![]() This recipe is great for a party as well because the meatballs and sauce can be kept warm in the slow cookers after cooked, and the pasta is servable any time! It is so easy, and perfect to warm the bellies of your trick or treaters! I love the serve this is garlic bread to ward off the vampires, or breadsticks shaped as snakes! This freaky dish incorporates a simple baked meatball with an olive to make an eyeball, a simple meat sauce, and pasta. Recently, my oldest wanted something with eyeballs, and I served him requested plate of Pasta and Eyeballs. My kids and I like to get into it, and they always have all sorts of suggestions for me. One of my favorite things to do is to make Halloween themed dinners for the nights leading to, and the night of Halloween. I love creepy things, scary movies, costumes, and all the campy fun that Halloween has to offer. October means that Halloween is getting closer, and it is my favorite holiday. Served with pasta and a quick meat sauce make a ghoulish delight on fright night! A simple meatball recipe with an olive makes a glaring eyeball. Top the squash and sauce with several meat “eyeballs.” Before serving, toss the dish to evenly coat the squash with sauce.Spooky Pasta and Eyeballs is a savory Halloween meal that everyone will love. Remove the squash from the oven, allow it to cool enough to touch, and shred the squash with a fork to create “noodles.” Plate the spaghetti squash in a large bowl.Stuff each green olive with a pimento, and place 1 olive in the center of each meatball to create an “eye.” Bake the meatballs for 30 minutes. Roll the meat into 1-ounce meatballs, and place them on a baking sheet. In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, garlic, shallot, salt, and pepper.Place the spaghetti squash in a baking dish, and bake for 35 minutes or until fork-tender. Slice the spaghetti squash in half, and remove the seeds. Allow the sauce to come to a light boil, turn down to a simmer, and cover. Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, and balsamic vinegar. Add the duck fat and onion to the pan, and sauté the onion until translucent. Heat a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat.Note, these instructions are written assuming the standard serving size, since you have modified the number of servings, these steps may need to be modified for best results This recipe scales easily for larger or smaller parties, but as written it serves 10 as a potluck-style dish… perfect for a Paleo Halloween Potluck! We hope you enjoy it! ![]() Plus it’s super fun to serve them “Eyeballs” for Halloween. Most kids LOVE spaghetti and meatballs, so this recipe will be a big hit with the little ones. This recipe from Gather is a fun one to make for kids. Go order it on Amazon (or leave a review if you have it!) □ It makes a WONDERFUL holiday gift, if you’re beginning to sweat what to give as a Paleo Christmas Gift this year (along with our new spices). Many of you already have this favorite book of ours (some even suggested it was worthy of being called the first Paleo “coffee table” cookbook). It’s been a pleasure to read all the Amazon Reviews of this book over the years, and still look forward to seeing new ones. To kick off Halloween week, we wanted to share a favorite from Gather, our second cookbook. Leftovers, in this case, taste just as good. You don’t mind, do you? Unlike the frost-covered years-old food deep in our chest freezer, our recipes from years past are as sparkling and tasty as the day we created them. Fortunately we’ve had ample time in years past, and wanted to go into the recipe vault to share some goodies with you. We’ve been so busy working on our New line of Fall Flavored Spice Blends, that we haven’t had much time to get in the kitchen. Nonetheless… we wanted to share an awesome Halloween recipe on the blog today! With our Fall Fest Recipe Contest coming to a conclusion and winners being announced on Thursday (though there are still 2 days left to vote for the Popular Vote!), it’s time to start looking ahead toward the Holidays. Maybe it’s due to “Godzilla” El Nino, or some other meteorological force, but it doesn’t feel like Halloween week here. October 14th typically marks the height of foliage beauty here in Southwestern Pennsylvania. As I type this, we are hitting peak fall colors today (it’s just stunning outside!), and thats almost two weeks later than usual. How is it late October already? I mean, really. I’m not alone: even Mother Nature seems to be a bit behind this year.
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