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Highlights: Halloween

Published on October 30, 2010 By Emily. Updated on October 30, 2010

Sometimes it’s Sunday evening before I get around to thinking about the Highlights.  Sometimes, the topic is a bit of a stretch and I’m lucky if I come up with a handful of great links.

Some topics are simple though; when there’s a holiday approaching, I start saving links as soon as they appear in my Reader.  (I’ve already started collecting for Thanksgiving!)  The result is lots and lots of Halloween links.  So many, I’m leaving out much of the commentary this week and offering you the links by subtopic:

Costumes

Foodie Halloween Costumes from Endless Simmer…not to be confused with the Top 10 Worst Halloween Food Costumes

Like food celebrities?  Check out Chow’s Food Celebrity Halloween Costumes (Michael Pollan or Alice Waters, anyone?)

Serious Eats is dressing up their French bulldog, Dumpling, in 12 different food-related costumes.  Pretty stinkin’ cute.

Not really a costume, but if you need a garlic necklace made out of silver (to keep vampires away?), check this out.

Recipes

Tasty Kitchen posted a bunch of the site’s prettiest looking Halloween recipes (I’m sure they taste good, too).

YumUniverse’s Halloween recipe round up

Homemade Candy Corn (Serious Eats)

Halloween Cupcakes (Slashfood)

Need creepy looking Halloween food?  Ohdeedoh can help.

Buffalo Wings-Of Death (Endless Simmer)

Kitchen Daily’s Halloween Cookies

Bake a caterpillar for Halloween! (Serious Eats)

Planning a grown-up Halloween party?  10 Halloween Cocktails from Endless Simmer and ideas for pairing wine with candy on Slashfood

Jack O’Lantern Jello Jigglers from Serious Eats

Martha Stewart’s recipe for bones made out of marshmallows – apparently they’re not hard to make. (on The Kitchn)

Need some eyeballs for your Halloween treats? (Really, who doesn’t?)  The Kitchn has 5 recipes to choose from!

Halloween candy inspired recipes on Salon

Candy

From Mental Floss: 8 Controversial Candies and Dietribes: Halloween Candy

NY Times: Is Candy Evil or Just Misunderstood?

Q & A with the “Candy Professor”

Serious Eats: The Best and Worst Halloween Candy

So Good: The Best Selling Candy

Chow: A Best-to-Worst hierarchy of candy.  See also Boingboing’s Candy Hierarchy.

The Atlantic: How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends

YumSugar has a slide show of the best selling candy around the world.

Is their poison in your Pixy Stix? (Answer: Highly unlikely.  Side note: I haven’t had Pixy Stix in forever.  I think I’m okay with that.)

Green Halloween

HuffPo: 10 Tips for a Green Halloween

Slashfood: Organic Halloween Candy

What’s Scary than Halloween? Blood Chocolate (Change.org)

Recycled candy wrapper art (mental_floss)

(Almost) every weekend, I choose a theme and highlight blog posts, websites and news articles from my Google Reader which I found interesting (and hope you do too!) If you want more reading, check out “What I’m Reading” on my sidebar.  And don’t forget to add Relishments to your reader or like Relishments on Facebook!

Happy Halloween!

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Comments

  1. Rache Wilkerson says

    November 3, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Mmmm I love Halloween!! These are great links!!

  2. Emily says

    November 3, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    Thanks Rachel-funny thing is, I’m not that big a fan of Halloween. But all the good ideas I saw made me start to really like it!

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Brian and I had lunch at the @firehousecafebistro Brian and I had lunch at the @firehousecafebistro in Adams today. We enjoyed falafel bites, cocktails, papas bravas, and a buttermilk chicken sandwich. All of the food was really delicious and the service was excellent, despite very limited staffing. The patio seating was fun for people watching and enjoying the sunshine. I highly recommend the Firehouse Cafe and Bistro if you're looking for a more upscale lunch or dinner in the northern Berkshires.
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Tomato season is my favorite season. If there is t Tomato season is my favorite season. If there is the opportunity to eat something that features a combination of tomato, mozzarella and basil, chances are good that I'm ordering it. Yesterday I needed to make a dish to share for a church gathering so I put together this incredibly simple pasta salad. I hope it's useful to you during this time of summer heat and summer gatherings.

RECIPE:
1 lb pasta (I used bowties) 
7 oz fresh mozzarella
1 pint grape tomatoes 
30-50 fresh basil leaves 
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste 

1. Cook pasta according to package instructions. Drain and place in a large bowl. 
2. Prep the other ingredients: cut the mozzarella cheese in bite size pieces if needed, quarter the grape tomatoes, finely cut the basil with scissors or a knife.
3. Add the quartered tomatoes, mozzarella and basil to the pasta. Drizzle the olive oil into the bowl and miX well.
4. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Enjoy!

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This @smittenkitchen Zucchini and Ricotta Galette This @smittenkitchen Zucchini and Ricotta Galette is one of my favorite summer recipes. The crust is perfectly flaky and the mix of squash and cheese is delicious. I always use summer squash and my husband, who does not typically like summer squash, loves this galette. Though it takes a bit of planning ahead - the crust dough needs to rest in the fridge for an hour and the squash needs to be salted for 30 minutes, the recipe is straightforward and the final produce always impresses. I expect it will make another appearance on my table before the fall.
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