Pre-Halloween Party, aka Halloweenween

Mode: Party Game!
Hardware: Everything.
Accessories: Black vodka cocktails.

Green Sage and I had some CRAZY idea that we'd have a little party this weekend that involved us making loads of halloween themed treats. See, halloween is prettymuch the only time in an entire year that you can actually purchase pumpkin, and thus make pumpkin pie or ravioli or both. We enlisted the assistance of 2 other specialist warriors, who need to give me code names later and I'll probably amend this if I don't forget.

Don't 'boo' me! I'd like to see you do a better job!

Here's the basic spread, minus the sausages cause they were still in the oven. Turns out I didn't really have many informative pics of the process, so I'll have to just show you the finished products. Most of this is vegetarian, with the exception of the bits that had meat on them.

Pumpkin Pie

The pumpkin pie was a bit of an arse, because while I though I had a food processor gathering dust in the corner, apparently it is a non-functioning food processor that does not switch on. So the pie was very, um... fibrous and chunky, however, the double cream and spices made it taste great, and making the pastry and the mix ourselves we were able to make it egg free, for one of our party members is allergic to eggs.

Severed Fingers and Pomegranate

Cut the crusts off a slice of bread, add jam, rolled up, pinch one end carefully and stick an almond slice on it, and spread jam on the base of the other end.

Black Spider Pizza

Patrick offered to make us full on pizza-bases for our pizzas, with big thick dough that tasted fantastic! I arranged mozzarella slices in the shape of a cobweb, and used black olives for the spiders, slicing some of the olives into slivers to make the legs. I'm really happy with how this one came out, the spiders are hella creepy!

Red Spider Pizza

And for the meatatarians and olive-haters (like me!) I made a red-spider alternative using pepperoni and red pepper slices.

Eyeballs and Coffins

Eyeballs in a jar are made with lychees stuffed with black cherries, 'pickled' in ginger ale. The coffins are mini mars bars with the edges cleverly trimmed.

Pumpkin Ravioli

Pumpkin and sage butter ravioli made by Green Sage, a very thick and meaty alternative to meat.

Fried Beetroot and Carrots

A side-dish that I thought it would look kinda halloweeny.

Monster Faces

Egg-free banana cupcakes by Sage and Ned. Some creepy monster faces going on, I thought the gold teeth were a real nice touch!

Sausage Roll Mummies

I got this idea from somewhere on the internets, bought some chilled puff pastry, cut it into strips and wound it around sausages to make some adorable mummies!

The 'Decor'

And these are our... um... pumpkin... carvings. Ahem. Yeah.