Shortly after my last post, which featured fishcakes somewhat shoddily shaped as skulls, I came across the splendid blog Ghoul at Heart, which features an amazing collection of spooky-themed recipes, from a blogger who loves Halloween so much that she writes about it all year round. That might seem a little excessive, but when your creations are as good as these, why the hell not? I was particularly taken by her "Bread of the Dead" recipe, which is essentially just mushrooms on toast, but the mushrooms are individually carved into little skulls, and the bread is as dark as night, having had squid ink added to the dough. The skulls put my fishy attempts to complete and utter shame, though in my defence, they probably took rather longer to create. I felt I would just admire them rather than attempt to make them myself - but they did remind me that I had recently acquired a tin of Chinese straw mushrooms which were already fairly spooky-looking, without having had anything done to them.
