Halloween Recipes - Creepy Kool

Gory Halloween warning! It's time to get squeamish with the Ghoulish Gourmet's creepy imagery of raw meat and viscera. I'm about to get medieval for Halloween, and the following Dia del los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

This Sinister Cheap$kate's ghastly recipes are laid out like a bloody scene from a Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe story. Once you've digested this macabre blog post, your taste buds may nevermore be the same.

And if you're a vegetarian, avert your gaze! Or peak through hand-covered eyes to read my queasy prose. I'm sure to be on Morrissey's #hit list if he ever sees this - he's pop music's most morose vegan. (And I'm a big fan of his songs with The Smiths.)

Some of my most spooky recipes may make your skin crawl, while others will have your taste buds baying at the moon with pleasure, mouthful after mouthful.

Witches Brew - a bubbling cauldron of Pozole.

So read on, and don't forget to click on any recipe name that will bring you kicking and screaming to my original blog post to see all the hair-raising details -- presented with gory gifs, bloodcurdling photos, grisly videos, and eerie text.

Right off the bat, I like my Chupacabra Carne Asada steak and hamburgers medium-rare. Oozing is fine by me - E. coli be damned!

Grilling meat supercharges the flavor and brings out the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal in this Paleo Chef.

The Terminator T-bone

Raw bloody carcasses of meat have been disturbingly depicted in fine art. Rembrandt van Rijn is primarily known as a Dutch painter of moody portraits during the 17th Century, and I am especially influenced by his "Carcass of Beef" (flayed ox) study - just check out the audacious composition with gory details.

And here's the British artist Francis Bacon's 20th Century version, below.

The Chiaroscuro Chef photographs flesh against dark backgrounds lately (shot on a blackened cookie sheet) - usually lit from a single direction, with deep shadows, very much inspired by Caravaggio. An artfully dark and forbidding example is my recipe for Pasta alla Genovese, where I slice and dice cheap beef shank, slaughterous enough to make a zombie weep.

Offal is not so awful to this Carrion Chef. After watching a classic horror flick on the big screen, I cruise LA's fog-shrouded boulevards and alleyways during the midnight hour looking for ways to quell my ravenous appetites...for tacos, that is! 

Buche (stomach,) lengua (tongue,) and tripas (intestines) are on the menu at sidewalk taquerias and taco trucks throughout Los Angeles. Watch the shuddersome viscera-splattered video below to see what stops me in my tracks.

On a sweeter note, while not meat, the gooey insides of a Halloween special edition Oreo cookie are like sweetened bone marrow. You don't smash it to get to the finger-licking orange frosting, a simple twist will do.

Get your hands dirty knawing on my Rosemary's Baby Back Ribs. You'll need extra napkins to soak up the BBQ sauce smeared on your lips and dripping from your fingertips.



My Silence of the Lambs Curry is creepy-delicious. And my video cooking directions are as easy to follow as leading a lamb to the slaughter.



It can get messy cooking with meat. You have to have an iron stomach. Try breaking down a pork shoulder sometimes, like I do below for my ghastly Texas Chainsaw Carnitas video recipe.

It's probably the most artistically nauseating footage I've ever shot - but, boy does it taste heavenly when you cradle a stuffed tortilla, plump with citrus and cola-marinated, slow-cooked pork.



Ground chicken and turkey are mushy and wet, more so than ground beef or pork...ugh.

Check out my ground poultry The Blob Patty Melt video to see what I mean -- yuk!



After chicken, pork is the cheapest flesh. When hacked, mangled, and minced into sausage, it's delicious for breakfast or added to stir fry like my Garroted Green Beans and Gruesome Ground Pork recipe below.

This may sound perverse but it's actually fun to animate with ground meat, it's like playing with Play-Doh, just greasier. Check out my video below to see the messiness.



Are you still with me? Man, are you hardcore! I'm getting extra creeped out just assembling this blog post.

Ever gut a fish? Whoa, that is one freaky task! Slice the belly open, yank out the internal organs then chop off the head -- oh, I'm feeling faint just remembering the slimy viscera and the nauseating smell - barf !!

If you want to scare the bejesus out of your dining guest, then serve them a Jaws Whole Grilled Fish - head on!

This tin-framed, bloody-looking slaughter scene comprised of tomato-sauced fat fingers of sardines is one of my most visited food blog posts. And the morbid visitors are mostly from Europe (Transylvania?) - go figure. My pasta dish, Suspiria Sardines in Tomato Sauce with Olive Oil over Pasta, is a delicious mouthful worth sinking your incisors into.

Sushi is typically made with freshly butchered raw fish. It's so artfully presented that you miss the gore that goes into each delicate slice of aquatic flesh.

Here's one of my tastefully shot Sushi recipe videos, the simply presented, Mothra Tuna Sushi.



Shrimp would not seem spooky, right? But, buy head-on jumbo shrimp and try beheading, peeling, and removing the digestive tract/backbone sometimes...yuck! But, man are they delicious when my Mom serves them up in her Stephen King Shrimp & Rice recipe.

Halloween has a dark streak of humor and some of my recipes do, too. Take my wacky Nightmare on K Stree - Trump Orange Chicken....please. It's the color and shape of a pumpkin and looks like a McDonald's Chicken McNugget, just like our former Twit-in-Chief, but my entree is made with real chicken pieces, not a pink slime meat composite.

How about a recipe where a slice of Bride of Frankenstein Turkey Bacon swallows up a Brussels sprout like a disembodied human tongue...yikes!

I like to cook a whole chicken or leg quarters. There's nothing like the carnal pleasure of ripping apart a cooked poultry carcass and sucking every piece of succulent meat off the bones. My Tingler Chicken Tinga and Paranormal Poached Chicken are some saporous examples.

