Legal Halloween

Last year, Mary and I were still legally attached to our apartment. Emotionally, we had already moved into our house even though we were still over two weeks away from receiving the keys. Our solution was to sit on the porch with a blanket, a bowl of candy, and a flask of whiskey, and hopefully not look too sketchy.  This year, we were able to sit inside where it was considerable warmer, and still drink whiskey. 

Festive pumpkins

We hosted a Halloween Par-tay the weekend before Halloween proper. I tied it in with Pork Month by grilling up some baby back ribs for the first time. I glazed the ribs in a tomatillo-green chile BBQ sauce instead of the more typical ketchup/vinegar based BBQ sauce:

Garnished with cilantro and pineapple tomatillos

 The accompanying meat offering was teryaki chicken wings:

Featuring homemade teryaki sauce

Gnawing meat off the bone is good Halloween/zombie food.

I've also heard zombies are big fans of desserts, especially pumpkin pie...

...and pumpkin cupcakes with pumpkin cream cheese frosting:

The Oregon State-University of Washington football game was that night as well. Can you guess which team Luigi is rooting for?

Interception

--Isaac.