Happy Halloween
My wife is an awesome cook. My wife is a great party planner. My wife loves to entertain guests. My wife has an off-kilter sense of humor. Beware when they all come together.
For the past few months we have been inviting some young people (college age and newlyweds) over to our house for dinner on Wednesday nights. These young people are all involved in service in our church on Wednesday nights and this offers them the opportunity to get a good home-cooked meal on a night when they are pretty busy. We also live directly across the street from the church, so it makes it very convenient for them as well.
and floating gummy eyeballs
Kim enjoys making unique meals for our guests and she has fun with thematic events, so with Halloween being tomorrow, this past Wednesday night's meal was horror themed. And it was a blast.
She made the most amazing collection of very tasty, really gross foods you could imagine. The bleeding heart brie was brie cheese with strawberry preserves wrapped in crescent rolls. The photo at the top is of this brie wrap before it was actually wrapped. It looked amazingly disgusting when you cut a piece off of it. It actually bled.
She put apple cider in a fancy punch bowl and floated frozen severed hands and gummy eyeballs in it. She made the frozen severed hands by pouring cider into unpowdered surgical gloves and then freezing them. It looked quite disgusting.
The body parts salad was black cherry gelatin with mandarin orange pieces and other small fruit pieces in it. It tasted great and looked quite disgusting—especially with the skeletal hand serving ladle she used.
The main course was a delicious pork tenderloin wrapped in some sort of very thin dough strips to make it look like a mummy. The effect was actually quite good. She separated a small part of the tenderloin and put it on the opposite end so that it formed what looked like a head on top of the body.
Even the condiments were thematic. My wife used large glass vials filled with ketchup that had been darkened with food coloring. She placed them in a skull, which she used as a centerpiece on the table. Of course, with so many people at our small table, centerpieces end up getting pushed to wherever there is an opening. But in this case, should the centerpiece fall of the side of the table it would only contribute to the overall effect when the vial would break and the bat's blood would flow out. That didn't happen, but it probably wouldn't have hurt the evening.
We have so much fun with these young people and really enjoy our short time with them each Wednesday evening. I hope they enjoy it as much as we do.
I also love bragging about what a great cook my wife is. She's been keeping me warm and well-fed (maybe a little too well-fed) for more than 22 years now and I still love each creative new idea she has.
Check out The Chosen Child for my wife's take on the evening. It was great fun.
What Fun!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just love Halloween!
Halloween is fun. And we love dressing up in costumes all the time, so Halloween fits well with us.
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