 Below is the Eviscerating Cuisinier's squishy butchering of a chicken breast and leg quarter. It's the cheapest flesh you can get and I have all kinds of poultry recipes, here.

So get out there and have an entertaining Halloween holiday. It's not all blood and guts! So, I'll leave you with an appallingly tasty ghost story.

Baseball World Series Recipes - L.A. Dodgers vs N.Y. Yankees

 It's East Coast vs. West Coast for the 2024 Baseball World Series, and I have a full dugout of tasty recipes to keep fans cheering from the comfort of the couch!!

Batter up! And that's just the coating for my MVP Fried Chicken recipe. Are you ready for the World Series of cheap$kate eats? Just step up to the plate with your remote and allow me to pitch some tasty entrees your way, that you can serve up while viewing the Los Angeles Dodgers battle the New York Yankees.

Mr. & Mrs. 99 plus friend.

The Penny Pinch-Hitting Chef will leave enough green in your wallet to buy an extra keg of beer for your tailgate party. Just click on any recipe name to see what I mean. There are no foul balls in this recipe list!

First at-bat, Hot Dogs are the King of the ballpark. And boy does this Knight of the Round Dinner Table have royal recipes for you to try...all hail the Winners, I mean the Wieners!!

I live in L.A. so you know who I'll be rooting for...Go Dodgers! And if you're a fan too then give my most outrageous  LA Street Dog a go. The roots are South-of-the-Border with Fajita-style grilled onion,  bell pepper, and jalapeno toppings. It's outrageously delicious, so go for it like I do in the video below.

If you're like me, game day is the time for Hot Dogs and boy are the ingredients cheap. This year I've been getting hot dogs, buns, mustard, and sweet pickle relish from my local Dollar Tree.

New York Yankee fans know Hot Dogs. I first bought the Coney Island classic, Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs. from the frozen deli case at my local Dollar Tree.

I microwaved it, then added mustard and sweet pickle relish. Check out my review by clicking here.

I don't know about you but I steam mine - you can't burn or even overcook frankfurters this way, especially when your team is loading up the bases and you can't pull yourself away from the TV screen.

At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, fans line up for a Dodger Dog. This year they cost $7.99 each. They are extra long, about 9 inches, and come with grill marks. There are condiment stations with hand cranks near concession stands - I like mustard, pickle relish, and onions on my Dodger Dog.

Earlier in the year Dodger Dog wieners showed up on sale at my local Ralphs Grocers. Hot Dogs freeze fine, so I picked up a few packages. 

And this year the Dodgers brought in Phemon pitcher and homerun hitter Shohei Ohtani. He is now the record holder of the most home runs and stolen bases in a single season. He created a new category of 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases, the first baseball player to do so. All over L.A. there are murals and memorabilia featuring Shohei Ohtani to see and own.

I couldn't help but come up with my switch-hitter version of a Dodger Dog that I call an Ohtani Dodger Dog. It is a regular hot dog with 2 sheets of Dried Seaweed Snacks. Check out my recipe video below and see how my Ohtani Dodger Dog stacks up!

My other go-to Hot Dogs are a Kraut Dog and a Chili Dog. What is your designated hitter Hot Dog?

I like Chili from the can on my Hot Dog, but I also have a meaty Homemade Chili recipe, click here.

In this World Series of Recipes, New York City rules with Bagels while Los Angeles is the King of Tacos, so choose your sides!

This L.A. Dodger fan has to give it up for the N.Y.C bagel. My wife's family is from the East Coast so I am getting my fill of Bages these days as my Christmas in NYC Bagel photo story below shows.

I get my Bagels locally from the Ralphs Grocery bakery bargain bin. Can't say I'm an expert on Bagels, but they do a good job for my taste.

The last time we were in NYC I had a Bagel with Boiled Egg and Cream Cheese, OMG it was a home run, sooo gooood I had to make my own version, below.

Typically Bages with Cream Cheese & Lox uses smoked salmon. My version is made with cheaper packages of cooked salmon mixed into cream cheese. While not as luscious, it is quite tasty...for the price. Check out my Homemade Salmon and Cream Cheese Spread. 

Lay out a few Bagel Spreads for your team players and let them build their own. Or, just slice some tomato and red onion with a plate of room-temperature cream cheese for a simple Bagel with Cream Cheese Sandwich.

Next to Hot Dogs, Tacos are a dugout clearing favorite. I have a recipe for 20 Carnitas Tacos made with a whole cheap pork shoulder that will last extra innings!

If your guests are pork-averse, I have home plate covered by substituting Turkey Leg Carnitas instead of pork. It really works as my instant replay recipe video below will attest.

I like chopped onion and cilantro on my Tacos. In California avocados are cheap so I always have a couple ripening. I am not above buying cheap jars or cans of salsa, but if you want to go all out then check out my spicy Homemade Salsa recipes: Salsa Verde (tomatillo), Red Chile (dried chiles), chunky Pico de Gallo, and a sweet Mango Salsa.

My last recipe suggestion would have me thrown out of Yankee Stadium! 

Yeah, that's right, small individual frozen pizzas. I do love NYC thin-crust pizza, especially on the cheap.

 

New York City $1.50 Cheese Slice - sooo gooood!

But here in L.A. I get small cheap pizzas from my local Dollar Tree. I start with a plain cheese pizza then add extras like black olives, anchovies, and extra pepperoni.

So dig deep into my bullpen and click on any of the tasty treat names above to watch an instant reply of recipes from my blog. Your guest will be cheering you on -- from their cheap seats!