Feetloaf for Halloween Dinner
6 years ago
My SIL just emailed this after seeing it in the Washington Post. I've made (many!) witch finger and man toe cookies for Halloween, but have not seen this. Hmmm...I do like meatloaf...and it is for Halloween. :-)
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Comments (48)Love it Sue!!! Jgbm: I wish I had the time to learn!! Maybe someday when I'm not up to my eyeballs in kid activities and work. As for Miley, if you knew my friend who had the nerve to dress up in it, you'd find it a riot too! It wasn't quite as revealing as the real one and she wore a miniskirt with it. I didn't think anyone would have the nerve to do it. As much as I can't stand Miley, for an adult only party it was hilarious....See MoreA Ghost Story for Hallowe'en
Comments (10)Great story! That reads like the synopsis of a novel. I have been looking for a chance to offer my own 'true' stories that have happened in the last 2 1/2 years since I have moved to rural Maine. I live in a lovely but impoverished area of mid-coast Maine, a place with a long history for these shores. The hospital where I work 12-hour night shifts has been developed piecemeal over the last 50 years, with parts of the hospital dating back to those days, and virtually all of the building now used for a different purpose than originally designed. During the day, the hospital is a busy place, hundreds of people coming and going, many visitors, day patients, business meetings, etc. At night the population drops dramatically, just the patients and the staff that cares for them as well as the usually busy Emergency Department. One night I had to take some filing into the Outpatient Surgery department. This area is down a hallway that is virtually deserted at night. During the day it is filled with patients having routine, relatively simple procedures. They are prepped in this area, and after the procedure they spend a short time recovering here and then go home. At one time this area was a regular hospital ward, with patients lined up in beds around the wall as used to be common but is unheard of these days. I frequently went there at night to do a bit of filing. It was always dark and deserted, and I easily did the filing just using the emergency lights. But this night when I walked in, I saw a patient in a bed - not sleeping or resting, but thrashing around. I was astounded, not just to find someone there, but apparently alone. I approached the bed, calling for help - I don't remember exactly what I said, but something like, "I need some help here! What is going on?" As I reached the bed I looked away, hoping to see a nurse or aide, and when I looked back...the bed was empty. Empty and made up for the next day, just as it should be. I stood there for some time, my mind just blank. What had I seen? Had I imagined it? Some kind of prank? Eventually I filed the papers and went back to my duties. This being Maine, ghost stories are considered fairly normal. The next morning when my co-workers came in and I when I gave report, I included the incident in the night. They listened with a level of attention that I rarely received while passing on the usual mundane facts. One of my co-workers has worked at that hospital for nearly 30 years. After I finished the story, she said told me that area had been a general ward for some years, and then had been an ICU in the very early days when that department was being developed, before it moved to the new and more modern wing. I'm really not sure what I experienced - a memory, an hallucination, some kind of weird image from the past? Or as Dickens might have said, a bit of undigested potato?...See MoreAre You Decorating For Halloween? Share Here!
Comments (12)My my kids are 10 and 11 this year and all of the sudden they want super scary haunted house stuff. Most of my Halloween decorations are still packed from our move almost 2 months ago, but all my old stuff does seem a little too nick-nack-y to me lately. I ended up buying a bunch of spider rings and spiders and used that poster sticky tack stuff to make a trail of spiders up the porch to the door. I thought it was just a little creepy, but not really scary, so it would be a nice compromise with my kids, but then a neighbor girl my daughter's age said she did NOT like it and hasn't been over to play for a while, so I feel a little guilty, like I did something wrong. Aside from a couple of black pumpkins, that's all I did this year. My favorite Halloween was a few years ago when I was feeling super poor and my kids were little and really excited about decorating. I cut out a bunch of black bats out of cardstock and hung them strategically in my entry and stairwell so it looked like they were flying up the stairs. I even sewed a tiny black bead to each one so they would hang better. I thought I saved them, but I haven't seen them since, so who knows. My daughter and I also saved interesting glass bottles for a while to make "potions" but those have been mysteriously misplaced, too....See MoreSpooky food for Halloween?
Comments (7)Well, of course I had guests.... A unicorn or two, who knew they were omnivores? A werewolf who would prefer to just eat the cookies, until the "boss unicorn" told him that he was a werewolf, just eat a cow for crying out loud: And The Ferocious Retriever....um.....Lion, who greatly enjoyed the sloppy joes but refused the Milk Bone, along with her "handler", the Ring Master. Down, Simba, Down. I even broke out the Halloween t-shirt and made the requisite Public Service Announcement: The younger unicorn also enjoyed the cookies, but only the Boss Unicorn would eat the algae, and then they were gone, out to pillage and plunder and terrorize the villagers. A scary group, that one. Happy Halloween. Annie...See More- 6 years ago
- 6 years ago
6 years agoWell, mine wasn't horrible, we had ribs:
Brains (which were a candy shell filled with red velvet cake:
And bones and eyeballs:
All different years, and this year I'm doing the pizza "heads", the kids think it's great, LOL.
Annie
- 6 years ago
- 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
LOL, 2Many, I hear you regarding a brother...same with me! ;-)
ETA - Here's a couple that are cute vs gruesome. I've made the "Creature Chips With Guacamoldy" in the second photo many times for Halloween..courtesy of Martha Stewart.
- 6 years ago
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