Halloween Menu

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Breakfast: Pumpkin pancakes and Scary Eggmen (I used sausage in the middle with a tomato tongue and drew eyes with a marker with edible ink.)


Lunch: Spiderwiches, Goblin Eyeballs (melon balls) and Goblin Fingers (baby pickles)



Supper: Batwings (apricot glazed chicken wings), Ghosts (mounded mashed potatoes with olive eyes)

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SharlaDawn said…
Please keep posting these, I love reading them!
October 29, 2008 at 8:07 AM
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