to serve orange sorbet with a black raspberry sauce. Making the sauce is simple: heat the raspberries in a double boiler with a little bit of butter and some honey (to taste) until the mixture is mushy. Strain through a sieve to remove seeds and to make sure that the sauce is smooth, and serve warm over a few scoops of orange sorbet. The sauce is so dark as to appear black, and will be a perfect finale to a delicious Halloween meal filled with foods of just the right spooky colors.
So there are some of my favorite Halloween dinner recipes. Feel free to sample and serve as you please--they're sure to do the trick and be a treat!
Enjoy Planning.
Penelope
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