Halloween Dinner

Hey everyone!

For all you last minute people out there looking for a fun dinner to do for Halloween, hopefully this will help give you some ideas! 

At the end of September, I had this great idea to do a themed dinner every Sunday of October in honor of Halloween. I was going to pick a fun movie, and base our dinner around that. Then life happened, people got busy, and my dream was never realized. But I wasn't going to give up! I wanted to do one fun dinner before Halloween to really get in the spirit. 

Apparently everyone else had some of the same ideas I did. When I went to the store for supplies, almost everything I wanted was sold out. (That's what I get for waiting so long) Still determined, I changed plans a little bit and this is what we ended up with:

I originally wanted to use spider rings as napkin holders, and have fun printed plates. But the spider rings were gone, and so were the plates. No worries! I just went to the party isle and picked up some good ol' black and orange plates. (I think I like the bug better anyways.)  I made everyone a place card with a fun name on it. You can get these cute FREE name tags here. I also made a menu for the night. Thank you Microsoft Word! You never let me down ;) 

This was my "spooky spaghetti" and "witch fingers". The instructions on how to dye the noodles are on the36thavenue.com or just click here . When I saw this idea on Pinterest, I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread! It doesn't stain your mouth or alter the flavor of the noodles either!  Of course, I wanted to make my spaghetti like the dish I saw on the blog... the noodles were black! But was there any black food coloring around when I went shopping? Of course not! (See? I guess other people wanted black spaghetti too!) But, I think the purple spaghetti is still fun!

This is my "mummy bread". When I was at the store I went to the bakery section in search for some french bread. Yep.. they were SOLD OUT. So I got an Italian bread loaf instead. The size is slightly smaller, but I actually like this kind of bread more than french bread. So it ended up being a happy mishap! These are super easy to make! Slice the bread into any shape you want them to be. Then add butter and garlic salt to your liking. Next, take sliced olives and place them on the bread for eyes. For the mummy "wrap" I took pre-sliced mozzarella cheese, cut it into strips with a pizza cutter, then placed it randomly all over the bread. Finally, broil it on high until the cheese is melted. Yumm! 

This was our "night crawlers" dessert. More commonly known as "Worms and dirt". Simply layer chocolate pudding, with crushed Oreos on top, and stick a few worms on top to make it look like they are crawling out of the dirt. Could dessert go as I planned? Nope! All of the regular gummy worms were gone too. But these sour gummies worked great!

At the end of it all, it was a fun dinner, and everyone enjoyed the food! I hope you guys have a fun Halloween!