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
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6 English muffins
1 Jar pizza sauce
2 cups Shredded mozzarella cheese
3 tablespoons Grated Parmesan cheese
Yellow -- green and red food
Coloring
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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
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1 1/2 cups Bean sprouts (fresh)
1 pound Ground beef
1 Egg
Salt and pepper to taste
6 Hamburger buns
Mayonnaise
Ketchup
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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
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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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