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appetizers and snacks•Horror Movies

Cabbage-Stuffed Hot Cross Buns | The Nun

The latest installment in James Wan’s The Conjuring Universe has arrived. The Nun, directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow), starring Demián Bichir (Alien: Covenant) and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story, The Final Girls), is a departure from the usual haunted houses of the franchise and takes us to a Romanian...
baking and desserts

Chocolate Meringues with Chantilly Cream | Chocolat

Joanne Harris’s 1999 novel Chocolat is the story of Vianne Rocher, who comes with her small daughter Anouk to French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to open a chocolate shop right at the beginning of Lent. The book is rich, and sweet, and deliciously full of witchcraft, my favorite instance of which...
appetizers and snacks

Emergency Sausage Rolls | Orphan Black

Have you ever been so busy torturing your husband with a glue gun that you just didn’t have time to prepare your dish for the neighborhood potluck? Well in such an occasion these are great to have in the freezer. (I didn’t actually try freezing these, but I bet they’d...
Folklore and Fairy Tales•main dish

Cinderella Cassoulet

Shake and quiver, little tree, Throw gold and silver down to me. This cassoulet is “authentic” the same way Cinderella in various film adaptations is “French.” Which is to say not really, but I think it definitely captures the spirit. It’s hearty and simple, made with common ingredients so it...
baking and desserts

Elvis Cookies | My Favorite Murder

Get a job, buy your own shit, stay out of the forest. Like many, I have a dark fascination with true crime, and I’m quite excited to see the My Favorite Murder podcast live show tonight in Charlotte! It’s a very popular podcast so you’ve probably already heard it, but...
drinks•Folklore and Fairy Tales

Sour Medicine (Strega Cocktail) | Pinocchio

“Are you not afraid of death?” Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio (1883) is a tumultuous and winding morality tale of a little wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy. (I was originally going to say it’s somewhat darker than the Disney interpretation, but that scene where Lampwick turns into a...
Horror Movies•main dish

Creepy Pasta (Squid Ink Pasta with Octopus and Burrata) | Slender Man

This post originally appeared on Nightmare on Film Street The Slender Man mythology, originating from a creepypasta story on the Something Awful forums sometime in 2009, has wound its way through our society, from spooky Internet meme to real life crime. Most recently, the character appears in the film Slender...
baking and desserts•Horror Movies

Walnut Brownie Altar Cakes | Hereditary

2018 supernatural horror film Hereditary, directed by Ari Aster and featuring Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolfe, began by lulling me into the typical horror formula (I’ve seen a few ghost movies, ok?) and then took a gut-wrenching turn that shocked me to tears and left my body a...
menus

MS MARVEL MENU, Khan You Believe It?

Kamala Khan is just an ordinary, adorkable American teenager from Jersey City, who loves comics and writing fan fiction…until she discovers that she herself has inhuman genes which give her superhuman powers! She’s a shapeshifter in scale, who can stretch her arms and legs and change her size. With this...
baking and desserts

Jalebi | Ms Marvel

As the final course of our Ms Marvel menu, Jalebi seemed appropriate – it’s as stretchy and winding and polymorphous as her limbs, and a fun Pakistani street food besides. It’s basically a funnel cake, but after frying the dough is soaked in a cardamom rose syrup that takes it...
main dish

Vegetarian Shami Kebab Burgers with Shiitake Bacon & Pakora Fries | Ms Marvel

Spicy, savory shami kebabs make awesome burgers, and go just as well with ketchup as they do with green chutney. It seemed like the perfect thing to make as a main course for our Ms Marvel menu, Pakistani food that an American teenager can get excited about. And since on...
appetizers and snacks

Chickpea, Carrot and Pea Samosas | Ms Marvel

Samosas are one of those foods that are easy to buy but fun to make at home, even if they are a little labor intensive. You just have to put yourself in the mindset of it being a compliment that the dish you spent forever working on gets gobbled up...
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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