Today Normita prepared a “Quick” version of he great “Pozole Rojo de Jalisco”. We will have enough food with this for today and tomorrow and the boyz, our huge Bouvier de Flanders dogs Uriel (Normita’s boy, ~80Kg) and Bacchus (my boy, ~70 Kg), should have enough leftover broth to enjoy some with their dry food [...]

Last weekend when we went food shopping we found on sales some huge shrimps at a price so low to make a ham and cheese sandwich look expensive. Strangely enough they were actually fresh, or at least freshly thawed, and they did smell like proper shrimps.
In the last year in the area where we now [...]

We are currently trying to clean up the freezer from assorted stuff we had accumulated over the past year or so. Like everybody we tend to accumulate a bunch of frozen stuff and before it gets too old and needs to be thrown out, we recently decided it was time to use everything so that [...]

We’re back from a very long period away from the blog that happened for a lot of personal reasons that kept me away from the kitchen on a regular basis. I will try to start posting regularly again as I have a backlog of new recipes to post as well as some articles from myself [...]

This was a nice finish to the buffet and the kids were very impressed by it and were very reluctant to eat it at first.
Ingredients
1 package of pineapple dessert gelatin1 envelope clear powdered gelatin1 plastic spider8 jelly eyeball candies
Preparation
1. Mix the pineapple gelatin as directed on the package and add the envelope of clear gelatin.2. [...]

This recipe was the quickest one to prepare and used some of the leftover hard boiled yolks of the eggs used for the Vampire’s Eyes.
Ingredients
8 ounce tube of pork liver paté2 hard boiled egg yolksDrops of red, yellow, green, and blue food coloring
Preparation
1. Mix all the ingredients together.

This was one of the fun recipes to prepare. It was relaxing to form them and paint the veins on the eyeballs.
Ingredients
6 hard boiled eggs4 ounces cream cheese at room temperature12 stuffed olivesRed food coloring
Preparation
1. Shell the hard boiled eggs.2. Cut in half and remove the yolks.3. Fill the hole left by the yolk with [...]

The easiest of the recipes of the evening and one that had the most success, as they disappeared entirely in only a few minutes.

Ingredients
1 small package of cream cheese at room temperature1 container of oven-baked potato sticks (straight pretzels can also be used)2 tbs chopped salted peanuts8 drops green food coloring4 drops yellow food coloring4 [...]

Here is another simple recipe for Halloween. A simple baked sandwich decorated like a huge caterpillar. It is essentially a short baguette cut almost through in slices with some cheese and cold cuts stuck in it with a mayonnaise sauce. They are extremely tasty and look kind of great on the platter.
Dressing
Ingredients
3 tbs mayonnaise1 tbs [...]

One of the Witches’ Hands well cooked.
The Padrino wrote to me tonight that I should put the recipes for the silly Halloween food I prepared for the party last Saturday, as there was still time to do so before Halloween. So here it goes. The first recipe is simply made with some flattened chicken breast [...]