Halloween fun!

I love the holidays and here are a few fun ideas for the family at dinner time on Halloween.

For starters try Witch's Breadstick Fingers using Namaste pizza crust. Take hot tap water called for on the bag for two pizzas and add 4 teaspoons of yeast, a touch of white sugar, oil called for and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Stir well then add mix in bag. Stir add extra hot tap water if needed, make sure it is moist, yeast needs moisture. Cover and let set in warm place for 5-10 minutes. Then Grease your hands with canola or olive oil and roll into breadstick shapes. Cut edges of whole black olives and place them on one end of the breadstick as the fingernail. In the center of the breadstick take a knife and make some squiggles for the knuckle. Follow the rest of the directions on the bag to cook. Once they are done take a serving bowl and put in your pizza sauce, stick the breadsticks in olive end up and Voila, Witch's fingers!

Try this one... Meatball Eyeballs. It is a rice pasta with meatballs. This recipe is for the meatballs then make your noodles and sauce for spaghetti as usual. To serve lay spaghetti on platter, sauce over it and lay the creepy meat balls all around it.

1 lb of ground beef
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp allspice
2 tsp cumin
pinch of cayenne pepper
olive oil

Place all ingredients in a food processor except the olive oil until very smooth. Oil or wet your hands and form small eyeball sized balls. Take olives, slice them in half and press then into one side of the meatball . Heat oil in frying pan and brown meatballs for 5-10 minutes.

Want a decorating idea? Make some great Mummy candy jars, straw or utensil holders. Use glass spaghetti jars. Soak outside of jar to remove label. Take old white nylons and use the brief part to wrap around the glass jar; from there pull the legs in opposite directions winding around the jar and tie a knot. Tuck the knot under and glue a couple of googly eyes on. Add white or silver glitter and creepy plastic spiders (we used spider rings and removed the ring part). Say Happy Halloween to your mummy decorations!