Here’s what’s on the menu tonight! Roxie, the main character in the Shadow Series, loves parties and so do I. She especially loves Halloween because that’s her birthday:) Besides dancing, we both love to cook! It’s so hard to find just one to feature, so we decided to give you a treat, not a trick!! Here’s two recipes for your Halloween howling good time. Roxie’s hoping you’ll join her at her Annual Virtual Halloween Party too! Sign up here.
It was a tough choice, but we decided on Monster Claws and Assorted Eyeballs. Best thing about it? You can use your Halloween candy and stuff around the house to make it:)
Ingredients:
● 1 package (16.5 ounces) Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Bar Dough, prepared according to package directions
● 3/4 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, melted according to package directions
● 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
● 2 tablespoons slivered almonds, toasted if desired
● 1/10 cup Butterfinger Baking Bits
How to make them:
1. COMBINE melted morsels and peanut butter in small bowl; stir until smooth. Spread mixture evenly onto cookies in an approximate kidney bean shape (foot shape).
2. PLACE 4 almond slivers halfway into the wide end (top of the foot) of the chocolate. The almonds should stick out from the cookie.
3. SPRINKLE about 1 teaspoon chopped candy bar over the chocolate. Enjoy!
These easy eyeball eggs have gotten me excited about Halloween. The only addition you’ll need to your traditional deviled eggs are olives and some pesto to make the eyes green. Use carefully placed paprika or ketchup to give you the bloodshot eye effect on the egg eyeballs. You can also use a red food coloring pen.
Ingredients:
6 Hard-Boiled Eggs (peeled)
2 tablespoons Green Pesto
Salt (to Taste)
A pinch of Black Pepper
2 tablespoons Mayonnaise
Candy eyes, or use black olives
TOOLS YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE HALLOWEEN DEVILED EGGS:
Toothpick – one is enough.
Red Gel Food Color – you will only need a little bit for 12 egg halves.
Knife – a sharp one to cut eggs in half.
Saucepan or Pot for cooking the eggs (or Instant Pot).
2 Teaspoons – for taking out cooked yolks (one) and for spooning the mixture back into the holes. You can also use a piping bag and pipe the mixture.
Serving Plate or Tray.
Large Candy Eyes – these can be substituted with slices of black olives.
HOW TO MAKE THEM:
Hard-boil eggs and peel the shells off. Cut them in half and take out yolks.
Combine the yolks with pesto, salt, pepper and mayonnaise and mix well – until smooth. When ready, set aside.
Dip a toothpick into red food color and paint “veins” on the egg whites. Fill the holes with the pesto mixture and top each one with a candy eye and you are ready to serve!
Have a deliciously spooky good time!
Shadow Series
Book Two
Laura A.H. Elliott
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Ghost Press
Date of Publication: September 28, 2012
ISBN: 978-1479388189
ASIN: B009CJ5DXE
Number of pages: 184
Word Count: 54,298
Cover Artist: Laura Elliott
Tagline: Shadows Will Do Anything To Become Human
Book Description:
Shadows will do anything to become human. You see their influence every day. You say things you don’t mean or do things that aren’t like you. You look different. Friends you’ve known forever suddenly never call.
As a freshman, Roxie just wants to fit in which is impossible because she barely runs into her friends at her huge high school. Adrianne’s disappearance and Hayden’s attention rock Roxie’s world. But nothing rocks it like the most gorgeous guy at school, Drew. And nothing is more important to Roxie than astral projecting back to Planet Popular to solve the mystery of the map.
But that changes when Drew invites Roxie to homecoming. Hayden warns her that something’s wrong. Why would a guy like Drew like Roxie anyway? Drew must want something. Hayden’s right. Drew is different. Planet Popular was just the beginning. Part of a bigger world, the Shadow World.
There’s a war brewing between the world of humans and the world of shadows. When the shadow invasion begins at Roxie’s high school, she’ll not only fight for her life but the lives of her family and friends when she discovers she’s the Shadow Slayer, the one human who can save Earth from the shadow onslaught. But Roxie can’t even kill a spider.
Oh yeah, there's an evil English teacher, an enchanted play, a sword of Sandonian steel, a homecoming of horrors, and seven magic words too.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/Xx830AT-g2s
Amazon
Excerpt:
I stroke one cheek and then the other with blush and remember standing
with Drew at the bonfire. The last night we went out as boyfriend and
girlfriend. The last night he was human.
On your 13th birthday, you get the call. By your 14th birthday you find
out what the call is.
Everyone I know is in the audience tonight––Ally, Mom, Dad, Brian, even
my brother, Mitch, because he came home for my birthday. We’re having our
family dinner tomorrow night since tonight the cast party’s at Drew's house, unless
I decapitate him first.
“Roxie five minutes,” Hayden yells into the girl’s locker room. As
usual I’m the last one out. I sweep my hair up to the side and try to remember
my first line. For some reason it’s the one I always forget.
I open locker 316, grab my sword and just as I step outside of the
locker room, Wanda runs up to me and starts talking non-stop about her nerves
and how they’re getting worse and worse.
“What’s that?” she asks. I stop cold in my tracks at the backstage
door.
“There are lots of words for things that don’t exist––the unseen. Like
monsters and aliens and dragons and vampires and ghosts,” I say sort of in a
trance.
“Yeah, so?” Wanda says, wringing her hands.
“If they don’t exist, why are there words for them? All the stuff I
thought was crazy really isn’t crazy at all,” I say, finally getting what Drew
was trying to tell me at the bonfire at the estate at homecoming. What the
human Drew said before I danced with his shadow. My role in the unseen, the
shadow world. Still, I don’t know so many things. Like, what happens to a
shadow once I slay it? And where do humans go when their shadows invade? How
can I save my human friends?
“Roxie, I caught you! I was so late because Brian’s car got a flat. He
fixed it so great, I couldn’t believe it. It’s like he went to badass school or
something,” Ally says, laughing.
“Ally. Finally!” We hug. I swallow hard. Brian. Fixed. A. Flat. I mean
it’s not brain surgery. But believe me, if it doesn’t have an LCD screen, my
brother Brian doesn't think it exists. He doesn’t know how to fix a flat.
O.M.G. Brian is probably a shadow too.
As a teenager, Laura’s love for story began in the Amazon where she waterskied
with piranha while learning of head hunters and curses. In addition to being a
ghost, she’s the author of five books and is a contributor to lifestyle and
travel magazines. She has a passion for travel, particularly life at sea, and makes
her home in Santa Cruz, CA with her husband, daughters, and their families. No
matter the language barrier, perceived danger, altitude, squalls, fashion faux
pas, or ingested gluten, she writes to inspire with a focus on journeys of the
heart—always on the lookout for great champagne and a pair of red shoes. You can find her at Laurasmagicday.com,
@Laurawriting on Twitter, @book_laurasmagicday on TikTok, and on Goodreads too.
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