Halloween Bloody Martini Food

HALLOWEEN BLOODY MARTINI

Steps:

• Add vodka, vermouth and ice to a martini shaker, and shake well. Strain into martini glass.
• In small bowl, mix corn syrup and red food color. Use fingertips to dip into red corn syrup, and rub around rim of martini glass, dripping the "blood" around the glass and letting it drip down into the drink.

HALLOWEEN BLOODY BAKED RATS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, onion, egg, bread crumbs, and meatloaf seasoning. Use your hands to mix until well blended. Measure out 1/3 cupfuls of the meat mixture and mold around a cube of cheese like a meatball. Shape into a point at one end and lengthen the body a bit by rolling between your hands. Place your ''rat'' into a shallow baking dish, and continue with the remaining meat. Insert pieces of uncooked spaghetti into the rounded end of the rats to make tails.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the tomato sauce, sugar and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the rats in the dish and cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil.
• Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Uncover the dish and continue to bake for another 20 to 30 minutes, basting occasionally with the sauce to glaze the rats.
• While the rats finish baking, heat the peas and carrots in a small bowl in the microwave for about 15 seconds.
• Carefully transfer the rats to a serving platter so that their delicate tails don't fall off. Press peas into the pointy end to make eyes, and insert carrot slices to make ears. Spoon some of the tomato sauce around them and serve.

BLOODY MARTINI

Steps:

• Pour vodka, Bloody Mary mix and lime juice over ice.
• Stir to combine and chill.
• Strain over martini glass, serving it straight up.
• Garnish with limes, olives, celery.

EYEBALL MARTINI

Steps:

• Push a peppercorn into center of each olive, tucking under pimento filling to resemble an eye. Place olives in a martini glass.
• Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice; add vodka and vermouth. Shake well and strain into glass. Add bitters to one side of glass and serve.

BLOODY MARTINI

Steps:

• In a pitcher, stir together the Vodka, Worcestershire and hot sauce with V-8 juice.
• Place ice cubes in a martini shaker.
• Add liqueur mixture; shake.
• Strain mixture into six to eight chilled martini glasses.
• Garnish is desired with an olive, okra, cucumber, celery or whatever you prefer. I like mine with a garlic stuffed olive.