When black cats prowl
and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on
Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Yep, it's almost here again. Soooo, what or rather who are you gonna be this Halloween?
I've decided to go with my usual fall back out fit and dress as a fortuneteller. Or rather what we've come to think a fortune teller should look like. Basically, a boho lagenlook kind of out fit.
(What? Never heard of Lagenlook? Hmmm, I'll have to do a little blog about it.)
Anyhoo, I'll actually be telling fortunes! What fun!
So, since I know I'll be telling some fortunes I decided to look up some interesting and fun ones. I also thought about making Halloween Fortune Cookies but that was waaaaay too much like work! :-P
Here are some of the fortunes I found and a recipe for Halloween Fortune Cookies if you're interested.
Classic Dark & Scary Halloween Quotes &
Fortune Cookie Sayings:
Shadows of a thousand
years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the
trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
At first cock-crow the
ghosts must go
back to their quiet
graves below.
~Theodosia Garrison
'Tis now the very
witching time of night, When churchyards yawn
and hell itself
breathes out contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare
From ghoulies and
ghosties and long-leggedy beasties
and things that go
bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Proverb
Double, double toil
and trouble;
fire burn and cauldron
bubble.
~Shakespeare
The witches fly across
the sky, The owls go:
"Who? Who?
Who?" The black cats yowl
and green ghosts howl:
"Scary Halloween to you!"
Halloween wraps fear
in innocence,
as though it were a
slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be
turned into a treat.
One need not be a
chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a
house;
The brain has
corridors surpassing material place.
~Emily Dickinson
You wouldn't believe
On All Hallows Eve
what lots of fun we
can make, with apples to bob
and nuts on the hob
and a ring-and-thimble cake.
There are nights when
the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin
There is something
haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a
disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph
Conrad
'Tis the night of the
grave's delight, and the warlocks
are at their play; Ye
think that without
the wild winds shout,
but no, it is they, it is they.
If a man harbors any
sort of fear,
it makes him landlord
to a ghost.
~Lloyd Douglas
Halloween Jokes
How do witches keep
their hair in place when flying?
They use
‘scare-spray’.
How do monsters tell
their fortune?
They read the
‘horrorscopes’.
Do zombies eat popcorn
with their fingers?
No. They eat the
fingers separately.
Where does a witch
park after flying?
In the broom closet
What does a child
monster call his parents?
Mummy and Deady.
What fairy tale do
ghosts like best?
Sleeping Boo-ty.
Why do vampires need
mouthwash?
They have bat breath.
What do ghosts eat for
breakfast?
Ghost Toasties and
evaporated milk.
What doesn’t a vampire
order at a restaurant?
A stake sandwich.
What is a vampire’s
favorite holiday?
Fangs-giving.
What is a baby ghost’s
favorite game?
Peek-a-Boo.
Adult Themed Halloween Fortune Cookie Sayings:
I'll bet living in a
nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
Backward, turn
backward, O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for tonight!
True love is like a
ghost, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
Clothes make a
statement.
Costumes tell a story.
There is nothing that
gives
more assurance than a
mask.
Fortunes/Sayings found here
Eat, Drink and be Scary!!!
Halloween Fortune Cookies
By The Paula Deen Test Kitchen
(check out the link at the bottom to see the cookies being made)
Here’s what you’ll need:
Nonstick spray
2 egg whites
1/2 cup all-purpose
flour, sifted
1/2 cup superfine
sugar
1 teaspoon almond
extract
2 tablespoons water
Pinch salt
Fortunes written on
strips of colored paper
6 drops orange food
coloring
Special equipment: Silpat, coffee mug, and
muffin tin.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Position an oven
rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. On a half sheet
tray, spray a silpat with nonstick spray.
2. In a medium bowl
whisk egg whites until foamy. Whisk in 6 drops orange food coloring. Add the
flour, sugar, almond extract, water, and salt to the egg whites and beat until
smooth, about 30 seconds.
3. Pour or spoon 1
tablespoon of batter onto prepared silpat and spread with the back of a spoon
into a very thin 4-inch circle. Repeat on the other half of the sheet, making
only 2 cookies per sheet tray.
4. Bake the cookies
on middle rack of oven until golden brown around edges, about 8 minutes.
5. Remove from oven
and working very quickly, with an offset spatula, remove cookie from baking
sheet and place a fortune in the center of the round.
6. Fold to create a
half circle.
7. Using the rim of
a coffee mug, bend pointed edges of cookie toward each other. This should be
done quickly since the cookie will become hard and brittle within 10 seconds.
8. Let cookies cool
in the wells of a muffin tin.
MAKES 16 COOKIES
To see pictures of the cookies being made go to <http://www.pauladeen.com/article_view/halloween_fortune_cookies/>
