Over the years, the Post-Dispatch has come up with some pretty clever ideas for Halloween decorating and entertaining. Here are a few of our favorites.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Savory S mores, mushrooms with bacon and blue cheese, made on the grill. (Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)
Campfire cooking: The flames add flavor
The last time my Boy Scout troop went on a campout, we ate steak.
I was startled. I was shocked. I didn’t know you could do that on a campout. Before that, most of our previous experiences around a campfire somehow involved Spam. We also had a memorable night in which we ate hamburgers with the ground beef stretched by adding bread, which our troop leader informed us was to add flavor.
Our troop leader’s name, incidentally, was Norman Bates. Despite sharing a name with the notorious psycho in “Psycho,” he was a nice guy. He was so nice, he bought steak for our last campout.