What's for dinner, Mom?

A favorite at our Halloween Feast:

Charred Bat Wings and Swamp Dip

1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup honey
1 clove garlic
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tsp dry mustard
20 chicken drumettes

Mix first five ingredients and pour over chicken drumettes. Cover and refrigerate 2-4 hours. Remove from marinade and place on pan. Broil 10-12 minutes. Turn and broil an additional 10 minutes. Make sure there are some charred bits! Serve with Swamp Dip.

Swamp Dip

8 oz. sour cream
3 T stone ground or Creole mustard.

Mix together and chill.

Trick or Treat

We had our annual Ward Trunk or Treat and Chili cookoff on Halloween night. This is our attempt at decorating our van. Some year I promise I will plan it out before we are running out the door!

These are Andy and Trentin's pumpkins. I realized that we hadn't carved pumpkins in years. Probably because by the the time Halloween came around in Louisiana they were old and rotten and disgusting. Anyway, Sydney and Trent had never carved them. So this year we did.

Jasmine and Raja. Need I say more?



And our wild little gypsy.
This is probably the last year I will make any Halloween costumes for few years. I usually don't make them for the kids after they turn 12. It is a little bitter sweet. I have loved making all the costumes over the years, Cinderella, a mermaid, a picnic table, snake charmers, Captain Hook and Peter Pan, Stripling Warriors, Darth Vader, Darth Mal, Anakin Skywalker, an Arabian warrior, some obscure Redwall character, a fairy, a winter princess, an astronaut, a knight, a viking, Hermione, a witch, Puppies for Sale and the list goes on. I look forward to a little break but I also look forward to starting over with grandchildren.