Mystery meals

Our family has a tradition in which we have "spooky dinners" one day each week during the month of October. You may have seen examples on Pinterest or in recipe books near the checkout stands in the supermarket.

We had the missionaries over for one of our spooky dinners just last week and it was a disaster. Our menu was spider dogs, eyeball salad, Jell-o worms and witch hand cookies. The stove broke, and when one thing goes wrong, the troubles just cascade. The elders were good sports about it, but it was — perhaps — more of a scary dinner than we had planned on!