MENU: Frightful Delights
Day 1
Bat Wings with Bog Dip and Sinking Hands
Day 2
Vampire Chicken-Beet Salad with Scallions and Goat Cheese and Onion Toasted Ghouls
Day 3
Screaming Crab Melts on Pumpernickel
Day 4
Bloody Mary
Meal #1
Chicken Bat Wings with Bog Dip
- In a shallow dish combine: reduced-sodium soy sauce, brown sugar, minced garlic, five-spice powder, hot sauce, minced ginger and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Add the chicken wings to the dish and toss to coat.
- Transfer the wings to a baking sheet and brush with more marinade.
- Season 4 chicken breast halves with salt and pepper and brush with olive oil.
- Add to another baking sheet and place both baking sheets into the oven and cook for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Serve wings with Sinking Heads. Reserve the chicken breast for Vampire Chicken-Beet Salad.
Sinking Hands
- Unroll and separate 1 (11-ounce) package refrigerated breadstick dough into 12 breadsticks.
- Roll each into 4-inch long "fingers" and place onto another baking sheet.
- Separate 1 egg and brush fingers with the egg white.
- Place sliced almonds onto each end of the breadstick to look like fingernails.
- Sprinkle freshly grated Parmesan over the breadsticks and place into preheated oven. Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
- In a medium bowl, add: sour cream, chopped parsley leaves and coarsely ground mustard.
- Serve all of the breadsticks with the dip and the wings. Enjoy!
Meal #2
Screaming Crab Melts on Pumpernickel
- Whisk together cream cheese and heavy cream.
- Fold in lump crabmeat, prepared horseradish and chives.
- Season, to taste, with salt and pepper and transfer to baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes until hot and bubbly.
- Remove the baked crabmeat mixture from the oven and preheat boiler.
- Cut 4 to 8 sliced pumpernickel bread into 4-inch rounds.
- Top each round evenly with the baked crab mixture and sprinkle with grated Parmesan.
- Place each round onto a baking sheet and place into broiler. Broil for 2 minutes, until top is golden brown.
- Place 2 olive rings on top of each crab melt and fill the center with a piece of pimento, making "eyes".
- Use another strip of pimento to make a center for a "screaming mouth".
- Place onto a serving dish and enjoy!
Meal #3
Vampire Chicken-Beet Salad with Scallions and Goat Cheese and Onion Toasted Ghouls
- Cut the reserved chicken breasts into 2-inch pieces and toss with sliced beets and chopped scallions in a large bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cider vinegar, olive oil and Dijon mustard.
- Pour over the chicken mixture and toss to combine.
- Season mixture with salt and pepper, to taste, and place into cleaned Bibb lettuce leaves.
- Top with crumbled blue cheese and serve alongside tortilla chips that have been seasoned with onion powder, salt and pepper. Enjoy!
Meal #4
Bloody Mary
- In a shaker or a tall pint glass, add: ice cubes, vodka, lime juice, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice, hot sauce, adobo sauce from canned chipotles and salt and pepper, to taste.
- Shake and pour, if in shaker, and garnish with celery stick and skewered pimento stuffed olives. Bottoms up!
