Recommendations for Halloween potluck dish?

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<p>Any of you clever people have a recipe for a yummy, clever, and Halloween-themed dish I can bring to my department potluck? I’d prefer not to bring dessert, since there is usually more than enough of that. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Pumpkin soup served in a pumpkin is my favorite. <a href=“Suite 101 - How-tos, Inspiration and Other Ideas to Try”>Suite 101 - How-tos, Inspiration and Other Ideas to Try;

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<p>Hokey and simple, but these have worked for us at parties in the past.</p>

<p>Deviled eggs, with a slice of pimento filled olive on top, to look like eyeballs. </p>

<p>Fingers-frozen bread dough, thaw and form into long logs (bread sticks), slash and form appropriately to make ‘knuckles’ and add a whole or half almond at the tip for a fingernail. Glaze with egg mixed with a little green food coloring. sprinke a little dill or poppy seed on top. </p>

<p>Green punch-pineapple juice, ginger ale and spoonfulls of lime sherbet. Freeze water in a hospital type glove, rinsing carefully before hand. Peel the glove off when frozen and put the ice hand in the punch. Adding extra broken fingers adds to the appeal.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_hd_halloween/article/0,1972,FOOD_9836_4128395,00.html[/url]”>http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_hd_halloween/article/0,1972,FOOD_9836_4128395,00.html&lt;/a&gt; this site had bunches of great finger foods…</p>

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<p>Pumpkin stew is my favorite: saute onions, garlic, add a couple of cans of tomatoes, fresh pumpkin or squash cut in cubes, spice as you please (I add oregano, basil, salt & pepper). Sometimes I add bell peppers, sometimes beans of one sort or another. Let simmer until the pumpkin is soft. oh yes, sometimes I add a can of corn. (Sorry, but I don’t do “recipes” - just kind of throw in what ever is available.) Sometimes I add red peppers (hot ones), sometimes cumin. Its great with cheese or sour cream on top. </p>

<p>On the desert side: search Martha Stewart’s website for her “ladyfingers” lots of fun for Halloween (though I know you weren’t looking for sweets).</p>

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<p>my kids always like latkes (potatoe pancakes) made with sweet potatoes. Serve with homemade applesauce. yum!</p>

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<p>I know you do not want to bring a dessert, but I can’t resist sharing this great dessert idea. A few years back, a coworker brought a Litterbox Cake to our office potluck. Yep, chocolate cake in a small cat litterpan topped with graham crumbs and tootsie rolls to complete the gross-out factor. The whole thing looked too real, LOL! He used a litter scoop to serve it. Gross! I did not touch anything at that potluck :)</p>

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<p>Eye of Newt, horn of toad stew.</p>

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<p>LW–is that the whole ingredient list? sounds great, could you give recipe details? Also, not sure about ingredients mentioned…are there specialty stores I should go to for them?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

<p>(edit: I like fresh ingredients–could I try harvesting them myself?)</p>