Film Food: HARE Witch Project

In honor of our first  annual Halloween Bash on Nov. 2nd, we are sharing a week-long film food series highlighting spooky recipes that are inspired by our favorite Halloween movies.

Remember when we all fell for this story and how we all thought that this was “found footage” from a group of amateur filmmakers?? We do! Today, we highlight 1999’s chilling horror film The Blair Witch Project. To keep it themed this recipe was inspired by the known neighbors of the woods…rabbit! We introduce the HARE Witch Project!

Synopsis: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend… The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the student’s film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

HARE Witch Project Recipe:
– 1 full rabbit
-Coarse salt
-Ground pepper
-Garlic powder
-6 clove garlic
– Juice 1 lemon
-1/3 cup dried rosemary leaves
– 3/4 cup garlic infused olive oil
– 8-10 small potatoes
-1 onion
-1 tbl butter
-1/2 cup of white wine
-Sweet Spanish Paprika

 Season the rabbit with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Chop three cloves of garlic into larger pieces and mix with the lemon juice, half of the rosemary and half of the garlic olive oil. Pour onto the rabbit blending marinade thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate overnight, turning occasionally.

 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place potatoes in a separate bowl. Add garlic olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and rosemary. Toss the potatoes so that they are coated and won’t stick to the pan. Place the rabbit in a roasting pan and pour on the marinade. Cut remaining garlic cloves into fours and stuff the rabbit with the garlic pieces. Cut the butter in half and place it on the two ends of the rabbit for a browning effect.  Add the wine to the pan. Place the seasoned potatoes and an onion (which should be cute in quarters) around the rabbit and sprinkle a dash of lemon juice. Cover the rabbit with a piece of foil.

 Roast for 25 minutes then remove the foil. Roast for another 25 minutes, or until tender and lightly browned. Enjoy your Hare Witch project. 

Film Food: Pet SematarIYAKI

In honor of our first  annual Halloween Bash on Nov. 2nd, we are sharing a week-long film food series highlighting spooky recipes that are inspired by our favorite Halloween movies.

This pet horror classic is a memorable one. A parent would do anything for his child, but bring them back to life?? Only Stephen King could master this story in the Pet Sematary. But can Stephen create this SematarIYAKI??

Synopsis: After moving into their new home the Creed family’s cat is killed after wondering onto the highway. An elderly neighbor shows the father, to an isolated hill behind the local Pet Cemetery and instructs him to bury the deceased feline there. Not long after the cat reappears at the Creed home, only he is not the same. The docile cat is now vicious and destructive. When their youngest son meets with a fatal accident, the distraught fatherburies him in the same location hoping to revive him. Unfortunately he unleashes far more than he had bargained for.

*Pet Semeteriyaki Recipe:
-Boneless beef short ribs, cut to look like an animal body (we went with lizard/gator)
-1/4 cup soy sauce
-5 tbl sriracha
-1 tbl ground ginger powder
-1 tbl garlic powder
-1 tbl smoked soy sauce (available at specialty stores)
-1 tbl honey

Mix ingredients, marinate beef for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 375 degrees, bake on foil lined pan about 15-20 min. Play with your food; accessorizes; then eat!

*Recipe brought to you by BigBite friends, Jess & Kap!

Film Food: Children of the CornDOGS

In honor of our first  annual Halloween Bash on Nov. 2nd, we are sharing a week-long film food series highlighting spooky recipes that are inspired by our favorite Halloween movies.

What’s creepier than monsters, zombies, and wolves? Little farm kids with weapons. Brought to you by horror genius, Stephen King, The Children of The Corn is an instant horror classic that makes you rethink baby-sitting your cousins in central PA.
Synopsis: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.

Children of the CornDOGS

*Children of the CornDOGS Recipe:
– 1 box Jiffy cornbread mix, prepared according to instructions but using two eggs instead of one
-1 package hot dogs, cut into 1 inch pieces 
-Special equipment: mini muffin/cupcake pan

Preheat oven to 325 and thoroughly grease/flour pan.  Pour prepared cornbread mix into mini muffin/cupcake pan about halfway in each cup.  Add hotdog piece so that it’s standing up vertically in each cup in the center of the cornbread mixture.  Bake until cornbread mix is set and golden, about 45 min depending on your oven.

