Recipes

Here are some recipes you can make for your dinner on Halloween. It's always a good idea to make sure the little ones have eaten a good meal before leaving to Trick Or Treat. Makes the candies less tempting if their tummies are full!

Let the kids help you with making these dishes.. all are easy to make -- if you have an adult helping!


Penicillin Pizza

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   6                    English muffins
   1                    Jar pizza sauce
   2      cups          Shredded mozzarella cheese
   3      tablespoons   Grated Parmesan cheese
                        Yellow -- green and red food
                        Coloring
                        -----TOOLS-----
                        Cookie sheet
                        Spoon
                        Bowl
                        Plastic sandwich bag

Split muffins and place on an ungreased cookie sheet, making sure they don't touch.

Spoon a thin layer of sauce on top then cover the sauce with a layer of shredded cheese. 
Set aside.

 Pour the Parmesan into a small bowl and add five drops each yellow, red and
 green food coloring until it's an even shade of mold green. (Use plastic bag to prevent
 your fingers from staining.) Set aside.

 With an adult's help, broil the pizzas until the cheese has melted and begun to brown.
 Remove from oven and let cool about 1 minute.

 Carefully sprinkle mold on top of hot pizzas. Allow pies to cool slightly before
 you slip on a lab coat and serve. Serves 6 peaked patients.


 From the Book: Gross Grub by Cheryl Porter Random House ISBN 0-679-86693-0



                              Worm Burgers



  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1 1/2  cups          Bean sprouts (fresh)
   1      pound         Ground beef
   1                    Egg
                        Salt and pepper to taste
   6                    Hamburger buns
                        Mayonnaise
                        Ketchup

                        -----TOOLS-----
                        Mixing bowl
                        Lg Frying pan 
                        Spatula 
                        Aluminum foil
                        Platter


Wash sprouts (worms) with warm water. Using clean hands, mix one cup of the sprouts, 
the ground beef and the raw egg together in a bowl. 
Reserve the remaining sprouts until later.

Form burgers into six patties. Place in fry pan and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

With an adult's help, cook on medium heat until they are well browned underneath.
Carefully turn the patties season again and cook until the second side is well browned.

Place on open buns and serve with the worms sprinkled on top as a garnish. 
Don't forget the pus and blood.

Serves 6 worm slurpers.

 Sicko serving suggestion: Use a clean hole puncher to punch holes in lettuce for garnish.

 From the Book: Gross Grub by Cheryl Porter Random House ISBN 0-679-86693-0



                             TOXIC TOMATOES

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   6       med          Tomatoes
     1/2                Avocado
                        --peeled, pitted and chopped
   4       oz           Swiss cheese -- grated
   6                    Fresh basil leaves -- chopped
                        --or 1 tablespoon dried basil
     1/4   teaspoon     Dried oregano


       Wash the tomatoes and cut them in half crosswise.
  Place the halves - open side up - on a cookie sheet.
  In a small bowl, mash together the avocado (sludge),
  grated Swiss cheese (pus), and basil (poisonous plant
  matter).  Spoon the mixture on top of the tomatoes and
  sprinkle with oregano (fly wings). Broil the tomatoes
  for 5 minutes, or until pus begins to ooze. 
Carefully remove the tomatoes from the broiler and serve hot, or allow to cool slightly and eat them with your hands... (wearing plastic gloves, of course to keep from being contaminated)! Recipe by: Creepy Cuisine, Lucy Munroe



Finger Pizzas 

Cooking Time: 8min.
Prep Time: 30min.
Makes: 8 pizzas

1 red bell pepper (4 oz.)
12 sticks (1 oz. each) mozzarella
8 small (about 5" diam.) baked pizza crusts
1 cup purchased pizza sauce


Core, stem and seed pepper; cut lengthwise into 1"-wide strips.  Cut each
strip crosswise into 1/2" pieces (fingernails).  Round corners on one
end of each piece.

Cut each cheese stick in half crosswise.  On rounded end of each stick 
(finger), cut out a 1/2"-square notch into which a pepper piece will fit
to make a nail.

Lay crusts slightly apart on 3 baking sheets, each 12x15".  Spread 2 T. 
sauce evenly over each crust.  Lay 3 cheese fingers well apart on each
crust: fit a red pepper nail onto each. 
 Bake in a 450F oven until cheese just begins to melt, about 8 min.

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