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What will your "carte du jour" be for your Halloween soirée this year? Share photos, recipes and links if you've got them!

Here's what we'll hopefully pull off. Our party takes place on the haunted bayou of Love Manor, so we are channeling New Orleans inspired dishes.

Hors d'oeuvre

• Cheese & Crackers
• Bacon Wrapped Chicken Liver
• Salmon w/ Dill

Main Course

• Spinach & Sundried Tomato Pasta
• Chicken Gumbo
• Cocktail Weiners w/ Spicy Mustard
• Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
• Bayou Salad

Desserts

• Mini Mint Chocolate Cupcakes Decorated w/ Sugar Shards
• Various Cookies
• Beignets
• Vanilla Custard w/ Berries
• Café Au Lait

Drinks are to be determined! Definitely a lot of Pumpkin Ale and Witches Brew.

Oh how fun Your menu sounds fantastic, JohnnyL!
I don't have a particular theme, as this is only our second year throwing a party. Here's what I have planned (crossing fingers that I don't change my mind a hundred times till then!)

APPETIZERS:
-meat head deli platter
-spicy skeleton ribs (basically like calzones)
-bat wing bites (shaved steak & cheese in phyllo cups)
-Frankenstein finger poppers (jalapeno & cheese wrapped in cresent rolls)
-bacon wrapped beatles (cocktail franks wrapped in bacon & topped with some brown sugar)
-boo balls (mini meatballs in a French onion gravy)
-deviled eyes (deviled eggs)
-stuffed potato ghosts (fingerling potatoes cut in half & topped with cheese)

DIPS:
-troll snot dip (chicken bacon ranch dip, tinted green)
-bubbling cauldron dip (hollowed out pumpernickle boule w/ hot cheesy dip)
-puking pumpkin veggie dip
-brain surgery dip (spinich dip)

SWEETS:
-pumpkin fudge
-bone cookies
-mint chocolate chip cookies
-scream cheese brownies
-candy apples

ohhh, don't get me started....
(I'm having menu anxiety attacks over on the witches tea party thread.)

Johnny, your menu looks fabulous! Last year, at our 'voodoo on the bayou' party, I served a non-alcoholic swamp punch (fruit punch with lime sherbert) and a killer Hurricane punch (with both light and dark rum - yum). If you like, I'll try to hunt up the recipe for you.

Miss Mandy,

Holy Cannoli Batgirl! That's a lot of dishes to be making! They all sound wonderful, though. What are you serving for drinks?

*pumpkin fudge* drool

Do you think it's a lot? I always have this fear that I'm gonna run out of food lol. I've actually had nightmares about it! My party is BYOB, but like last year, I will have some kinda spiked punch and festive shots Apparently my punch had quite the kick. Folks were drunk within an hour of getting here! LOL I also have bottled water and soda for those who don't drink....or those who need a break from drinking lol.

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Do you think it's a lot?

Depends, how many hundreds of people you have coming? jk-lol
Nah, I think all your items sound great; I just think it's a lot of work. But I don't like to cook, I think you do, so it may just be a lot of fun.

Now, about that punched you served......

Hahaha I wish we had that many guests! Last year we had about 15 (invited around 40). I'm expecting this year to be around the same, although I hope it's more! I do like to cook, but it can get stressful when it's for a party. And this year with taking on doing a haunted walk through in the backyard......oh boy lol. It is a lot of work, but don't forget, a lot of it can be prepped/made a day or two before the party. And for instance, the boo balls, throw em in a crockpot. Easy peasy. Let's just pray that I don't get sick like last year (that totally sucked). The punch ....all I did was mix a gallon of already made fruit punch, a bottle of sprite, a bottle of light rum and 2 bottles of champagne. Let me tell ya, it goes down smooth...but then bites ya on the a$$ lol

MissMandy- That sounds like a fantastic menu but like Tannasgach said, it does sound like a lot of work! I am impressed! I don't think I could pull it off. I think I need more training. LOL

We are going to have around 45 people here and since it's a kids party we are doing a Hotdog and Nacho bar. That's what we did last time and it worked out great. Not very halloween themed but the kids do love it (parents did too). I rented a nacho machine last time but think I am going to do without it this time. We had other items on out menu last time but it was just too much work so I am sticking to the hotdogs and nachos. I am going to make a few halloween themed appetizers like a shrimp brain and maybe a meat head. I think I am going to make a couple kinds of punch and will have wine in the kitchen for the grown ups. You need a glass with all those kids running around. LOL

Yes, it is a ton of work lol. But I enjoy going all out & impressing my guests. Here's a few pix of what I made last year. There's more in my album too. Just don't wanna take over this thread with my photos lol

I say bring on the photos! I love looking at them! I would actually like to see them close up. Those tortilla wrap things you made...is that a black olive you used on top? Is there a bit of green olive inside of that? Looks cute! I might use that.