Eyeball-tinis For Halloweenie!
Posted By Michelle on October 29, 2008
Everyone…SING!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
With those holiday greetings
And great happy meetings
When friends come to call
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
It’s Halloween!!!!!!!!!!
I seeee yooooouuuuuuu…….
We have always been Halloween nuts. Quite simply put; it is the one-day a year where we can dress up, play pretend, gorge on candy, and scare the wits out of each other. It’s as juvenile as it gets and we love it.
Gloria is an ANGEL!
Don’t fear the Reaper……puppy.
It’s also a bonding tool for the longevity of our relationship.
Miss Pandora strolling through the graveyard
We begin converting our bungalow into a creepy graveyard on Oct. 1st. The head stones might not come out, but there we are, in the back yard repairing tombstones, sorting through bats and gorifying the zombies.
Motel Hell Bloody Head #1
We try to begin Operation Graveyard on a cool day, which never happens. It is Florida in October, after all. Inevitably, we will get into an argument over where Zombie A should hang and why Zombie B was stored improperly and now seems to be displaying a rather vulgar hand gesture to the neighborhood – not that such gesticulations are bad thing.
Zeke the Zombie and Greg. Yep, Zeke is givin’ deuces.
Michelle will declare Greg incompetent of properly hanging cobwebs and be forced to re-do all he has done. While, Greg will glare at Michelle as she ties pretty, purple satin bows in the fake hair of his Motel Hell bloody heads. We will each curse the very thought of hanging bats from fishing line so that they appear to be flying, and we will rue the day orange Halloween lights were ever invented. They’re more stroke inducing than Christmas tree lights, we swear.
The spider half of the house.
The Graveyard half of the house and Fisty Jo. He opted to be a cat this year.
But when all the spiders and ghosts have their proper home, we inevitably smile at each other over a job well done. We have also found forgetting and forgiving is easier done over our famous Eyeball-tinis. Who can be angry when there is Vodka and Eyeballs to be had?
Dirty Eyeball-tini
3 oz Vodka
1 tbsp dry Vermouth
1 tbsp Olive juice
2 radishes
2 Pimento stuffed olives
Fill bar shaker with ice. Pour in Vermouth and shake well. Drain Vermouth from shaker, keeping ice in shaker. Pour Vodka and Olive juice into iced shaker. Shake very well. Strain Vodka mix into martini glass.
With a small paring knife, carefully cut out a center in the radish for one olive. Use a zester to remove small strips of the radishes red flesh, alternating so that strips of white and red flesh are visible. Insert one pimento stuffed olive into radish. Pop eyeball into the Vodka martini and enjoy.
Stumble it!
I LOVE the eyeballs!! I’ll have to make some of those up so I have them ready for the “trick or drink” folks/parents.
Thanks for the inspiration,
Kelli
What fun!! Great job on the graveyard! I want to come over and trick or treat! You are just too into this. lol
Best thing I’ve seen in ages. I stumbled you and tweeted. I want to have a party now just to serve these.
The eyeball-tini. LOVE IT! Who knew radishes could be so creepy?
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Being a big martini girl, I just had to see your eyeball martini … I love love love it!
I need an eyeball-tini, everyone does! Creepy in the best way!
Very creative to think of the radishes for the bloodshot part of the eye! Cute!
Hi! Just wanted to let you know I posted today on my edible crafts column (part of the craftgossip.com blog) on these fabulous, creepy eyeball-tinis! So clever.
I met my husband on Halloween, so it has a very special place in my heart. It makes me so happy to see people having as much fun with it as we do (if not more - I’d love to decorate the way you do.)
As for the eyeballs…. Not sure how the radishes would taste, but I’m willing to give it a try! These are so darned cute!
Lyndsey: Greg is dressing up as a bloody butcher this year and smoking chickens in the front yard. He likes to hide and scare the kids!
Laurin: Thank you and HAVE A PARTY! Doesn’t have to be big. We’re having 10 ppl or so over.
Jill: I know, I totally wish I could claim the idea, but I got it from a book a long, long, long time ago.
Col: Thanks!
Zoe: Exactly!
Hillary: Use a fine zester, makes it so much easier.
Meaghan: Thank you!
Fearless Kitchen: We’ve been building up our decorations for as long as we have been together. We get a little each year. I think we may have reached our limit. As for the radishes, I am a radish fan but HATE olives. I’m okay with a floating olive in my drink, but I can’t pop one in my mouth.
Thanks for sharing your creativity. LOVE the eyeball martinis - I’m going to make these tomorrow night!!
Ellie: Take pictures and share with us!
Where do you live? Can I come next year to a party? I am in Central California, seriously. I love love love the body parts sticking out of the ground and the heads remind me of beauty school. Love the eyeballs. I’ll be back. It was fun, thanks.
Amber we are in Tampa and you are so invited next year!
holy halloween, batman…
very impressive
love it!
Love the house, and the eyeball-tinis… very nice job!
I LOVE the way you made this martini! I have to give it a shot - Halloween time or not!
Eyeballs are fashionable for all seasons, in my opinon.
Even if you leave them out, this is THE recipe for a good dirty martini. The vermouth should just coat the ice, it shouldn’t be a part of the drink. Shane not stirred.
….Bond. James Bond. I had to, I’m sorry.
Um, I meant shaken. Who’s Shane?
I SWEAR I am not cheating on Greg. There is NO Shane.
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