Today is one of the spookiest day of the year here in the US, for today is Halloweeeeeeeeen
. The day of spirits , ghosts, evils,devilssssss...... It's believed that during the Halloween night ,the boundary between the living and the dead becomes translucent and the spirits of the dead returns to the Earth 
.............and to ward off the evil spirits, people decorate their homes with scary stuffs like scarecrows,cobwebs,bats,witches,brooms,skulls,skeletons etc, carve pumpkins,wear costumes ,light bonfires and kids go from house to house asking for "Trick or treat". A celebration or a superstition ???Isn't it strange , though parents make sure that kids don't accept anything from strangers, this day even that rule is broken happily :) .It's like a candy day for kids :) . I love watching my neighborhood kids in different costumes and I wait for them eagerly with a big bag of candies to distribute in the evening :). Wish I had such a celebration during my childhood days especially :P. Candies and chocolates for free !!! Ohh heavenly hell-oweeeen...
Back in India we just celebrated the festivals marking the destruction of evils and in western countries it's a day dedicated exclusively to evils.. Spooky yet funny !! Still I weirdly like this festival as I can see the festival spirits in everyone's face especially kids planning on which costume to wear this time, carving pumpkins and parents thinking all the ways and means to reuse or recycle the costumes of previous years and save some bucks thereby :D .Even the supermarkets are filled with spooky decorations for sale, cute -themed costumes of Spiderman, witch, vampires,bumble bee, rabbit and what not :)..it's a creepy yet cute visual treat!!....by the way I wonder if Lady Gaga ,Nicky Minaj celebrates Halloween every other day :P (no offense to them though :P I am infact their big fan too and love their "Be yourself" attitude ) but on a funny note, I think one day they will be selling all their costumes themed ,"Halloween special" for wholesale I believe
:P.
I celebrate this festival by becoming a slave to my idiot box as at this time loads of horror movies are being aired and I love horror movies .The only thing I look like this then->
. Yeah I watch it with a brave but pounding heart, one eye closed and hugging tight honey P and making sure he doesn't leave his seat at any cost and all lights on and screaming , shouting in between.... Not to mention I enjoy it thoroughly 
.......I don't understand why my hubby says that , it's not the movie, it's me who scares the hell out of him :O ..don't know why ..hmmmm...
This Halloween I made an easy Trick or treat using just 2 ingredients - Pecans and colored cake fondant and some ready made gummy worms .I call them ,"My Pecan freaks". Here's how I made my easy breezy, not that spooky Halloween snack.(but if you ask me, for me any bugs on this Earth are spooky )
Pecan freaks-Halloween snack
Ingredients
Pecans - 10 nos.
Fondant (Beige/white color) - lime size
Food color
Long Plastic strings -20 (for decoration)
Ready made gummy worms - 10
Method:
- Make pea size mini balls and roll it to make it look like thick thread shape and make a bend in between to use as legs for the bugs .Keep it aside but use it ASAP otherwise they'll dry.
- Take a pecan , use any dark food color and put two dots as eyes and attach the above made legs to them.
- Put two 6" long plastic strings as their antennas.
- My Pecan freako edible bug is ready .
- I gave them a company - ready-made gummy worms.
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| The demon in me broke their legs ..enough is enough ! |
So, what do you think.. Was it a Trick OR a Treat??
Here's wishing all my readers ,"Happy .. Wait a minute or a spooky Halloween day ?".. Have a Helluva-een day !!
See you later..if I am aliveeeee :O..
Sending this freaks as a trick & a treat to Shey Divine's "Let's Celebrate Halloween" event
