For the month of October, Ladybug and I decided to make recipes from The Nightmare Before Christmas cookbook. Our goal was to make one dinner a week (three total recipes each, from either drinks, side dishes, main courses, or desserts), plus a special Halloween meal. We met our goal, and made a few bonus recipes, too! Not only did we make something from each section of the cookbook, we made all of the drink recipes! Every single thing we tried was excellent, and we have some new family favorites that we’re looking forward to making again!
- Vampire Brothers Bloody Party Punch
- Snake and Spider Stew
- Oogie Boogie Meringues
- Frog’s Breath Floats
- Cucumber and Mint Limeade Love Potion
- Jack Skellington Shepherd’s Pie
- The Mayor Two-Faced black and white cookies
- Jack Skellington Black Bean Dip
- Full Moon Queso Dip
- Igor Cheesy Breadstick Bones
- Worm’s Wort and Frog’s Breath Soup
- Lock, Shock, and Barrel Spiral Peppermint Cookie Pops
- Mummy Boy Dogs
- Oogie Boogie Bag of Bugs
- Christmas Town Gingerbread Snowflakes with Spiders
- Homemade Christmas Eggnog
- The Mayor Chocolate Pretzel Spiderwebs
- Halloween Town Band Zombie Mocktail
- Oogie Boogie Pasta Worms
- Oogie Boogie Double Chocolate Dirt Cake
- Witches Cauldron Brew
- Christmas Tree Empanadas
- Sally Patchwork Layer Cake
This has been a really fun cookbook to work our way through, and I’m looking forward to trying even more of the recipes in the future! Eventually, I hope we’ll get around to some of the craft projects in the book, too!