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Mexican Frankenstein Casserole – Why settle for boring?

2009, cheese, chips, cream cheese, edible art, food art, fun, kids, parties, peppers, pickles, tortilla, vegetables, veggies | October 2, 2012 | By Jessi

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Frankenstein casserole with veggies for face; Homemade tortilla chips for dipping into black bean dipping and monster face for Halloween

That?

That is a casserole.

A plain ol’, boring casserole, that I’m sure tasted perfectly lovely. It was completely edible and might have gotten an “oo” or an “ah” or maybe even an “mmm” a few times through the meal.

But it’s nothing special.

Frankestein casserole with cheese face, pepper bolts, pepper hair, olive scar and hair, pickles for eyes, pepper stem nose

Add some of these, though? Some completely innocent veggies that don’t really mean anything on their own?

And you get something way more fabulous:

Frankestein monster mexican casserole with cheese face, pepper bolts, pepper hair, black olive scar and hair, pickles for eyes, pepper stem nose

THAT is what will be remembered. It doesn’t matter if maybe it could’ve used a bit more cheese or maybe the corn had been in the freeze just a little too long and lacked flavor. It was an edible monster! And with Halloween right around the corner, you really have no excuse not to have some fun with your own.

Frankestein casserole with cheese face, pepper bolts, pepper hair, sliced black olives scar and hair, pickles for eyes, pepper stem nose

It actually had different teeth to begin with. I tried making separate teeth and it looked ridiculous. Then again, I’m not sure it looked much better after the modification, but I thought it helped.

And even Mom got in on the action with some monster nose-picking.

Yes, I come from a very, very mature family. I’m obviously breaking my mother’s heart here by playing with my food so much. :P

Bagel buoy boy – Summertime swimmer art

bread, breakfast, cheese, chocolate, cream cheese, edible art, food art, make your own, peppers, play with your food | August 13, 2012 | By Jessi

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Now that I’m really inspecting and admiring this, the cream cheese does look a little gross, eh? Ah well, it’s still awesome!

Also, the recipe suggests adding nutella to the cream cheese for a darker skin complexion. I’m not sure I would’ve considered doing that at all, but I love the idea. <3

….and there’s the realization yet again that the simplest things make me giddy. To be sitting at my computer, smiling at a screen while I type, at the thought of adding chocolate to make a cream cheese swimmer a more accurate color for some people? Uh, yeah, I might have issues. Oops.