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TIP OF THE DAY: Low Calorie Halloween Food (Creepy Crudités!)

  • Counting calories?
  • Avoiding sugar?
  • Don’t like sweets?
  • Want a healthy alternative to traditional Halloween fare?
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    Turn raw veggies—crudités to foodies—into a creative Halloween platter designed in the shape of Frankenstein, a jack o’lantern, owl, skeleton, scary cat, spider or witch. Believe us, these will enchant the adults as well as the kids.

    If you don’t want to make a shape, ForkAndBeans.com created a Creepy Crudités platter by Halloween-ing the vegetables themselves: carrot witch’s fingers, cauliflower brains, cucumber eyeballs, tortilla chip tombstones.

    These ideas and more come from a simple Pinterest search.
     
     
    RECIPE #1: MUMMY DIP FOR CRUDITÉS

    This cheese dip mummy was created by Phyllis Hoffman at Celebrate magazine, as posted on Blog.HWTM.com.

    It’s not kid stuff: with goat cheese, caper,s and two different types of olives, it’s sophisticated fare.
     
    Ingredients

  • 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese
  • 3 packages (4 ounces each) goat cheese, softened
  • 3/4 cup green olives with pimientos, drained and chopped
  • 1 can (4.25 ounces) chopped black olives
  • 1 jar capers (3.5 ounces), drained, rinsed and chopped
  • 1/2 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • Assorted fresh green vegetables
  • Optional: Ritz or other orange crackers
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    Preparation

    1. BEAT 1 package of cream cheese and the goat cheese in a medium bowl with an electric mixer. Beat at medium speed until smooth.

    2. ADD the olives, capers, garli,c and pepper, beating until combined. Refrigerate the mixture for a least 1 hour; then place the firmed dip on a serving plate and form it into a mummy shape.

    3. BEAT the remaining cream cheese at medium speed until smooth. Place the cream cheese in a pastry bag fitted with a flat leaf tip. Pipe the mummy “bandages” onto the mummy figure. Refrigerate until ready to serve with the vegetables and the optional crackers.
     
     
    RECIPE #2: FOR THE DIP, ORANGE OR BLOOD-RED HUMMUS

    What to serve with the creepy crudités? Orange or red dip, of course!

    Carrot-ginger hummus and sundried tomato hummus also provide a harvest shade of orange; beet hummus makes “blood dip.”

    If you’re not a hummus fan, there are options like this carrot and white bean dip.
     
    RECIPE #2: “BLOODY BEET” DIP

    This recipe is not hummus: Although it does use tahini, there are no chickpeas.

    Alternatively, you can add the puréed beets to hummus. With either technique, if it isn’t “bloody” enough for you, add a drop of red food color.

    Because Halloween is a busy time, we used canned beets. We’ll roast our own for Thanksgiving.
     
    Ingredients For 1 Cup

  • 1 can ((15 ounces) beets
  • 1/3 cup tahini
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove, peeled
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  •   Halloween Raw Vegetables
    [1] Invite Frankenstein to the party (photo and recipe © The Produce Mom).

    Halloween Raw Vegetables
    [2] Skeletal and vegetal: There are numerous scarecrow designs on Pinterest (photo © Woman’s Day).

    Halloween Raw Vegetables
    [3] The scarecrow’s face is made from a tortilla. You can turn this design into individual cheese-and-vegetable or salad plates (photo © It’s Written On The Wall).

    Halloween Crudites
    [4] Think of this mummy as a cheese ball with a flatter shape (photo © Celebrate Magazine. If you don’t have an appropriate serving plate, get a black plastic platter from a party store.

     
    Preparation

    1. DRAIN the beets. You can reserve the beet juice for beverages, red mashed potatoes, and other uses.

    2. BLEND all ingredients in a food processor until smooth (or chunky, as you prefer). If the dip isn’t thin enough, you can add some water, one tablespoon at a time as needed (we’ve also used orange juice).

    3. TASTE and adjust seasonings. The canned beet juice is typically salted, so you may not need more salt.
     
     

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