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When you collect the cookbooks I do you find an fair number of “Ball” recipes in the Appetizer section. This ball, that ball, all the balls. Let’s check the heft.

This holiday season will be very different than most we can remember. Distance and safety SHOULD make for smaller gatherings but if you and your “pod” do gather appetizers are great and the jokes about balls are easy to make. So let’s get this going and start with “Family Favorites” from the Seniority Craft Group of Indian Path Medical Center of Kingsport, Tennessee.

If you prefer real estate agents from Columbus Ohio….

More to come! Yes, that’s a warning.

I have a few books in my collection that are written or assembled by Home Economics teachers. I did take Home Ec in high school. We covered cooking, sewing, child care (with one memorable day of how NOT to make a baby while still in high school).

This one has a hugely important bit of info taped to the inside cover

Baked Potatoes with Tuna & Broccoli in Cheese Sauce

2 medium baking potatoes	1 tsp cayenne
10 oz frozen broccoli in cheese sauce	1/4 c minced green onions
1 can chunk light tuna	2 pcs cooked bacon, crumbled

Microwave the potatoes on HIGH for 8 minutes. Remove and wrap in foil. Let stand to finish cooking. Microwave broccoli on HIGH for 5 minutes. In medium microwave safe bowl combine tuna and cayenne. Stir in broccoli. Cover and heat 60 to 90 seconds. Cut potatoes in half length wise, top with tuna/broccoli. Sprinkle on bacon and green onions.

Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday with a New England Clam Chowder Adapted from Vincent Price

I just had to find a way to work the Ghoul Boys in. I want to be Ryan but I’m really Shane at heart.

Yesterday we had two books that were beautifully crafted–these are more mass market oriented but still fun.

Little Kitchen of Horrors

Ghoulish Goodies

Because wouldn’t it be nice to get back to cookbooks?

The Necronomnomnom

Let’s look at one that’s nearly impossible to pronounce.

Also, best review evar

The Wicked Baker

This one is very stylish

The photographs are so beautiful, as is the layout of the book itself.

I haven’t made any of the recipes here but reading them they seem to be solidly constructed. But if you don’t cook/bake and just love food photography this is still a great book.

Let’s say you love Halloween and you love food. But you are bone-idle. How can you serve some spooky treats without actually doing any work? I know exactly who can help.

Ghost Donuts

Step 1 Buy Entemann’s mini powder sugar donuts

Step 2 Buy some black decorative frosting in a tube

Step 3 Do this

Ghost Pudding

Step 1 Buy pudding in individual cups

Step 2 Find Ghost Peeps–if you can find them.

Step 3 Do this

Ghost Lollypops

Step 1 Buy some big marshmallows

Step 2 Stick them on lollypop sticks

Step 3 Find that black icing you bought earlier

Step 4 Do this

Step 4A as a bonus you can stick some coconut on as hair but that’s a lot of effort and you’re kinda in the lazy zone.

I refuse to explain this one. You should not need instructions

If you need a spirit guide to spirits maybe this will help. This book was written by a woman who runs a blog about travel, ghosts and food. You should visit her.