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Folklore and Fairy Tales•Halloween•main dish

Mash o’ Nine Sorts

This month I’ve made a couple of traditional recipes associated with Samhain (namely Irish Boxty and Barm Brack), so here’s an English one for the mix. It has nine ingredients – hence the name – and is also played as a fortunetelling game, with a ring (symbol of marital happiness)...
baking and desserts•Halloween

Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Or more accurately for my purposes, Cream Cheese Frosting with some Pumpkin Cake. I hate to say this, but even I, professed pumpkin fanatic, am getting some pumpkin fatigue. I am however still interested in the tangy sugar bomb of cream cheese frosting, but as it’s unacceptable to just eat...
Halloween•salads, veggies and sides

Roasted Grape and Sweet Potato Salad

After the Renaissance Festival (shamelessly love it, go every year), my friend Gloria invited us back to her house for pumpking carving, also our yearly tradition, and fed us a delicious dinner including a salad with roasted grapes. I was fascinated by these grapes, as I often am with food...
appetizers and snacks•Halloween

Acorn Squash and Burrata Toasts

When looking for Halloween appetizers that were not revolting, I came across these Italian recipes (although I was not prepared for the zombie I scrolled down to, that was a little revolting – made me jump!). I made my version of the pumpkin and mozzarella bruschetta using burrata instead (which...
Halloween•salads, veggies and sides

Maple Aleppo Corn on the Cob

We grill corn a lot in the summer, usually Pakistani style (plain, charred, then rubbed with lime and red chili), but I was looking for another way to fix the last corn of the season. I had seen a bunch of recipes for maple chipotle corn on the cob –...
baking and desserts•Halloween•Horror Movies

Sugared Grapes | Pan’s Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth is another fantastic movie for this time of year – it’s dark and whimsical and beautiful and surprisingly violent. I saw it around the time it came out, and remembered liking it but not a lot of the details; I watched it again last weekend, and was not...
drinks•Halloween

Midnight Margaritas

Eye of newt, toe of frog, wing of bat, tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind worm’s sting, Barbados lime is just the thing, Fragias salt, like a sailors stubble, Flip the switch, and let the cauldron bubble! One of the best witchy movies to watch this time of year,...
Halloween•main dish

Vampire Slayer Pizza

Everyone knows vampires hate garlic, but there’s also this other little piece of mythology that I feel like I’ve heard a couple of times and keep forgetting, which is that if you scatter seeds in front of a vampire’s grave he will be compelled to count them before returning. The...
Halloween•salads, veggies and sides•Thanksgiving

Pomegranate Brussel Sprouts

First, a word on the humble brussel sprout. People used to give them such a hard time. As a child, even though I had never even eaten one, I osmosed the attitude that they were gross and to be avoided. But even the first time I had them (defrosted and...
baking and desserts•Halloween

Calabaza en Tacha

October treats are not complete without something for the Mexican Day of the Dead, a remembrance of those that have passed, when families visit the graves to tend to them and make offerings. Calabaza en tacha is candied pumpkin (or in this case butternut squash), cooked in a brown sugar...
appetizers and snacks•Halloween

Devils on Horseback

These are the perfect appetizer for your Halloween party – sweet and salty and devilish! And completely too easy to pop one after another as if possessed. Devils on Horseback are normally a bacon-wrapped prune or date, but for those who don’t eat pork I had originally set out to...
Halloween•main dish

Autumn Moussaka

While I have fallen completely in love with cooking Pakistani and North Indian food, I’ve also long had an interest of traveling a little further up the spice route to explore Middle Eastern and North African cuisines. I love the warm spices, the delicate sweetness of fruit and rosewater, the...
main dish

Tough Guy Future Noodles | Blade Runner

As reality and dystopian fiction become closer to indistinguishable, it’s no surprise that it is #DISHTOPIA Month: Eat Like It’s the End of the World, Fandom Foodies theme hosted by the lovely Catherine at The Gluttonous Geek – check out the linkup for more foodpocalypse! Blade Runner (1982) gives us...
soups

Roasted Green Pepper Soup

Red peppers get all the love but the humble green pepper is fresh and unexpected. I had posted a green pepper soup recipe here years ago and it was one of my most popular; I’ve tweaked it slightly and taken terribly lit moody new photos. While not as sweet as...
etc•Halloween

What’s this? It’s #Burtoween!

It’s the most gloriously ghoulish time of the year, and what better way to celebrate it than with a spooktacular feast! What’s this? It’s #Burtoween! This month we’re creating recipes inspired by Tim Burton’s creepy, quirky films. Nightmare Before Christmas Pudding? A nice tall glass of Beetlejuice? Edward Skewerhands? Big...
drinks•Folklore and Fairy Tales

Homemade Strega Liqueur

Strega is a sweet and herbally Italian liqueur, created in 1860 by Guiseppe Alberti, who founded a distillery with his father Carmine Vincenzo Alberti in Benevento, known as the city of witches. Benevento has a rich history of Stregheria, and is home to a mythical walnut tree, underneath which witches...
soups

Redwall Hotroot Soup

As a child I somehow missed the Redwall books, Brian Jacques’s fantasy series of anthropomorphic animals in medieval times running around adventuring, which is unfortunate because I would have loved them! I’ve started two separate books (I started the first one, Redwall, and then – record scratch – the dish...
drinks

Pumpkin Mocha Breve | Carry On

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On is one of the most refreshing pieces of fiction I’ve read in the last few years. A moving, magical and intensely quotable twist on Harry Potter, it follows Simon, Baz, Penelope, and Agatha at their wizarding...
soups

Poisonous Soup (Matcha Broth) | The Nightmare Before Christmas

Day-in day-out Sally, #nevernotpoisoning, tries to poison the Evil Scientist using ingredients from her quaint little garden of deadly herbs. On this particular night, she uses her deadly nightshade masked by frog’s breath and worm’s wort. My version swaps ingredients for each of these – instead of deadly nightshade, an...
Arabian Nights Minty Split Pea Soup
soups

1001 Arabian Nights | Minty Split Pea Soup

One of my favorite tales spun by Scheherezade in 1001 Arabian Nights is The Prince and the Large and Lonely Tortoise. This story has everything: animal brides, shape shifting, jealous bitches, cooking trickery, and dinner party drama. If, like the sultan you are dying to hear more, and I’m almost...
baking and desserts•main dish•menus•soups

Violet Beauregarde’s Three Course Dinner | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

#FFDahlicious is a month for tasty eats inspired by Roald Dahl hosted by Katarina @ Pretty Cake Machine. Check the hashtag or the link up for lots of Dahl-inspired dishes. Violet Beauregarde, the gum-smacking, slang-slinging, disobedient daughter of a car salesman, is the second child to meet her demise in...
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