those of us in the northeast experienced something strange this year: a white halloween! instead of braving the sleet, b and her beau k decided to stay in and cook up a storm of their own devising: halloween sugar cookies and slow cooker chili.
we picked up this easy slow cooker chili recipe from savor fare and let our slow cooker, wendell, do all the work. slow cooking is perfect for a crappy weather day as you can smell the sweet aromas wafting as you smother yourself in blankets and watch scary movies all day.
unfortunately, we forgot to take any pictures of any of our own chili (too busy eating it!), but it looked very much like the above photo of the recipe from the savor fare website. hot damn, chili is good on a winter day. topped with gobs of cheddar and green onions, of course.
unfortunately, we forgot to take any pictures of any of our own chili (too busy eating it!), but it looked very much like the above photo of the recipe from the savor fare website. hot damn, chili is good on a winter day. topped with gobs of cheddar and green onions, of course.
while the chili was brewing, k and i continued a halloween tradition of making some halloween-themed sugar cookies!
we use a simple recipe very similar to this betty crocker sugar cookie recipe. the almond extract is important as it gives your sugar cookies a little extra dimension.
we bought our cookie cutters at a store in upstate new york, but you can get a similar set at target:
what also makes these cookies SUPER SPOOKY IMPORTANT is the six-cell of halloween sprinkles we bought at target a few years ago:
the results:
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| the perfect pandora station to bake to: third eye blind |
and what to pair with delicious chili and so-cute-it's-scary cookies on a snowy's hallow's eve-eve-eve? the nightmare before christmas, of course!
i think jack skellington himself could summarize halloween 2011 best:
There's children throwing snowballs / instead of throwing heads / they're busy building toys / and absolutely no one's dead!
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