Well here it is October! This starts out my favorite time of the year. Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas is just around the corner. I found this cute recipe for a fun way to make creative hot dogs with a Halloween theme on line. You wrap the hot dog in that pop and ready dough and bake it. They put mustard on the top to make 2 eyes and it looked like a mummy. Also there was a bowl of ranch dressing and then you put some ketchup in a small ziplock baggie and poke a hole and pipe out a big circle all the way around the edge of the bowl on the ranch and then make another circle a few inches in from that circle and keep doing it until you have the ketcup looking like a big bullseye on top of the ranch. Then you take a toothpick and starting from the inside pull it out to the edge of the bowl, do that all the way around and it looks like a spider web. You can also cut your hot dogs in half and wrap them in dough and bake and stick french's dry onions in to make it look like spider legs, them just put a couple drops of ketchup on the top to look like spider eyes. Use the spider dip for your hot dogs or have crackers or pretzels or carrots or celery for dipping. Make sure you stock up on all those fall decorations, pumpkins, candy corn, etc... so you have some left over for November. Now you say why would I want any left over? Well this is why I stock up. Grocery stores only bring in enough pumpkins to sell for Halloween and aim to have them sold by the 31st. When our children were young we had a tradition of making homemade pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving and each child picked who they were most thankful for that year. They picked a teacher at school, a church teacher or scout leader or whom ever they thought was important to them. We made little 3 X 5 cards and put stickers on it explaining our tradition and that they were the one picked this year. Everyone who got one seemed to really like it and I wanted our children to think of others at this time and not get wrapped up in the "I want" syndrome. So you could make a pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread, or pumpkin jelly roll with those pumpkins. We just used a black marker on the ones we were keeping instead of carving them. Also look at the cute things you can do with candy corn. On Kimi Coopet's blog I found this cute oreo turkey cookie and this other sugar cookie on several other sites. So stock up on candy corn too. Happy Halloween!
