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Spooky Snacks for Halloween

Gina Put a spooky spin on deviled eggs and transform them into deviled eyeballs. You’re your deviled eggs blood-red eyes by topping them off with centered black olives and bits of red pepper.

Our favorite deviled egg recipes…

• Lucie’s Deviled Eggs 
• Deviled Eggs with Dill 
• Colorful Coriander Deviled Eggs 

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Wrap miniature sausages with bread dough to make them look like mummies. Dot their eyes with bits of dough as well.

Our favorite sausage recipes…

• Turkey and Pear Sausage 
• Italian Sausage with Fennel and Garlic 

Craft a witch’s broth. Green soup with fresh mint can easily serve as a tasty (and healthy) Halloween dish.

Green Soup
Photo by Katrina Hall/www.shesinthekitchen.blogspot.com

Our favorite witch’s broth recipe…

• Wicked Greens Soup with Fresh Mint

Mix a bloody concoction for your Halloween guests.

Our favorite cocktail recipe…

• Le Cilantro Rouge 

Create a terrifying punch. All you need is a tasty punch recipe, water, food coloring and a disposable, rubber glove. (Note: Make sure the glove does not have powder inside.) A few days before you're ready to serve your punch, mix water with 1 to 2 drops of food coloring (the color is your choice, but I suggest blood red or witch green). Fill the glove with the water mixture about 2/3 full. Use a rubber band or string to tie at the wrist. Let the glove freeze for 1 to 2 days so that it forms a solid ice cube. Once you're ready to serve to guests, carefully remove the disposable glove from the newly formed frozen hand and float it to your punch bowl for a terrifying treat.

Our favorite punch recipes...

• Cantaloupe and Strawberry Mint Fruit Punch 

• Ginger Minted Sparkling Punch 

• Hot Mulled Apple Cider with Cranberry and Rose Hips 


What are you going to do in the kitchen this year to celebrate Halloween? We want to hear your creative ideas!

Kitchen Shots: Wicked Greens Soup with Fresh Mint

Katrina Hall is a cook, foodblogger, photographer and passionate herb lover. You can find her blog at: http://shesinthekitchen.blogspot.com.

Green Soup
Photo by Katrina Hall/www.shesinthekitchen.blogspot.com

Serves 6 

• 3 cups water or light chicken or vegetable stock
• 3/4 cup peeled, diced sweet potato
• 4 trimmed scallions, sliced
• 2 cups torn kale leaves ( no stems)
• 2 handfuls mixed greens ( I used spinach, arugula, and radicchio from a box)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
• 1 minced garlic clove
• Pinch of nutmeg

1. Simmer the potato in the water or stock until just tender.

2. Add the greens, kale,scallions, olive oil, garlic, and salt and pepper and simmer, covered, for ten minutes.

3. Take pot off the heat and add the nutmeg and mint. Stir.

4. Using a regular blender, or immersion blender, puree soup.

5. Taste carefully, adding more pepper or salt as needed.

6. Garnish with a chive blossom.

7. Serve with warm sourdough bread and cheese.




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