Epicurious Has True Blood Fever!!!!

So here I was looking over at epicurious.com for some 4th of July recipes for a picnic I am going to next weekend then low and behold I see a True Blood Season 4 Premiere Party Menu...lol Below is from their site and a link for the recipes. So head on over to Epicurious.com for some nice Louisiana Area 5 Ideas!

TV Dinners: True Blood Menu and Party Plan

Entertaining tips for a supernatural breakfast gathering filled with vampires, werewolves, shape-shifters, witches, and fairies in northern Louisiana
By Sara Bonisteel


True Blood Menu for Six

Bloody Mary Soup Shots with Shrimp and Pickled Vegetables

Fruit Salad with Herb, Citrus, Mint-Maple, or Basic Syrup

Eggs Benedict Bread Pudding

Homemade Sausage Patties

Creole-Style Oven Hash Browns

Cane Syrup Pecan Pie


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Ingredients:

Fake blood, vampire teeth, zydeco music, Goth decor (red and black candles, trays, and dinnerware), but by all means hold the silver and garlic!

Preparation:

Get a full day's rest, take a drop of V from Lafayette, and invite plenty of vamps

Yield:

A Cajun breakfast with a supernatural twist

The Menu:

If you're going to hang with the vampires of northern Louisiana's Area 5, you'll be getting up at dusk, so why not have breakfast for dinner? Life does, after all, begin after dark. We've created a menu that's high in iron, offers a bit of spice, and features sausage, as that's what Sookie Stackhouse first tastes after drinking vampire blood. "It's like I can close my eyes and I can see the farm the pig lived on, and feel the sun and the rain on my face, and even taste the earth that the herbs grew out of," she tells Granny.

Naturally, we included some blood (in the form of Bloody Mary soup—don't forget to garnish with spiced beans and pickled okra); a tropical-fruit salad the maenad Maryann Forrester would have, well, she has, died for; and some chili powder–infused home fries sure to find their way on to the Merlotte's menu. For Tara, we added an Eggs Benedict Bread Pudding, and we end the meal with a nod to Sookie and Jason's beloved Granny—a Texas/west Louisiana take on pecan pie using cane syrup. Steen's, please!

Party Tips:

Complete your gathering with a sexy soundtrack of vampy music. Cue up Jace Everett ("Bad Things"), Concrete Blonde's "Bloodletting," New Orleans' moody Hurray for the Riff Raff, and the Knife (a Swedish duo whose album Deep Cuts–especially the single "Heartbeats"–is certainly on Eric Northman's Fangtasia playlist). Give the party an authentic feel with Ramblers.

Serve this menu with plenty of Abita beer and TruBlood. Sam's coffee works, too.


Get the recipes HERE

Leave in the comments what your plans are for this Sunday for the Season 4 Premiere of True Blood!!