{"id":16432,"date":"2012-11-08T06:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2012-11-08T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:33:03","slug":"deviled-egg-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16432","title":{"rendered":"Deviled Egg Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/albinospider-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Deviled Egg Spider\" title=\"Deviled Egg Spider\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The Hairpin has <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2012\/10\/how-to-make-albino-black-widow-spider-deviled-eggs\">instructions<\/a> for making &#8220;albino spiders&#8221; out of deviled eggs that I think I&#8217;m going to put in the category of Trying Too Hard.  I&#8217;m actually much more on board with the &#8220;usual&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockinglydelicious.com\/halloween-deviled-spider-eggs\/\">olive spider-decorated<\/a> eggs that they dismiss as too pedestrian, since they&#8217;re easier to make and are more eye-catching.  I think it&#8217;d be difficult to make enough of the larger eggs for a party.  (I especially wonder about the &#8220;make 36 or so and leave them around the house in unexpected places.&#8221;  Wut?)<\/p>\n<p>If I were to tackle the &#8220;albino&#8221; version I&#8217;d make a few changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut and fill the eggs before any other assembly.<\/li>\n<li>Consider quail eggs instead of cocktail onions for the heads.  Alternately, forget the separate head altogether and add the eyes to the front of the larger egg.<\/li>\n<li>Definitely use something besides bits of raw button mushroom for the legs, since nobody really wants to nibble on those; something like thin strips of ham or cheese might work better.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of a plain boiled egg, possibly use <a href=\"http:\/\/appetiteforchina.com\/recipes\/chinese-tea-eggs\/\">tea eggs<\/a> instead, since the marbled pattern would add interest.<\/li>\n<li>Add the paprika hourglass last, after all other assembly is complete.<\/li>\n<li>Since these things really aren&#8217;t at all portable, don&#8217;t attempt to make them part of a buffet.  Instead, arrange one on each guest&#8217;s plate as part of an appetizer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The time for Halloween parties may be past, but there are plenty of other holiday dinner opportunities coming up.  These spiders might be just the thing for a bit of elegant spookiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hairpin has instructions for making &#8220;albino spiders&#8221; out of deviled eggs that I think I&#8217;m going to put in the category of Trying Too Hard. I&#8217;m actually much more on board with the &#8220;usual&#8221; olive spider-decorated eggs that they dismiss as too pedestrian, since they&#8217;re easier to make and are more eye-catching. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}