*Recipe brought to you by BigBite friends, Jess & Kap!

Film Food: REDRUM Cocktail

In honor of our first  annual Halloween Bash on Nov. 2nd, we are sharing a week-long film food series highlighting spooky recipes that are inspired by our favorite Halloween movies.

This recipe comes from what Ja-Rule would describe as…MUUURDAAA!!! One of many notable scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is when little possessed Danny goes on a red lipstick graffiti rampage – writing the word “REDRUM” in his mothers bedroom, while also creepily chanting the word. Soon after, she realizes that her son is writing the word “Murder” backwards. Because of this twisted, creepy scene we were inspired to make a “REDRUM” drink, simply called Red Rum.

Synopsis: A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where the son sees disturbing visions of the hotel’s past using a telepathic gift known as “The Shining”. The father is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel’s ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter’s ghost to “correct” the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is “The Shining”.

RedRum Cocktail

REDRUM Cocktail Recipe: 
– Don Q white rum
-1/3 cup of Sprite
-6 cherries
– 2 lime slices
-Grenadine
-Ice

In a rocks glass, add cherries and muddle until juiced. Pack in ice tightly. Add a shot of Don Q rum, followed by the Sprite. Squeeze lime and stir a bit. Top drink with a dash of grenadine. Drink!

Interesting Facts:
1. Danny, the son, was “a phenomenon,” with an “astonishing face and control of himself.” He was chosen through a search of thousands of children; he was six years old and had no acting experience. He also came up with the idea to hold up his finger and talk to it.
2. The snow outside was either pulverized Styrofoam (falling snow) or dairy salt (on the ground). Over 900 tons of salt was used.
3. Body count: 1

Film Food: BURGER from the Black LEGUME sliders topped with Texas ChainSLAW Massacre

In honor of our first  annual Halloween Bash on Nov. 2nd, we are sharing a week-long film food series highlighting spooky recipes that are inspired by our favorite Halloween movies.

Today we pay homage to two classic scary/slasher flicks: The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

 

Synopsis CBL: A scientific expedition along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.

Snopsis TCM: Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five teenagers pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who slashes both himself & one of the five friends. Shaken by the incident, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It’s quickly apparent that the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky teenagers suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In hot pursuit is a disfigured, chainsaw-wielding cannibal known as Leatherface.

BURGER from the Black LEGUME sliders topped with Texas ChainSLAW Massacre

 *BURGER from the Black LEGUME Slider Recipe:

-3 12oz cans of black beans, rinsed and divided
-Small onion, minced
-Fresh poblano pepper, minced
-1 Tbl garlic powder
-1 tsp cumin
-1 tsp chili powder
-1 tsp salt
-¼ cup soy sauce
-1 tsp black pepper
-1 cup
-quinoa, cooked according to package directions
-Egg (if needed)
-Oil for cooking
-Martin’s dinner rolls (12 per pack)

Sauté onion and poblano until fragrant and caramelized.  Add two cans of black beans and seasonings.  Cook on medium heat, and mash with wooden spoon when soft/tender.  Remove from heat.  Stir in third can of black beans and quinoa.  Mixture will be sticky and thick enough to shape into small patties.  If needed, add an egg to help hold the mixture together. Make patties and set aside on parchment paper.  Add oil to skillet on medium heat and sauté each side until crisp/browned (oil is needed to help brown the patties since there isn’t much fat in them).  Top with Texas Chainslaw Massacre and serve on buns.  Makes 24 sliders.

*Texas ChainSLAW Massacre Recipe:
-Half head of napa cabbage, washed and sliced into thin strips
-4 red beets, washed, boiled and sliced into matchsticks (we used candy cane beets)
-1 bunch radishes, washed and sliced into matchsticks
-½ cup vinegar
-½ cup salt
-½ cup sugar

Mix ingredients and let sit at least 30 min. Serve over sliders. 

*Recipe brought to you by BigBite friends, Jess & Kap!