Okay, if you’ve been following my blog for more than a year (or two or three…) you know that every year around Halloween I open it up for debate on what I should eat Halloween night because my husband and I have never been able to agree on what we should eat. He grew up eating chili, I grew up eating spaghetti and over the years we’ve done a myriad of “compromises” We’ve done chili bake, chili spaghetti, plain spaghetti, etc. And last year, I think we finally settled on our tradition! I didn’t make it in time to post it last year (obviously, since I made in on Halloween) but I’ve been saving it to share with you. It’s actually quite simple and rotates around our preschooler who L-O-V-E-S olives and even more loves olive pizza. Leave it to the kids to help get things done!
FOOD STORAGE HALLOWEEN BUG PIZZA
Do you see them? All of those tarantulas crawling around on the pizza? I also added green peppers (you know, grasshoppers), mushrooms (worms), and onions (okay, I couldn’t think of one for the onions-I just like onions on my pizza). I, of course, used my famous 30 minute pizza dough recipe for the pizza dough and a can of tomato paste with some seasonings. To turn your olives into spiders simply cut a whole, pitted olive lengthwise (hole to hole) use one half for the body and then cut the other half (and actually one more to get all 8 legs) into legs. Place on your pizza and then bake!
BUG JUICE
We also drank Bug Juice. A tradition from my family. See, we wouldn’t drink rootbeer with our pizza we drank Bug Juice, titled by my dad. It’s very simple to make. You just need 2 liters of your favorite lemon lime soda and a bottle of Cran Raspberry drink. Make sure you add the soda TO the cranraspberry (it mixes better that way).
HAPPY (FOOD STORAGE) HALLOWEEN!
I’m kind of new to your blog, but this cracked me up! I think Cincinnati style chili is served over spaghetti noodles. It may be fun to research that for another night. I also never knew that Halloween was a night that required traditional food- I thought CANDY for dinner was the accepted American way! 🙂
Cute idea – bug pizza – and why not call the onions something like cockroach or dragonfly wings?
Now we’re talking!
I saw the picture and thought, wow, that looks so yummy! Then I read your description. Blech! Very appropriate for Halloween and very clever!