Happy Halloween!
Enjoy some of our favorite posts from this season and share your own in the comments section below!
If you missed our photos of the Universal Monsters Village from the Bradford Exchange, check them out by clicking the picture!
What about our haunted brownies recipe?
Take a bite out of our Horror of Dracula review!
And, finally, our recipe for Garlic Pumpkin Seeds…
We hope you enjoyed this year’s posts. We’ll be back in a bit to tell you about our plans for the coming months!
Our annual toast. Tomorrow, we will return with our 2012 Round-Up and Thank You. Join us then.
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Mothers have a holiday. Fathers do too. Veterans, the United States of America, laborers, pilgrims, grandparents, and Jesus all have holidays. But do the children have one, a day that is all their own? Yes. Yes, they do.
There exists one night each year when the children make the rules, when they use their imaginations to the fullest, when they are given free reign of their worlds, when every door opened offers the opportunity for reward. That night is Halloween.
Halloween is the one day out of the year that truly belongs to the children, the ones ages two to twelve, and the ones ages thirteen to 102 who refuse to grow up. Halloween is the one night of the year when it is alright for each of us to return to the fantastic world of childhood, when we can allow make-believe things to scare us, and when we can dress up, be silly, and be ourselves – just as the children do.
So, here is to the children, both young and old, to the fantasies of youth, and to the one night when imagination knows no boundaries. Here is to our holiday. Here is to Halloween.
Ever wonder what to do with all of those seeds inside of your pumpkin? We have the perfect solution – Roasted Pumpkin Seeds!
Here is our recipe for the delicious treat…
1. Immediately after carving your pumpkin, remove the seeds and rinse them thoroughly. After they have been cleaned, pad them dry and let them sit for several hours in a warm place.
2. Preheat oven to 300 F. Once the pumpkin seeds are completely dry, place them in a mixing bowl and add 1 tablespoon melted butter for every one cup of seeds. Mix the seeds so that they are completely coated.
3. Sprinkle in garlic powder and salt, enough to taste. Mix until every seed has a light covering.
4. Pour the seeds onto a foil-lined baking sheet. Spread the seeds so that they form a single layer. It is important not to have them overlapping.
5. Place the seeds in the oven and let bake 50 minutes, mixing them every 15 minutes or so.
6. Add additional seasoning as desired and enjoy!
Many of you may remember the 1990s, when the Universal Monsters, Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay Chips were inseparable. Recently, that relationship has been revived, although to a lesser extent. Whilst Halloween shopping this past weekend, we were pleasantly surprised to stumble upon these monster-sized bags of chips bearing not only a Frankenstein image, but an official Universal Studios Monsters logo. And while the artwork doesn’t look much like the classic Karloff Monster, it is nice to see Universal getting a shout-out from food makers, especially at this time of year. Each sack holds 20 individually-packaged bags of chips. If you don’t get too many Treaters, these might make a nice surprise for the kids that do show up, and they would definitely be good for a Halloween Night party. Another Universal-licensed chip sack features Dracula, but the artwork doesn’t look much like the Universal Dracula or Bela Lugosi. These are available while supplies last at various grocers, including select Wal-Mart locations.
This is our final installment of Blow Mold Delights on Saturday Nights. Tonight’s featured fiends come in the form of a gaggle of ghosts…
We hope you have enoyed the GLOW this October!
Did you know that cupcakes are enjoyed more at Halloween than any other time of the year? We didn’t either… Until we read it in a weekly grocery store flyer. But that fantastic tidbit is a great segue into today’s Halloween Treats post. This year, Wal-Mart is offering up some creepy cupcakes featuring the Disney Villains. Now, while Wal-Mart’s bakery has never been our prime destination for fresh-out-of-the-oven goodies, we just couldn’t resist this baker’s dozen featuring the Mistresses of Mayhem. What do you think of them? And, more importantly, what other cool Halloween cupcakes have you spotted this season?
If you love vintage Halloween and spooky paper goods, you are going to love what famous decor-maker Beistle is offering up this season.
For the first time, they are re-releasing their iconic Halloween decorations from the early 20th century. Everything from wall cutouts to table centerpieces are being recreated in glorious orange and black. The witches, ghosts, black cats and goblins that haunted homes in the 1930s can finally be yours!
These reproduction pieces are all available to order from the official website.
