Halloween - spoooky

Well it's Halloween weekend and we had a bit of an interesting week. While yes we should really be cooking up a storm we have been sifting through boxes of cookbooks. Charlene picked them up from her Uncles earlier this week. So we've got some new old cookbooks which belong to grand mother and great grandmother - cool. So, we've been picking out some recipes that interest us in addition to some we already had. We have though got some stuff cooking today though. Charlene has a stew on the go using a red wine vinegar, red wine as the broth along with Worcestershire sauce, and shallots. It smells really yummy. Later we'll add some veg to it. We're also going to use up the rest of the pumpkin pie filling that we froze from Thanksgiving. We're also going to make some mincemeat tarts too as we have more pastry than pumpkin pie filling. For those who like making stuff check out Gordon Ramsays site from the F Word - he has a really easy recipe there for mincemeat. Of course canned or jarred mincemeat is also readily available from the store. We're planning on making our version of his mincemeat tarts - just not today. Charlene has dug the bananas out of the freezer and will be doing up some banana bread later. I really want to bake a spice loaf - just maybe not today. We've been asked by the kids to do Tacos for supper - really easy meal to do and full of good stuff that the kids like. We do them up every so often - but if time is short El Paso Taco kits are okay and you can add some extra zest to make them your own. We buy the soft tortillaas from the bakery then make up the beef, chop, and shred up the ingredients the kids like - cheese (of course), red/green peppers, green onions, lettuce, and sides of Spanish or Mexican rice, and of cause taco sauce and sour cream for those like that. In between of course we're decorating for Halloween and getting ready for the little trick or treaters later this afternoon. We'll have the three lads aka. football player, ninja, and the wizard out this evening, we carved the pumpkins last night - Happy Halloween everyone!