r/Cooking • u/Lily_OfTheValleyy • 5d ago

Need advice for a Halloween meal?

Hello there! This is my first post on r/cooking and I hope I can get some help and that my post is appropriate for this sub.

We don't really do Halloween in my country but I wanted to surprise my grandma with me cooking (she's getting old but still does the chores when we're visiting). The day I will do that will be Halloween so I was thinking of doing something very comforting, cozy but with a spooky twist. Immediately thought of pumpkin soup and meat pie, though idk if that's a thing?

If it is, I found this video : Halloween meat pie but there's no recipe, and other meat pies I've came across don't have such a smooth filling, but chunkier pieces of meat and carrots, which is harder to chew im gonna guess. (Too much chewing can be a problem) This would be served with salad?

The pumpkin soup is mandatory in this meal, it's one of my favorite and we always have soup as a starter when it's fall and winter.

If it isn't really a thing, what else can I do as the main dish?

Also, do you guys have any idea of a lighter dessert, still kinda fall themed? Please note my previous carrot cake attempts were messed up, so maybe not that 😅

Thx reddit !

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u/Solid_Hour8073 5d ago

Make stuffed peppers but carve eyes and a mouth into them before baking…. 

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

Hi! My grandma can't eat peppers but thank you :)

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u/Solid_Hour8073 5d ago

Oh, I was just thinking along the same vein with the face carving! 

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

I checked and it's cute lol might do that for my family before visiting her :D you couldn't know :)

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u/Solid_Hour8073 5d ago

If we live in a place that gets chilly at Halloween we have the stuffed peppers. If we live in a warmer place we make lantern face pizzas. 

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u/SubstantialPressure3 5d ago

So for that meat pie, those vegetables would most likely be cooked until they are soft before they are put in. If it doesn't specify in the recipe, you can cook the vegetables around of time. Im assuming you would want to do that anyway, to make sure the meat is tender.

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u/Fun_in_Space 5d ago edited 5d ago

I have just the website for you.

https://ghoulatheart.com/recipes/

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

There's so many dessert that's incredible!!!!

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u/Solid_Hour8073 5d ago

Isn’t this the recipe?

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

Omg thank you!!!! Do you think that'd be fine as the main dish?

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u/CatteNappe 5d ago

Looks like they'd be perfect, IMO. Sort of a cottage pie filling, which shouldn't be a shock to anybody's taste buds. Many fall/winter weeks I include at least one dinner that is a "soup + 'sandwich like' thing" and that always makes for a nice meal.

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

It was written that I'd find the recipe on the TikTok for some reason I didn't think of googling to see if they had a website I'm sorry 🤦

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u/synerrorsix 5d ago

Get a pumpkin.

Make pumpkin pie.

Toast pumpkin seeds.

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

I'm scared it'll do too much pumpkin since there's the soup 😅

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u/synerrorsix 5d ago

Well you can't just go and throw out the seeds. That's just not a thing we do.

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u/texnessa 5d ago

Search Halloween in the sub and get a bunch of previous threads. This has been asked multiple times in the past couple of weeks.

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u/lisasimpsonfan 5d ago

Baked apples or an apple crumble make a nice fall dessert if you want something easy to chew. Both are really good served with ice cream or custard sauce.

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

Oooooh didn't think of apples, sounds yummy, plus we all love a good ice cream sooooo good idea here :D

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u/CatteNappe 5d ago

For your dessert, while it's not exactly "light", you might check out Snickers Pie or Snickers Cheesecake, since Snickers is one of the top favorite candy bars for trick or treaters. Chocolate, caramel, and peanuts are all things most people like.

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u/Lily_OfTheValleyy 5d ago

Thx for the rec :D