Halloween: Home entertaining ideas and recipes

Halloween Home Entertaining by Nanette Wiser

It may be just a family affair with friends on Zoom, but dress up and create an unforgettable Halloween party with spooky décor, tasty treats and bewitching cocktails.  

Add a monster-theme soundtrack or fire up your TV or streaming service. FreeForm will serve up its 31 nights of Halloween movies (Hocus Pocus, my favorite) or you can just go old school Monster Mash with creature features on DVDs.  Turn the living room into a theme or string cobwebs, spooky spider lights and eyeballs. Google Halloween recipes for easy-to-make ideas. 

Happy haunting!  – Nanette Wiser

Non-Alcoholic Tart Cherry Punch 

  • Drain 2 (15-oz.) cans lychees, reserving 
  • 1 ½ cups of syrup. Carefully stuff 
  • blackberries (from a 6-oz. container) in each lychee; chill. Stir together reserved syrup, 
  • 4 cups tart cherry juice, and 1 cup fresh 
  • orange juice in a large pitcher; chill. 
  • Add stuffed lychees and 3 (12-oz.) 
  • cans chilled sparkling water to punch. 
  • Serve over ice. Makes 12 servings.

Tangled Web 

  • Combine in a cocktail shaker with ice 
  • 3 oz. chocolate liqueur, 3 oz. coffee liquor, 
  • 2 oz. milk, whip cream and shake until chilled. 
  • Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with nutmeg. Top with a plastic spider.

Purple People Eater 

  • In a large pitcher, mix 4 cups grape juice, 
  • 1 cup vanilla ice cream and let melt. 
  • Before serving, add 1 liter 
  • lemon-lime soda and stir till blended. 
  • Pour into glasses. Top with a small scoop of ice cream and black/purple sprinkles.

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