We celebrated Halloween with our community of neighbors and children and parents from our Waldorf homeschool cooperative.  A longstanding Halloween tradition in this community is to gather for a "Gross Foods Potluck". So people come bearing dishes with names like "Brains", "Maggots and Wood Chips", "Porcupines in a Blood Bath", and "Coconut Frog Eggs".  But since this community really knows how to cook, it's really a collection of delicious, organic, whole food dishes.  Our contribution was "Bunny in a Blender", which was Ella's brainchild. Ella had been excited for months to be a scary dragon, so I used my limited sewing skills to whip up her costume, and thankfully, at the last … [Read more...]