many types of game – pheasant, partridge, pigeon, hare, and so on – also seafood such as oysters and scallops.
seasonal vegetables - Brussels sprouts, cabbage, parsnips, peas and winter potatoes.
Fruits - apples and pears
suggestions for this season:
Potatoes cooked in their jackets, either plain or stuffed. Try scooping the insides out of the cooled potato, mash them and add beaten egg, lightly cooked vegetables, cheese, herbs and spices to make a variety of combinations.
Sausages. These would have been traditional and as they were intended, as a way of preserving meat through the winter would have been full of herbs and spices. Find a good-quality butcher’s where they make their own sausages and get a selection of the more interesting ones. Vegetarian sausages can also be found in many supermarkets and health stores.
Spare ribs, or pork belly strips grilled until really quite dark and served with traditional-style chutneys, those that include plums or are heavy on the onions.
Marrow stuffed with cheese(s), herbs, breadcrumbs and vegetables, served with spicy tomato sauce.
If you’re having a Jack o’Lantern, use the insides to make pumpkin soup or a pumpkin pie heavily laced with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Baked apples stuffed with sweet mincemeat, wrapped in pastry and baked in the oven.
Fortune cookies – whilst not Wiccan in origin, these allow adults an uncomplicated look at what the future might bring.
foods which can be dressed up to fit the Halloween theme
Cut courgettes (zucchini) lengthways with zigzag cuts and paint with tomato purée, roast and you have crocodile mouths.
Make mini pizzas and decorate with olive eyes, anchovy hair and sweet-corn teeth to make ghastly faces.
Look out for black pasta (made from squid ink) and other commercially prepared items for the season
To Drink:
Strong red wine is suitable to honor the Goddess and the God at this season. - You can even dress it up a bit by adding a small amount of brandy and some sugar.
Apples are very appropriate at several of the Sabbats and if you cut one across the core you will see a pentacle revealed in the middle.
If this is a family event, make non-alcoholic ‘cocktails’ or fruit juice and fizzy drinks. Adding some bright food colouring will make these into devilish enough drinks to suit even the most ghoulish child (watch out for these allergic to food colourings, though!) Food colouring can also be added to milk drinks, so try milk blended with a banana an a scoop of ice cream, coloured vivid red, as the vampire’s drink of blood.
