In order to keep with this tradition, I decided that, this year, I was pulling a Halloween Party a lo grande as well. Halloween has been getting more and more common here and I know of some people that live in little suburbs that do the trick or treating (ok, nothing like in Canada or USA but still. It's a start!). In Madrid, it's kind of hard because of all the apartment building but, I tell you, if you go downtown, a lot of people go out and dress up! Makes me all giddy inside :)
The 1st of November is the Day of all the Saints here so no work. Perfect excuse to throw my party on the 31st of October, Halloween to its fullest. David bought some awesome decorations this year and I worked my magic. But, the most important part: the food, was still going through my mind!
I wanted to go full Halloween on the food as well and my brain (helped by Mr. Google) came up with some pretty awesome ideas. Here was my final menu:
Ants Paté
Earth Worm Stew
Exorcist Girl's vomit
Brain Purée
Mini Cockroach Pies
Human Slices
Dinosaur's Teeth
Fried Human Skin
Blood Sauce
Mimi Mommies
Devil's eyes
Here are a few of the recipes:
Ants Paté (Black Olive Paté)
Ingredients:
2 cups black pitted olives
1/2 cup olive oil
salt and pepper
Mix the ingredients with a blender. Rectify by adding more oil if it is too thick.
Exorcist Girl's Vomit (Hummus)
Ingredients:
1 can of cooked chick peas
1 tbsp of chick pea juice from the can
2 tbsps tahini
3 tbps lemon juice
1 or 2 garlic cloves (to taste)
2 tbsps olive oil
salt
Mix all of the ingredients together and blend. Rectify by adding more olive oil if it is too thick.
Earth Worm Stew
Ingredients:
1 kg mushrooms
salt and pepper
In a large pan, add some oil and heat. When ready, cook with sliced mushrooms until tender. Using a hand blender, rougly grind them until you reach the desired texture. I added my mixture to mini pies.
Brain Purée
Ingredients:
1 bag of frozen spinach thawed and dried
1 cup mayonaise
2 cups of sour cream
1 veggie soup mix (leek soup works best)
1 pumplenickel bread (or a round bread)
salt and pepper
Mix the ingredients together and refrigerate 2 hours. Place into a round bread that has been carved before and serve.
Mini Cockroach Pies (Maple Syrup and Peacan Pies)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups maple syrup
1/2 cup water
2 tbsps butter
2 tbsps corn starch
mini pies
peacans
In a pan, heat the butter. When melted, add the corn starch. Mix well. Add the maple syrup and hot water. Mix well. After it starts bubbleing, keep on stirring for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Pour into the mini pies where you already added the nuts. Let cool.
Human Slices (Spanish Ham, Chorizo and Lomo cold cuts)
Dinosaur Teeth (Cheese slices)
Fried Human Skin (Chips)
Blood Sauce (Salsa)
Ingredients:
6 red tomatoes
1/2 onion
2 garlic cloves
tabasco
Roughly slice the tomatoes, onion and garlic. Add the the blender and slightly mix them.
Mini Mommies (Hot Dog Sausages Wrapped in Pastry)
Ingredients:
Mini hot dog sausages
pastry (I used puff pastry)
Slice the pastry into individual pieces (to almost cover a sausage). Wrap them around each sausage leaving the top part out and covering the bottom. Looks like mommies. Cook in the oven until golden.
Devil's Eyes (Cooked Eggs with Green Pea Purée and Olive)
Ingredients:
eggs
green peas
black olives
oil
salt and pepper
paprika
Hard boil the eggs. Peel and cut in half. Remove the yolk and reserve the whites. In a blender, mix the cooked green peas, a few egg yolks, oil, salt and pepper until you reach the desired texture. Using a spoon, fill the egg whites with the green purée and top off with an olive. Sprinkle some paprika on top to make the red veins.
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I had also made some roasted pumpkin seeds from my wonderful pumpkin that I carved to place outside of our door. People loved that touch :) Just like in America, when a pumpkin is lit outside of your door, it means there is candy inside :) And there sure was a bunch of candy inside!
Here are a few pictures of the crew (we were over 30 people) and some of the disguises. We had a BLAST!
The Canadian Family Clan (aka David's cousin.. most of them at least):
My awesome coworkers!
And our themed costume. I think we were representing well!
We had an awesome time and people really went all out with their costumes. :) Next year, if we are still here, we will be repeating for sure!
Sorry for the lack of pictures of the food. I tend to forget to take some after taking the main table one. People were to eager to eat :)
Happy belated Halloween All!
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