Spooky Recipes for a Halloween Party

So your favorite day of the year is coming up, is it? Halloween, the creepiest and scariest day of the year is definitely your best day. It's the one day of the year when instead of trying to act "normal" like humans, you get to actually be your real self. And you're planning a big celebration with all your ghostly friends. Everyone will be wearing their most perfectly bewitching outfits and planning to have a most haunting night. The brooms and hearses have all been washed and waxed. All the knives and axes have been sharpened. After all, you don't want to cause those mortals any pain. One quick slash and it'll all be over...

This year, you, the Extremely Wicked Witch of the West, are the hostess of the annual Monster Bash. That means you have to choose the location, preferably a big old mansion with new human occupants. You also have to choose a bewitching band to help provide entertainment. Well, some of it, anyway. The rest, all of you will provide as you scare the "living" daylights out of the new occupants of the mansion. But all that fun makes everyone hungry. Which brings the next big issue for the hostess. Food. But you've got that all covered. You simply dug into Grandma Isabella's Famous Recipe book and pulled out a delicious soup that will not only be filling, it will satisfy everyone's fiendish appetite.

The recipe is a simple stew-like soup. Most of the ingredients need to be fresh, but you can get away with a few "three day buried" items. The night before Halloween you will simply raid the graveyard for most of the ingredients. The rest, you will have to capture alive. Ah, nothing like a fun night of shopping! Your lips are foaming, just thinking about the soup, as you copy down the ingredients.

The basic item for this soup is of course, lots of blood. You will have to drain it fresh from at least two people. (Humans can substitute 6-8 cans of tomato soup.) Just dump it into an old pot, add all the other ingredients, and cook it slowly.

The next item you will need are the eyeballs. Here's where the graveyard comes in. You don't want anyone buried longer than one to two weeks. Dig out as many eyeballs as you can. How many you get is up to you. Cook them before adding them to the soup. (Humans can use hamburger rounded into eyeball size. Add a black olive to the eyeball, I mean meatball, to make the pupil. Make sure to cook the meatballs before adding them to the soup.)

Brains are the next ingredient. Again, you can get these from the same bodies you got the eyeballs from. Cook the brains slowly also. (Humans can use chunks or strings of hamburger meat, cooked well done.)

Other ingredients that add to the flavor of this gory soup are chunks of bone, cooked until soft, (potatoes, cut into small chunks) and pieces of the heart (slices of beets). Thin sliced pieces of skin (sliced onions) add additional flavor. After you get the main ingredients, you can add human vegetables such as carrots, celery, and corn.

Serve this delicious soup with moldy crackers or bread. I am sure all your guests will appreciate Grandma Isabella's Gory Blood, Brains, and Eyeballs Soup.