CasserolesNo. 3590 · The 2026 edition
Halloween Dinners 2007-2010
Transform your evening meal into a frightfully fun feast with these creative dinner concepts. Discover how to turn ordinary ingredients into spooky centerpieces that will delight your guests without t
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This collection highlights imaginative table themes and food presentations designed to make Halloween dining memorable. It features detailed instructions for crafting edible decorations such as ham skulls, meatloaf feet, and spider pizza. The guide provides step-by-step guidance for assembling these dishes, ensuring a festive atmosphere that balances creativity with approachable cooking techniques.
Ingredients
Tips
- These are from the site's Halloween table from last year and the hosts consider the spread pretty cool, not just alright.
- The hosts joke that they are not obsessed with Halloween but are obsessed with making food in general, especially cool food.
- They start planning the next year's Halloween dinner as soon as they finish eating the current one.
- Each year gets a little more interesting and the table a little fuller of spooky Halloween food.
- Readers are invited to leave a comment if they have questions about how something is made or what it is made of.
- Readers are invited to send ideas and suggestions for the Halloween Dinner 2011.
The list
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2010 Halloween table 2010
Ham skull, spooky cow ribs, devil face (chicken breast), mini-mummies, worm salad, eye balls, blood soup with snake dippers, bat wings; also foamy witches brew, gross guts, novelty glasses, jack-o-lantern spinach dip, nasty skeleton dip, spider pizza.
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2009 Halloween party 2009
Spider bread dip, spider pizza, a foot (meatloaf), spooky skeleton spread, mini pumpkin cheese balls, guts (cola jelly salad), jack-o-lantern spinach dip, assorted drinks and sweets, plus mummy toes (cocktail wieners wrapped in pastry), eyes (devilled eggs), and Frankenstein's face (meatloaf).
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2008 Halloween table 2008
Spectacularly spooky haunted gingerbread house with a terrifying ghost; enchilada bugs, mummies (ham and cheese braid), another foot (meatloaf), mini-pumpkin cheese balls, spider bread dip, and Caesar salad with maggot croutons.
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2007 Halloween dinner 2007
The beginning of the Halloween dinner parties: Frankenstein meatloaf, macaroni witch (made out of macaroni), pizza snake, and meatloaf monster face. Photos were re-downloaded from allrecipes.com after the originals were lost.
The plan
- about a month before the event — Start planning the Halloween dinner about a month before the event is actually held.
- year-round — Plan year-round: flip through food magazines and websites looking for dishes that could work, saying 'Oooh, that would be cool for Halloween' or figuring out how swapping one thing could turn a dish into a Halloween version.
- Keep the meatloaf foot in the rotation because it never fails to gross out someone at the table.
- Reuse dishes that work and look cute, such as the mini pumpkin cheese balls, which were served again in a later year.
- Have a comment channel open so readers can ask how something is made or what it is made of, and ask readers for suggestions for the next year's dinner.
Decoration ideas
- Set a spooky Halloween table spread ('2010 Halloween table - Spoooky stuff!') and keep building it so each year the table is fuller of spooky Halloween food.
- Serve drinks in fun novelty glasses ('Coolest. Glasses. Ever.').
- Build a haunted gingerbread house with a terrifying ghost for the table.
Food & drink
- Ham Skull
- Spooky cow ribs
- Devil face (chicken breast)
- Mini-mummies (chicken nuggets on a hot dog bun)
- Worm salad (noodles)
- Eye balls (brussel sprouts)
- Blood soup with snake dippers (tomato soup with breadsticks)
- Bat wings (chicken wings)
- Foamy witches brew
- Gross guts
- Jack-o-lantern spinach dip
- Nasty skeleton dip
- Spider pizza
- Spider bread dip
- A foot (meatloaf)
- Spooky skeleton spread
- Mini pumpkin cheese balls
- Guts (cola jelly salad)
- Assorted drinks and sweets
- Mummy toes (cocktail wieners wrapped in pastry)
- Eyes (devilled eggs)
- Frankenstein's face (meatloaf)
- Haunted gingerbread house
- Enchilada bugs
- Mummies (ham and cheese braid)
- Caesar salad with maggot croutons
- Macaroni witch (made out of macaroni)
- Pizza snake
- Frankenstein meatloaf
- Meatloaf monster face
Activities
- Throw an annual Halloween dinner party for friends and family and watch their reactions to the scary, gross, and cool food.
- Enter Halloween creations in a Halloween food contest (Jo entered on allrecipes.com and placed 4th with the Frankenstein Meatloaf, though the prize could not be claimed from outside the States).
- Create something scary, gross, or cool that has never been made before each year.
More photos
Photos hosted by joandsue.blogspot.ca.
