Halloween Appetizer Treats: Deviled Eyeballs

Ingredients:

• 1 dozen hard boiled eggs 
• Mayonnaise
• 24 green olives with pimentos
• Pinch of Dry Yellow Mustard
• Salt to taste
• Toothpicks
• Red Food Coloring (paste is best)

Directions:

1. Cut the eggs in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks into a bowl. Set whites aside for a moment.
2. Mash egg yolks with fork. Mix in mayonnaise, onion powder, mustard and salt. Stir well. Place 1 teaspoon of mixture in each half of egg whites.
3. Push a green olive into the center of the egg yolk mixture, making sure the red pimento is "looking" out.
4. Dip toothpick in red food coloring and make "red veins" in the yolk mixture.

(http://www.halloweenhowl.com/halloween-appetizers-eyeballs.shtml)

Low Fuss, High Fun, No-Bake Buckeyes

No-bake peanut butter treats with chocolate coating..... mmmmmmm
The holidays are THE time for baking, and kids wanna be part of the foodie fun.  Here is a quick and easy recipe to whip up some holiday cheer. After all, November is National Peanut Butter Month... yea! 


Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Peanut Butter 
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1-1/4 cups semisweet chocolate morsels (1-1/4 cups = 7-1/2 oz)
• 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening

Directions

1. Blend peanut butter, butter, salt, and confectioner's sugar together in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on low speed. Mixture will be stiff. Line sheet pan with wax paper. Roll peanut butter mixture into small, bite-size balls, about 3/4-inch round. Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
2. Place morsels and shortening in top of double boiler with simmering water in the bottom. Melt ingredients over medium-low heat; blend well. Remove from heat.
3. Insert wooden pick into top of chilled peanut butter ball. Dip into melted chocolate, leaving only the top 1/4 of peanut butter ball uncovered for typical "buckeye" appearance. Place coated side on prepared sheet pan. Repeat until all pieces are coated. Refrigerate until chocolate is set, about 30 minutes. Place in airtight container; keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

from the Peter Pan company

Venn Anfralustro... now you know how to say Good Morning in Faerie

there it is in its original language - 'Good Morning' in Naturim, the language of the Amadii

There has always always been some sort of way for kids (especially girls) to jabber while in the company of adults without the adults understanding a darn word that is being said.

Ememberay Igpay Atinlay?  Not making heads or tales of this gibberish? Ask a Baby Boomer to translate.

Hivow ivabivout Ivivy Tivalk?.... Same?.... In this case, consult a Gen X-er.

Today's youth have relied on text & IM acronyms at their disposal when trying to pull a fast one on their elders.  But then those self same elders found the social network pot o gold, Facebook, and learned how to text in order to keep tabs on their kids and now OMG they can cyberspeak with the best of 'em LOL... J/K kids are still much better at it.  Either way, the parents of today clearly know too much.  So how then to conspire right under their noses?

Go old school.  I mean reeeeeeeeeeeeeally old.  Yep, way before this millenium!  Hard to believe there was life then, huh.  Actually, I am talking about going somewhere around 'oneu-annen sekkls' before the dawn of of the Common Age - to the time of the Amadii, the sea folk of Amadun.  Described as nymphs, elves, faeries, you name it, their language had a little bit of everything, and looks to have links to the later Romance Languages.  Though only a few thousand words of it have been discovered so far, the Amadii language, Naturim, boasts a rich and logical alphabet and numeric system.  The words tend to run long, but the same can be said of Ent..... or Dutch for that matter!

So if you want to confound and confuse previous generations, by all means, learn Naturim.... that is unless you spend a lot of time with old sea nymphs from Amadun!

Have a 'potenn lum,'
[great day]

Lily

P.S. Naturim classes will be taught as part of Siren School's Fae Folk camps in 2012