no tricks, just treats:
I Thirst – Dillinger
All Alone – Gorillaz
Sense of Doubt – David Bowie
Spaceape - Burial
Vlad the Impaler – Kasabian
The Jezebel Spirit – Brian Eno & David Byrne
Intruder – Peter Gabriel
Black – Ken Nordine
Ghost Rider – Suicide
I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Sinead O’Connor
Dancing With Mr D – Rolling Stones
Burial Dub – Sly & Robbie
Killer – The Bug
Helter Skelter – The Beatles
Halloween Parade - Lou Parade
Tracklist
Playing tracks by Dillinger, Burial, Eno, Brian, Peter Gabriel and The Rolling Stones.
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The scariest thing about Halloween is the amount of perfectly good orange food that goes to waste each year because people don’t have this recipe:
Heartattack Pumpkin Soup
- All the flesh you just scooped out of your pumpkin (separate the seeds – we’ll deal with them in a minute)
- half a chopped onion per pumpkin
- salted butter
- oil
- cumin seeds to taste
- single cream (or milk if you must)
- vegetable or white meat stock
Put a huge knob of butter to melt into a big ole soup pan with just enough oil to stop the butter from burning and add the onion.
Fry till soft and then add the pumpkin. If some of it is still in big chunks chop them smaller.
Sauté until the pumpkin begins to soften and then add your stock – you’re going to loose some liquid boiling this with the lid off so I’d say about enough stock to cover the veg and then half as much again.
Boil on a low heat with the lid off
In a separate fry pan dry fry the cumin seeds till they just begin to change colour and the smell fills the kitchen. Add half of them to the soup and continue to cook until the pumpkin is completely cooked through and soft.
Blend until smooth. Add remaining cumin seeds. You can now gauge whether the soup is perfect or a bit too thick, in which case just add more stock.
Return to low heat and cook until it JUST starts to become a bit too thick again and then slosh in an unhealthy amount of single cream. Bring back up to “good and hot” but not boiling.
Serve with black pepper and hot buttered crusty white bread.
(if you left it too late this year and could only get a pokey little pumpkin you can bulk this out with a potato or two and it will be good enough). Greedy Pumpkin Seeds
If you don’t love these, I’m sorry to inform you that you are deceased:
Put all the slimey pumpkin seeds into a bowl and slosh some olive oil in with them. It doesn’t matter if a little of that sinewy stuff is still attached at all. Get your hands right in there and squelch about in it until you reckon most of the seeds have a coating of oil as well as slime. You want them coated, not swimming.
Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and spread thinly over the surface. If you have lots do two (or more) batches – they need to crisp up which they won’t if there’s too many blobbed together.
Sprinkle very liberally with good sea salt and place in a medium hot oven until golden brown and crispy.
Make sure to keep a good handful of these back for yourself, as they won’t last 2 minutes once they hit the table.