How to talk Halloween

In case anyone didn't know, we love Halloween.  But as usual, someone overbooked my schedule and we didn't get the bulk of Halloween decorations up until today.  Luckily Halloween is still tomorrow, so we're cool.  I thought I would share some of our conversation while decorating today.


We started talking costumes.  "So I'm going to put on a Ghillie suit and scare people before they get to the house."

"Honey, a Ghillie suit is supposed to hide you from an animal hunting.  I think any normal person would recognize a person there."

"Oh, then I'll just dig a big ditch and hide in there."

"You go right ahead baby."

Second child, "Mom I want to scare people but I want candy too.  What do I do?"

"You could scare everyone away from our house, then you can keep all the candy for yourself.  Your brother has braces and can't eat any of it."

*wicked smile.

Then we have the conversations about decorating.  Anyone listening in would be convinced that serial killers live in our house:

"I think the eyeballs should go in the bathroom.  No one will expect them there."

"Will people see the bones if they are scattered around the front yard?"

"I'm thinking a skull here, then the crazy skull at the top of the steps, they will never know what hit them."

"So I can hide behind this tree and try to kill them before the get to the front yard, right?"

"Does blood come out of clothes?"

"Grab them before they get the candy, that is the best way to do it."

"Do not spit blood on the little kids, OK?"

"I think brains, guts and chicken nuggets sounds great!"

"The machete works much better than the knife."

"Pull my finger."

OK, maybe the last one isn't really Halloween, but it is the first TRICK so I don't have to give him a treat.  I feel sorry for the innocent little Elsas coming to the Melang house, with all the decorations my children have set up, it will be like walking the gauntlet.  Who will be brave enough to actually make it to the candy?

Trigger Fish Piccata - They Actually Ate It

I've been lucky with my boys, they're open to trying anything new, so when I came home with Trigger Fish, they looked at it, looked at me and said, "What are you going to do with it?"

That was a good question.  Trigger fish is a dense fish that doesn't flake easily, making it a good candidate for the grill.  But it was pouring outside so I decided standing out the rain was not a good idea, my boys love the combination of lemon and garlic so I decided to do my take on Piccata.

2 large filets of Trigger Fish

1/2 pound of butter (never said it'd be totally healthy)

1 clove of garlic

1 lemon

1/4 cup of white wine

capers.

Take half of the butter and melt it in a frying pan, lightly dust the fish with salt and pepper and saute in the pan until a golden brown, turn the fish and finish cooking the other side until brown and the fish is cooked through.  Remove the fish and set aside.

In the pan add the last of the butter, the garlic and onions.  Saute for 3 minutes then add the wine, cook until the sauce gains a nice consistency finishing with the capers.  Add the fish and warm on both sides.

Transfer fish to dish and drizzle with sauce.

This fish had the taste of lobster which worked well with the butter, lemon and garlic of the piccata sauce.  Add a tossed salad, some steamed green beans and everyone's happy.  Especially if it's followed by ice cream sandwiches.

Have you tried trigger fish?