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 [...]

As mentioned previously we had a great Halloween party last Saturday night and I prepared all sort of silly stuff, some of it inspired by things I saw on the Internet. I plan to post a recipe tomorrow for the Witche’s Hands with Pus Sauce, and if you want recipes for some of the other [...]

It is usual for Normita and I to return to childhood at this time of the year. We both like to decorate the house for Día de los Muertos and for Halloween. The holiday that is most celebrated here is the former, and the later is only a recent commercial import from the North. The [...]

Normita makes large pots of vegetable soup regularly and then brings some to work with her lunches. It is a nice complement to whatever we are eating and gives us a healthy dose of vegetables and fiber. Recently, when I was chatting with my dad on the phone from Canada, he asked me to post [...]

Dinner is served…
Summer is drawing to an end in Europe but in our equivalent of Indian summer, we still enjoy barbecue a lot. Evenings may be a little chilly, but we have that big Weber monster of a gas grill on our balcony right in front of our living room/kitchen and it’s easy  and convenient [...]