Spooooooky Sandwiches!

Halloween recipes tend to be somewhat rare in my old cookbooks, but I love Halloween and want to put it in whenever I can, so today's recipes from Multi-Power Microwave Miracles from Sanyo (1977) seemed Halloween-ish enough for me to say they could fit the part.

My inspiration was the Witches' Brew Heroes, since the witchy aspect made them an obvious Halloween choice. I was also amused that "witches' brew" part of the name suggests it will be some kind of a beverage (or at least a soup or stew that could be cooked up in a big kettle over an open fire under a full moon). Nope! These are sandwiches.

Basically a very mild, bean-free chili on "hero rolls." So I guess it's at least close to a stew, now that I think about it. And maybe the green from the green pepper makes it extra witchy? (I don't know, but I'd add a "spider web" of shredded cheese to the tops of these.

Apparently, Sanyo really liked the idea of something chili-adjacent on a bun, as the Paul Bunyans are pretty similar-- just have some olives added in and they're served on hamburger buns.

Paul Bunyan is a Halloween-appropriate costume, and the added olives could be passed off as chopped-up eyeballs if you want to make it seem even spookier, so I'm calling this a Halloween recipe too.

And if you don't want basically thick chili on a bun, but you still want a sandwich with a spooky-ish name for Halloween, there's Old Mystic.

Granted, the mixture of crab, shrimp, cream cheese, white wine, and horseradish seems a bit too grownup for the kiddies on Halloween night, so it might be best to save Old Mystic for the adults. 

Of course, the scariest part of all these recipes is just trying to clean out the microwave after you've made them! (And airing out all that microwaved seafood smell from Old Mystic.) But "You know, it's Halloween. I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare, huh?"