Entries tagged with 'Halloween'
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Thank you to everyone who entered the second annual Serious Eats Pumpkin Carving contest. It was a tough call, but without further ado, we bring you the three favorites. Check them out, after the jump....
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[Photograph: Lee Zalben] The creepiest, spookiest, most sugary day of the year has arrived! Break out the chocolate bars and don those devil horns: it's time for Halloween. If you still haven't decorated, check out our pumpkin-carving tips; if you're still lacking an outfit, create your own food-themed costume. And if you're still menu-planning? Get some inspiration from our recipes and guides below. Happy Halloween! Ghostly Goodies Creepy Meat Hands How to Make Ghostly Eggs Roasted Spicy Pumpkin Seeds Devilish Dinners Black Pepper-Crusted Sliced Steak with Crème Fraîche Sweet Potato Mash Black Sesame Seed and Sea Salt-Crusted Salmon with Wasabi-Lime Sauce Acorn Squash Soup with Brown Butter and Maple Yogurt Pumpkin Turkey Chili Trick-Or-Treats Serious Heat: Spicy Chocolate for...
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[Photographs: Robyn Lee] Never has a plastic bag of candy lied so much. "The Best of All" says the packaging on a bag of Satellite Wafers, the styrofoam-like pockets filled with edible beads. "This nostalgic candy has enjoyed a great reputation particularly in the northeast, where people love these candies so much they will do anything to get their hands on them." Anything? Really? I would like to meet these folks. Apparently some kids like to play church with them because they resemble communion wafers; others enjoy the likeness to UFOs. Still others like eating things that can be shaken like maracas. Maybe the candy market was less competitive forty years ago, because I don't believe kids today could...
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[Photograph: jwendorff] Don't forget to enter our Halloween Carving Contest before Sunday at 6 p.m. Winners will receive shiny, sharp Viking knives. This Cookie-Monster-o'-Lantern is just one of the submissions so far. Check them all out here. We'll announce the winners on Monday, November 2. Think you can do better? After the jump, a step-by-step guide to carving your orange creature....
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When a real corn kernel likes a candy corn kernel, how does he get her attention? This animation by OddBot Studio gets into the head of a lovesick corn kernel, and shows what happens when he can't control his nerves. Watch the video after the jump....
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[Photographs: chiccookiekits.blogspot.com] Deep down underneath the corn syrup and Yellow #5 artificial coloring, the candy corn has feelings too. Meaghan of The Decorated Cookie noted what's really happening inside candy corn during common daily occurrences, like when a giganto pink Peep walks into the room. Related Photo of the Day: Candy Corn Traffic Cones How to Make Candy Corn From Scratch Tri-Color Candy Corn Cookies...
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All of these costumes are cheap, pretty throw-it-togetherable, and will make other people around you hungry. 1. Food Mascots From left: Sun Maid Raisin girl, Morton Salt Girl, Jolly Green Giant, and the Chiquita Banana lady. [Photograph: Tressa Eaton] Sun Maid Raisin Girl: A bonnet, white blouse, head scarf, and basket full of grapes. (Bonus points for sunshine rays emanating from your body) Morton Salt Girl: Wear a yellow dress (preferably with a huge bow) and hold an umbrella. (Fun fact: that would be our own Serious Green columnist Tressa Eaton in the photo!) Jolly Green Giant: Green shirt, green leaf-bearing toga, and green headband. Act jolly. Chiquita Banana Lady: A woven hat full of fruits piled on top, big...
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[Photograph: Not Martha] A layer of crispified cheese makes a delicious topping that also looks like the skin of a diseased, dismembered hand—perfect for Halloween. In her quest to make a meat hand, Not Martha tried two versions of a hand-shaped meatloaf before discovering the most gruesome of them all, featuring a top layer of browned cheese, onion fingernails, and an onion wrist bone. [via Metafilter] Related How to Make Ghostly Eggs Photo of the Day: Meat Head Photo of the Day: Ginger Skeleton Cookies...
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[Photograph: Kerry Saretsky] When I was young, I spent Halloween night bobbing for apples with my hands behind my back. I remember thinking how silly it was, when I could get a perfectly delicious apple coated in caramel neatly perched on a stick. And now even that seems barbaric when I can drink my caramel apples from a beer bottle. Brothers Toffee Apple Cider tastes of sweet, alcoholic, bubbling apple cider with melted caramel stirred up inside, described quite correctly by the company as tasting something like "cream soda." It was originally developed for Halloween, but was so popular the company now bottles it year-round. For an American away from America during the all-American season from Halloween to Thanksgiving, the...
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[Photograph: Macys.com] I've always felt limited in my ability to carve jack-o'-lanterns due to a narrow range of tools. Let's face it—a thumbtack and steak knife can only yield so much detail, and cheap plastic tools always seem to break with the first incision. Though I questioned whether it would be worth it to invest in a more serious set, I put my money on a kit from Martha Stewart ($34.99 at Macy's in-store; unavailable online), who, unsurprisingly, is able to create beauties like these lace-patterned gourds featured on her site last year. Smitten by these non-traditional, ultra-delicate styles, my intrepid carving companion and I set out to accomplish some super-technical pumpkins with the aid of Martha's kit. We...
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