Best Easy Severed Finger Hot Dogs for Halloween
My neighbor Dave wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a lug wrench—my car had made a weird noise pulling into the … Read more
Best Easy Monster Eyeball Deviled Eggs for Halloween
There used to be a little dive bar on the corner of 7th and Pine called The Lazy Eye that made the most ridiculous deviled … Read more
Easy 3-Ingredient Candy Corn Bark Perfect for Halloween
This was supposed to be a salted caramel bark. I had the recipe bookmarked, the good chocolate chilling in the pantry, and a very specific … Read more
Cozy Jack-o-Lantern Stuffed Peppers: Easy Fall Dinner
I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, knee-deep in tax receipts last October, listening to him describe exactly how to … Read more
Easy Pumpkin Spice Witches Hat Cookies for Halloween
It was 11:47 PM on a random Wednesday in October, and I had a desperate need for something that looked like it belonged at a … Read more
Easy Bloody Halloween Punch Recipe for Kids
My nephew asked why I couldn’t just pour all the fruit juice into one big pitcher and call it Halloween punch. I started to explain … Read more
Easy Black Cat Sugar Cookies: Best Halloween Treat
My neighbor’s cat, a scruffy black stray named Binx, watched me from the windowsill as I pulled out my cookie cutters last October. I was … Read more
Easy Spiderweb Cheese Ball with Crackers
My brother-in-law Mark had claimed to hate cream cheese for as long as I’d known him. Fifteen years. Every bagel breakfast, every cheesecake at a … Read more
Easy Mozzarella Mummy Pizza Bites: Best Cozy Halloween Snack
I was digging through my freezer last Tuesday, looking for something—anything—that didn’t require a trip to the grocery store, when my fingers brushed against a … Read more
Easy Halloween Popcorn Mix with Candy Corn
The PTA Halloween party was in six hours and I had completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing elaborate themed cakes, those perfectly decorated witch-hat … Read more