Mummy Meatloaf

This is one of my favorite things to do for my brother's kiddos! It's so much fun, and they love it! Nonna and Halloween kind of go hand in hand, it's may favorite holiday--I hate not being able to be with them this year, but maybe we can get Beetlejuice to put on a show with a holiday turkey to make up for it!

It's pretty easy, just make meatloaf as usual, form into a face(use a plastic wrap or foil-lined mask if you don't feel comfortable doing it free-handed), a foot, or hand--I've only done the face. Use onion layers for eyes, teeth, nails, or bones and bacon for the mummy wrap/zombie flesh affect.

For sides we did:
'Frankenbrains'--fresh, boiled broccoli, whipped in the food processor w/ a little milk and topped with cheddar shreds.
'Monster Mash'--boiled cauliflower(which is also great for stinking up the house, making it smell like fresh death), mashed with baked sweet potato chunks. Don't over mix them, you want to be able to see the 'mash' up, rather than light orange blended blobs, unless, of course, that's the look you're going for.

I just thought of it, but I'm sure some starch-tolerant pinterest person has a recipe idea for 'Hair-raising Hot Rolls' in which you can make scary faces carved into dinner rolls...we try to steer clear of the bread because someone invented things like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and priorities, and stuff.

For dessert we did:
'Zombie Brains' with cream cheese and sugar-free cherry Jell-O. Now they make it easy for you and sell Jell-O molds in the shape of brains!

You might notice we were eating a lot of 'brains' for Halloween, but being of the school that 'you are what you eat' we're gonna stick with it. Have you seen the size of our heads??? If it's too redundant for you, you could change the 'Frankenbrains' to 'Green Goblin Goo' or 'Gremlin Guts'--you get the idea.

Have fun with your kiddos, the don't stay kiddos long enough!!!