Prompt: Holidays

[runpunkrun]

That's any holiday, celebration, or observance—for any time of year—if there's food you associate with it, it's perfect for this prompt.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe or product and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

This prompt lasts all month, but it's only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can post anything you like during this time as long as it meets the community guidelines.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Halloween Treats from runpunkrun
• Wild and Brown Rice Casserole from sonia

Comments

Halloween Treats

[runpunkrun]

Last month the food blogs I follow (okay, mostly Erin, she's three of these entries) were knocking it out of the park with their spooky season foods. These recipes are all labor intensive, but they look like so much fun and the food photography is so amazing I wanted to share them.

Pumpkin Spice Macarons from Food Doodles: Bright orange macarons with white filling and black jack-o-lantern faces drawn on them with edible ink.

Halloween Hot Chocolate Bombs from Food Doodles: White chocolate spheres decorated to look like mummies with stripes of white icing and two little candy eyes. Drop one into a mug and pour hot milk (or water) over it and it dissolves and mixes with the powdered cocoa mix and marshmallows inside to turn into incredibly labor intensive instant cocoa. These are probably best as gifts.

Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cups at Feasting on Fruit (vegan and paleo): Chocolate pudding dusted with crumbly chocolate cookie crumbs and teaming with gummi worms.

Witch Finger Cookies from Texanerin Baking (GF option on this one): Shortbread cookies formed to look like fingers with a blanched almond for a fingernail and strawberry jam lining the cuticles like blood.

Re: Halloween Treats

[mific]

Omg, those witch finger cookies are worrying!

Re: Halloween Treats

[runpunkrun]

They really are quite upsetting.

[sonia]

I have used this Wild and Brown Rice Casserole (posted here in 2019) as turkey stuffing, or as a side dish to bring along to a Thanksgiving dinner. It's a production to make, so you have to just settle in and enjoy the process.