EoMEoTE#12 - The Round-Up

How about those eggs? (ba da boom!) (The Nightmare - John Henry Fusili (1741-1825)

In the kitchen
I saw a Spicey, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held egg and toast in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, Spice?"
"It is tasty-tasty," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is cheap,
And because I started this whole damn thing."

(with heartfelt apologies to Stephen Crane)

Well, folks, it's time for another very late EoMEoTE round-up, this time for my ill-fated Halloween edition. With a final tally of a mere six participants, with two of them co-founders of this whole shebang, it's now official that I will never beg, plead and cajole to host someone else's event ever again. Too scary! I offer my most humble apologies to Jeanne and Anthony, with a sincere hope that their baby recovers this month and gets back to its customary growth spurt!

The lovely Jennifer, over at Taste Everything Once, made fabulously creepy deviled eggs, and pan de muertos to DIE for (sorry!). Our friend Elizabeth, from Blog From Our Kitchen, shared some memories from Halloween days of yore, while super-spicey Anthony, our man that cooks down under (or our man down under that cooks?), did an homage to Wicker Man that was scarier than the original, frankly. Everyone's favourite (and funniest) sister, Jeanne, slipped into a night of the living bread, while talented Sarah, at The Delicious Life, tricked AND treated with a gorgeous curried "egg" salad. And lastly, but never leastly, Stephanie (the hostess-with-much-more-mostess-than-me over at Dispensing Happiness) whipped up a wicked pissa eggy skull.

My thanks to everyone who participated! I'm really looking forward to finding out what Jeanne's got in store next, because I know it's going to be great.

UPDATE  20 NOVEMBER: Oh, good God, just let a crater swallow me up now. I actually left out two lovely, sweet bloggers from my round-up! Sincere apologies to both Andrew, from Spittoon (who may have had the scariest experience of everyone), and Brenda, of Culinary Fool (whose entry may be the loveliest)...thanks for sending me such lovely reminders!

Comments

[sarah]

ah! what a sweet little treat of a roundup! thank you for hosting the halloween edition!

[Moira]

Oh, Sarah...YOU are very sweet! =)

[Jeanne]

"In the kitchen
I saw a Spicey, naked, bestial"

Eat your heart out, Wes Craven! Now there's an iconic horror image to terrify a generation!! Thanks so much Moira for a fab, fab theme and all your horror imagery & resources - and your "brevity-is-the-soul-of-horror" succinct roundup. Scary. Very scary. And a little bit eggy. ;-)

Announcement for the next one appearing soon on Cooksister!

[anthony]

Ha! I busted outta town months ago and send the odd cheque in when I got some money left after liquor and gambling. Wouldn't worry about the numbers, EoMEoTE is actually enhanced by less people doing it. Ideally it would flick back into antiparticipants who make tsaot no gge.

Bestial? Is that like the adverb of bestest?
I was cooking down under the other day I can tell you, 36C and me in my moleskins.

A spooky cheers to you Moira and a ghoulish thank you to all, if you'll excuse me there's someone making a racket next door.

[Andrew]

well just ignore me then :-(

http://www.spittoonextra.biz/archives/end_of_month_egg_on_toast_extravaganza_halloween_edition.html

[Moira]

Hi Jeanne...yes, I changed the words all in fun, but when I actually thought about it, I became paralyzed with fear. ;-)

Hi Anthony...36C???!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! Good God, that IS hot. No Spicey, Jr.s on the horizon, then?

Hi Andrew...oh, I'm SO sorry- please don't take it personally! I will amend the post today to point whatever EoMEoTE fans are left in your direction.

[ejm]

Great post Andrew!

I don't know why you're complaining, Moira. If I'd known that it would only be seven posts to deal with, I might have vied for hosting this month's EoMEoTE. (But then, I'm lazy.)

-Elizabeth

[Bakerina]

Best reinterpretation of that Stephen Crane poem *ever*. Joyce Carol Oates only wishes. :)

[Moira]

Hi Elizabeth...yes, you're right, it was certainly an easy round-up to do. I'm afraid I'm going to go down in EoMEoTE history for poor turnout, though. ;-)

Hi Ms. Bakerina...awwwww, you are a lady AND a scholar, nyuck, nyuck. If there's an afterlife, I hope I never bump into Stephen Crane!