The last few years, I've used color as inspiration to guide my Halloween recipes and decorating ideas. Last year, was traditional Black and Orange. The year before, a sultry and elegant Violet. And the year before that, I went for sophisticated neutrals
with black accents. This Halloween season is all about the color Green! I've already got started and blogged a few of my green ideas like these fun 'Let Nature Run its Corpse' Cakes and this dramatic Slithering Salad.
So this brings us to The 'Green' Reaper Platter! My purple Abracadabra platter from two years ago (pictured below) continues to be very popular on Pinterest, so I decided to make another platter featuring the color green and black.
First, I needed to find some showstopping cheeses to anchor my cheese board. And thankfully with all this 'Stay at Home' going on here in California, I've been doing a lot of on-line shopping and discovered this Green Pesto Gouda and Sage Derby Cheese from igourmet.com. I ordered these two cheeses and the Spooky (Looking) Cheese Tray because the Spooky platter also came with these cool black charcoal crackers. It also came with a beautiful purple swirled cheese that would've been perfect for my Abracadabra platter and a layered orange cheese that would've been great last year, if I had done a cheese platter last year, maybe I still will? Anyway, I got my order 3 days later and got straight to work throwing together this gorgeous green and black themed platter.
So this brings us to The 'Green' Reaper Platter! My purple Abracadabra platter from two years ago (pictured below) continues to be very popular on Pinterest, so I decided to make another platter featuring the color green and black.
First, I needed to find some showstopping cheeses to anchor my cheese board. And thankfully with all this 'Stay at Home' going on here in California, I've been doing a lot of on-line shopping and discovered this Green Pesto Gouda and Sage Derby Cheese from igourmet.com. I ordered these two cheeses and the Spooky (Looking) Cheese Tray because the Spooky platter also came with these cool black charcoal crackers. It also came with a beautiful purple swirled cheese that would've been perfect for my Abracadabra platter and a layered orange cheese that would've been great last year, if I had done a cheese platter last year, maybe I still will? Anyway, I got my order 3 days later and got straight to work throwing together this gorgeous green and black themed platter.
The 'Green' Reaper Platter (Green & Black Fruit and Cheese Tray)
CheesesGreen Pesto Gouda (link)
Sage Derby Cheese by Thistle Hill (link)
Fruit Veggies
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Black grapes Cucumbers
Green grapes Green cauliflower
Green apples Celery
Dried Mission Figs
Nuts Assorted Crackers
Pistachios Charcoal Crackers (link)
Pumpkin seeds Spinach Kale Thins
Wasabi peas or Multigrain crackers
Sauces
Fig Balsamic Dressing (bottled)
Guacamole Hummus (homemade)
Makes ~1 1/2 cups
1 cup white beans
1 avocado
juice of one lime
1/4 cup cilantro leaves
1 T jalapeno
1- 1 1/2 t onion powder
2-3 T canola oil
salt and pepper (to taste)
Blend all ingredients together. until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste.
More Halloween recipes to try:
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Abracadabra Platter |
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Antipasto De Los Muertos |
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Amputated Appetizer |
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Spider Caviar |
This would be perfect for a Halloween movie night with a nice glass of wine
ReplyDeleteFinally someone who loves Halloween as much as I do!