Bloodshot Eyeballs
๐ Prep Time: 8 hours | ๐ Total Time: 8 hours | ๐ฝ๏ธ Servings: 6
Description: Late one eerie night, as if plucked from the mystical laboratory of Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s Transylvania haunt, this peculiar recipe was discovered scrawled on a crumpled parchment, revealing a mysterious concoction known as “Bloodshot Eyeballs.”
Ingredients:
- 12 radishes
- 7 green olives with pimientos
- 46 ounces of V8 or tomato juice
Nutritional Information (Per Serving):
- Calories: 90.7
- Fat Content: 5.3g
- Saturated Fat Content: 0.7g
- Cholesterol Content: 0mg
- Sodium Content: 1105.1mg
- Carbohydrate Content: 11.5g
- Fiber Content: 3g
- Sugar Content: 7.5g
- Protein Content: 1.8g
Keywords: Fruit, Vegetable, European, Low Protein, Vegan, Low Cholesterol, Healthy, Kid Friendly, Spicy, Halloween, Weeknight, No Cook, Refrigerator, Easy, Inexpensive
Instructions:
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Prepare in Advance: Begin by preparing these chilling delights the day prior to when you plan to showcase them. This ensures ample time for the eerie transformation to take place.
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Radish Preparation: Start by meticulously peeling the radishes, leaving behind thin streaks of red skin, strategically resembling blood vessels coursing through these eerie orbs of produce.
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Create Eyeball Cavities: With precision akin to a surgeon, utilize the tip of a vegetable peeler or a small knife to carefully excavate a small cavity in each radish. This will serve as the sinister abode for our ghastly olive eyeballs.
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Olive Insertion: Now, with a deft hand, insert a green olive into each cavity, ensuring the crimson pimiento is positioned outward, reminiscent of a sinister iris peering into the void.
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Tray Preparation: Retrieve an empty ice cube tray and arrange each stuffed radish eyeball snugly within its designated section. If necessary, trim the radishes to ensure a perfect fit, for aesthetics are paramount in this eerie creation.
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Freeze: With your array of grotesque eyeballs nestled within the icy confines of the tray, proceed to fill each compartment with water, encapsulating these orbs in an icy prison. Allow them to freeze undisturbed, as they solidify into frozen globes of terror overnight.
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Presentation: On the night of unveiling, procure tall glasses and fill them three-quarters full with ice-cold V8 or tomato juice, invoking a sense of dread with each pour. Then, with a dramatic flourish, add a sinister pair of frozen eyeballs to each glass, their icy gaze sending shivers down the spines of all who dare to gaze upon them.
These “Bloodshot Eyeballs” are not merely a drink but a spectacle to behold, evoking the spirit of Halloween with each chilling sip. Serve them forth with pride, knowing that you have conjured forth a beverage both deliciously macabre and delightfully frightful.
