Quristmas Quesadillas!

I cut the quesadillas into squares, used bell pepper strips for ribbon, and put sour cream (smoothed out a smidge with milk for easy squirting) into the same squirt bottles I use for pancake batter.  I squirted out white & food-color-dyed "red" to make sour cream candy canes for dipping.  The boys LOVED this for dinner!

Halloween Party!

So we hosted a pre-trick-or-treating Halloween party for a whole bunch of neighborhood kids & parents last night!  We had pizza, veggies, fruit, and these:
mummy hot dogs & octopus hot dogs and jack-o-lantern clementines.  I also made a very tasty fall sangria for the grown-ups.  I LOVE Halloween and I'm sorry to see it go for another year.  I guess we're moving on to Thanksgiving and holiday baking...not a bad trade!

Halloween Dinner: Chicken Pot Pie

The kids helped with this one.  I made our usual recipe of chicken pot pie, but rather than crusting up the top of the iron skillet and throwing it in the oven, we transferred to individual ramekin dishes.  The boys used ghost & pumpkin cookie cutters to make fun Halloween shapes in the dough.  We placed the dough on top of the ramekins and baked in the oven.

Halloween Dinner: Creepy Octopus Hot Dogs

Using the cut & boil technique you see in the Japanese bento boxes, I made little octopus hot dogs for little man, and big ones with long tentacles for my big boy.  We always use nitrate & nitrite free hot dogs.

Halloween Dinner

Using refridgerated pizza dough from the grocery store (yes, making your own is "easy" but extra work), we made ghost shaped pizzas with olives & mini meatballs (made for dinner earlier in the week) for the spooky faces.  Big hit with the boys!  Plus, we got a school lunch out of it too!

Here is the lunch I packed.  Ghost pizza and an orange bell pepper cut to look like a jack-o-lantern: