BUTTERNUT BONE-HEADS
If this post were about food storage I would share how happy our family is to be enjoying the butternut squash we so successfully grew in the garden. But it didn’t quite turn out the way we planned.
Tonight I picked the one and only butternut squash. Such a treasure. Actual size.
Do I save it? Do I bake it? Do I call the American Girls company?
This post is about my efforts to be a “more-fun-mom” and embrace the Halloween spirit.
So far I’ve planned a special family dinner and asked everyone to wear costumes. Lizzie and I are going to serve crescent mummy dogs (thanks to Pillsbury) oooooozing slimy green pickle relish. I’ve already made the fabo wheat chili and we’ll add the body parts and pieces (plastic fingers, teeth, and eyeballs) to each individual bowl. Pears, pecans, and poppy seed spinach salad will be on the side and crawling with lots of little black spiders. Last, and possibly best of all the game, will be our creepy creation, roasted butternut bone-heads:
With heads added after they’re cooked, we plan to slather them in melted butter and brown sugar goo.
(Remind me one more time…what is it we’re celebrating?)
October 28th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
That is the cutest little butternut squash I’ve ever seen! Ours were hailed out this year – I ended up buying some on sale at the supermarket (egads!)
Your dinner sounds wonderfully fun (and delicious!) Have a great time.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Don’t feel bad about being a Not-so-fun mom on halloween. I feel the same way.
When my three older kids were still young I decided I was done with the trick or treating thing and the costumes and the entire halloween thing, we could find some other fun activity to do instead. My next door neighbor was very upset with me to think that I was going to deny my children this very wonderful experience and said if I didn’t get them a costum and let them go trick or treating and snap out of this bad vibe I was in, she was going to take my kids and do it for them. I should have taken the opportunity to get ride of them right then and there, what was I thinking!!
To make a long story short, I’m still doing the halloween thing so that my younger son can have that wonderful childhood experience. I still don’t like halloween!
p.s. I happen to absolutely love my neighbor, she is like a sister to me, even when she has to set me straight
October 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
As I was sewing up the remaining costume stuffs… I let the boys know that next year and every year after they are all going as clowns for the rest of their lives living at home!….
October 29th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Ahem.
Brief History of Costumes Sewn, To Date:
2 Jasmines
2 50’s girl awesome poodle skirts
White Rabbit
Scarecrow
Gypsy
Princesses, at least four
4 Pioneer Girls, including sunbonnets
Then I hit the Halloween wall and happily asked their Dad to take a turn one year…
We had a bloody hutchback, a bloody boxer, and two bloody soccer players. (All before #5 was even born.)
Mike EASILY won out as the favorite costume artist. I totally learned my lesson. From that year on, the policy was recycle something from the costume box OR talk to your father!
October 29th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I think I prefer Disneyland for halloween. We have fun and I don’t have to do anything!
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 am
I was just called as the food storage specialist and there is nothing special about my lack of knowledge on the subject. Sure, we have some food storage, but I feel far from prepared to be giving advice to others on the matter. I appreciate your efforts and your willingness to share your recipes and ideas. Hopefully it will help me with my calling. I really just don’t know where to start?
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
Tara! I’m SO glad that you spoke up! Please understand that I welcome your comments, questions, and concerns. If you would like some one-on-one assistance, just go to the contact section of this web site and send me a private message. I’m more than happy to share any/all of the simple ideas that have worked for our family. You can totally learn how really easy food storage can be, and then you’ll be able to teach others. Congratulations on YOU’RE SPECIAL calling!
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
Awwwwww….I love itty bitty veggies.
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I know, right? Still have the tiny veggie proudly on display in my kitchen window. Probably the only Mini we’ll ever have.
As far as the butternut bone-heads go, they were hunks of burnin’ love, Elizabeth. Healthy yet satisfying!