Halloween party went off without any major problems. I was a bit late with the “Spider, filled with stewed squirrel brain” starter, but the first guests helped us preparing salad and serving martini. The spider legs were a bit pale, their shells a bit too well done (i.e. hard and dry) and the brain-stew turned out to be västkuströra instead of skagenröra. Most guests ate most of it, but none of the kids ate it all.
The main dish we called “Pig-rump with ant-eggs”, and really was an old favourite made mostly from pork and whipped cream, served with rice.
The “pumpkin” cake was delicious. It didn’t contain even a single pumpkin atom, but was covered in pumpkin-colored marcipan and decorated with eyes and mouth. We served it with coffee and “baked squirrel bellys”, bisquits made from hazel nuts. When all kids (9 of them) had run off to play, I served the “startled sqirrel eyes”. Light brown irises, black pupils and white chocolate half-globes with pumkin-coloured filling. Yum.
Notice the sqirrel theme? People tend to feel sorry for little cute, furry animals, and that should fit with halloween, right?