Spooky Meals

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Culinary expert Colleen Miner joins Mary Ellen to share some ideas for making spooky Halloween meals.

Turn tuna salad sandwiches into tuna ghosts. Prepare tuna sandwiches on white bread, carve them into ghost shapes, then add black olive slices for eyeballs (figure A).
Top deviled eggs with pimento-stuffed olives to create deviled eyeballs.
Make up a batch of ghoulish meatball eyeballs to serve with spaghetti. Stick half a pimento-stuffed olive in individual meatballs before cooking.

Figure B

Turn a hot dog into an octopus by cutting the hot dog lengthwise eight times. Stop about half an inch from the end of the hot dog with each cut (figure B). Place into boiling water and the slits will curve up and look like octopus tentacles. Use two cloves for eyeballs, but remember to remove them before eating.

For an extra-creepy dish, serve the octopus hot dogs on a bed of thin Italian noodles to resemble ink.

Figure C

Figure D

Make gelatin hands by rinsing out a surgical glove and filling it with a gelatin mixture. Allow the gelatin to set up, then peel away the glove (figure C) and serve the hand on a bed of whipped cream.

Use two mini Bundt cakes to make a pumpkin. Stack the cakes so that the two flat sides are together (figure D), then decorate with orange food coloring. Mold a stem and leaves out of almond paste.

Here's a recipe for a frighteningly delicious dessert.

Dessert Graveyard

Ingredients:

2 small pkgs. instant pudding
3-1/2 cups milk
1 tub whipped topping
8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup margarine
crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
gummy worms
marshmallows

Preparation:

Combine pudding, milk and whipped topping and mix well. In a separate bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and margarine and beat until smooth. Add to the pudding mixture.

Figure E

Spread the pudding mixture in a 9 x 13-inch pan, then layer with the crushed cookies and top with gummy worms. Add another layer of cookies so that the dessert looks like dirt. Refrigerate for one to two hours, and top with marshmallow ghosts and pumpkins (figure E).

Also in this Episode

TIPical Mary Ellen : Episode TIP-463
•	Spooky Meals
•	Non-Spooky Halloween Fun
•	Pumpkin Carving
•	Tip of the Day

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