Once you've gathered a cheerful crowd for a themed dinner, try to give your imagination free rein and cook up a "disgustingly beautiful" menu fit for the occasion. Halloween recipes are memorable and unusual. There are no complicated dishes here; the preference goes to small, appetizing snacks shaped like severed fingers, spiders, and cockroaches.
The five most commonly used ingredients in these recipes:
Egg halves filled with stuffing and topped with an olive spider, sausage in dough that looks like an ancient mummy, desserts with jelly worms, a caterpillar of grapes threaded onto a skewer, meringue ghosts — that's just what you need for a festive table. Pumpkin has always been the main ingredient of the Halloween menu. From this sweet vegetable, which can be eaten baked, raw, or boiled, you can dream up dozens of treats to dress up a feast of "vampires" and "ghosts." Stuffed pumpkin will please both kids and adults; it's a must-have of the holiday. Treats that look terrifying yet taste excellent will be the hit of a fun, friendly party.