Simple ideas?!
Answers: My friends She has never celebrated Halloween 2morrow she is carving her first pumpkin she is from India so i really wanna "wow" her and to be honest i don't cook much for Halloween so any simple but "wow" ideas? i want to use something with the pumpkin we carve i been looking all over but i need something more simple i am making pumpkin bats for dessert and no meat please i think we can use chicken only
How about a nice, roasted pumpkin soup? It's really easy, and very nice with a warm loaf of crusty bread!
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion, diced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 apple, peeled and diced
2 cups fresh pumpkin, roasted and diced, see below
1 tablespoon sage leaves
3 cups chicken stock
1 cup cream
Salt and freshly ground pepper
In a stockpot over medium heat, melt butter and saute onion, carrot, apple, roasted pumpkin, and sage until all are tender, about 8 to 10 minutes. Puree the mixture in a food mill; if you do not have a food mill, then puree in a food processor or blender. Return the puree to the stockpot, add the chicken stock and simmer for 15 minutes. Then add the cream and simmer for 5 more minutes, lowering the heat if necessary so it does not boil. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
Divide soup among 4 soup bowls and serve immediately.
To roast pumpkin, preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Cut whole pumpkin in half and then cut each half into several pieces. Discard seeds or reserve for another use. Place pumpkin on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast in oven until tender but not falling apart, about 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool, peel away skin, and dice.
make those really cool halloween cupcakes that you always see in magaizines, you know like with green frosting and black twizlers on top in the shap of a grave stone. or just buy halloween cookies. or make them. go bobbing for apples. do a corn maze. get some old clothes, straw,glue and a plank of wood to make your own scare-crow. buy plain pillowcases and decorate them; then use them as trick or treating bags :)
