Calabaza En Tacha (Mexican Candied Pumpkin)

Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Recipes from food films and TV

Traditional prepared in Mexico for the Day of the Dead, Calabaza en Tacha or candied pumpkin is the perfect fall season treat. Pumpkin slices are slowly simmer in a caramelized dark sugar syrup. It’s Food ‘n Flix time again! In this monthly...

Peanut Butter Fudge and Ganache Coffins, plus Salt Dough Pumpkins

Dessert Recipes, Recipes from food films and TV

Are you afraid or in love with Halloween? This year Halloween scared me into making a cemetery scene with Peanut Butter Fudge and Ganache coffins, and a few decorative Salt Dough Pumpkins. It’s Food ‘n Flix time again, the Halloween edition! In...

Halloween Squid Ink Pasta with Pumpkin & Cured Epidermis

Events, Exotic World Recipes, Instructions 101, Main Course Recipes

The makings of a grown up halloween dish: seasonal squash, homemade squid Ink Pasta and “cured epideris”. Well this year Halloween was not going to get away with just once post apparently. When I was hunting for black food coloring I came close to using...

Halloween: Poison Toffee Apples and preparing your victims

Dessert Recipes, Events, Fruit Recipes

For a frightful twist with these Poison Toffee Apples just add a few drops of black food coloring to the caramel toffee recipe to create a look of danger and poison! Time for one of my favorite holidays out of the whole year. Halloween is just around the corner...

Alien Hand Autopsy

Dessert Recipes

It was a dark and cold night as I layed in bed sleepless and restless. A nagging noise from my next door neighbor kept me awake. Ii sounded like sawing. At my wits end I went over to complain and ask to keep the noise down. I noticed that the door was ajar. I...