that crazy gray matter!!!
My mother has a real life horror story... when she was a little girl her mom
would prepare scrambled eggs and... ~gasp! CALVES BRAINS!!!! And she would EAT
THEM!!! God, the great depression had to of been a drag.
Brain Dip
1 whole cauliflower
Frozen Spinach and Artichoke Dip (TGI Friday's is one brand)
radishes
assorted raw vegetables, crackers for dipping
Cut florets from the top of the cauliflower until you have a cauliflower 'bowl'.
Remove greens from bottom. Cut stems from radishes, leave the root, remove skin.
Using toothpicks and food coloring, draw an eyeball on the flat part of the
radish (where the top was). The root will look like the optic nerve. Fill
cauliflower with dip, garnish with radish 'eyes', serve with veggies and
crackers.
BRAIN SOUP - Get some "Matzo Ball Soup" and
put in some green food coloring while you make it - chicken stock with dumplings
would be good too - and it looks like BRAIN SOUP! Or at least "something really
disgusting soup".
BRAIN COOKIES - You color a icebox
type dough (refrigerated sugar cookie dough will do) a sickening purplish/gray
shade and then push the dough through a colander or potato ricer to make
extruded spaghetti shapes. (or if you're really into it, have your kids make a
bunch of little ropes with the dough). Loosely pat spoonfuls of the dough
into brain shapes (well at least most kids' notions of how a brain is shaped). I
think I experimented with different kitchen tools with this one and ended up
using one of those collapsible steamer things to make the spaghetti. A potato
ricer would be ideal. Or a meat grinder.