Imagine a dark and winding dirt and gravel road through what seems to be an endless forest. Over hills you go, and around curves that you cannot even
see in the darkness. You know that there is supposed to be a full moon
tonight, but the forest is so dense that you are not quite sure that there is
any moon up there at all. Ah. You have come out onto a clear stretch. There
are deer in the fields. You can see their eyes shining. There is, after
all, a full moon. (You hope that these are deer....) Something howls. A
farmer's dog, you think, and you roll up the car windows.
You can see scattered lights on the distant ridges and hilltops, above the
dark pools of the tree-covered hollows. Farmhouses? Spooky castles? Who
knows? The road dips into another hollow, and all is dark. Something cries
out in the dark. You lock the doors. It is not an animal in pain, it is
something else, you don't know what, and it is angry, and very close.
The dark and heavy trees arch above your car again. Where is this place?
Are you almost there? What will you find? You reach the crest of a hill,
and turn off this road onto an even darker one. Down, down again into a
hollow. A wall of red pines looms on the right, and the mountainside drops
away on the left.
Is that a light blinking behind those sky-scraping pines?
You turn right, off this last dark and bumpy little road. There is a lighted doorway up at the top of the hill... and bright windows.
Hi. Welcome to Tir Nan Og. This is where I live. Happy Halloween.
Now what shall we have to eat at this party?
Rinse 1 or 2 celery stalks. Cut the stalks into halves or thirds. Fill the
hollow of each celery piece with peanut butter then sprinkle raisins across
the peanut butter. *Yum*
Use a pear half for the beetle's body. Add orange or peach slices for wings
and apple or carrot strips for antennae and legs. Use raisins and apple or
carrot strips to add details, like eyes, spots, or stripes.
Place a pretzel stick into each end of a jumbo marshmallow (use the short,
thin pretzel sticks.)
Keep adding marshmallows in either direction to make your centipede as long
as you like.
Use pretzel stick halves for legs.
Place these combinations on your hot or cold cereal.
Peachy Pumpkins: Place a peach half on your cereal, give it raisin eyes, nose, and stem. Then add an apple slice for a mouth.
Goofy Ghost: Use a pear half and place three raisins for the eyes and mouth. Black Cat: Use a big prune for the body and a small prune for the head, raisins for the tail and ears, and bits of apple for the face.
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Combine pumpkin,
water, eggs and oil and mix well. Add dry ingredients slowly and beat
thoroughly. Stir in nuts and pour batter into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350"
for 75-80 minutes. Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.
Ready the broiler and toast 2 english muffin halves. Spread the english
muffins with catsup and then sprinkle with shredded cheddar. Slice a
vegetarian hot dog like coins and place a few on each muffin in a pumpkin
face. Place the muffins on a broiler pan and broil them until the cheese
melts.
Boil and drain 1 cup of jumbo pasta shells. Let the pasta shells cool
completely. Stuff the shells with small pieces of your favorite cheese and
cold cuts.
Wash and drain seeds. Pour 1/4 cup vegetable oil on a large cookie sheet.
Spread seeds on the sheet, coating them well with oil. Bake in oven at 350
until seeds are lightly brown (8-10 minutes). Remove, drain on a paper towel
and sprinkle with salt. Store seeds in an airtight container.
Wash the seeds in lukewarm water. Fill a bowl with water. Soak the seeds for
1 hour. Spread the seeds on a piece of foil to dry. Let them dry for 1 or 2
days. Put the seeds in a bowl. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons of cooking oil. Stir the
seeds and oil. Spread the seeds out on a cookie sheet. lightly salt them.
Bake the seeds at 300 for 30 minutes. Turn the seeds every 5 minutes with the
spatula or spoon. Let the seeds cool completely before you munch 'em.
Saute onion in butter until tender. Sprinkle with curry powder and saute 2
more minutes. Remove and place in a large saucepan. Stir in pumpkin and salt.
Add half-and-half, stirring constantly. Stir in broth. Cook over low heat,
stirring occasionally.
Preheat oven to 400. Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, and pumpkin thoroughly In a
large bowl. Sift dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture. Blend well, Add
raisins and pecans. Drop batter by teapoonsful on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven.
Mix graham cracker crumbs, margarine and 1/3 cup sugar together, and pack in
a 9" by 13" pan. Combine 2 eggs, 2/3 cup sugar and cream cheese, and beat
until light and fluffy. Pour mixture over graham crackers and bake for 20
minutes at 350". Remove and cool. Separate 3 eggs, combine the yolks,
pumpkin, 1/2 cup sugar, salt and cinnamon in the top of a double boiler, and
cook over boiling water for 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat.
Sprinkle gelatine over water in a small pan and stir over low heat until
dissolved. Add to mixture in double boiler, and let cool. Beat egg whites
until stiff. Fold into mixture, and pour over baked layers. Refrigerate and
serve with whipped cream.
Yields: 13 ... not enough. Betcha need to make more!
Separate eggs and lay the whites aside. Combine the yolks and all other
ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Fold in the egg whites and mix
well. Spoon mixture into a 9" unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350" for one hour,
or until a knife inserted in the center comes out cleanly.
Yields: one 9" pie
Preparation Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
On Monday, 6/23/2008, Malathi Sivaram said:
Nice Guidelines... if any pdf format of the book is available send me to malsivs@gmail.com.
Imagine a dark and winding dirt and gravel road through what seems to be an endless forest. Over hills you go, and around curves that you cannot even
see in the darkness. You know that there is supposed to be a full moon
tonight, but the forest is so dense that you are not quite sure that there is
any moon up there at all. Ah. You have come out onto a clear stretch. There
are deer in the fields. You can see their eyes shining. There is, after
all, a full moon. (You hope that these are deer....) Something howls. A
farmer's dog, you think, and you roll up the car windows.
You can see scattered lights on the distant ridges and hilltops, above the
dark pools of the tree-covered hollows. Farmhouses? Spooky castles? Who
knows? The road dips into another hollow, and all is dark. Something cries
out in the dark. You lock the doors. It is not an animal in pain, it is
something else, you don't know what, and it is angry, and very close.
The dark and heavy trees arch above your car again. Where is this place?
Are you almost there? What will you find? You reach the crest of a hill,
and turn off this road onto an even darker one. Down, down again into a
hollow. A wall of red pines looms on the right, and the mountainside drops
away on the left.
Is that a light blinking behind those sky-scraping pines?
You turn right, off this last dark and bumpy little road. There is a lighted doorway up at the top of the hill... and bright windows.
Hi. Welcome to Tir Nan Og. This is where I live. Happy Halloween.
Now what shall we have to eat at this party?
