Halloween Candy Corn Bark + Meal Plan

Halloween is a little bit fun.

I love scary movies, gory costumes and any excuse to decorate the house. This year has been pretty quiet, given I'm so busy, but I'll never let a "holiday" go without making some kind of themed food. I've seen Christmas bark made before, with crushed peppermint and other goodies, so I thought why not Halloween too?

I'd had some candy corn I bought in the last order from USA Foods, but I don't really like it... shock horror, I know. Mixed with chocolate, though, it's much more fun!

And so easy. Melt some chocolate, spread it out on foil or waxed paper, dot your goodies over, refrigerate. Something different!

Halloween dinners usually are something entirely normal, but given a stupid name for the evening. The grosser the better! Brains, guts, eyeballs, blood, anything goes at this time of year :)

I'm pretty sure I'll be telling Veggie Dad his fried rice is actually maggots.

♥ veggie fried rice ♥

♥ meatless spaghetti and meatballs ♥

♥ homemade pizzas ♥

♥ veggie kabobs and baked potatoes ♥

♥ mushroom steaks with baked sweet potatoes, corn and green beans ♥

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♥ candy corn bark ♥

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♥ roasted eggplant and zucchini puree ♥

♥ grape and pear puree ♥

Meal Plan

Happy Sunday, y'all! Another meal plan for this week.

I had a look at a couple of cookbooks I have that I haven't looked at in a while for inspiration. Oh and if you scroll down and click on my Eat Your Books button, it will take you to a list of my cookbooks. Categorised online. Yeah I'm that much of a freak.

Anyway.

This week we're being real men and eating quiche. It's so creamy, cheesy and delectable I've no idea why people are so averse to it. I dare you to try mine.

♥ leek and cheese quiche with salad ♥

♥ ratatouille pasta bake ♥

♥ thai zucchini stir fry and rice ♥

♥ caramelised onion and pumpkin tart with oven fries and asparagus ♥

♥ teriyaki eggplant steaks with wasabi mash ♥

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♥ chocolate cream cheese brownies ♥

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♥ lentil, carrot and corn curry ♥

♥ orange and pear puree ♥

Excuse the excellent iPhone photo from my early blog days. Life sure was tough before my Canon arrived!

Meanwhile... is it true that men don't like quiche? Do YOU like quiche? What the hell is wrong with quiche?!

Meal Plan

I'm trying something different this week, by attempting a healthy mac and cheese. It is meant to be entirely fat-free but I just cannot do fat-free cheese. I'm not even going to try. However, I always use low-fat soy milk in everything, and this mac and cheese also has artichokes as part of its sauce. I'm definitely willing to try that! Will let you know how I go.

The veggie curry is actually Adam Liaw's Fish Head Curry that he told me is awesome vegetarianised. Can't hurt to experiment :)

This week I'm also adding whatever I'm making in the kitchen to have on hand for Veggie Baby.

♥ ravioli with veggie-tomato sauce and toasted sourdough ♥

♥ crispy fillets with apricot sauce, rice and broccoli ♥

♥ healthy mac and cheese, salad ♥

♥ veggie curry and rice ♥

♥ sundried tomato, spinach and feta strudel with roasted potatoes and peas ♥

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♥ glazed apple cinnamon scrolls ♥

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♥ pumpkin, broccoli and sweetcorn puree ♥

♥ apple and kiwi puree ♥

You can find the apple scroll recipe here and the strudel recipe here.

Enjoy!