| I have fond memories of Halloween in my childhood | | | | blindfolded & asked to put your hand in the bowl. |
| home. My sister and I would of course put on our | | | | One of my favorite effects was a bubbling witches |
| costumes and go home-to-home proclaiming "Trick or | | | | cauldron that she filled with lemonade and 7-Up and |
| Treat!" and collecting enough candy to thoroughly rot | | | | colored with green food coloring. After the punch was |
| our teeth. Then we would return home to sit on the | | | | poured into a black plastic bucket, she dropped in dry |
| floor in front of the television still in our costumes and | | | | ice to make it boil, bubble and smoke. |
| watch Disney's animated version of Washington | | | | My sister is six years older than I, and the Halloween |
| Irving's, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. | | | | parties that she would host for our friends had to be |
| As we got older my sister became more creative and | | | | not only fun for my playmates, but they had to impress |
| began concocting elaborate haunted houses and | | | | her cool older friends too - that included over-the-top |
| parties Halloween food from those parties are in my | | | | Halloween food! Many of the recipes in my Halloween |
| Halloween Recipe Collection. | | | | Recipe Collection began as our first attempts to |
| I can remember a year where we had a guillotine that | | | | impress other ghosts, ghouls, and beasts. |
| had a wooden blade that would come sliding down to | | | | Now that I am older and have a child of my own, I am |
| "behead" the damsel that was unfortunate enough to | | | | always looking for new ways to create something |
| have been drafted for the role of Marie Antoinette. | | | | special for her Halloween and I am very thankful that I |
| That year we also had a bowl full of slimy eyeballs | | | | had a creative sister for starting me on the road to the |
| that were nothing more than skinless grapes, yet felt | | | | fun foods in my Halloween Recipe Collection! I hope |
| both very convincing and disgusting when you were | | | | that some of the recipes will inspire you. |