We're invited to a party this weekend, maybe a dozen adults, with food
and old horror flicks. I'm sure there will be plenty of sweet stuff. I'm
looking for savory "dinner" type finger food with a halloween theme,
something involving a meat ingredient, that we can take. (I'm saving the
roadkill chili for the party at our house later in the week.) Would like
it to be something people can pick up and eat without making a mess,
served at room temp. The only thing I can think of right now is making
phyllo triangles, but that's not especially Halloweeny.

Appreciate any suggestions folks have so I don't have to resort to a veg
tray with cheese dip.



Dawn

"Dawn" > wrote in message
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> We're invited to a party this weekend, maybe a dozen adults, with food and
> old horror flicks. I'm sure there will be plenty of sweet stuff. I'm
> looking for savory "dinner" type finger food with a halloween theme,
> something involving a meat ingredient, that we can take. (I'm saving the
> roadkill chili for the party at our house later in the week.) Would like
> it to be something people can pick up and eat without making a mess,
> served at room temp. The only thing I can think of right now is making
> phyllo triangles, but that's not especially Halloweeny.
>

Here are some recipes for monster brains (dip) and bat chips. Probably not
exactly what you're looking for, but pretty cool nonetheless:
http://www.familyfun.go.com/recipes/...0900monbrains/

http://www.familyfun.go.com/recipes/...f0900batchips/

Here's a cheese pizza-y thing that's supposed to resemble giant candy corn:

http://www.familyfun.go.com/recipes/...ll_cheesecorn/

If you *do* end up doing the veggie tray thing, here's a cute dip..."finger
food":

http://www.familyfun.go.com/recipes/...amf0902finger/

Here's a cat litter casserole. Not really Halloween-y, but gross:

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=46833

From allrecipes.com: Cut slices of meatloaf with a bat-shaped cookie
cutter, and serve with bat's blood (ketchup).

Or just make your favorite chicken wing recipe and call it bat wings. If
there's a sauce or dip involved, come up with a creepy name for it.

How about an edible zombie?
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/kg...kgk102800.html

Enjoy!
Chris

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:52:38 GMT, Dawn >
wrote:

>We're invited to a party this weekend, maybe a dozen adults, with food
>and old horror flicks. I'm sure there will be plenty of sweet stuff. I'm
>looking for savory "dinner" type finger food with a halloween theme,
>something involving a meat ingredient, that we can take. (I'm saving the
>roadkill chili for the party at our house later in the week.) Would like
>it to be something people can pick up and eat without making a mess,
>served at room temp. The only thing I can think of right now is making
>phyllo triangles, but that's not especially Halloweeny.

This doesn't involve meat, but I do love to make lady fingers at
Halloween. You put some almonds and a few drops of red food coloring
in a plastic bag, shake to color the almonds, and set aside. That
will be your fingernails. Then take some refrigerated bread stick
dough and cut each in half across the width. Pinch in the sides of
each stick in the middle and near the top, then score knuckle lines
across the pinched-in sections. Press an almond fingernail at the top
of each finger. Bake according to the package directions and brush
with garlic butter.

Something involving meat -- hmmm, maybe sandwiches with your favorite
meat filling cut out with Halloween cookie cutters.

Foccacia topped with sausage, cheddar, and black olives for a black
and orange pizza.

Ribs -- call them monster bones.

Tara

Thanks for the suggestions. After poking around some more I came up with
two things to try. One is a variation on the old pigs-in-a-blanket
theme, making the little sausages up to look like mummies, and I think
I'm going to make a green slime (food coloring) mustard dip to go with
those. The other dish will use up my half box of phyllo -- moldy onion
triangles. (carmelized onion and blue cheese tarts).

We'll see if any survive the evening.



Dawn

I forgot to mention roasted pumpkin seeds.

Paula Deen showed Halloween snacks on her show this morning. You can
find her recipes on foodtv.com.

Tara