Remember in elementary school, you would be blindfolded, touch cold noodles and be told they were brains? Since it’s Halloween, I thought I’d see if I could make a full meal out of “scary” or gross-looking foods typically made at this time of year:
Appetizer
Spicy Cheddar Witch Fingers. I found endless recipes for fingers, but this was the only one made of cheese.
Entrees
Pork Dumpling Brains. Apparently if you soak the dumplings in chile-sesame sauce and then serve them in a clear container–say, a lab jar–the dumplings look like brains.
Worms-in-Dirt. Leave it to Martha Stewart to make hot dogs look like real worms. I like that this is a salty version instead of the traditional sweet version.
Dessert
Zombie Brain Jell-O Shots. The final product looks amazing, but there are many steps in the recipe. I want to yell, “chilled monkey brains” (from “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”) as I serve these.
Beverage
Drunken Spider. Of course, no “holiday” meal is complete without a cocktail. This is a martini that looks like a spider is coming out of it.
The highly visible 
On to dessert. The Kissel soup was an adventure. I could certainly taste the tart cranberries and powerful pickled ginger, but both were tempered nicely by the vanilla ice cream. I also had a double chocolate brownie ($6) with a side of spiced nuts. Interestingly, I enjoyed eating them together, even though I normally dislike brownies with nuts. Wade also doesn’t like brownies with nuts, which is why he created the dish this way.
