halloween folk art halloween artists halloween art collectibles creative ideas for halloween!

  

Home - Newsletter - Join Halloween Artists! - Email    

 


The Art of Halloween
List of Artists
Art Categories
Our Haunted House
Ask the Artist!
HA Newsletter

HA Blog
Halloween @ Home
Gift$ & Book$
Musings Column
Spooky Stories
Hell's Kitchen
A Gothic Garden
Dark Crafts
Halloween Past
All Hallow's History
Witches Holidays

Curious Goods...
About Us
Who Are We?
Member FAQs
Fav Links
Email
halloween art artists folk art crafts collectibles gifts dark witches vampires ghouls spooky sculpture painting

 

~ Archives ~

October 2008
August 2008
June 2008
March 2008
January 2008


Haunted Forest Platter

The book, Halloween Fun: 101 Ideas to Get in the Spirit gives us this really fun and unique recipe for a vegi-platter alternative at your Halloween get together.

You will need:

3 stalks of broccoli
3 medium beets
Wood toothpicks
3 hard-boiled eggs
Assorted vegetables such as cherry tomatoes, pea pods, kohlrabies, radishes, sweet red peppers, sweet yellow peppers, and shredded carrot
Ripe olives, pimiento-stuffed olives, and/or tiny sweet pickles
1 ounce spaghetti, cooked and drained
Liquid green food coloring

Instructions:


1. To make a haunted forest, first create trees. Cut bottoms from stalks of broccoli to make 6-inch broccoli trees. Slice beets about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick to make a base for broccoli trees. Break wood toothpicks in half. Insert three to four toothpick pieces into bottom of each broccoli stalk and then insert into a beet slice. Stand broccoli upright. Cover to keep moist.

2. To make egg ghosts, use a small knife or 1/2-inch aspic cutters to hollow out eyes and mouths to form a face. Cut small pieces of ripe olive to press into hollowed-out areas for eyes or mouth, if desired. Cover to keep moist.

3. Using your imagination, create creepy creatures with tomatoes, sweet peppers, pickles, olives, and radishes.

4. Place broccoli trees on serving platter. Cover surface of platter with shredded carrot. Hide egg ghosts in forest along with creepy creatures. Scatter piles of vegetables such as pea pods, beet slices, kohlrabi slices, olives, pickles, and/or any other desired vegetables. Add strips of red pepper to the broccoli branches.

5. To make moss, add a few drops of green food coloring to a small amount of water in a medium bowl. Add cooked spaghetti and let stand about 5 minutes. Drain and place over broccoli trees. Keep platter covered until serving time. If necessary, spritz platter with water to keep it moist.

 

If YOU have a favorite recipe to share, email me and let me know!

Till next time,
Heather

About the Author:
Heather Millott is a Halloween artist who admits to being shamelessly addicted to primitive folk and vintage Halloween art. In addition to scaring up devilishly good recipes, she also writes the "Curious Goods.." monthly column here on the site. Visit Heather here on HalloweenArtists.com or on her website at www.witchhollowprimitives.com.

Top...





Advertise here.
Find out more

 

 

© Copyright 2007-2009 HalloweenArtists.com and its creators. All world rights reserved.
Any malicious misuse of its content will be severely punished.
We may be fun loving Halloween artists but we have real blood-sucking lawyers to handle nasty stuff.